Comparing Every Version of Batman Begins

In this video, we're comparing every version of 2005's Batman Begins released for PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance and Java Mobile

[@bigdoubleu117]

Batman Begins walked so Arkham Asylum could run.

[@wil2560]

It really is funny that the Arkham series apparently exists partly cause Gary Oldman accidentally leaked that The Dark Knight was getting a game too and Pandemic the developers couldn't make the game they wanted in time since the leak said it's come out same day as the DVD of The Dark Knight

[@MythicOneOne]

>Me and others asking Flandrew to cover the Batman Arkham games >The Monkey Paw's finger curls

[@MemesToa]

I mean, in a way one could see this game as a proto-Arkham game. IIRC the tie-in game for The Dark Knight was cancelled because they decided to give Arkham Asylum a shot instead.

[@tmdwu5360]

Oh boy

[@solarixstar]

So that means one of those fingers are gonna be Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker then? Oh god what have we done….

[@Topgamer-nz7sd]

I’m a huge fan the Batman Arkham games because Batman Arkham asylum was the first to have the right mix of beat um up style as well as Batman’s use of gadgets.

[@wil2560]

​@@solarixstar hey maybe he'll cover Batman Vengeance then that was a good Batman game.

[@solarixstar]

“Hate to tell you, but I’m on fire.” Brilliant line read Mr Freeman.

[@theultimategamer95]

The PS2/GC version is such an underrated masterpiece.

[@yarpen26]

I've heard a lot of it, but it's the first time that I actually saw some gameplay. Those are some damn impressive faces for a 2005 game. Too bad Arkham monopolized all the Batgame attention out there.

[@charlottestreet3301]

​@@yarpen26 the gamcube version looks good and the pictures look good

[@maxgordon3194]

@@yarpen26 imagine this on next gen back then.

[@dcflake5645]

I hate to trouble you, but I am on fire - Morgan Freeman

[@Orbis.Non.Sufficit]

I quite liked the PS2 version of this back in the day. While Arkham Asylum came out at the same time as The Dark Knight and was amazing, I would have loved to see another movie tie-in game with Bale and the others.

[@ethanator6015]

I recall hearing that Arkham Asylum started off as a videogame adaptation of “The Dark Knight”. I’m guessing the DarkKnight videogame was shelved, and Rocksteady repurposed what was already there.

[@starman5901]

Bale most over rated batman

[@ZDProds-c8p]

"I'm sorry old chap but I'm on fire"

[@aamirrazak3467]

Alfred: Sorry to hear that sir, I'll be right over with the fire extinguisher

[@Rusty_Mitchell]

6:16 - Feels like you missed an opportunity for a Simpsons monorail song joke. He even sounds like Patty and Selma.😂

[@JoeNayDoh]

Only played the game once when it first came out, but one moment that always stuck with me was when I was interrogating a goon and the first time I picked him up he said, "Please don't eat my soul" and Batman's only response to that was "That ones new", but in the Christian Bale Batman voice of course. I just remember finding that moment so funny for some reason.

[@shiftfire4511]

Oh hey, got here real early... The thumbnail is like if the Joker decided to steal all of Batman's pixels.

[@chrisg3193]

6:20 i love it when the monorail says "its railing time" then takes off his belt

[@kajpitynski5471]

4:02 that’s actually the same Wally Pfister who worked as a cinematographer on many Nolan movies including the Batman trilogy. Now the line “I’m wearing ladies underwears” makes sense if he wanted to have a memorable cameo 😆

[@bigdoubleu117]

This was one of the very few, good, movie licensed games!

[@rainy_guy]

I have so many fond memories playing this on PS2 back in the day. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@adamoconnor8964]

I only played this game for the first time a couple years ago, but I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Really underrated game.

[@Qasemiro]

Another Sunday,Another lovely comparison video. I remember playing this game in 2006 on my GameCube and I loved it.I'm so sad that The Dark Knight wasn't made into a game. It could have been a great game like the first game. I hope the next comparison video will be a Lego Lord of the Rings or James Bond QoS comparison. And please make when philsiopher's stone ruled the world video.

[@bigdoubleu117]

I truly believe this was the precursor to Arkham Asylum.

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

I love how the enemies don't just pick their guns up after dropping them.

[@UnabridgedGamer]

Gothamites respect Queensbury rules!

[@Zeus-tx5rh]

I'm so old that i still think it's wild when enemies do pick up their guns when they drop them

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

@@Zeus-tx5rh there's also the possibility that they just have bad backs and don't want to go through the hassle of bending over lol.

