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Vemsie

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Take this with a massive bag of salt, but the Paul Gale Network posted this rumour:

Two days ago in this story, I said that I heard of a few rumors and rumblings going around regarding what’s next game that Rocksteady Studios is developing after their very successful duo of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. I left it up to you to decide whether I’d even put up the story, because as I said before, this would clearly be a rumor (and one that I tried verifying its validity, but have not been able to do so just yet). You voted “What the hell…why not. We’ll take it as a rumor and not complain if it turns out false.” almost unanimously through comments and e-mails. And from my own internet searching, it’s what you wanted…

Take it for what you will, but here’s what I got:

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Crisis is the alleged name of the title.

- Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo are the four playable characters, each with their own varied move set and weapon of choice (sword, bo staff, sai, and nunchucku…respectively).

- Flashbacks are played as Master Splinter/Hamato Yoshi.

- Shurikens, smoke bombs, grappling hooks, and climbing foot spikes.

- Gameplay and story/stage progression similar to Batman: Arkham City.

- Classic characters such as Bebop and Rocksteady (warthog and rhinoceros), Dr. Baxter Stockman, Shredder (Oroku Saki), and Krang act as bosses and in the case of the humans-turned-mutants, you fight them in both forms throughout the story.

- The Turtle Van and Turtle Blimp will be present and with them and other gadgets, the Wii U build is expected to have touch screen controls for specific actions.

- Multiplayer is unknown.

- Graphics engine used is that of Arkham City.

- The game is expected to be more dark than slapstick, but the turtles themselves and their interactions with the Foot Clan, bosses, and story characters like April O’Neil and Casey Jones will still have comedy attached.

- Purportedly being in development for Wii U, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

- Careful selection of voice actors to bring the universe to life as well as Rocksteady did with their two Batman games.

- Manhattan Crisis shares a similar name to the 1991/1992 NES title, “The Manhattan Project”, but is very much its own title.

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I'd totally play a good turtles game! Especially if it was all dark and moody like the original comic.

I was thinking the other day, how I'd like an Enter the Dragon style game, dat animation system + Bruce Lee + simple gadgets could be ace.

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I wouldn't say it was worth buying tbh. You get four fairly tiny sections to playthrough, plus some challenge rooms.

Having said that, I did really dig the 'bad ending' you can get whilst controlling her at a certain point, which I saw today on my NG+ :D

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I should probably offer an opinion on this, as one of those commentators at post #2410. The Catwoman DLC inserts itself into the main game as four very short extra story missions in a linear progression, applied right from the start, so you have to decide whether you want it or not before you start a new game.

The prudent approach for any punter would be to play the vanilla game without DLC first and see how much they like it, or if they even get it, then pick up the Catwoman DLC for a replay or restart if they do. The system doesn't click for everyone, but if it does for you then you will almost certainly go for a replay.

And if you really like the combat, or the predator stealth missions, or both, then the extended DLC (including Robin and Nightwing) can add serious hours of extra play in terms of the challenge rooms. I love them but know many players won't even bother with them and won't feel they've missed out.

There's been plenty of fair criticism regarding Catwoman's final episode and respawning enemies (there's a tactic for winning it, even if it's not brilliantly done, but it does represent a drop in quality). So I wish there existed a front-end option to enable or disable DLC for further replays, as once you have Catwoman installed then you can't get rid of her either. I don't know why they did that.

I'm a cheapskate but I've really loved this game and have played it to a degree unbecoming of my age, so I've not regretted buying all the playable extra content. After it fell in price.

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I usually go all games on hard but I found a decent challenge here on normal difficulty. I could deal with a few generic thugs with ease but get me in a group of ten or arm a few with guns, knives, and shields and it becomes a decent test. Certain parts of the game I could only get through after a few tries.

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Hard is too hard to start with, I completed it twice on Hard. There is also a nasty spike if you upgrade Batman but ignore Catwoman, her missions get very tough without upgrades.

Bare in mind, difficulty cannot be changed during progression. You have to start again from scratch.

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I am having problem with Identify theft bit in the game. I think I have found second body and question the 2nd witness. But how do I find next body or Fake Bruce Wayne

Also how do I get this trophy with witness from unusual perspective. Do I go to the church with Riddle ? on or the big wonder tower ?

I got Robin Unlock-able character from DLC today. Is he available to play in main game or not.

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23 riddler trophies to go and a few side missions to clean up for 100% in story mode, twice.

Amazing game, was tempted to go back to Revelations and also have Uncharted 3 collecting dust but neither cut the mustard compared to this.

Puchased the Nightwing DLC recently as well, I can only hope they pull some more out the bag to his standard. He's a beast.

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I've been reading AC has been having a lot pf problems on PC, I've got a 6970 and was wondering if anyone else does and what the performance has been? A lot of the standard performance sites did the rating early on when it still had DX11 problems (does it still?).

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I've got a 6950 flashed to a 6970 and havent been able to play AC for more than 5mins since I bought it in Jan, total bloody joke.

Just get gfx errors/warnings, ctd and v low framerates for the few mins it does work. I've tried last years worth of official drivers, lower settings, the lot. And it's not just 6970's, many diff configs having problems.

As a comparison it runs bf3 on high/ultra settings silky smooth. Game is totally broken on pc (have a look on their forums for loads of ppl moaning). They keep promising patches which never appear.

B00 to Rocksteady/Warner I say... :hmm:

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