It obviously plays like shit, but visually, this game is legitimately impressive for a PS1 game. This came out the same year as Metal Gear Solid, and even MGS didn't go for character models this detailed. The realistic and dynamic cape physics actually have me reeling.

i think the movie itself could be a good subject for a "What Happened?" episode, considering its huge infamy

"What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!!!" i've got to say the film is definately a guilty pleasure for me, yes it's corny and stupid but i love it and i have nostalgia for it :)

Robin: "I wanna car. Chicks dig the car." Batman: "This is why Superman works alone"

I think that it would've made more sense if it automatically switch between combat and detective mode. That way, you don't have to worry about what mode you're in and investigate whenever the enemies aren't around... and fade the alarm sound after a few seconds from the trigger.

I feel like every time a new Batman movie releases. Batman and Robin 1997 always seems to crawl back into our minds.

17:56 I see Batman hold on that Batcredit card pretty tightly😂

The movie's worth it just to have 2 hours of Arnold Schwarzenegger just having the time of his life (Just look at the smile on his face during behind the scenes interviews. The saying goes, If you do what you love you never work a day in your life).

I don’t know if I should be proud of what I’m about to say or the complete opposite but I’ve beaten this game. TWICE

Rerez finished this game, and from their Batman & Robin video I just knew about this game having a "cheat mode" by finding an area which is the game developer's office (?) and after some stuffs there you can turning on some cheats like infinite health, etc.

It's going to take me a long time to get over the fact that you can buy a newspaper in a Batman game.

I adored this game as a kid, when i knew no better, it was my first open world game - being able to walk around AND drive in the same game whilst also playing as Batman was literally the peak of my gaming life at that time. Heavy nostalgia, don’t care how it shit it lmao, will always cherish this one!

So... Uhhh... Bookworm was a villain from the 60's Batman TV show. He was played by Roddy McDowell. He turned up exactly once. I kinda marked out at the reference. So at least one Batman meganerd had some fun making this game.

I'll never get over "feel thier pain".

Six minutes into the video and Batman performs a Sub-Zero-esque fatality on Quan Chi.

Ive never seen past the museum for this game. Gotta get into it one day again

I was waiting for the acknowledgement of Trash Boutique and you didn't disappoint Matt

Did nobody noticed how the statue blinks!!!!!??

8:07 I'm surprised you didn't see that statue wink at you

Take this, Goldust! 🤣

I never knew of this batman game it’s hilarious it’s like a demake of Arkham city this made my night thanks mr mcmuscles

I love how the streets are so small the Batmobile almost covers both sides of the lane. This game TRULY captures what a trashheap Gotham is.

Mr. Freeze is unironically a very compelling character when he’s written well. I really hope that we eventually get a good movie adaptation for him.

The movie logo is one of the best logos ever. Looks sick, the batman and robin together.

I can't believe that this was my first Batman game...Then again, Batman Forever and Batman and Robin were my first and second Batman movies that I ever watched. Nostalgia hitting to the max Venom level that even Bane would be jealous! Not the Tom Hardy one I'm talking about the big dumb brute Bane!

I've always been surprised at how ahead of its time this game was, only for its weird game mechanics to really sink any effort it had on it. As for requests, how about the Batman: Brave and the Bold game? It was pretty decent sidescroller and it did a commendable job at capturing the spirit of the show it was based on.

I had this game as a kid but a combination of being too young, not knowing English and the game being so dark I couldn't see shit I never progressed at all, just wandered blindly around the batcave, and drove blindly around Gotham until the timer ran out or something.

I beat this game once, years ago with the help of my GameShark. Unbeatable or at least not fun without the cheat device. I'd love to see this game get a second chance, remaster the visuals bringing it up to current standard graphics and fix the known bugs and it would sell I think.

I remember playing this game and indeed being scared. I was scared, confused and never got past the damn diamond part because I didn't understand what was going on. But even my youngling brain realized how horrible the drawing distance was for driving.

