Batman Begins' weird PS2 game

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0:00 A really promising tutorial
2:03 Bespoke Post
3:17 EA, Eurocom, pre-release marketing, and an incredible cast
5:45 Outlining the game and the first things you notice
8:42 The fear system they keep talking about
10:28 Batman Begins: A How-To Guide by minimme, or, the combat
13:41 Extreme linearity and goofy animations
16:10 Good vibes and great potential
18:11 What's up with this voice acting?
19:11 Strong ending, strong enemy chatter
20:21 The Batmobile, and reasons this game feels unfinished
23:43 Obligatory mention of the Arkham games
24:39 Closing thoughts and outro

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@minimme 5 месяцев назад

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@SianaGearz 5 месяцев назад

Seems like this company only operates in US&Canada, not serving say Europe and Antipodea?

@SianaGearz 5 месяцев назад

@MrDjBigZ I don't know i'd like to receive a lootbox of shitty headphones every once in a while, i have a sort of fetish in discovering just how bad they are. I've been thinking of starting a channel that reviews the absolute worst audio products, 1€-store grade garbage, but maybe also overpriced and critically flawed high price products once in a while if things get going.

@SianaGearz 5 месяцев назад

@MrDjBigZ I do do that already. It even often surprises me in how close to being actually good it is, not irredeemable.

@thencrranger5628 5 месяцев назад

when are you going to review the forgotten Disney's chicken little games?

@NadeemShekh-uy9zn 5 месяцев назад

Review X-Men the official game

@qew_Nemo 5 месяцев назад

You don't understand, Batman climbs ladders this way on purpose, to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies.

@SHADOMEGA7569 5 месяцев назад

I'd be terrified of that not to mention he's technically T posing when he glides so not only is he striking fear into people's hearts but he's also asserting dominance

@Pyke64 5 месяцев назад

Oh my God Batman just crashed into a bus full of children at 150mph. Oh nevermind, it says there were no casulaties.

@HonestObserver 5 месяцев назад

Well, that car chase is happening in the middle of the night while that bus is out for some reason

@HOTD108_ 5 месяцев назад

Still a lower Batmobile body count than Arkham Knight.

@Not_a_Lizard_ 5 месяцев назад

@@HOTD108_ Nah man. They just get zapped. This gigantic tank going at F1 speeds just zaps them out of the way you see.

@TeleporterDown 14 дней назад

All the children are paraplegic now... But no casualties!

@braxton4999 5 месяцев назад

Batman’s animations are reused from a game Called Sphinx and the cursed mummy from 2003. They reused them. The running, jumping , idle, and ladder climbing animations. The spihinx game even had a Batman model inside the games files. Eurocom just reused them for this game.

@Eebers 5 месяцев назад

That's hilarious, i can't unsee it now

@therealquinnzack1819 3 дня назад

So weird that they did that, but it explains A LOT

@IamNOVAone 5 месяцев назад

There was originally supposed to be a sequel to this game being a Dark knight tie in game but it was ultimately cancelled when licensing rights expired and in return we ended up getting Arkham asylum instead. Don’t get me wrong I love the Arkham series but I also wonder what that Dark Knight game might have been like.

@ChaseMC215 5 месяцев назад

Not to mention the sequel was supposed to be developed by Pandemic, the same team behind Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

@Nor-tc8vz 5 месяцев назад

If I remembered the engine that was also used for the Saboteur was a pain to get running at an acceptable frame rate with high quality assets they planned to use.

@Deliveredmean42 5 месяцев назад

Well, it made sense it had trouble, they were TOO detailed which even crashed the dev kit. They kind overestimate the console's budget and seem to only work on the PC for the longest. @@Nor-tc8vz

@RappingNinja 5 месяцев назад

Gary Oldman actually DID do voice work for that game. There’s interviews where he talks about it. Makes you wonder who else from the cast did voice work for Pandemic’s Dark Knight, recordings that’ll never see the light of day…

@XxJohnnyGATxX 5 месяцев назад

Isn't there archived screenshots of it and wasnt the final draft of it proposed for psp?

