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The Dark Knight will someday receive a brilliant tie-in video game that delights his millions of fans. This is so totally not that game. Read Review
Sin Tzu, cunning master of strategy and martial arts, makes history as the first Batman character to debut in a video game. To commemorate this event, DC Comics and Warner Bros. have showcased the talents of veteran scriptwriter Flint Dille and reknown comic book artist, Jim Lee as Sin Tzu's co-creators and character designers. The third-person action game lets up to two players join forces as Batman and Robin or Nightwing and Batgirl and take on the scum of Gotham City. Utilizing 35 different attacks and plenty of Bat-gadgets, players fight their way through 12 levels, from the Gotham City Docks to the infamous Arkham Asylum.
I wrote a preview of Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu for this site a while back, and I was, in retrospect, much too positive in my initial assessment. And while I realize that I'm backpedaling like a bad mamma-jamma, I just don't think it's cool to criticize a work-in-progress. Especially not a video game, in which the various elements often come together at the very last minute; bug-fixing, sound effects, and on and on. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which I played through for a strategy guide, is a wonderful example of how a final version can repair or polish all the raw gameplay elements of an early version. Read More »
Over the past 15 years, the legendary comic book antihero known as Batman has, much more often than not, been treated by video-game developers the way Ike Turner treated Tina. The most recent insult to the Caped Crusader's fans, Kemco's Batman: Dark Tomorrow, runs a close second to Titus's Superman as the worst superhero game of all time. Enter Ubisoft, which published the best Batman game in forever with the 2001 release Batman: Vengeance, and which looks to once again restore respect to the Dark Knight with Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu. Read More »
Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Publisher: Ubisoft
T for Teen Mild Realistic ViolenceAlso available on: Game Boy Advance, Xbox, GameCube, PC
61 KB
1 DVD
Local Multiplayer - Cooperative: 2
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