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)

another step in the right direction! this game's looking better and better. i just hope the gameplay can live up to everything we've seen thus far.

thats the best news i've read/heard all day.

My pants! They are wet!

I would buy "Phonebook Reading: The Game" if Conroy and Hamill did the voices.

Hell yes!

As someone who religiously watched Batman: TAS as a kid, only one word can describe this: Suh-wheet!

@thssimpiliticy is right. The reason why the disguinction of batman's voice fades in later season and in the spinoff series is because Batman is hardly incognito as Bruce Wayne. In Justice League, Batman did appeared as Bruce Wayne once, but he was usin his gruff voice since he was around the other leaguers.

By the time of Batman Beyond, Batman is too old and probably believes that nobody will remember his voice (they would all be around 70), so he uses his normal voice, which is the bat voice.

The Bruce Wayne and Conroy's real voice can be prominantly heard in the first couple seasons of Batman and in the Gotham Knights anime.

I like both Ledgers' and Hamills' voices, but I think Hamill's Joker does not work well in live action adaptions despite me not seein Birds of Prey (he did the voice of Joker in that series.) However, Hamill's voice works well in non live adaptions of batman

Hamil's ver was more over the top clownish while Ledger's ver was more psychopathic

With that said, Hamil's joker works best in animated and video game media.

Well, his voice was only in the first episode of BoP, and only for about 20 seconds.. but it seemed to work ok.

I guess if that series had been allowed to develop his Joker might have turned up in later series...
Its a shame that series got killed.. it started a bit wonky, but it had some cool characters and a nicely building world when it got cut.

All my favorite shows get canned early...

I'm not a huge fan of the artistic style, but the voicing brings this back to a game I might possibly purchase.

boner

no other details are needed. I will play this game now knowing mark hamill is in it.

This is very good news, but I'll need to see some actual gameplay or mechanics before I'm completely sold. I love Batman, but he truly needs a good game.