banzaiboy
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Post by banzaiboy on Jul 17, 2008 18:08:20 GMT -5
Well, the movie is here and no real news about a Dark Knight video game. Kinda sad since this is the first Batman movie to not have a tie in video game. Not saying they were really any good, especially that god-awful Batman and Robin game for the PSX. That was a frustrating Batman game...I think I finished all other Batman games except that one!
Personally, I thought that NES Batman, Genesis Batman, SNES Batman returns were pretty good.
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Post by scarecrow29 on Jul 17, 2008 20:28:22 GMT -5
On The Dark Knight G4 special, Gary Oldman was talking about the Dark Knight video game, which is rumored to come out around the time of the DVD later this year. He mainly talked about the gliding portion of it. So apparently there is one, we'll just have to wait a bit longer to get it!
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Post by All Star Batman on Jul 18, 2008 21:36:37 GMT -5
On The Dark Knight G4 special, Gary Oldman was talking about the Dark Knight video game, which is rumored to come out around the time of the DVD later this year. He mainly talked about the gliding portion of it. So apparently there is one, we'll just have to wait a bit longer to get it! Just like Superman Returns. Thanks for the news. |
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Post by electri on Jul 20, 2008 14:01:12 GMT -5
even if it is on the dvd release its probably a way of saying hey lets make all our movie games for the dvd realease i think it'll be scraped
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Post by BruceBatman on Jul 20, 2008 14:03:48 GMT -5
Yessssssssss! There'll be a game!
Thanks for the news! I'm so excited!
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Post by batfink on Jul 20, 2008 20:15:50 GMT -5
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Post by Dan on Aug 4, 2008 22:54:39 GMT -5
sorry but i think project B turned out to be lord of the rings conquest. i think they should make a batman game similar to the GTA games with an open world. maybe you could respond to the batsignal , drive the batmobile, and swing around gotham.
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Post by All Star Batman on Aug 8, 2008 1:24:13 GMT -5
www.newsarama.com/games/ap-080807-no-dark-knight-videogame.htmlSo Where's the 'Dark Knight' Videogame?
By Derrik J. Lang, Associated Press
posted: 07 August 2008 12:49 pm ETBuzz up! del.icio.us
LOS ANGELES — It's a puzzle worthy of The Riddler: Why is there no video game based on "The Dark Knight"?
For the first time in the film-franchise's history, the caped crusader flew into movie theaters without a video game attached to his utility belt. Despite a plethora of "Dark Knight" action figures, bobbleheads and T-shirts sweeping in Bat-dollars beyond the film's $400 million record-smashing box office, no "Dark Knight" game is following suit.
Whatever held things up caused about $100 million in sales to be missed, according to estimates.
It's not as if an interactive "Dark Knight" wasn't gearing up before the film's release. Game publisher Electronic Arts had the rights to make a "Dark Knight" title, which EA-owned developer Pandemic Studios was working on, according to an EA manager who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter is proprietary.
Gary Oldman, the actor who plays Gotham City police officer James Gordon, said in a recent interview with cable network G4 that he had seen a "tiny little piece" of "The Dark Knight" game and described a sequence with Batman realistically gliding across rooftops. Oldman also said the game is supposed to feel like it "doesn't stop and start."
Beyond that, details about the game have been as concealed as Bruce Wayne in the Batsuit. Spokespeople for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, EA and Pandemic would not comment for this story.
Speculation about the cause for the disappearing act has included missed deadlines, Heath Ledger's death, questionable quality and poor sales projections.
Based on the record-breaking success of the movie, Wedbush Morgan video game industry analyst Michael Pachter believes a "Dark Knight" game released at the same time as the blockbuster film last month could have sold 4 million units and banked $100 million — with $70 million going to the game's publisher and $30 million going to Warner Bros.
Sales of movie-based games often parallel their box-office brethren. Last year's "Transformers" games sold 2.6 million copies while the "Spider-Man III" games sold 2.1 million, according to sales data from NPD Group analyst Anita Frazier. Even the "Iron Man" games have sold 697,000 units following their release at the same time as the film in May.
To quote Jack Nicholson's Joker: "And where ... is the Batman?"
"I think publishers have concluded the only games that work are the surefire $500 million box office kind of games like 'Spider-Man' and 'Shrek,'" Pachter told The Associated Press. "The 'Transformers' game really surprised people how well it did, but the movie was big. I don't think they expected 'The Dark Knight' movie to be this big."
Games pegged to comic-book and kiddie flicks have become as financially important to the movie industry as popcorn and candy. Movie-based games provide another revenue stream to movie studios and often give game publishers a fighting chance for consumers' cash, mostly thanks to movie buzz and instantly recognizable characters.
Since director Tim Burton first brought "Batman" to the big screen in 1989, games tied to every Batman film — including "Batman Returns," ''Batman & Robin" and "Batman Forever" — have been released for various gaming platforms. EA might have decided to bow out of the Batman business after what happened with the previous movie-based adaptation.
