This review is completely off. But here is where the reviewer went astray. Arkham Asylum was the first largely successful licensed Batman game. So for Arkham City they continued the model. Now you have a new studio working on this franchise that made a mark in the genre. Why go and change the whole thing.
Yes the same mechanics are there, as with most successful franchise. This game delivers the audience into the "origins" of the hero. Things should not be as easy as they were in the other two. This is an earlier, less experienced Dark Knight and In my opinion does the series a solid.
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