Best Worst "Accomplishment" of 2009: Batman: Arkham Asylum's World Record

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by Evan Killham, BITMOB STAFF

Monday, January 04, 2010

With equal parts surprise and relief, we gamers discovered that Batman: Arkham Asylum did not suck. It was, in fact, quite good. But we were at a loss to find some way with which to quantify its awesomeness. Luckily, we didn't have to: The good folks at Guinness World Records stepped in to make some shit up. And so it came to pass that Arkham Asylum became the official world record holder for the "Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever."

Really, Guinness? The cogs of the marketing machine would have been less audible if you gave it the record for "Best Game Called 'Batman: Arkham Asylum.'"

Tags: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Best Worst of 2009

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Alex Martin

January 04, 2010

MetaCritic gives them some basis for this but it's still dubious and irrelevant to whether it's worth playing or not. I've nicked your idea: http://www.bitmob.com/index.php/mobfeed/best-worst-qaccomplishmentq-of-2009-fuels-world-record.html Don't worry -- I've given you credit.

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Evan Killham

January 04, 2010

@Alex - The real accomplishment is that Rocksteady made a pretty solid superhero game when so many others have failed, but considering the competition the "most critically acclaimed" superhero game could also simply be the "least critically panned" one. I tried to figure out what the second most critically acclaimed superhero game of all time is, and the best I could guess from MetaCritic is that it's LEGO Batman (to be fair, their site is not really set up for a search like that, and doesn't need to be). Still, slim pickings, and the "record" is completely without merit given its proper context. Also, I don't know that the record itself existed before Arkham Asylum came out, so...yeah.