• Me-*ow*!   That is *so* going to go on my costume list. 

• Wow, such a backlash against a woman being able to use her feminine wiles against the bad guys. Why do so many people have such a problem with sexy women being sexy, and not with the rampant and often graphic violence in these games? If you want her to zip up and alter her persona from how it's represented in the comics, how about we get rid of all the blood, gore and overly brutal combat moves in the game, too? Even the playing field, or deal with the fact that sexy is not a bad thing in a game where you're using every advantage you can get over the bad guys.

• Oh gods, I had the same thought.  Every "fighting" move looks like she should be hanging on to a pole. Why can't she just fight like a person and not a stripper?

• She totally doesn't give a cat's ass whether they recognize her or not; Catwoman, as a convicted felon, doesn't usually have a secret identity in DC (and information in Arkham 1 indicates this is true here, too.) Besides they aren't likely to be looking at her face. Multi-purpose! {g}

• I would say that in this case it kind of fits her character.

• This, 2.

• Batman! Stop dominating Franky! {pant pant pant pant} (Sorry, I finally watched Transformers 2 a few weeks ago, and my mind has been scarred for life now. You all understand...)

• {{Further, those goggles are sorta pointless if she doesn't wear them, either.}} I was going to do a riff on "The Goggles! They Do Nothing!" But then I realized that this may explain the heavy stylistic b/w/red art shifts: obviously the goggles must do something, and it's reasonable to expect them to be at least an ultraviolet night-vision set (even if not as advanced as Batman's). It's equally obvious that the game designers have set up the engine so that they can generate a b/w/r color scheme pretty much at will. I'll be slightly disappointed, consequently, if the goggles don't do that.

• Is one of her "unique" moves "work pole"?

• I'm all for more female heros/anti-heroes in games, even if it means they have epic boobage. That said, I am patiently waiting for a Catwoman game based on the Arkham City graphics but fused with Splinter Cell's Stealth Elements. 

• Think about the tactical advantage though...If thugs are staring at her boobs, they aren't trying to hit her. They even showed her kissing one thug before throwing him...Like Batman's huge bat symbol on his chest acting like a target, her open top is a weapon.

• The one thing that really really saddens me about Arkham City is that Mark Hamill announced it'll be the last time he'll voice the Joker.

• I dig it!  XD I love how this trailer with that Lykke Li's "Get Some" background song plays a perfect companion to the first trailer with The Heavy's "Short Change Hero" background song. The first trailer is so dark and broody with that song, very much "Batman" in every way, while this one is more flirty and fun, very much "Catwoman" in every way.  Well played, WB Games.  Well played indeed! XD

• TMI ALERT!!! - I literally orgasmed watching this. Sorry, lesbian gamer moment. And she's PLAYABLE? Ugh, my wife and I will be fighting over the goddamn controller for months once we have this in the house. Curse you Arkham City!

• Having now performed a Google image search, I can only say: I second the motion.

• I don't think so. The first game had great characterisation for the most part, but unfortunately the females were there as little more than fap material. I was hoping for more, that's all.

• Maybe she has those rubber lip guards Robin sported in "Batman & Robin"

• That kiss and kill finish is cool and all, but if she keeps that up, she'll catch something nasty. I mean, how hygienic do you think The Jokers goons are?

• May I be the first to say ttttthhhhhhfffffpt!

• No one cares.  More Cat's Ass!!!

• Christian Bale wishes his Batman was as badass as Conroy growling "Fluffy Kitten".

• If I wanted porn in my video games, I'd go on the internet! Those bouncy roaming watermeolns are distracting me from my in-game objectives! Fap or play, I can't do both!

• Pretty much my issue with it too. Its a bit sad when Catwoman's lesbian former childhood sidekick has more personality than Selina herself, AND was less sexualised.

• Grey DeLisle as Catwoman and Tara Strong as Harley? Definitely a case of Aural Sex-y. Those gals could record themselves reading out the phone book and sell it as a marital aid. Yowza!

• Pussy Galore? Come on, I think even Bond himself found that one ridiculous.