@Smansteel 5 месяцев назад

This game walked so the Arkham series could run!

@lutherheggs451 5 месяцев назад

Well it helped that the Arkham Series borrowed combat from Spider-Man 2 for PS2. It will never stop being hilarious when people try to claim that Spider-Man borrowed Arkham's combat, when Spider-man has been doing it since PS2. Well it also makes alot more sense that Spider-man is flying and flipping all over the place as opposed to Tank Man

@HOTD108_ 5 месяцев назад

@@lutherheggs451Arkham also lifted detective mode straight from the Spider-Man 3 (2007) video game, which not only had you seeing enemies through walls but also used the mechanic for solving puzzles and tracking down enemies by following trails of DNA, and all a solid two years before Arkham Asylum. The "unique" mechanics the Arkham games are famous for are just a bunch of reused ideas from Spider-Man games lol.

@mingusmofaz5898 5 месяцев назад

@@lutherheggs451It's all borrowed from Mark of Kri.

@polanskyf 11 дней назад

@@lutherheggs451 freeflow on ps2? Are you drunk?

@MrMobista 5 месяцев назад

I can remember playing this over and over on the OG Xbox. I'll maintain forever that this was the best Batman game we got until Arkham Asylum came out.

@M1keFoxxx 5 месяцев назад

I mean the competition wasn't great but I definitely agree! Those batmobile sections were a lot of fun

@NemesisOgreKing 5 месяцев назад

LEGO Batman was pretty good. It released in September 2008, almost a year before Asylum.

@cookieface80 5 месяцев назад

Sunsoft Batman NES.

@Psilocervine 5 месяцев назад

I came here to post exactly this because it absolutely was

@InkyMuste 5 месяцев назад

@@cookieface80This is the king right here. Insanely good game with one of the best soundtracks ever.

@BalletRosesOfficial 5 месяцев назад

Cillian Murphy getting into and having fun with the voice acting is awesome lol

@StudioInkblot 5 месяцев назад

The clip of Michael Caine asking for a copy of the game has always stuck with me and I always hoped against hope that he went through with it.

@johans3164 4 месяца назад

He prob wont. He still trying to get his e-mail

@juarezamorim 5 месяцев назад

I love those Renderware models from Batman Begins, it's peak art direction.

@unbearifiedbear1885 5 месяцев назад

Mad to think the film came out only a few years after PS2.. in my mind, PS2 feels _wayyy_ older than the Batman reboot crazy how time and memory play tricks like that!

@svenbtb 5 месяцев назад

I mean it was a good 5 years after the PS2 came out, 360 and ps3 were just around the corner one year later at that point.

@cruisinobscurae3274 5 месяцев назад

You're the gaming RU-vidr I've been watching consistently for the longest amount of time. From when your graphically impressives were new to now, I've never gotten bored of the channel. You deserve more props from the long-video-essay game critics. What you do is really valuable to the study of game design.

@rihardsrozans6920 5 месяцев назад

The quality has been consistently great the entire time, down the the first Max Payne review

@richardtickler8555 5 месяцев назад

I watch most videos multiple times: once to watch and the rest to fall asleep cause theres no sudden noise and a calm voice

@longplayarchive 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for using and crediting our footage. Nice review!

@asdfreii 5 месяцев назад

Batman’s parents died when he was a child. Most tragically he had to teach himself how to climb ladders. I think he’s doing well considering.

@jaysanj152 5 месяцев назад

Those Goofy Goblin like animations for Batman really takes out the tone of this game. Crazy how Arkham Asylum just took pretty much all of the cool ideas from this game had, Especially the Fear mechanic and simply made them all better. in a way you gotta owe it to this game's existence we got the Arkham Games.

@project-gladiator 5 месяцев назад

In the conclussion he says it didn't have much to do with the development of the Arkham games. But it sure as hell wouldn't be a surprise

@huzi990 5 месяцев назад

I don't know why but that ladder climbing animation made me think that would be how the College Humor Badman would move around.

