Retro Weekends Episode 49: Batman - The Movie

 
Retro Weekends plays and reviews Batman: The Movie for the Atari ST. All gameplay footage taken from real hardware.
 
 
 
   
 
 

What we thought

Chris

"This was a solid game, I quite liked the presentation throughout as it has some nice cut-scenes in it and such. The graphics and music were also quite nice for what the capabilities of the computer are. Game play wise the game was quite good but I think the difficulty curve is a bit off, it really throws the player into the deep end in my opinion."

3/5
rich

"I quite like this game, you can really tell this was developed properly for the Atari ST as it uses the system a lot better than most of the other games arriving on it at the time, with reasonably smooth scrolling, fairly optimal colour usage, and very impressive for the time scaling in its racing sections. There's a lot of variety in the game play which keeps things interesting and I think works well with film licence's as many different scenes of the movie can be represented. I do, however feel the game play isn't as polished as it could have been, the game feels as though it hasn't been playtested as much as the big console releases of this year, the first level for example goes on too long and I think would've benefited by being cut into two stages, with the first easing the player in. The game needed some tweaks to balance, and I think it needed to be longer but its pretty solid all in all. "

3/5
 
 
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