[@heavy5013]

Simpler times

[@jedigamer9935]

I loved the Batman Begins game on Xbox. Shame they didn't do games of the sequels.

[@matane2465]

They did. For Java.

[@Deathlygunn]

Don't know if anyone else clocked this but the 'painter and decorator' that Batman beats up is called Walter Pfister, in the real world Wally Pfister was the cinematographer on multiple Chris Nolan movies including Batman Begins.

[@DonutSwordsman]

I love your videos, so cozy and fun seeing the comparisons. Cant wait for your next video already 😁

[@lulukomadori9651]

Surprise no mention of the funny ladder/climbing animation, also wow this game was packed with all the actors/care, an shame compared to the modern state of licensed games

[@yarpen26]

Well, movie voice acting was always very rare to come by in official tie-ins, even LucasArts could never afford anybody beyond, say, Daniels or Williams to reprise their OT roles. I think one other exception was the two LotR games. Guess WB just tended to open their wallets to game budgets more eagerly than their competitors did.

[@Djordje_Jovanovic]

1:17 reminds of Rerez It's Just Bad review for Batman: Dark Tomorrow & Batman & Robin, lol.

[@MsAmber82]

"I need my medicine!"

[@francoiscamy5066]

I don't know how you choose the games you try, but curiously most are the ones that I enjoyed when I was young. Batman begins is not the best game of the PS2, yet it's one that I always consider playing again when I plug this console. In many aspect, it is similar to the Arkham serie, I'm sure Rocksteady took heavy inspiration from it. When I want to replay the Arkham games, I always add Batman begins to the list. It is obviously less good but still very enjoyable and a perfect "prequel" to the Arkham games.

[@johnestrada294]

I remember there was a lot of Merchandise tie ins for Batman Begins (comics, toys, video games,etc) ..... but not so much for the rest of the trilogy. Maybe after the first movie they realize how grounded and serious the Nolan franchise was they decided it wasn't suitable for "kids"? I remember something similar happened with the merchandising for Batman Returns.

[@Parambolumberienriatta]

This brings back memories. Still have my PS2 copy. I was stuck for ages on the sewers level because I didn't have subtitles on.

[@AkiDave]

Your Bale impression sounds like Shadow the hedgehog 🤣 Great video man

[@auroraparadox5235]

Never played any of them, but the quality of the console release surprised me. Particularly that some of the actors lent their voices to the game.

[@yamanaaustralis96]

Actually, of the main cast only Gary Oldman was missing

[@auroraparadox5235]

@@yamanaaustralis96 For a movie tie in game, that is quite impressive.

[@TitanBolt99]

​@auroraparadox5235 It really isn't. Almost every single movie tie-in game had the actors from the movies voice the characters.

[@j.r.shartzer]

Sometimes, this channel makes me realize how OOOOLD I am. "If you remember this, you grew up playing Batman Begins!" I remember this because I was 20 when it came out 😂

[@tykamen5588]

Batman's ladder climbing and overly dramatic gliding animations never fails to get a laugh out of me.

[@KodyCrimson]

I'd love to see the animated series games next, Vengeance is pretty much the earliest iteration of the mechanics would get for the Arkham games.

[@PIMPTD]

I loved vengeance as a kid and replayed most of it recently , lost my save sadly. Love to see you cover it. Keep up awesome work.

[@CHATNOCEDA]

All right a new flandrew video

[@mobile_games87]

Now, this is my type of video. Comparing all the old Batman Begins

[@chandlernunnally1733]

The painter and decorator who you mercilessly beat up is named Walter Pfister, who was the DP on the movie. How funny 😂

[@Browneyedbakedpotato]

Mannn I loved the GameCube and gameboy versions of this game, so many good memories

[@aamirrazak3467]

Thanks for covering this game, i really enjoyed the movie it was based on and the trilogy it was a part of! It was cool how the film actors reprised their roles for this game and did voice work

[@justboschma5047]

I love the sense of humor from this dude and the idea behind the videos ❤

[@carrotkidful]

I absolutely love this game and have held it in high regard for years. Played it last year on an emulator and it held up perfectly, it never gets the credit it deserves for doing almost everything Arkham did while working with the constraints of the ps2 era hardware and movie tie in budgets and deadlines

[@DallingerM]

Awesome vid brah! This game was so underrated

[@CorrSave]

5:50 "Is that a grenade in your tuxedo pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

[@rasalpaul4574]

Batman Begins for the PS2 is a great game. We need a remake.

