This trailer for Batman: Arkham City is so full of awesome, it wouldn’t surprise me if elements of this game weren’t already influencing the third Christopher Nolan Batman film (or vice versa considering Hugo Strange’s appearance).
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I’m a little disappointed with this trailer. It’s interesting and all but it doesn’t really tell us anything about the game other than Batman’s a bad ass. I wonder if this video was only made because people want something “new” to look at while they wait for the game to come out. News on the game has been rather slow and I think a lot of people are anticipating the Viral Marketing to have started in some fashion.
Damn it. This is what I get for not playing the video first. I saw the first few seconds of the trailer and said “I saw this on another site” (a german one that leaked it) but it turns out that this is a greatly extended cut of the same footage. The other site only had the mercinaries attack him while talking to each other through their headsets. Nothing about Hugo Strange at all.
This trailer is really friggin cool.
Anyone want to place bets if this game will come out before DC Universe Online?
I’ve played DCU Online. Except for lag issues with their servers, I’d say it’s ready to go.
I’m just amazngly impressed by how REAL the graphics seemed.
I mean, just think.
We’re THIS close to not needing actors in our movies at all!
won’t happen, at least as far as genuinely entertaining films are concerned. It’s different with video games as there is an immersive element in you controlling the character but when it comes to feature length entertainment I think certain parts of the brain that process the aesthetic just give up and it comes a very detatched affair.
In small doses of half an hour or less I think it works well; a la The Clone Wars or that DC Universe online cutscene that was shown a month ago. I just think something in our brains and maybe our hearts won’t let us emotionally invest in a computer generated feature that rans your average 105 minutes.
Still THIS LOOKS AWESOME!
I’d only posit Toy Story 1, 2, and 3 against your statement. I’m a grown man and when all the toys were in the woodpile furnace thing and accepting their fate, I started to tear up, I was completely engrossed in their story. I do agree though when the characters look very human but feel like they’re missing something like their soul (as in Polar Express and Final Fantasy Spirits Within), that it can be very distracting and hard to watch.
Sure they’ve got the bone and muscle movement, but there are definitely movies that benefit from a well-versed actor, and I don’t think animators will be able to replace that.