History VideoGame / BatmanDarkTomorrow

* {{Feelies}}: The game comes with a limited edition comic book.

* AllThereInTheManual: To get the True Ending, you must disarm Ra's Al Ghul's signal device using the Universal Tool, a gadget that is only used as a lockpick earlier in the game. The pause menu describes the Universal Tool as being able to hack computers; without reading the description you have zero chance of figuring this out.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Two tie-in comics were released for Dark Tomorrow; the second has Batman fight Killer Croc. During the fight, Croc gets his arm caught in a print roller, resulting in several bones in his arm being broken before Batman saves him. (It's not clear what injuries Croc sustained, but he's confined to a hospital bed by the end of the comic and Croc acknowledges Batman just saved his life.) This event is not mentioned in the game, and Croc's arm is perfectly fine when you fight him.

* MultipleEndings: The game has four endings depending on what you do at the end of the game; only one is good and you're not told how to get it. Playing the game like normal will net you one of the bad ones.

* Feelies: The game comes with a limited edition comic book.

* OffModel: The tail of the logo on Batman's chest changes lengths throughout the cutscenes.

* ObviousBeta:
** One of the game's early maps is incomplete and contains paths that lead to nowhere. Offscreen enemies fire hails of bullets that are impossible to survive if you attempt to go down these paths.
** The game gives you a maze-like map of the Gotham Sewer system for the sewer level... and then the sewer is structured with absolutely zero branching paths and is completely linear. Seems they didn't have time to build the rest of the map they had in mind...
** The function of the night vision goggles is to spot and avoid infrared lasers. There are no such lasers anywhere in the entire game.
** Two items -- Weapons Crate 1 and Weapons Crate 3 -- appear to have absolutely zero use in the game, and no player has ever found a Weapons Crate 2.

** Detectives Bullock and Montoya appear in one of the game's cutscenes.

* AbsoluteCleavage: ComicBook/PoisonIvy's outfit has very low cut cleavage.

* {{Irony}}: When Microsoft became involved in the game's development, they said they would make much needed changes to fix the game's combat. Considering how the game's combat is widely considered to be broken on every conceivable level, one shudders to think how bad it was before Microsoft "fixed" it.

* AbsoluteCleavage: ComicBook/PoisonIvy outfit has very low cut cleavage.

* BossRush: At the end of the game you must fight two Elite Guards, Ubu, and Ra's Al Ghul all in a row. Losing to Ra's Al Ghul once allows you to respawn with refilled gadgets -- as you do every other time you die. Losing twice to Ra's Al Ghul lands you a bad ending.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Two tie-in comics were released for Dark Tomorrow; the second has Batman fight Killer Croc. During the fight Croc gets his arm caught in a print roller, resulting in several bones in his arm being broken before Batman saves him. (It's not clear what injuries Croc sustained, but he's confined to a hospital bed by the end of the comic and Croc acknowledges Batman just saved his life.) This event is not mentioned in the game, and Croc's arm is perfectly fine when you fight him.

** To Batgirl and Robin, after incapacitating Scarface's gang

** To Robin, when instructed to come to arrest Ratcatcher

* DownerEnding: Three to pick from. To get the game's good ending, you must win the Ra's Al Ghul boss fight and disarm the signal device controlling Ra's bombs. Failing to do one or both results in a bad ending. There are three bad endings: Either Batman dies, the world is flooded, or both. Of course if the machine is disarmed and Batman dies the world is still flooded off-screen, since it's stated the machine can be repaired. Particularly infuriating, since the game at no point tells you that you need to disarm the signal device to get the proper ending.
* TheDragon: Ubu is Ra's Al Ghul top officer and the one who fights Batman before he confronts Ra's Al Ghul.

** You have to disarm the signal device controlling Ra's Al Ghul's bombs to get the good ending. To disarm the device you need to use the Universal Tool, a gadget that is only used as a lock pick up to that point.
** You HAVE to disarm the signal device BEFORE you go to fight Ra's Al Ghul. If you go to the final boss before disarming the signal device and you save (which many players do so as to not have to go back in the game) it becomes impossible to get the true ending without starting the entire game over, unless you have a different save file that is not saved at the final boss.

* HealingFactor: Batman has a medical kit that -- when used -- will refill Batman's health until the kit is empty. The kit will even refill your health automatically if your health hits zero while equipped. When the kit is used the animation suggests that Batman is simply injecting himself with something; he is doing no surgery of any kind. This implies Batman has invented a serum that immediately heals any and all injuries within seconds with absolutely no lasting damage from gunshot wounds and etcetera.

* LethalKlutz: In the True Ending, [[spoiler: Ra's Al Ghul's Dragon Ubu throws a sword at Batman. It misses, and impales Ra's instead.]]