@StudioInkblot 5 месяцев назад

You're not wrong

@gimmibox 5 месяцев назад

Bros thumbnails getting more and more unhinged. Love it

@RandomGuy-yp6py 5 месяцев назад

Gotta love how he includes Tony Hawk in all of them and sometimes you have to look really close to find him lol

@unbearifiedbear1885 5 месяцев назад

Did you see the one he did for Disneys "Cars"? 😂

@Guymanbot97 5 месяцев назад

@@RandomGuy-yp6py I just NOW realized he did this. And am now trying to find him in every thumbnail.

@no-replies 5 месяцев назад

@@RandomGuy-yp6pyoh damn!!

@HOTD108_ 5 месяцев назад

@@RandomGuy-yp6pyLiterally not true. Tony Hawk is only present in about a third of the thumbnails.

@project-gladiator 5 месяцев назад

I like how it has a little bit of Rocksteady's Arkham games. For example, the fear mechanic remind me of how enemies AI in the Arkham games is made so that the enemies become more and more paranoid the more of their comrades you take out, untill the last one shoots at any noise it hears. Rocksteady's games seem almost like a remate of this one, in the best way possible.

@acomingextinction 5 месяцев назад

It's like Rocksteady drew on all the genuinely good ideas and ignored the... less inspired stuff.

@Danominator 5 месяцев назад

I like how mini keeps calling Henri Ducard "Liam Neeson". Sometimes he just refers to characters by their voice actor and something about that is inherently funny to me

@SpaceCase100 5 месяцев назад

Another certified hood classic.

@KobatheASMRbiker 5 месяцев назад

This was a pretty decent movie tie in game for its time. I played it for the first time a few months ago, and couldn't believe how great the graphics looked with some nice character models to boot. And also, Batman climbs ladders like he just pooped his pants

@Jakewake52 5 месяцев назад

One of the main things I remember from this was playing it in the living room and dying twice at a bit where theres some overheard enemy dialogue and it ends with with the woman they had captured screaming, and I thought the scream was from outside and when I had to redo that bit due to failing I kept thinking that two people just up the road were screaming so loud I couldnt hear the end of that convo and was annoyed

@connorottem5767 5 месяцев назад

I have a soft spot for this game. I remember getting sucked into its atmosphere and it was one of the first "dark" Batman media I experienced. It's kinda funny going back because there are some ideas that Arkham took and improved upon, such as stealth and the use of fear to fight armed enemies. Begins never really develops those ideas beyond linear setpieces, but Arkham would take those same concepts and refine them into actual gameplay mechanics. For what it is though and the time period it came out, I still think Begins is a fairly solid game, and it's at least somewhat better than a lot of other licensed games from that era.

@PonkeyPoe 5 месяцев назад

Oh, man. I remember renting this from the Family Video way back when. The graphics were insane compared to Spiderman 2 and I was amazed at how well it followed the film, at least in my 12 year-old head.

@KrazyKain 5 месяцев назад

I just remember this as "the splinter cell-y Batman game" and remember it quite fondly.

@er_mu8336 5 месяцев назад

This is one of those games where everything looked great when you were a kid, and you swear it's an awesome game based on that one experience years ago, but if you come back to it immediately notice its problems.

@HOTD108_ 5 месяцев назад

I think you might have dementia.

@Saitamaz94 5 месяцев назад

I like to think that this game is some kind of Arkham games' drunk, clumsy but still genuinely kind dad. Also, this is the videogame adaptation of Nolan's movie. Let that sink in.

@HOTD108_ 5 месяцев назад

"Also, this is the videogame adaptation of Nolan's movie." Yes, we know... What's your point?

