This is the dumbest introduction in gaming history. *Spoiler*

Besides what was mentioned about it being a walled off city vs actual prison, that was just the intro where they were bringing Batman in before actually incarcerating him. So naturally he'd still have his street clothes and other items. Other detainees were allowed to go out and "greet" him in the outer area under Peguin's watch, which is where they obviously took him for granted, as they always do.

Sir GarIand posted...
The intro is pretty terrible, though. They don't even give you much of an idea why Arkham City even exists.

The first one had a huge following though, so anyone who's played it or heard about it probably already knew.

I find it odd such trivial things are off putting to some as if too unrealistic, yet they're OK with a muscle bound guy being able to glide all over the city effortlessly with a mere cape, thugs transforming into titans, Clayface taking any form he wants, Ra's al Ghul constantly defying death, etc, etc.

those things don't seem ridiculous at all, the only thing i found off putting about the whole thing is that he is obviously fighting just like batman does right in front of one of the main villains...  you think they would put something together.

When you factor in we're talking a story derived from a comick book tale where villains regularly reek havoc in Gotham, then it makes sense to have a small city serve as a large prison, since literally ALL of these villains use random thugs to help them, which ends up being too many to put in the Gotham jail. Aside from that, apparently some of you missed the point that there was a certain mob mentality and influence going on with the election of the mayor, his role in the penal system, and more importantly, Hugo Strange running everything. If you can't see that mass scale corruption such as this entails extraordinary circumstances, esp when you're talking a comick book tale with a a psycho villain such as Hugo Strange being the puppet of an assassin cult leader, then I think you need to go back and pay attention to the story. Did you somehow miss the genocidal tendencies Ra's al Ghul displayed? Arkham City was in reality never intended to be a penal system, but a theater for mass execution. Again, I see no reason to suspend disbelief on some of the more obvious fiction, yet have a problem with the setting.

dc_camel posted...
You forgot the silliest part...bruce wayne then dresses up as a Bat! How random and crazy is that? So unrealistic...

I don't think anyone "forgot" that, and it isn't "random" since the story is obviously themed around it. Accepting that the story is about a vigilante superhero dressed in a bat costume is a given before even playing the game. Otherwsie you wouldn't even want to try the game let alone buy it now would you?