[@Dreadjaws]

There are a lot of similarities with this game and Splinter Cell when it comes to animations and gameplay mechanics. It's more obvious in the GBA versions of both games, but the consoles have them too. Both were developed by Ubisoft, and it's clear they reused some assets. It fits, since both are stealth-based games.

[@larrylaffer3246]

Welcome Bruce, TO THE HIMALAYAS!

[@aamirrazak3467]

hey thanks ducard, this looks like a pretty cool ninja training facility! i hope you guys dont use it for nefarious purposes!

[@caifrootz2537]

Can't believe I didn't buy this at the time, looks really good for the time period

[@dragonknight1560]

The console game was ahead of its time. I had so much fun playing the PS2 version SO MANY times! Such a good memory!

[@Hogan231]

I’M BATMAN!

[@hairyson94]

Trust Batman to be faster than the inevitable "first!" comments

[@Hellotherefellowbrowser]

Yes, you are

[@zoiuduu]

i am groot

[@artemusgordon7849]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@ZeusTheIrritable]

I am old.

[@Rolodzeo]

The graphics are fantastic on this game, that's for sure.

[@Mankey619]

Batman Begins really looks good back in 2005, and this is before the Xbox 360 and PS3 came out. Eurocom did a pretty good job of making a tie-in movie game. Even the handhelds looks good too. Reminds me a lot like the NES and Genesis Batman games.

[@ridensroom6957]

I had a lot of fun with this. 2005 was a great year for film tie ins like revenge of the sith and lion witch and wardrobe

[@rockerblast819]

Don't forget about Peter Jackson's King Kong The Official Game of the Movie.

[@ridensroom6957]

@@rockerblast819 that was awesome

[@overvieweffect9034]

I've played the ps2 version from start to end at least 10 times back then, which does kinda say something bout the length of this game. sure, the arkham games later on just knocked it out of the park (we dont talk about ssktjl), but I surely had a TON of fun with this game!

[@vesselinkrastev]

I've been aware of the flagship version for years. I might actually check it out at some point. It's probably mediocre, but it seems interesting enough to try. Also, I remember playing the Java version on a feature phone back in the day.

[@nahuelarmando4843]

I would love to see Batman Beyond or Vengeance next time :)

[@whirlipede2084]

I L-O-V-E this game. I remember the hype around the movie launch. I remember reading the synopsis in the newspaper on session times page. I remember dowloading the java file to install the game on my Sony Ericsson. Damn, I'd give anything to be 13 in 2005 again. I still keep the GBA cart and the Gamecube game of Batman Begins as a memento from that amazing era.

[@darthgoku90]

Never played the GBA version, but the console version sure is a classic of mine. Can only imagine how the Dark Knight video game would've been like if it wasn't cancelled. Probably would've made the jump to open world like the Spider-Man 2 game did. Both this game and Vengeance were easily the best Batman games ever before the Arkham series came along.

[@alexfraser8352]

The gba versions of multi-console releases always fascinated me

[@UnderTheMoons]

I think this was my last PS2 game before jumping to PS3, was late to the party, but a fun lil game!

[@darthpaul99]

It’s not a monorail, it’s an elevated train!

[@Hogan231]

Do Kevin Conroy’s Batman games!

[@akarisaberwolf8762]

I so miss this game, it was so much fun. Really wish they would remaster it.

[@rumotu]

Yo those faces are FIRE! And thats 6gen. During 6th gen i thought that by 9th gen we would be doing super cool games. Instead we having modern AAAS

[@Chaos-Zakai64]

I wonder if there were ever plans to make a tie-in game adaptation of The Dark Knight. Plans that fell through for some reason. I've met people who were disappointed that there wasn't a tie-in game for that movie.

[@matane2465]

There was a Dark Knight game. On Java.

[@Person-wz6iy]

0:46 BIGWELD!

[@macewido2x819]

I'm glad I'm not the only person who never beat the Gameboy advance version of Batman Begins. Lol that final Arkham level where you fight the two big scarecrow thugs got me Everytime.

[@firesnakex8]

Seeing the GBA version takes me back since it was my first GBA game. I always got stuck during the Fake Ra's fight but after like 3 years I got past it and forever got stuck at the arkham asylum level. The game really was difficult especially since there was no way to recover your health.

[@sebastiangreenan1774]

I definitely played this one to the death after getting for my birthday and being a giant Batman fan, I remember seeing an ad for it in Batman Legends which was a monthly magazine collection old and new Batman comics.