A few things you might like to know about this game are some of the Easter Eggs it has revolving around the Batman history. For example: Batman 89 Easter Eggs: A newspaper contains an article about the Fugelheim Museum. You also get to explore Axis Chemicals. Batman Returns Easter Eggs: A window of Selina Kyle's apartment with the words Hell Here can be found on a building near Gold and Wonder and also the Museum. There's also several posters for Shrecks Department store and the cinemas in Gotham are showing a film called The Happy Penguin. Batman Forever Easter Eggs: The police HQ is the one where Bruce visits Chase Meridian. There's a newspaper containing an article detailing how the GCPD are locking Nygmas blueprints for 'The Box' away as evidence and an Arkham visitor card for Two Face can be found. Plus some of the street thugs look like Two Face's girlfriend Spice (Debi Mazar). Batman & Robin Easter Eggs: there are a number of cafe's called ARNIE'S. Batman 66 Easter Egg: The bookstore are called Bookworms. A villain from the Batman 66 show.

Ah Man I remember two friends of myself and my bro had this and we played it, don't think we got pretty far in it either lol. Looking back it was very ambitious but poorly executed. Would love to play this again just for shits and giggles. Great vid as always Matt.

This game is the chilling sound of your doom.

Allow me to break the ICE! My name is FREEZE!

Really enjoying these playthroughs. Some interesting titles and great humour

7:50 "Yeah, Collateral Damage." It's even funnier when you realize Arnold schwarzenegger had a movie called Collateral Damage.

Noone ever gets past the first level

This is the most I've heard you swear, it's freaking great

“You’re not sending me to the cooler!”

This was on rerez, their review on this is hilarious

@ 4:53 "anal-lyse?!?" LOL I didn't think this game featured Buttman, a superhero who fights crime with an assorted list of anal swabs. @ 16:24 Robin brutality!!

Ironically if this was an indie project developed by a team of like 7 people, it would’ve been kinda impressive

Just recently found your channel and binged watched them every morning to wake up to, and every night to sleep to during an especially trying week. Keep up the hard work, you are very talented and appreciated!

I had to do a fucking double take at that secret tunnel gag, bless this channel.

I feel that the people who voted on this game was due to them watching Rerez.

Oh my gosh, I think I remember this rightly, but in the last stages of the game the vehicles and costumes changed for no apparent reason. JUST LIKE IN THE FILM... which I have a bizarre urge to watch now.

Fighting is super hard in this game. Rented this when I was like 12, using an invincibility cheat was the only way I could progress, and even then, I could not figure out how to prevent Freeze from getting the 2nd diamond.

To quote Shane from Rerez, "IT'S JUST BAD!!!"

I fucking lost it when "Secret Tunnel" started playing.

Random muggings, Enemy car AI, Actual chaos around you. This PS1 game is beating the shit out of Cyberpunk.

Brings back bad memories 😖

"Chill Out!" Arnold "Mr. Freeze" Schwarzenegger

This game is the best example of "ambition is the enemy of success."

I thin ReRez might be one of the only KZfaq teams to actually beat this game.

I played this wen I was 7 never passed the museum lol

17:13 almost had me soil myself with laughing lmao

The guys fron Rerez played this on Just Bad Games. They finished it.

14:25 that is a wild hybrid of gold-dust and sting and now I have nightmares. Thank you Matt

I just noticed the editor put a Ric Grayson joke and I approve.

Dude this was the first game I ever owned as a kid! The audio for this game is so nostalgic! And you’re right, ridiculously ambitious I’ve heard that the game is physically impossible to complete? (Edit) remember when Batman was a detective?

"Take this Goldust" got me

"Fun fact about Chris O'Donnell: No mental handicap!" -American Dad

Despite everything...this is a REALLY good looking game, especially for 1998.

Batman Forever, Genesis w/ 6 button controller. Wildly hated by everyone but this was a childhood favorite.

I had this as a kid and couldn't figure out what to do, so I wrote it off as bad. Well, I wasn't wrong, at least.

1:01 - Sounds more like Werner Herzog than Arnie

Damn it's like Arkham City before Arkham City was even a thing

You should play X-2 Wolverine’s Revenge on the PS2. Mark Hamill voices Logan and it’s a fun time. 😆

This game is incredible, so long as you don't play it yourself. I have massive respect for the devs, even if the end product was...well, trash.