@BugsyFoga 5 месяцев назад

Always up for weird licensed games

@zwete 5 месяцев назад

They’re following Nolan’s vision on sound mixing I guess

@MorbidVoid 5 месяцев назад

All I've ever known about this game is the INSANE ladder climbing animation lol

@EverythingPS5Pro 5 месяцев назад

Thank you soo much!! ❤️❤️❤️ Absolutely think that this game has some really special vibes to it, and playing it as a kid at 6 years old makes it kinda spooky. Seeing your retrospective videos of my childhood games always makes me happy ❤️❤️

@unbearifiedbear1885 5 месяцев назад

6:42 Does anyone else hear a little _"ding!"_ every time a games reviewer says the word "Sewers"? God damn you, Civvie 😂

@father042 5 месяцев назад

The game also has a weird GBA port if you are interested in that It was done by Vicarious Visions of course

@solid_fire9388 5 месяцев назад

my absolute favorite batman game, used to play the shit out of it back in the day 🥲

@BrandonOfJapan 5 месяцев назад

This was the first Batman game to somewhat do the batmobile justice

@northdwarf 5 месяцев назад

"Tell me about bears and rabbits!" 😂

@unbearifiedbear1885 5 месяцев назад

_"Fear is your Weapon"_ has never been more competently achieved in a game than playing the Alien campaign in *Aliens vs Predator* (the '99, one) - and to a lesser extent the sequel Human NPCs would go from ballsy and brave, to nervous noises and twitchy reactions, to running to hide behind geometry in other rooms, to the point you'd startle them so badly by dropping down or hissing above/behind them, that they'd blow everyone else in the room away with their shotgun trying to kill you OR better yet, drop what they were carrying; which was usually a molotov cocktail 😂🔥 I used to spend *hours* just fkn around with them, like a cat torturing a mouse. This this day, one of the best implementations of fear in a game and one of the most entertaining powertrips in the *history* of gaming (Also, the best AvP "anything" ever made)

@subhanmalik1446 5 месяцев назад

i remember playing this as kid and thinking it was one of the best games ever, years later i google it and come across videos calling it one of the worst movie tie in games lol

@notkyloren 5 месяцев назад

I'm genuinely impressed with the character modeling and texturing for the PS2 version (even if it's upscaled through an emulator).

@awareclueless 5 месяцев назад

Minimme giving me a glimpse into games I have missed out over the decades with such good storytelling Im almost reliving it as I would have. Good work yet again!

@RandomParkShots 5 месяцев назад

Babe wake up, New minimme ps2 review just dropped

@InkyMuste 5 месяцев назад

Oh look, it's this comment again

@BasedToastnt 3 месяца назад

6:42 cause they were smuggling falcone's "special powder" through the sewers

@MrVeljkosrb 5 месяцев назад

I was waiting for so long to you do this vid. I like it, cool stuff. I pray, you get into a rhythm with upload (with cool videos like last few)

@BeardTech 5 месяцев назад

This channel has introduced me to some true gems for the PS2 GameCube, Xbox etc and definitely given me a great nostalgic history lesson through the decades

@meditatednut3336 5 месяцев назад

I've been reading a ton of batman comics so this is timed perfectly. Thank you minimme!

@TheGoldenBolt 5 месяцев назад

benedict cumberbatch thumbnail

@160sharp 5 месяцев назад

13:00 that’s superman in the batman costume with the way he punched that guy lmao

@bloodczar9353 5 месяцев назад

i remember renting this game but then getting stuck whenever it said to press r3 and i had no idea you could press down the joystick so i just ended up returning it

@no-replies 5 месяцев назад

"R1....R2...wait 3?"

@Guymanbot97 5 месяцев назад

All of these games fucked with me whenever they said this. I'm pretty sure it wasn't until the PS3 days that I learned what an R3 and L3 was

@jokerzwild00 4 месяца назад

Shit I still forget about the stick clicks to this very day. I think jumping in Dark Souls 1 was the most use I ever got out of that input.

@nathanielroy1996 5 месяцев назад

I played this over and over again on my gamecube, I loved this game back in the day.

