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The Tim Burton film had quite an impact on popular culture back in the late 80s, so it was practically screaming for computer game conversion. Batman had already made an appearance in C64 land with the well-received Caped Crusader arcade adventure, so Batman the Movie would inevitably be compared to it. Thankfully, BTM is a nice game in it's own right, and one that still plays good 13 years later. I guess most of you know the plot, but for the unaware, it involves Bruce Wayne, your typical carefree multi-millionaire businessman by day, undergoing a complete transformation by night, crusading against crime dressed in leather.
Following the film's plot admirably well, you take the role of (surprise) Batman in various situations around town. You go in pursuit of Jack Napier in the Axis Chemical Plant (level 1), escape with the batmobile to the batcave (level 2), analyse various products poisoned by the Joker (level 3), fly the batwing at the Gotham Carnival destroying evil balloons (level 4), and finally, pursue the Joker in the Gotham Cathedral (level 5). And that's it.
Mostly BTM is a platform shoot-em-up (levels 1 & 5). You have an unlimited amount of batarangs to shoot enemies, as well as the batrope to swing from platform to platform (great fun). At first, the difficulty seems overly high, but not really. Learn the level layouts and it's fairly easy to proceed to the rest of the game. The other levels offer variety. Level 2 is a weird faux-3D race game, level 4 is similar but requires more dexterity, and level 3 is something of a silly puzzle game.The platform bits are easily the best but variety never harmed anyone, and it's all nicely done, honest.
The graphics are fine too but particular mention should go to the music - it's stunning. Every level has it's own tune, and it's so good it actually enhances gameplay. But if you hate music you can opt for sound FX, it's no big deal. Hate the multi-load though, so try the Laxity version, it somehow has less of it.
Downloads: Music, Advert 2, Advert 3
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| GRAPHICS - 7/10 |
Colourful & well defined. The scrolling is a bit slow in the platform levels.
| | SOUND - 9/10 |
Sensational music, standard fx.
| | PLAYABILITY - 7/10 |
Nice stuff. The platform bits are the best but the rest is fun too.
| | OVERALL - 7/10 |
Good movie tie-in.
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