From Wikipedia: "The game won the award for "Most Faithful Use of a Movie License" at the 1998 OPM Editors' Awards"

I would still love a Batman Forever SNES video! It was the first game I owned as a kid that even my stupid kid brain knew was a raw deal.

This game was way too ambitious . It would have been better off as a linear , level by level, beat 'em up . You know, just a simple, 2 player , 'die hard arcade ' style 3D brawler kinda thing, where you play as either batman , batgirl or robin and beat up bad guys over the space of like 10-12 levels (most of them being of the beat em up variety but some of them being on-rail shooter levels from the pilot/driver perspective of bat vehicles). Sure, its not as ambitious the sprawling saga the developers wanted this thing to be , but it would have made for a better game .....

Batman & Robin walked so the Arkham games could run!

Stay cöol -Mr. Freeze

I think you need to "chill out" sir lol.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who liked the Pimpmobile.

Honestly, an Elden Ring rogue-like based Batman videogame with time based mechanics and clunky movement sound great and... --- spoiler (kinda?) alert for Batman's latest movie, proceed at your own risk (ig) --- ...exactly like what WB should do for a videogame based in the latest movie. (yeah, that's all I wanted to say, still I though I had to make it clear so no one felt I ruined anything)

I remember playing this, and though now I can tell it's really shitty, I'm surprised by how ambitious it is: They were trying to make an Arkham game all the way back in 1998!

I tried to play this game a couple weeks ago but couldn't do it, controls were wack, gfx were admiral for its time.

I would love to see you play The Punisher. It’s actually decent and and janky if that makes sense

Let's kick some ice!

I’d group Batman Forever and Batman and Robin in the same group of movies like Daredevil and Catwoman as just hilariously terrible superhero movies.

batman and robin and jaggies

Everything Fresus

Man, talk about timing. I just came home after watching the new batman movie

👏👏👏👏👏 Perfect ending XD

Can't believe I haven't seen this video until now! Batman & Robin may be a bad movie, but this game truly transcends it in every way. It's just a well rounded Batman detective, crime-fighting experience, it even has Easter eggs to Tim Burton's Batman such as Catwoman's apartment with the "hell here" neon sign. Not having voice acting made the experience better Imo, I could really become an amalgamation of a cinematic Batman in 1998. It's easily my favorite PS1 game, and yeah I've beaten it a few times haha. It's truly horrible, but a wild ride. It's so criminally overlooked, and the recent Gotham Knights is the only Batman game to even remotely come close to this ambition sadly.

George Clooney as Batman Reporter: Mr Wayne, is it true that you’re Batman? Bruce Wayne: Huh? Reporter: It is said that you sound similar to Batman. Could it be that you’re Batman? Bruce Wayne: Umm, probably it’s just someone who’s really good with voice impressions and he managed to do a decent impression of my voice…hehe!

Imagine if the Arkham games played like this.

Please consider playing the SNES Batman Returns game by Konami. I love your content Matt!

Buttman and ribbon

I'd actually love to see this game get a second shot at life using the Arkham engine. Game was ambitious as hell and had it not had time constraints on the development it might've been the first awesome open world style Batman game.

How have I never heard of this game before?

Bro play Mutant Academy 2 on PS1. Its classic. And have endings

Game looks ahmazin

It looks good for a PS1 game.

It be nice if the next Batman arkham games are loosely base on the older films, like the 89 and up films. I know if be a nightmare to license everything, but that's why I said loosely base on. Like if they hire the 90's and early 2000's animated voice cast, or the voice cast from the other video games. If they can license and get or almost get everything and everyone, that would be nice. But the music and tone settings, and the time period would be main focus for the game, basically capture the films looks and tone but plays like a Batman arkham game.

Best batman after arkham series is Batman returns in SNES

this game would have been more playable if it wasn't for tank controls

Please do the Batman Forever ♾ video game haha I remember how heavy it was on the PlayStation.

This game is super clunky but goddamn is it charming. I feel like I can’t be too harsh on it solely because of how ambitious it was, even if it didn’t pay-off in the end.