• Ignoring all the pointless chatter over whether CATWOMAN is too sexualized (it's Catwoman, for god's sake), I wish to address a far more important issue: Does her inclusion in the game as a playable character open the door for other characters as well? Could this mean we'll get a playable Nightwing or Robin? That could be fun. They definitely shouldn't flood the thing with playable characters, but I could see doing a select handful really well. I mean, this is an entire city (albeit sort of a miniature one) that Batman's dealing with this time; I could see the storyline hopping to other characters with something like a "While Batman was kicking this guy's ass, he sent so-and-so here to deal with Calendar Man" (since, let's not kid ourselves, that guy is a waste of The Bat's time; let the little guys deal with him).

• Heard. And you don't need to list your Bona fides, Smashy. You may not know me but I know you. Your credit is good here. As I replied to Jill above... Isn't the violent, one note method of using a character in a beat 'em up just as great a disservice to their character as objectifying her knockers? I mean to say: it's a video game. Doesn't the Sell Out happen long before camera angles were chosen??

• Look. I don't read a ton of cape n mask comics due to lack of substance. I'm not defending the status quo of bulges and nipples over a thin plot. But it IS a vidya game. I'm not a gamer either, incidentally; but it's a fists over subtelty game from all the trailers. I happen to side with Rob on this. She looks badass. Isn't there a bit TOO much hand-wringing in this particular comment thread? I mean why so much emphasis on her sexy butt and NOT a SINGLE person discussing the violent content? Isn't THAT just as vapid? Isn't it maybe moreso? Just so we're clear. I don't care about the violence either, but the comments just smack of middle American focus on the evils of vagina while turning a blind eye to the blood-letting.

• I can fap to this.

• Yeah, heaven forbid they sexualize crime fighting...

• There is no such thing as a bad "pussy" pun.

• This game has had my prepurchase since I completed Arkham Asylum.  At this point, these trailers are just superfluous.  But keep them coming!

• `Doesn't make it right. Catwoman is a terrible, insulting character. If she's not doing the slinky catsuit close-ups, then she's making bad "pussy" puns.

• This is so fucking cheap. It makes me hate Catwoman more than I did before I saw it, and I wasn't too fond of her in the first place. This is essentially a "hey nerds! You can watch a digital ass and cleavage in the new Batman game! Yeah!" promo. I mean, they even do close-ups of her ass a few times. I find it fucking insulting. Are you making a game with good game play that lasts a long time, or are you trying to sell this game to sweaty virgins who will essentially only be playing it because they can check out Catwoman while believing that Batman is "badass"? Because I'd really like to see this game have a bit more to it than Arkham Asylum did. Don't get me wrong; Arkham Asylum was fun. It was just WAY too short, had no replay value, and had the dumbest final boss they could have possible created. It also had those stupid timed button press boss battles, which just fucking ruined the boss fights for me. If I want that lame shit, I'll play God of War or Force Unleashed. Catwoman is one of the worst characters DC ever created. She's just T&A for the Batman fans. She's about as deep as a kiddie pool, and has as much substance as a dry fart.

• While wearing a fitted leather catsuit, zipping down to the sternum can increase the flexibility range in the shoulders

• Hey, IMDb got a voice right! Grey DeLisle, it seems. But why are people assuming Cat's a playable character?

• kevin conroy will never stop being a badass. his gravestone will be in the shape of a boot so he can kick ass even after he's gone

• You don't remember the Schumacher Batman, do you?

• 'Violent prejudice'? Do you actually know anything about Batman? The worry here, at least for me, is that a great character like Catwoman has been reduced to nothing more than a series of close ups on her computer generated, leather clad ass. I'm aware that she is a fictional character. I'm aware that Batman and superhero comics as a whole are works of fiction and fantasy. But I'm a nerd who cares a lot about the way these characters are handled, and I'm just concerned that they've, sold out in a way with this characterisation.

• I expected to see more cat puns in these comments...  Oh well! With that out of the way all I have to say is, I want to play this right meow!

• I would play a game where Batman cock-slapped his enemies into submission...

• I dunno. It's not as bad as some other games. She's at least mostly fully covered, save for the ample boobage.

• "When did TR become the home of the Family Research council?"  When people got sick of lazy-ass writers making female characters vapid twats coasting on their physical appearance, rather than said writers straining their precious little brain cells to actually conceptualize a decent character. 

