Batman Begins

About Batman Begins

Batman Begins is a stealth action-adventure game based on the film of the same name, exploring the first year of Batman's crusade against crime. It was released in June 2005 for the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. The console version of the game was developed by Eurocom and co-published by Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in conjunction with DC Comics. Vicarious Visions developed a distinct version of the game for the Game Boy Advance, and Klear Games adapted the game for mobile phones, with both featuring action-platform gameplay. The film's original cast provided a voice-over reprisal in the game, with the exception of Gary Oldman, who portrays James Gordon in the film and was replaced by Gavin Hammon in the game.

Inside a run-down building full of explosives in Gotham City, Batman confronts a group of thugs working for Dr. Jonathan Crane. The explosives are accidentally triggered during the fight, setting the building on fire. Batman makes his way through the inferno and catches Crane, but he sprays him with a toxin, causing Batman to go psychotic and jump through a window. The game then flashes back to a year prior in the Himalayas, during Bruce Wayne's training with Henri Ducard and the League of Shadows, led by Ra's al Ghul. After refusing to execute a captive criminal as part of his training, Bruce discovers that the League has deemed Gotham beyond saving and is planning to destroy it. To stop them, Bruce sets the League's temple alight and escapes with Ducard, leaving Ra's and the rest of the League to die.

Bruce returns to Gotham, where he intends to fight crime and corruption; he sets up a base in the caves beneath Wayne Manor and becomes the vigilante Batman, inspired by his childhood fear of bats. He is aided in his crusade by his longtime butler Alfred Pennyworth and Wayne Enterprises archivist Lucius Fox, who supplies him with advanced technology. Bruce keeps his Batman identity secret from everyone else, including Rachel Dawes, his childhood sweetheart. A week prior to the game's opening scene, Batman, learning that mob boss Carmine Falcone is involved with a drug shipment at the Gotham Docks, captures Falcone and leaves him for the GCPD to find. He then informs Rachel of the shipment and provides her with enough evidence to enlist Sergeant James Gordon, one of Gotham's few honest cops, to arrest Falcone.

Bruce is later informed by Lucius of the theft of a microwave emitter from Wayne Enterprises and pursues the thieves in his Tumbler, but discovers that they used a decoy to lure him away. Turning his attention back to Falcone's operations, he tracks down Walter Pfister and Gordon's corrupt partner Arnold Flass, who attempts to blackmail psychotic killer Victor Zsasz into telling him about Crane, Falcone's new partner. Batman catches Flass and threatens him into revealing that, besides drugs, Falcone's men are shipping chemicals to Crane, who works at Arkham Asylum. Batman intercepts Crane's latest shipment and follows it to Crane's hideout, leading to the game's opening scene.