The voice-acting and music were wasted on this awful PC port, that has corrupted a fairly solid Batman game.
Despite the fact that the graphics most of the time do look like the animated series, it's easy to become disoriented and not have a clue what you are doing and where you are, because everything is so simplistic and all the colors look the same. No detail seems to have been put into any of the graphical part of the game, it all just looks flat. In addition to that, sometimes they seemed to just add parts of the game in for no reason at all, for example when you are trying to find the henchmen that kidnapped Mary, there is a flat door, that you can't even try to open. It's just there. An extreme annoyance is that the REAL door that you need to use is RIGHT by that fake door! So you could think that both doors are just part of the scenery, and end up s
pending a good twenty minutes searching for the door you need to go in. The camera angles are crazy in this game. They shift wildly, and it becomes nauseating after a while, especially if you are fighting. In addition to this, sometimes the camera shifts to an opposite direction than you want to go, so you could get hit by potshots by your enemies, that are equipped with guns. After a cut scene, you need to tap the space bar twice to enter back into the first-person point of view. This takes time, and it's annoying, especially when you are doing a chase sequence. The graphics and camera are poor, and end up harming your enjoyment of the game, rather than increasing it. As for the gameplay and controls, it's just as bad. The game uses obscure keys like the End key, the Delete key, ext. for main functions. I haven't heard of a single game that uses those keys and is good. The hit detection is awful. Sometimes you'll find that it takes a couple tries to actually handcuff your enemies, due to the fact that it didn't detect it the first time. There is a yellow indicator of where to grapple, yet sometimes, for no reason, it doesn't appear for no apparent reason. Sometimes when you are trying to use the stealth mode, it doesn't even work. Not that it really matters because while I'm at it, the enemies see you, no matter if you hide behind a wall, they know exactly where you are, and they get their cheap shots, as I stated earlier. It gets worse when you're fighting the final battle with the Joker. The joker has a move where he restrains Batman, and you are supposed to rapidly shake the A and D keys repeatedly. Yet no matter how much I try, I can't break it. I've tried the keyboard, I've tried my gamepad. The controls don't work. You can't break the move. And he uses it almost every time you move away from the Joker, so you just have to watch as he yells at you and keeps punching you in the face over and over when you get caught by it. It gets so ANNOYING after a while. The only thing you can do to keep from automaticially losing the game is to avoid the move completely. So it becomes a close-up punching match, which you should win easily. However there is also fireworks the Joker shoots, which you need to move AWAY FROM THE JOKER to avoid! So you have to dodge the fireworks by basically praying that the Joker won't restrain you while your dodging the fireworks.
There's more, but I won't go on. You see my point. The gameplay, and controls are broken. The music, as I've already said is awesome and fits the series, but despite that, after you've died several times due the controls, the music is tedious and gives you a migraine, and you just want it to stop. So the music is just as bad as it is awesome in this game.
There is no replay value in this game, except for listening to the voice acting again. There's no special levels, no secrets to unlock. nothing.
As for the ending, it's satisfying, if short, and it does follow the series. I won't spoil it for you, in case you actually decide to buy the game eventually. The game itself is great. Get the XBOX version. Get the Gamecube version. JUST DON'T BUY IT FOR THE PC. Please. I simply don't want you to have to suffer, the way I did.