Batman: Arkham Asylum gets Hamill's Joker, Conroy's Batman

by Jason Dobson on Dec 17th 2008 2:20PM

Eidos and Warner Bros. have confirmed that Mark Hamill, the voice of The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, will reprise his sadistically animated take on the Clown Prince of Crime in Batman: Arkham Asylum. Additionally, the Caped Crusader himself will be voiced by Kevin Conroy, recognized as the voice of Batman in numerous animated series and games.

While we remain largely undecided regarding Rocksteady Studios' "graphically distinct" take on Bruce Wayne's alter ego (spoiler! - Ed.), today's news brings us dangerously close to being pulled off the fence as we continue to wait for Batman: Arkham Asylum to ship next summer for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

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Reader Comments (66)

I'm sold.

(I'm also apparently a cheap date.)

Agreed, I'm off to pre-order it now.

Count me in as well. Cheap dates are what's happening these days!

Me too. Except I'm not really going to buy it. I'll just add it to the top of my Gamefly queue.

Well at least we know the voice acting will be awesome.

And the story! Paul Dini is writing!

yes! I couldn't be happier!

This and Ghostbusters. Please don't screw it up like, say, on the level of Alone in the Dark. We've got good writers and great voice talent that tickle people's nostalgia for the properties. It would be such a hair pulling tragedy to get this caliber of talent only to get another buggy, poorly executed game. At least kill bugs if nothing else.

Nice. That show was just a taste of the superior animation of the 90's (as nowadays if its not made in Flash or crappy CG, it's probably an anime)

umm, or it's a DC based or Marvel Based superhero show like wolverine and the x-men.

Japan isn't the only country with good cartoons, but they do have 99% of the good cartoon market

Disney Afternoon had some awesome stuff.

wb on saturday mornings used to be the shit.

WB and Fox Kids. Mighty Morphin Powers Rangers, Bobby's World, Spider-Man: the Animated Series, Beast Wars, Eek! Stravaganza, Animaniacs, Swamp Thing, Taz Mania, Peter Pan and the Pirates, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Incredible Crash Dummies, Goosebumps, Ned's Newt, The Tick...

The list goes on and on.

You just name some of the worst Saturday morning cartoons. How you can lump those in with Batman The Animated Series is beyond me

but he listed BEAST WARS!!! And Spider-Man TAS

Show a little mercy; he listed The Tick, Spider-Man: TAS, and Animaniacs in there.

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

Hopefully he is refering to the original MMPR. Oh, Kimberly

The fact that the list doesn't have Sam & Max: Freelance Police makes me doubt his taste.

This news makes this game an automatic buy for me!

\(^_^)/

Nothing like having those intrusive ads interrupt you when you are about to post.Good thing the comment was short.

Anyway Awesome,I loved Hamill's voice in Batman Animated.

Well, we have great visuals and a good cast. All we need now is the gameplay.

But what about the unfiltered cigarette-smoking version of Batman's voice from the Dark Knight? : )

It has been hard to get a constructive criticism in edgewise with all the recent Bale-worship (ha! I made an Old Testament pun). One of my least favorite aspects of the two recent outings is Batman's hokey voice.

i find myself liking it more, since there was no difference in bruce's and batmans voice in the animated version (IMO) yet there was the gravely voice that batman actually used in the comics (when it started to become a darker theme).

Oh, yeaaah...Batman's voice DID sound different in the comic books...

The dialogue was inked differntly, so it did "sound" different.

*Facepalm*

@Deeznuts420: There was a definite difference between the Batman and Bruce Wayne voices in the animated series. This is emphasized in the season one episode "On Leather Wings" during the scene in which Wayne takes a personal phone call while working in the batcave. Kevin Conroy's voice jumps about an octave while on the phone as Bruce Wayne, then goes back down when he resumes working... implying that Batman is the dominate personality and the playboy Bruce Wayne is the persona.

@deeznuts

I understand you did put imo, but there was actually a difference between Bruces' and Batmans' voice in the animated series though it was only kept around durin the first few seasons. Once the art became simplified, the voice of Bruce Wayne sounded the same as Batman. The distinction between the two personals disappeared even the spinoff series, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.

In the new anime, the distinction between Bruce's and Batman's voice returns. You can hear the differences in voices of Conroy's Batman in the recent Batman Gotham Knights anime.

yick

@deezenuts

if you can't tell the different between wayne and batmans voice in batman the animated series, you probably weren't listening closely enough...or weren't a real fan of the series. there's a big difference, not as kick in your front teeth obvious as bale, but a different nonetheless.

it was as obvious as superman taking off his glasses and putting gel on his hair....

Fucking awesome! I'm buying!

Batman+Conory+Hamill = one happy Batman fan. I agree with others in hoping that the gameplay will be as good as the cast.

Hope summer doesn't mean late August.

It doesn't, it means late October.

Oh come on now, they should pony up for Heath Ledger.

Oh ho ho.... Bad form! : D

Ummm...hate to break it to ya kid, not gonna happen.

I second the notion for Heath Ledger as Joker! What happened to him this past January is no excuse! :P

That could get expensive...

I'll take Nipsey Russell's corpse for the block.

Obie: "Ummm...hate to break it to ya kid, not gonna happen."

Thanks for the tip, pops.

Too soon?

Fuck you Ledger assholes. We have Hamill again at last!

BUT...

HEATH LEDGERS DIED FOR OUR SINS!

Oh please sure, Hamil may have been the voice of the joker, Ledger's joker was at least the closest to the source material of what the Joker should be.

I think Hammill's Joker was the best placed out of them, if we compile four of them from history, say, the 60's TV Joker, Jack Nicholson's Joker, Hammill's Joker, and Ledger's Joker, Hammill sits between the extremes of the 60's Joker (who was a benign prankster at heart), and Ledger's Joker (an irreconcilable psychopath) Hammill's Joker was more humanized thus, while Ledger's was like a force of nature

I think Hamil's Joker was really the best. Ledger's was one extreme of the Joker, the murderous remorseless psycho, the other side of course being the harmless clown. TAS joker was a perfect mix of both, like in one episode where he comes up with a crazy plot to gain royalties from all fish taken from the Gotham river by poisoning the water with joker venom that made all the fish smile, and then trying to murder the desk clerk who couldnt pay him with a swordfish bomb

One of my favorite Joker youtube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8fWUUXeKM

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