• This.  I really could have done without the excessive amounts of Male Gaze in that video.  Is it really so hard to make a female character awesome in ways that don't involve her tits and ass?  Batman managed to rock his way through all of the first game without kissing any of the goons or via his amazing Bat-penis. 

• I'm seeing a TON of grumbling about the tits n ass here, but it's a VIDEO GAME about a man dressed as a bat who mediates all situations with violent prejudice. What the hell becomes of geeks who tut-tut over leather clad ass, but don't even NOTICE the indiscriminate head crunching?  When did TR become the home of the Family Research council?  Damn, people.  Haven't any of you ever seen ANYTHING from Japan?  The country's main source of currency is 12 billion reruns of the same sailor girls turning into four breasted robots who seduce 13 year old boys.  But Catwoman kissed a bad guy.  ::facepalm:: My take on this trailer is Bat-WHO?  And guh...

• Not just yes, but hell yes.

• Go back to bed, Mr. Miller.

• Annoys me slightly it removes the prostitute line. 

• I always had the sneaking suspicion that the game was gonna have this. Ever since those Game Informer reveal covers with Batman and Catwoman in black and white. Especially since it was the official announcement of the game, it just didn't make sense to so heavily include Catwoman in the art for it if she wasn't going to have more of a role than showing up frequently in cut scenes. Also, come on people, this is not the first time Catwoman has been overtly sexualized. Have you seen literally anything with Catwoman from the past 15 years? However unwarranted or unmerited it is, this game is definitely not the first perpetrator

• There are plenty of scantily dressed women in beer commercials during football broadcasts. Sexifying a game is as much an attempt at getting basement dwellers to buy a game as it is to get any straight male to buy it.

• She looks fun...and by fun I mean dangerous.

• Oh look.  Another desperate attempt at getting  basement dwellers to buy a game.  See what Crystal Dynamics is doing with Lara Croft?  yeah.  Do that.  We don't need skivvy bimbos in our games, there's enough out there *coughdeadoralivecoughsoulcaliburcoughhack*

• HER ASS IS AMAZING. ...it also looks like a great game.

• Dammit Shemp, I think I love you.

• Lykke Li should play Catwoman.

• wow, that song is pretty whorish, too.

• The kissing the henchman bit honestly made me cringe for exactly that reason. I'm a huge germaphobe I guess but I'm not usually a fan of making out with people who are actively trying to kill me in alleyways.

• *grunts* See this, DC Comics? You need more of this and less fail.

• Dames...can't live with 'em, can't prevent them from being eaten by a mute Elijah Wood cannibal...

•  But part of the appeal of Arkham City/Asylum is that its closer to the true Batman comics, vs. some realistic Nolan interpretation.  I mean, Hell, the Batman family includes Gotham City Sirens and Birds of Prey.  Have you ever seen Huntress?  those thigh high boots and short shorts (though I'm not a fan of the exposed midsection, just looks wise.  Now THAT is a character I'd love to see in the game. You're talking about something being ridiculously overstated in a world with a guy dressed up as a bat, a dude missing half his face, a plant controlling lady, a giant man-croc... But, think about it, Catwoman is basically a woman acting out on her own desires outside of the law and social norms.  She does what she wants, takes what she wants, and has fun doing it.  I know countless women who love getting dressed up as sexy as possible just for the sheer thrill of the attention they get.  If anything it would be unrealistic for Catwoman to not want to do that to, or not act on her desire to toy with anyone she comes in contact with in every way possible for her own amusement.

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• Same. I mean, she kicks ass, but the kiss of death was a bit much.

• This.

• Arkham Asylum Harley= Slutty Nurse Arkham City Harley= Slutty Biker Chick Why mess with a design that was perfect in the first place? I miss classic Harlequin jester Harley...

• Definitely agree with you on that. Less can most certainly be more (Christina Hendricks anyone?). I would have rather seen her in some button-up top, if only because if she got hit in the chest and the top two buttons came off, that would at least explain things better. As it is now, it looks like she'll just plop right out everytime she does a flip (which is what, six times in the video?).

• Yeah, yeah, her body is great (and well animated) but those horrible, horrible DEAD EYES!  Look at 1:01...  Talk about the uncanny valley!