* NeutralFemale: Talia attempts to be neutral in Batman's conflict with her father. She manipulates Ra's Al Ghul's security system to help Batman get to Ra's undetected... For a while. But when all is said and done, Talia still leaves with Ra's in the Good Ending. [[spoiler: Ra's being dead and needing a resurrection at the time might have been a contributing factor.]]

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Ubu attempts to throw his sword at Batman in the game's good ending. [[spoiler: Inverted when it impales ''Ra's'' instead.]]

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Subverted in the ending where Batman disables the signal device but loses to Ra's Al Ghul: as he lays dying from a stab wound, Batman smugly reveals he's disabled the device and stopped his evil plan. Ra's promptly finds out the device would only take around 17 hours to repair, meaning Batman only bought the world a few more hours of freedom and essentially died for nothing.

* MoralDissonance: Batman decapitates Scarface. Sure he's a puppet, but still...

A video game developed and published by Kemco for the Gamecube in March 2003 based on the Creator/DCComics character ''{{Franchise/Batman}}'', and later ported to the Xbox by [=HotGen=].

A video game developed by Hotgen and published by Kemco in March 2003 based on the Creator/DCComics character ''{{Franchise/Batman}}.''

* CutsceneBoss: The Joker. You fight mooks that attempt to kill Comissioner Gordon under The Joker's command, but the Joker himself is incapacitated in a cutscene.

** Batman holds it when he decides to ''jump out of the batwing'' to han glide ''through the Himalayas'' to Ra's Al Ghul's base.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Mooks have no problem attacking Batman while he is sprawled on the ground. They will continuously kick/punch Batman unless the player manually instructs him to stand up (he is not even trying to defend nor fight back. And Batman CANNOT do this to his enemies.

** Detectives Bullock and Montoya appear in one of the game's cutcenes.

* AdaptationDistillation: Arguable. The Joker tying Commissioner Gordon to a chair and sending thugs to go beat him up while Batman protects him is VERY tame compared to The Joker's usual plans. (This may have been intentional: See For the Evulz below).

* ShaveAndAHaircut: After subduing a group of Arkham inmates, Batman hears someone playing an organ tune, and goes to investigate. The camera pans over to the organ and reveals it's Joker, who ends his session with a contrasting Shave and a Haircut snippet.

* BossRush:
** At the end of the game you must fight two Elite Guards, Ubu, and Ra's Al Ghul all in a row.
** Losing to Ra's Al Ghul once allows you to respawn with refilled gadgets -- as you do every other time you die. Losing twice to Ra's Al Ghul lands you a bad ending.

* ObviousBeta: One of the game's early maps is incomplete and contains paths that lead to nowhere. Offscreen enemies fire hails of bullets that are impossible to survive if you attempt to go down these paths.
** The game gives you a maze like map of the Gotham Sewer system for the sewer level... And then the sewer is structured with absolutely zero branching paths and is completely linear. Seems they didn't have time to build the rest of the map they had in mind...

* UselessUsefulStealth: The game tries to be a stealth game; emphasis on "tries." You have the option of taking down most groups of enemies with stealth instead of combat, but since enemies have very good peripheral vision, there is often little cover, so many of the levels are built entirely out of corridors, Batman's stealth walk is unbearably slow, his stealth attacks only connect sporadically, and many enemies travel in groups where somebody is looking in all directions, resorting to stealth is often unfeasible.
** There is one encounter in Ra's Al Ghul's castle that seems to force you to use stealth, as there are far too many mooks to take in combat. However, if you handcuff a few enemies, leave the room, save, and then re-enter, taken down enemies will remain taken down. Abusing this exploit removes the need for stealth.

A video game developed by Hotgen and published by Kemco in March 2003 based on the DC Comics character ''{{Franchise/Batman}}.''

While working to end a gang war between Scarface and Black Mask, Batman learns that Commissioner Gordon has been abducted by The Joker and taken to Arkham Asylum. As Batman fights his way through the Asylum, he learns that one villain has a much more dire scheme afoot; a scheme that could change the world and bring about... ''[[TitleDrop A Dark Tomorrow...]]''

* AbsoluteCleavage: Poison Ivy and Talia.

* ActionGirl: Averted. Usually either Batgirl or Talia (or both) would fill this trope, but the former appears in only one cutscene (where she does nothing except swing on a line and arrest an already incapacitated henchman) and the latter does nothing except try and tempt Batman into doing a FaceHeelTurn.

* BareYourMidriff: Talia.

