Batman Forever: The Arcade Game
A Final-Fight/Double-Dragon style game which features the Caped Crusader and his sidekick Robin in a traditional beat-em-up. Based on the Batman Forever movie, this side-scrolling beat-em-up features the plot…
Batman Forever: The Arcade Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Iguana Entertainment, released 21 November 1996 on Atari Jaguar CD, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and DOS. The main story takes about 2 hrs to finish.
What Batman Forever: The Arcade Game is
Batman Forever: The Arcade Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Iguana Entertainment and released in 1996. It was published by Acclaim. It is available on Atari Jaguar CD, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Final-Fight/Double-Dragon style game which features the Caped Crusader and his sidekick Robin in a traditional beat-em-up. Based on the Batman Forever movie, this side-scrolling beat-em-up features the plot, several memorable characters, and quotes from its movie counterpart. The player gets to use batarangs, a bat grapple, and tons of other Batman-specific goodies in order to accomplish their goals. The player can create their own combos and collect power-ups to help them in their quest to rid the streets of Gotham from an everlasting flow of bad guys.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Batman series
Batman Forever: The Arcade Game is the 59th of 221 entries we hold in the Batman series. It arrived 7 months after Batman Forever: The Arcade Game. The next entry was Batman: Partners in Peril in 1996. Its critic score of 60 is 13 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition at 94.
How it was received
Batman Forever: The Arcade Game holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2 hrs.
What it launched against
Batman Forever: The Arcade Game launched on 21 November 1996, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Twisted Metal 2 and PaRappa the Rapper. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Twisted Metal 2, PaRappa the Rapper.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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