@cooknmediastudios7926 5 месяцев назад

Bro, I have no idea how you're cranking these videos out consistently they are very good. Also, I was literally playing the Xbox version on my 360 about a day ago so seeing this pop-up was a nice surprise.

@WinnieAndTheWraiths 5 месяцев назад

These videos are incredible. I love how thorough and well researched they are! I would love your take on the Matrix tie-in video games if and when you are able to look into them! 💛

@HollywoodGaming-fy3vt 5 месяцев назад

Great video. I never had the chance to play this game. Thanks for the retrospective!

@budaroddy 5 месяцев назад

awesome, even back in the day I thought why so realistic approach and then you see batman doing double jumps and all sort of funky movements lmao

@ultimateaquiles 5 месяцев назад

You should really do a video on the Dark Knight Rises game for iOS. It was like Arkham Knight before Arkham Knight (and on mobile), I remember playing it when I was younger and being amazed at how good it looked and how complex it played.

@eenbadendaapaap644 5 месяцев назад

Love it that you always include subs 💪 and great video as always 👍 !

@ninjapunk3392 5 месяцев назад

Such memories. Thank you for praising the game, because it really is great for its time. And I still play it to this day.

@electricramjet 5 месяцев назад

I remember when Nokias used to fly away when you hung up 5:09

@joshwhite557 5 месяцев назад

I was 12 when this came out and I played it at least a dozen times. If you played this around that age you felt like you stumbled onto a master piece.

@Parambolumberienriatta 5 месяцев назад

This one brings some good PS2 memories. I remember being stuck for ages in the sewer because I couldn't find the code to the doors. Took me years to come up with the idea of turning on subtitles.

@CYPH3RsD0M41N 5 месяцев назад

One of my favorite movie tie-in games. I remember playing through for the sake of unlocking the ingame outfits. Loved playing as the classic crusadee suit.

@amirmohamad2270 4 месяца назад

This dude is really underrated.

@skankhunt4767 5 месяцев назад

Batman Begins beginning begins well😂

@axelpalmen5025 5 месяцев назад

Wholesome feeling when listening to minimme. I also share his Driv3r enthusiasm.

@jarg8 5 месяцев назад

I played this every winter for several years growing up. It had just enough splinter cell in it, the graphics are still excellent overall for 2005, its a fairly faithful movie adaptation, and its probably the only playable 3D batman game outside of the Arkham games. Such a Minimme pick as always. I love everything you do so much.

@Elvisbackpack 5 месяцев назад

My friend and I played this together, and every time we used gas grenades, we shouted "GAS!" One time, I threw the grenade, shouted "GAS!" and the grenade went from one side of the map to the other before it exploded, so I had to say it three times before it finally landed.

@Tytrovy 5 месяцев назад

Never been this early to a minimme video. Have been loving replaying the Arkham games, may have to look into getting this after I'm done

@Iwoply 5 месяцев назад

Batman moving like spider-man is scary to see lol

@garywillig5143 3 месяца назад

I remember renting this from Blockbuster as a kid and being blown away. It wasn't one of my absolute favorites like Smash Bros. Melee and Rogue Leader, but I couldn't believe character models could look so good, and at the time I loved the combat and the stealth. Also, Christian Bale's Batman voice was better in the game than in the movies. It seemed like he was moving closer to the Kevin Conroy standard as opposed to the chain-smoker voice Nolan had him do.

@pushon10 5 месяцев назад

This game was pretty decent. However, it's biggest crime is that it lacks a level select mode. You can't just play your favourite level whenever you want, even after completing it.

@ItsOver9000Productions 5 месяцев назад

This game along with Batman Vengeance, BTAS on SNES and the Arkham Series are the best of the bunch when it comes to Batman. This game holds up surprisingly well imo

@colbybradbury870 5 месяцев назад

Its interesting to me how, a lot of things in this game were also done by Rocksteady, like fear as a mechanic etc.

