The loonies really are running the asylum.

User Rating: 7 | Batman: Arkham City PS3
By flintheart_glomgold | Review Date:
With Arkham mostly destroyed a section of Gotham City is walled off and the prisoners are left to fend for themselves (kinda like a couple of Snake Plissken movies) while Doctor Strange is allowed to go nuts as the head of Tyger, the security company garrisoned at the perimeter wall. Joker has big plans for Armageddon in Gotham, so Batman heads over the wall to bust some heads.

I liked Arkham Asylum quite a lot, but they should have went in a new direction for a sequel. Arkham City is very similar, with many of the same abilities and combat maneuvers. Even the side missions and extras are identical, but just in new locations. Arkham City itself is very dark (as expected) and as a result it's a very difficult environment to run about in. The repetitive combat gets boring about halfway though, and there's no way to level-up the force of your combat, just your defenses.

Towards the end of Arkham City I just longed for it to be finished. We're two games into this particular chronology now and we have still never been able to fly around the actual Gotham, or cruise in the Batmobile, or see Wayne Manor. There is a lot about Arkham City that makes it a great video game, but I've been there and done that with Arkham Asylum and the sequel should have given us something different.

There are 71 trophies but I only unlocked 50% as you need to invest about 100 hours in reaching the Platinum and one particular trophy requires a YEAR'S worth of playtime. A year! Erm...no, thank you.

Graphics B+
Sound B
Gameplay B-
Last Appeal B-

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