Batman: Arkham Asylum Awarded Guinness World Record!

[Luminus]

Batman: Arkham Asylum has been awarded a Guinness World Record for "Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever." The press release:

Today the highly anticipated Batman: Arkham Asylum game has been awarded a Guinness World Record for the ‘Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever’.

Batman: Arkham Asylum has been given top scores across the board from National newspapers and specialist game reviewers. The game has broken the Guinness World Record in this category by achieving the highest average score of 91.67 from reviews around the world.*

Developed by Rocksteady Studios and based on DC Comics’ Batman license, Batman: Arkham Asylum offers players diverse gameplay that pushes the envelope for action, adventure and superhero games and exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure taking them to the depths of Arkham Asylum.

Gaz Deaves from Guinness World Records states, “We are so pleased to be awarding Batman: Arkham Asylum a Guinness World Record. It is a fantastic new game and due to the reaction of gaming experts we believe it has a well deserved place in the Guinness World Records book.”

In Batman: Arkham Asylum, BATMAN finds himself trapped inside the confines of Gotham’s psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, ARKHAM ASYLUM. THE JOKER has set a trap for the DARK KNIGHT and has conspired with the deranged inmates to eliminate BATMAN once and for all. Adding to the authenticity of the game are veteran animated Batman voice talents Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy, who reprise their roles as The Joker and Batman respectively.

Batman: Arkham Asylum features an original story by Paul Dini, Batman writer and five-time Emmy Award winner whose credits include Lost and Batman: The Animated Series. Gamers will move in the shadows, instill fear amongst their enemies and confront The Joker and Gotham City's most notorious villains, including HARLEY QUINN, BANE, KILLER CROC, POISON IVY and SCARECROW, who have taken over the asylum.

Batman: Arkham Asylum, co-published in North America by Eidos Inc. and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, is rated “T” for Teen and is available for PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 for the suggested retail price of $59.99. It will also be available for Games for Windows LIVE at retail outlets for the suggested retail price of $49.99 on September 15, 2009. For more information, please visit www.batmanarkhamasylum.com

Source: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, August 28, 2009
Source #2: Superherohype

Nice!

 

[Brikar99]

Wow. They really do have a world record for everything. I think this announcement should get the world record for worthless world records.

 

[Teelie]

I'm disappointed by this myself. Guiness Book used to be about genuine records and at least notable for an achievement or something exceptionally different. Now and days they go looking for things to make into records instead of looking at something that should be a record.

And this is very specific to video game super hero games, not just video games in general which this would not beat. IIRC, Majora's Mask still holds the record.

 

[JonathonWally]

I'm disappointed by this myself. Guiness Book used to be about genuine records and at least notable for an achievement or something exceptionally different. Now and days they go looking for things to make into records instead of looking at something that should be a record.

You mean like the guy they gave a record to for longest underwater pogosticking?

Most people shoved into a phone booth at the same time?



C'mon, this is what guinness does.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

And this is very specific to video game super hero games, not just video games in general which this would not beat. IIRC, Majora's Mask still holds the record.

Majora's Mask the most critically acliamed video game ever? Um...don't think so. Ocarina of Time, maybe, but not Majora's Mask.

 

[Teelie]

Okay, yeah, Ocarina of Time. I knew it was a Zelda game but I couldn't remember which beyond it was an N-64 game.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Okay, yeah, Ocarina of Time. I knew it was a Zelda game but I couldn't remember which beyond it was an N-64 game.

No worries. Majora's Mask is certainly a great game, but while it got mostly positive reviews, it was never quite as possible as its predecessor.

As for the topic at hand: This is a farce. A fake record that holds no weight. Ok, so it's the most critically acclaimed superhero game. Have you seen its competition? This is not the stuff record book should be recording.

 

[Thrall]

Okay, yeah, Ocarina of Time. I knew it was a Zelda game but I couldn't remember which beyond it was an N-64 game.

No worries. Majora's Mask is certainly a great game, but while it got mostly positive reviews, it was never quite as possible as its predecessor.

As for the topic at hand: This is a farce. A fake record that holds no weight. Ok, so it's the most critically acclaimed superhero game. Have you seen its competition? This is not the stuff record book should be recording.

Ultimate Alliance/X-Men Legends were pretty good. Wolverine:The Movie wasn't bad. I can't think of any others that were good, so you have a point.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I would add in Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Spider-Man 2, and Web of Shadows along with the aforementioned ones, then that's about it as far as good superhero games.

 

[Thrall]

I would add in Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Spider-Man 2, and Web of Shadows along with the aforementioned ones, then that's about it as far as good superhero games.

Oh, yeah forgot about those. Spider-Man 2 was oodles of fun.

The Punisher game that came out a few years ago, that got heavily censored, was all types of carnage-filled awesome as well.

Oh, and The Darkness. That one was great and really, really underrated IMO.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I'm realizing that I'm now kinda contradicting my own point. But still that's what 10 good games in the several decades that games have existed now?

 

[Thrall]

I'm realizing that I'm now kinda contradicting my own point. But still that's what 10 good games in the several decades that games have existed now?

Batman:Rise of Sin Tsu and Superman64 are enough to balance out the bad with the good all on their own.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Hey, Rise of Sin Tsu wasn't terrible, it was just kinda mediocre (now, Dark Tomorrow on the other hand.) Now, Superman 64, that just exists on its own plane of awfulness.