@adrienbroditore 5 месяцев назад

I love your content so much dude! Would you ever consider covering the PS2 x-files game? I think you'd be the perfect guy for it

@GuevaraGG 5 месяцев назад

Got this game when I was a kid for my 7th or 8th birthday lmao, could never get past part of the later game as the enemies kept killing me when trying to save Rachel

@TheTrueChuster 5 месяцев назад

Hey, at the very least, he's not wearing hockey pants...

@henriklarsson6870 5 месяцев назад

Oh i played this game alot on the Gamecube and remember really liking it. Great Video

@AfterBurnerTeirusu 5 месяцев назад

What a neat paper folding animation.

@1257dude 4 месяца назад

Family video used to have this as one of the $1 for 5 nights rentals. Used to always rent this beat it like 3 times. Super slept on

@Ganondorfdude11 5 месяцев назад

Batman Begins walked so Arkham Asylum could run.

@aaronmarshall276 5 месяцев назад

Minime, you have no idea how long we’ve waited for this

@nightday2030 5 месяцев назад

The king of cursed thumbnail is back.

@pendantblade6361 5 месяцев назад

Wild this is the best pre-Arkham Batman.

@uuu12343 5 месяцев назад

For what it was, this was pretty big for a movie tie-in game, certainly better than most

@Zunigafeid 5 месяцев назад

I love you minimme you really make my days

@lazycouchman 5 месяцев назад

This game was so fun back when it first came out. I had completely forgotten about it until now though lol

@alecpatterson6271 5 месяцев назад

Recently found my ps2 and had this game with it. The game manual comes with a movie ticket to the movie too. Such a cool marketing stunt.

@gonzaloponce4967 5 месяцев назад

man, I love your videos!

@DaddyRatchet23 5 месяцев назад

Minimme should check out the PS1 Batman and Robin game. It's the bizarre sort of movie tie in game that is frustratingly clunky and unpolished, yet almost endearing in how ambitious it was. In other words, exactly the sort of thing Minimme would probably appreciate.

@cikame 5 месяцев назад

I like to think the animator had previously worked on those PS1 Loony Tunes games and didn't get the memo.

@DCGMatthew1 5 месяцев назад

I used to rent this game for the PS2 all the time when I was a wee little lad. This, SOCOM, Spider-Man 2, Battlefield 2 Modern Combat, and the Harry Potter games.

@ODD17Ymusic 5 месяцев назад

Great video can't wait for the next

@Inuzumi 5 месяцев назад

I fell off my chair once I saw the paper animation lmao.

@SebaZavaK 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video as usual! I have the GCN version.... and I never finished it, haha. I might try now.

@PaballoKobe-xh9ve 4 месяца назад

I played a little bit of this at a resturant that let kids play games while they waited for their food decent to mid

@kazy8029 5 месяцев назад

My dad's special friend once brought this over for me. I played it in the basement while he was... 'visiting' with Dad. I ended up playing through it quite a few times before he stopped coming around (he also got me the PS2 Mission Impossible game). When Arkham Asylum came out, for some reason I defended Batman Begins as the superior game. I think I just loved the atmosphere of it. Years later, I can sit down and just blitz through Arkham Asylum and have an amazing time but I have no idea what happened to the Begins PS2 disc and I kinda don't care.

@mr.sand7899 5 месяцев назад

Batman Begins crawled so the Arkham games could run.

@maggot2471 5 месяцев назад

Dude! My cousin and I played this on the gamecube everytime he came over to my house as kids! Good times

@gabrielledebourg2487 5 месяцев назад

The music starting at 10:28 made me immediately think of Dankpods… so I guess it must the theme of RU-vidrs from down under?

@joestock732 5 месяцев назад

I love these weird games you play for our enjoyment. You suffer so we don’t have to.

@razmetrez 2 месяца назад

loved playing this game as a kid. thanks for the nostalgia.

@elshazlio 5 месяцев назад

I remember having this game and being too afraid of it to get past the tutorial. I don’t remember what I found to be scary exactly but I remember a lot of fires.