Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu

I hated Batman: Vengeance and I was a little bit weary about playing this game. So I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was actually a fun little beat-em-up in the tradition of Streets of Rage and Double Dragon. However it is still quite a shallow game.

Each level looks exactly the same as you (as Batman, Robin, Batgirl or Nightwing) run around levels like the City Streets, the Sewers, Museums etc and beat-up generic looking villains. The graphics and levels look pretty but the scenery is rather flat and unengaging. Plus the upgrades with special moves are hardly that exciting though it is slightly fun using them to kick-in the heads of evil henchmen. But when you do it for the forty-millionth time it does get a bit boring.

And every level involves either defusing a bomb against 3-minute time limits and rescuing hostages against 3-minute time limits. Wow! But, like I said, it's still far better than Vengeance and the cut-scenes look lovely. And for the tiny amount of pennies that I paid for it I can hardly complain really.

This game, alongside Batman Vengeance, has the ability for someone to become the Dark Knight from the animated series if they wished, even if it is just a few hours. Just like the animated series, the original voices of Kevin Conroy, Tara Strong, Loren Lester all make this game feel very familiar. For me, it was like playing in an actual episode of The New Batman Adventures, and that was purely down to the look and feel of the game. There should be more titles of Batman like this game, because the ones that are already around just keep raising the bar. Gotham looks as visual as it has on the television series, and the design of the characters is absolutely dead on Batman rocks!!!

This is another great Batman video game and for all the same reason it has lots of action in it the storyline is really good the computer generation is good The levels are really good but they can get hard as you go along but that just makes the game more fun to play. the way they look in the game is really good and they look just like what they looked like in the TV show. Also the voice over actors are really good such as Kevin Conroy as Batman, Scotte Menville as Robin, Tara Strong as Batgirl, Loren lester as Nightwing, Bob Hastings as Commissioner Jim Gordon. The villains are really good such as Hector Elizondo as Bane, Jeffrey Combs as Scarecrow, Ron Perlman as Clayface, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Sin Tzu. So I am sure that you will not be disappointed with Batman Rise of Sin Tzu because it is a really good game. So make sure that you rent or buy Batman Rise of Sin Tzu because it is a great game.

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***1/2 out of *****