In 2005, EA unleashed a "Batman Begins" game alongside director Chris Nolan's moody re-imagination of the Batman franchise. The stealth action game featured the voices of the film's stars, such as Christian Bale, Katie Holmes and Morgan Freeman. But the game received a lukewarm critical reception and only sold 587,000 copies. Ker-plop!
If a "Dark Knight" game is still in the works, Batman could take a cue from Superman. Because of delays, the EA console games based on 2006's "Superman Returns" didn't take flight until the DVD release — and only then sold 705,000 copies. However, a "Dark Knight" game isn't on EA's release slate through March 2009, according to the EA manager.
That doesn't mean gamers will be without interactive incarnations of Batman, The Joker and Two-Face this year. Warner will release "Lego Batman: The Video Game" in September. The cartoony platform game developed by Traveller's Tales will feature the caped crusader and company solving puzzles and fighting foes in the form of the famous colorful blocks.
In November, DC Comics characters such as Batman, The Joker and Catwoman can duel in Midway's fighting game "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe." And later this year, Sony Online Entertainment will shine the Bat-signal on a virtual Gotham City in the new massively multiplayer online role-playing game "DC Universe Online. So, yes game? No game? Maybe game? 
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Post by jlavaia on Aug 8, 2008 8:55:08 GMT -5
thanks for the update All-Star. it looks like at this point it might not get released at all. they were making it, but from that article, it seems that work has stopped. this makes no difference to me, as i had no desire to get or play this game, but i know alot of you were looking forward to this. sorry guys.
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Post by batfan93 on Aug 8, 2008 9:05:38 GMT -5
There's a Mobile Game. I guess there will be a PC/PS one too. A GBA one too, I hope!
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 9, 2008 10:32:21 GMT -5
I hope they do a good job with the game, conjsidering how great the film was.
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Post by electri on Aug 11, 2008 8:53:21 GMT -5
doomsday your joker at the bottom is so sick!
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Post by batfan93 on Sept 20, 2008 7:33:45 GMT -5
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Post by batfan93 on Sept 25, 2008 14:16:48 GMT -5
I just got the Batman Begins and The Dark Knight games on my mobile phone. Both are great, especially TDK! It's got great graphics and interesting gameplay.
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Post by banzaiboy on Sept 27, 2008 4:19:43 GMT -5
If the Dark Knight doesn't get a home console video game, it will be the first time since the 1989 Batman movie that both the animated version and theatrical incarnation of the Caped Crusader hasn't appeared in a home console video game. Every big screen adventure that Batman has been in has had a console video game to accompany it and every animated version up until "The Batman" has as well. I'm talking home console systems, not the Plug and Play system.
Kinda sad because other than Batman and Robin for the PS1 and Batman Beyond (also for the PS1) I've at least enjoyed playing most of the other Batman games that have come out on the console systems.
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Post by All Star Batman on Dec 23, 2008 19:05:11 GMT -5
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Post by svengali1337 on Dec 25, 2008 11:59:25 GMT -5
It's just going to be another Movie to video game thing. I would be surprised if it will be nothing special. B:AA is whats up
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Post by mr. battastic on Dec 27, 2008 21:01:57 GMT -5
like it to be a sand box game like spider man 2. but yea sounds rushed. but one can hope theres gonna be two kick butt games this year!
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Post by jlavaia on Jan 9, 2009 19:31:45 GMT -5
i really doubt that this game is coming out and was even developed at all. its not set to come out before May 2009 and if it ever does come out, its well past the movie being out and even the dvd release which means that the cash in that this game is is lost. there's no real point to release this game now anyway, especially since it'll be competing with the real Batman game thats coming out.
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Post by blackraven87 on Jan 9, 2009 22:50:17 GMT -5
Perhaps there will be a re-release of the film; with better bonus features, and they'll put the game out at the same time? who knows...
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Post by batfink on Jan 18, 2009 16:26:56 GMT -5
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Post by mr. battastic on Jan 18, 2009 19:11:53 GMT -5
well......that stinks. it was even gonna be open world!! hopefully the idea will get picked back up later. |
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Post by batfan93 on Jan 31, 2009 8:17:05 GMT -5
Although the official game is apparantely dead, there's a fan made one in the works. It's going to be a NES game with sprites from the orginal "Batman" by Sunsoft. It's not a hack - it's with all new levels and music. Level 1 gameplay video can be seen on YouTube.
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Post by batmaster on Feb 3, 2009 2:19:31 GMT -5
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Post by batfan93 on Feb 3, 2009 12:45:04 GMT -5
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Post by darambler20 on May 1, 2009 21:27:51 GMT -5
You can bet that the developers won't sit on a new game when the 3rd movie comes out. That game will be in prodcution very early.
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Post by batmaster on Aug 1, 2009 16:57:43 GMT -5
The game is canceled  . |
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