Eidos and Warner Bros. Interactive just hit us up with the final box art for Batman: Arkham Asylum, which hits shelves this summer.
The box shows a beat-up-looking Batman standing in the rain, bloody leg and all. The box also features the ESRB stamp for a "T" rating, which we were unable to confirm with Warner and Eidos this afternoon. Some had previously speculated that Arkham Asylum would be a mature title, due its dark tone. At the time of this writing, the ESRB Web site still doesn't show a rating for the title.
We're a bit surprised to see that the box art doesn't also feature the Joker, a character who seemingly could sell shampoo to bald dudes after Heath Ledger's Academy Award-winning performance in The Dark Knight. What do you guys think of the final Batman: Arkham Asylum artwork?
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5:20 PM on 03.11.2009
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I'm with you. I REALLY want this game to be good.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Arkham is on an island. With that said, he could be standing on the island with Gotham in the distance.
I just hope it doesn't suck.
Don't fuck it up, Eidos.
there has been good batman games from the 8bit and 16bit era and lego batman i mean if batman had this so call "curse" superman is like a the root of all that is bad and unholy for example superman 64
As to why Joker and Harley Quinn (How I love her so) aren't on the cover. Maybe they didn't want to seem cheap by displaying everything the game is about at first glance especially with Joker being so popular these days.
My hope is that he's there to beat the bejesus out of people in wicked cool ways. In other words, Arkham = playground for batsy to have fun in and ultimately slap the silliness out of Joker. Or something.
The moon, they made the mistake of making it look like it was crashing through the clouds. When it's just supposed to be reflected light on the clouds.