[@Sacos]

So the random painter was named after the cinematographer for the movie, Wally Pfister, who was the director of photography on quite a few Christopher Nolan films.

[@AuspexAstarte]

I played the gba version and I loved it. It was everything and more than I wanted in a gameboy batman seeing as I couldn’t beat the original animated series gameboy game. I like to think I beat the game because everything you showed looked familiar but I could just have enjoyed it that much.

[@AvatarRaziel92]

Funny how that Handheld game was so hard,kinda like a reminder of the Mega-Drive games :D

[@HazmanFTW]

6:00 I wish I was that calm while being on fire

[@AyeThatsHandsomePete]

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, bona fide Electrified, six-car monorail What'd I say? Monorail What's it called? Monorail That's right! Monorail

[@unlucky1353]

The way he moves in the GBA game reminds me of Batman Forever for SNES.

[@kozo213]

I wish Flandrew not only compared console/handheld/Java versions but also the PS2/Xbox/GC versions to each other, 9/10 GC and Xbox versions are better and I’d love to know which version was truly definitive😢

[@LMK-Gaming]

I find it odd that we got a GBA version in 2005, a whole year after the Nintendo DS came out and yet there was no DS version 🤷🏼

[@Faded.Visuals]

I have always wonder if batman begin ran on the same engine as the early splinter cell series. I mean the stealth animations of batman seem very similar to Sam Fisher's

[@Farmeryeti]

I must beaten this game like 15 times in the run up to Arkham Asylum coming out, I was so hyped.

[@jlev1028]

Surprised to hear that this game is quid solid. Batman movies tend to not deliver good tie-ins.

[@schradester8]

I loved this game as a kid on console but man, I was too stupid to get past a certain level and never finished it. Thankfully I got a bit smarter by the time arkham came out lol

[@CFLaughs]

You compared the Budokai trilogy so why not the Arkham trilogy as well? It would definitely be an amazing showcase of how different each game was and how much the series evolved!

[@matthewbolitho-jones]

This is my favourite Batman game

[@username_1985]

Ah yes... 2005. Was on vacation in the netherlands with my grandparents. Found a 5 € note and we went on shopping. I was after a used pokemon copy and saved my pocket money for that but then batman begins had my attention. so I went home after 2 weeks with a fresh copy of batman begins on the gba with a dutch box and boy was it a blaze. The music alone. Never finished it on the original hardware as a kid but later on an emulator thanks to savegames.

[@quinnmarchese6313]

i wanna see whatever those iphone dark knight games are. i never got them but the screenshots made them look really good for mobile games.

[@henrywarmoth1792]

I always thought the Arkham Origins game was better than it was treated. I know it was a bit of a knockoff and not on the same level as the other 3 but I enjoyed it for what it was and didn't feel like it deserved all the hate it received. I actually just played it last year again as a "Christmas" game.

[@pushon10]

This game is so nostalgic

[@christophercruz1513]

Great video Drew

[@DATtriniDanyBoyy]

Tell us bout all the Batman games, from the 90s and so on

[@NewSuperAvenger]

I hope Flandrew covers Superman Returns and X-Men: The Official Game.

[@Dave6616]

6:00 "I hate to tell you, but Im on fire" LMAO pls make a fallout video 🥺

[@praveenm5723]

I played the hell out of the java game and loved how we can hang upside down

[@FullMetalBaldo]

6:16 Batman can stop the monorail because he's a scientist 😏

[@wolfdragox5563]

this game is very underrated, it was the best batman game before the arkham series existed

[@DanKeatis]

Curiously, the Game Boy Advance version of Bale's Batman looks more like Batfleck.

[@AlkoPRO11]

WE NEED VIDEO ABOUT ALL LEGO BATMAN

[@hugocastilla3102]

I would love a video on the arkham games

[@moroseloki1912]

I would always quote this game and no one would know what I was mumbling about "Tell me about The Rabbits" I would say 😅

[@pushon10]

Yes, I made the same mistake when battling fake Ras al ghul when I was a kid. Nils, a guy who helped out at my after school club helped me beat him lol.

[@RyanHaney55]

6:15 But Main Street's still all cracked and broken!

[@joqtomi]

Was this the point when it was still feasible to make good tie in games on time, and after the move to HD consoles that happened soon after it became too slow and expensive? I remember that I wanted a sequel to this game so bad, and only Arkham Games satisfied me years later.

[@hhh]

I LOVE BATMAN BEGINS

[@supahgualtah]

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