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Batman: Arkham Asylum Sells 2.5 Million
Arkham Asylum has us a bit spooked, and not because it takes place in a rundown mental institution full of the criminally insane. We’re frightened because Arkham Asylum is good. And it’s a Batman game. One of the few constants left in this topsy-turvy world is that video games about superheroes are never as cool as the actual superheroes themselves. But with Arkham Asylum, critics are throwing around terms like “jaw-dropping” and “game of the year.”
To make matters worse, Arkham Asylum isn’t just a critical success, but a commercial one too; fresh off last week’s PC release comes word that Arkham Asylum has now sold 2.5 million copies. In sales terms, that’s double and a half platinums. Wait, that can’t be right…
The point is that one of the coolest comic book heroes finally has a video game worthy of his name. And after so many bad games over the years, that’s a little scary. Oh well, at least we can always make fun of his fellow caped crime fighter, Superman – is that the sound of a Kryptonite fogbank rolling in?
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