There have been a lot of subpar games out for the iPhone and iPod Touch but most of them don?t get you excited before you find out that they?re actually awful titles. The Dark Knight: Batmobile Game is one of the few that actually do.
It?s hard to even call this a game really, it?s more of what you?d expect out of a graphics test when you get a new video card, except they were nice enough to let you loosely interact with the world. In this game, what you do is basically watch the Batmobile in all of it?s glory and occasionally tap the screen or rotate your device when it tells you to.
The game is set around a course and the objective is to complete the course in the fastest amount of time by getting a perfect on every touch or tilt section of the level. You?ll get to ignite the engine by shaking your device, launch into turbo boost by tapping on the jet engine, tilt your phone so the Batmobile gets a safe landing, and tap on a red circle to shoot through part of a wall so you can jump from building to building. After your third run through you?ll probably get a perfect score. After that, there?s no reason to ever play this game again.
Video games made form movies never end up perfectly, but the batch that has made its way to the iPhone and iPod Touch for The Dark Knight have been pretty awful. Hopefully in the future we?ll see better Batman titles, but as of right now, this is another app to avoid unless you?re really bored and want to watch the same chase scene over and over.