Batman: Vengeance
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| Developer(s) | Ubisoft Montreal |
| Publisher(s) | Ubi Soft Entertainment |
| Distributor(s) |
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment DC Comics |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Xbox, Microsoft Windows |
| Release |
PlayStation 2 & Game Boy Advance GameCube Xbox Microsoft Windows |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Publication | Score | ||||
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| AllGame |   |
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N/A | |
N/A |
| EGM | N/A | N/A | N/A | 5.83/10 | N/A |
| Game Informer | N/A | 6.75/10 | N/A | 7/10 | 7/10 |
| GamePro | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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| Game Revolution | N/A | N/A | N/A | C | N/A |
| GameSpot | 6.7/10 | 7.4/10 | 4.5/10 | 7.4/10 | 7.4/10 |
| GameSpy | 58% | 73% | |
80% | 82% |
| GameZone | 8.4/10 | N/A | 7/10 | N/A | 7/10 |
| IGN | 6/10 | 8.1/10 | 6.8/10 | 8/10 | 8.2/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 3.5/5 | 3.7/5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| OPM (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
N/A |
| OXM (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 4.6/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | N/A | N/A | 55% | N/A | N/A |
| Aggregate scores | |||||
| GameRankings | 68.37% | 71.15% | 56.15% | 71.18% | 64.83% |
| Metacritic | 68/100 | 70/100 | 57/100 | 68/100 | 70/100 |
Batman: Vengeance is a 2001 video game that was released on all major platforms of the sixth generation of console games. It was developed and published by Ubisoft in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics.
The game is based on the television series The New Batman Adventures, itself a successor to the widely-acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series. In the game, Batman finds himself entangled in a web of his villains' schemes while attempting to stop the Joker's plan to destroy Gotham City.
Based on most of the game's character designs and appearances, Batman Vengeance would seem to take place after the conclusion of Batman: The Animated Series, but before the start of The New Batman Adventures. Plot points that support this include Mr. Freeze still posing as a threat (as his appearance in The New Batman Adventures episode "Cold Comfort" was the last time he was seen prior to Batman Beyond), as well as the fact that Batgirl is the Dark Knight's only active sidekick in the game.
Batman by this point is well established as the guardian of Gotham City, with the game sharing the voice cast, production design, and continuity of the DC animated universe. During the course of the game, Batman is monitored and assisted by Batgirl in the Batcave.
After saving the life of a woman named Mary Flynn from an apparent attempted murder at the hands of the Joker at Gotham Chemical, which resulted in the complex blowing up due to a ticking time bomb left next to a tied up Mary by the Joker, Batman investigates what possible interest his nemesis would have in the woman. He learns that Joker had abducted her son, Toby, and is holding him for a $5 million ransom and will kill both Mary and her son if she does not pay up soon, implying that Mary has high financial access. After Mary is abducted by Joker's gang for the second time, Batman traces her location with a tracker he gave to her to a partially demolished Gotham bridge where he comes face-to-face with Joker once more. As Joker seems to throw Mary's son off the remains of the bridge, Batman saves the boy before it's revealed to be a dummy, and Mary reveals herself to be the Joker's companion Harley Quinn; the abduction was merely a farce to lure Batman into a trap. Batman then engages the Joker and defeats him, but in the fray, he falls off the bridge to his apparent death. He lets a distraught Harley go and monitors her activities, knowing that the Joker is most likely not dead and Harley could be his only opportunity to learn more of the Clown Prince of Crime's true plans, making her a more valuable asset on the outside than she would be incarcerated.
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