• I was kind of grossed out when Catwoman kissed that thug.  Now she probably has herpes. (EWWW!)

• He can dominate ANY sort of bat.

• I do have to agree. Though from a fanboy perspective I don't mind what they did, from my more dominant dispassionate analytical standpoint I don't see the practicality in that. I figured they'd have her outfit like that maybe for a few scenes, like if she's interacting with Batman, but the whole game? Re: Harley and Ivy, sorta have to agree. Though with Ivy it seemed to me more like they were trying to find a way to cover up the top half of her body in such a way that would get them a low enough rating. Harley though was a bit too sexualized for my tastes re: the character - though one thing I don't quite like for Arkham City is how they ditched the dominomask and facepaint in favor of a more makeup-oriented approach.

• Did it bother anyone that she isn't using the goggles SITTING ON HER HEAD to disguise herself?

• Oh Frank! You and your laughable treatment of the female sex! Incidentally, how have things been since your wife left you? Perhaps that had an effect on your portrayal of women as either Whores, Bithces or Broads?

• Its just the way its so in your face that bothers me. There's sexy, and then there is just ridiculously oversexualised. I can enjoy it from a libido standpoint, but applying it to the game's grim and critty atmosphere, it just comes off wrong and laughable. Every five seconds its TITS and ASS in your face. I felt the same about what they did to Harley and Ivy in the first game too. Ah, maybe it is just me. But come on, she might show a little caution when taking on deranged and unstable mental patients.

• This is the cat's ass.

• But will there be Catman? Either way, looks amazing as does everything related to this game.

• Maybe they're trying to be true to the Frank Miller material. In which she actually was one before becoming Catwoman.

• Heh - yeah. Though if her zipper's partway down I imagine it's that much easier to pull down the rest of the way by just grabbing it and pulling. Further, those goggles are sorta pointless if she doesn't wear them, either. ....Although I suppose against common thugs, the zipped-down catsuit gives her a psychological advantage for the first few seconds.

• What's that song? Oh, and yeah, Catwoman's a whore in this game.

• I'd have liked to see a kick-but Catwoman without her being hyper-sexualized. If she wasn't showing quite so much cleavage and gratuitously kissing random thugs (ewww!) then I'd think the whole thing was really frickin awesome. As is, I'm actually feeling a bit skeeved out.

• get some - lykke li 

• Just to play Devil's Advocate but as soon as we get into a reality were people are dressing up in leather animal themed outfits, practicality kinda goes out the window.

• get some - lykke li

•  Ditto, I'd really like to know the song and artist.

• No.  Even those of us who aren't pathetic virgins and who are married to or dating extremely hot girls can still find that appealing.  Honestly, I think if I were a villain I'd almost be too distracted or attracted to try and beat the crap out of her. That said, one could argue in a "real" setting she'd be more likely to be raped by said violent criminals if they ever did manage to beat her up, but my guess is they'd do that regardless of whether her zipper was up another 6 inches or whatever. I do think kissing the henchman she is kicking the crap out of is a little gratuitous though.  I'm like "Oral Herpes!", you don't know where the guy has been! On the other hand, maybe the henchman could think the same thing about catching something from that dirty little tramp running around half naked in the skin tight catsuit and kissing people she is beating up....

• I've dreamed of this moment for a while now.

• Batman broke a baseball bat over his knee. A baseball bat. A. Baseball. Bat. Awesome.

• I'm with ya. I'm all for sexy superhero outfits, but this is just kind of impractical and silly. And besides, what's the point if they're just going to keep showing close ups of her Catbutt? Catwoman has been very sexy in the past without shoeing an inch of skin, that's all I'm saying.

• Here's my question: What's the song used in Catwoman's part of the trrailer? Because it sounds pretty awesome.

• Anyone else honestly wish she'd just zip up her catsuit a bit? I mean, there's fanservice, and there's outright advertising "I am a pathetic Virgin who will never know the touch of a real woman". Ahem. Not that reflects myself of course. 

• I read about this yesterday (oddly thought it was here) and have to say it sounds very cool. The only issue that I have is that there is no co-op even with the two playable characters and that you have to choose for Batman to rest to play as Catwoman? Batman doen't rest, or take a break, he plans 

• Oh......my........f'ing........god......so rad!

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