Every Batman Video Game Ranked From Worst To Best

13. Batman Begins

Batman Begins Video Game
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It's kind of wild that for as successful as the Christopher Nolan Batman films were at the box office only one tie-in video game ever released to accompany them - EA's Batman Begins, which released in 2005. (A tie-in for The Dark Knight was in production from Pandemic Studios, but was cancelled by EA after suffering problems during development, thus opening the door up for Rocksteady to make Batman: Arkham Asylum.)

Begins is fairly unremarkable as far as video games are concerned, but as a tie-in it's actually quite exceptional. Most movie tie-in video games have tended to be pretty abject, but the Batman Begins video game managed to offer a decent enough retelling of the film and it had some pretty neat ideas as far as gameplay was concerned too.

To the game's credit, Batman Begins understood that a fully immersive Batman video game had to be both action oriented and stealthy. Combat wasn't anything exceptional, but it did the job and served as a neat entrée to the game's main gimmick - a fear meter which could be built up over time through stealth and allow players to take down an enemy with one blow.

There's nothing in Begins that other, non-Batman titles already did better for the time, but it is perhaps underrated when compared to the Caped Crusader's other video game adaptations.

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