-->(To Batgirl and Robin, after incapacitating Scarface's gang)
-->Make sure none of them are in need of ''immediate'' medical assistance.
-->''(To Robin, when instructed to come arrest Ratcatcher)''
-->Make sure your rabies shots are up to date.
-->(To The Joker, when he reveals Commissioner Gordon tied to a chair)
-->Batman: Commissioner!
-->Joker: On the nosey! Say; you're good at this!
-->Batman: You're not.

* DownerEnding: Three to pick from. To get the game's good ending, you must win the Ra's Al Ghul boss fight and disarm the signal device controlling Ra's bombs. Failing to do one or both results in a bad ending. There are three bad endings: Either Batman dies, the world is flooded, or both. Of course if the machine is disarmed and Batman dies the world is still flooded off screen, since it's stated the machine can be repaired. Particularly infuriating, since the game at no point tells you that you need to disarm the signal device to get the proper ending.
* TheDragon: Ubu, to Ra's Al Ghul.

* HeelFaceTurn: Talia manipulates Ra's Al Ghul's security system to help Batman get to Ra's undetected... For a while.
** FaceHeelTurn: When all is said and done, Talia still leaves with Ra's in the Good Ending. [[spoiler: Ra's being dead and needing a resurrection at the time might have been a contributing factor.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mr. Freeze directly quotes this trope when he is frozen by his own equipment. Though he's frozen off screen, so it's not clear exactly how this happened.

* IdiotBall: Ra's is holding it when he decides to invent distractions to keep Batman away from his master plan... Which Batman would not have found out about if Ra's had not invented the distractions in the first place.

*** A possible -- though arguable -- further example in that Batman does not bring backup of any kind to Ra's Al Ghul's base, even though he knows Ra's is about to enact a plan on a global scale. He justifies the decision by saying he never knows whether or not he'll survive an encounter with Ra's, even though that'd be ''all the more reason'' to bring backup.

* MostCommonSuperpower: Batgirl, Poison Ivy, and Talia; as per tradition in Batman.
** Especially noticeable with Batgirl, who ([[DependingOnTheArtist usually]]) does not fit this trope in the comics.

* MythologyGag: Julian Fletcher, Batman's voice actor, appears to be doing a Creator/KevinConroy impression.
** Talia's stripperific outfit bears more than a slight resemblance to her outfit from the WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries episode "The Demon's Quest, Part 2."
** Poison Ivy's look is pretty much identical to her original Batman TAS design, before the Season 4 ArtShift.

* TheCameo: Detectives Bullock and Montoya -- well known from Batman: The Animated Series -- appear in one of the game's cutscenes.

** The night vision goggles and fingerlight have no use in the game unless the player's television is too dark to make out what is going on. Although some players choose to use the night vision goggles so that they can play with a first person perspective and get around the game's fixed cameras.

-->'''Talia''': ''He'' will try to stop you, will he not?
-->'''Ra's''': I have already anticipated ''his'' involvement.

* DownerEnding: Three to pick from. To get the game's good ending, you must win the Ra's Al Ghul boss fight and disarm the signal device controlling Ra's bombs. Failing to do one or both results in a bad ending. There are three bad endings: Either Batman dies, the world is flooded, or both. Of course if the machine is disarmed and Batman dies the world is still flooded off screen, since it's stated the machine can be repaired.
** Particularly infuriating, since the game at no point tells you that you need to disarm the signal device to get the proper ending.

* UselessUsefulStealth: The game tries to be a stealth game; emphasis on "tries." You have the option of taking down most groups of enemies with stealth instead of combat, but since enemies have very good peripheral vision, there is often little cover, so many of the levels are built entirely out of corridors, Batman's stealth walk is unbearably slow, and many enemies travel in groups where somebody is looking in all directions, resorting to stealth is often infeasible.

-->'''Talia''': "''He'' will try to stop you, will he not?"
-->'''Ra's''': "I have already anticipated ''his'' involvement."

* UselessUsefulStealth: The game tries to be a stealth game; emphasis on "tries." You have the option of taking down most groups of enemies with stealth instead of combat, but since enemies have very good peripheral vision, there is often little cover, so many of the levels are built entirely out of corridors, Batman's stealth walk is unbearably slow, and many enemies travel in groups where somebody is looking in all directions, resorting to stealth is often infeasible.

-->'''Talia''': "''He'' will try to stop you, will he not?"
-->'''Ra's''': "I have already anticipated ''his'' involvement."

* WhatMightHaveBeen: WordOfGod has it that Batman: Dark Tomorrow was originally going to be an open world game, similar to the movie licensed ''Spider-Man 2'' game. The game underwent massive delays when Microsoft expressed interest in releasing the game for the X-Box and became involved in the game's development. The final product is anything but an open world sandbox.
** Microsoft said they would make needed changes to the game, including fixing the game's broken combat system. Pretty much everybody agrees that the game's combat is hideously broken as is.