Batman: Arkham Asylum did what no one else could. It made a great Batman video game. When Batman: Arkham City was announced, everyone had huge expectations for it. And guess what? Those expectations were indeed met. Batman: Arkham City is what some have called as the "Citizen Kane" of superhero games. It takes the mechanics of the first game and brings it to an open-world setting set inside the criminal-ridden walls of Arkham City. The story takes place about a year after the events of the first game and Mayor Quincy Sharp has shut down Blackgate Prison and Arkham Asylum and has transferred the criminals and the insane into the super-prison known as "Arkham City" a district set inside the slums of Gotham City, that is walled off and under constant surveillance, where the criminals are given one rule: Do not try to escape. Sharp has set up the mysterious Hugo Strange to run the facility. Batman believes this is a time bomb waiting to explode and goes into the site as Bruce Wayne to find Catwoman hoping to get some answers. Along the way he finds The Penguin, Solomon Grundy, The Joker, Harley Quinn, Mister Freeze, Ra's al Ghul, and countless other beloved villains as he tries to find out Hugo Strange and Arkham City's dark secret. The story was great, it kept you guessing as to what you would expect and what new villains you would run into. The map is divided by the different gangs in the game, for instance the Joker runs the industrial plant, while the courthouse area is run by Two-Face. The visuals in the game are stunning, they might be the best visuals I've ever seen presented in a video game. The only thing that I had against this game was that it strayed from the Hugo Strange story and became too much of a Joker story again. Don't get me wrong I love the Joker as much as anyone, but it seems like Strange was a great villain choice, and he was kind of forgotten until the end of the game. Needless to say, if you're a Batman fan or just a fan of action/adventure third person games, you need to play Batman: Arkahm City.
Many licensed games simply do not capture the atmosphere from the stories they are based on. They create a predictable story, horrific gameplay and repetitive soundtrack which only dampens the experience. Batman: Arkham ... Read Full Review
Arkham City picks up where Arkham Asylum leaves off. The former penitentiary for Gotham City had been completely breached, so the solution was to cordon off an entire section of the city and let survival of the fittest ... Read Full Review
