I won’t spoil the story too much since if you just follow the main story it isn’t an overly long game but guys… Batman has more villains that could lead a game other than the Joker. Obviously not too happy about the events of the previous game. And I’m just gonna spoil it but the main bad guy is the Joker, again. From there, Bruce Wayne goes on his typical ambiguous murder spree, severely beating down the downtrodden youth of Gotham and leaving them with crippling, debilitating injuries for years to come while he flounces about with master criminals that he may or may not want to bone. Naturally he gets thrown into the gulag by Hugo Strange, who uses the prison system of Gotham to lock up dissenting opinions of his work just like the real-life government does. Making the sensible argument that containing all of the prison system of Gotham, a fairly overcrowded system I will admit, to a sectioned-off part of the city with minimal supervision regardless of severity of crime might not be the best way to deal with it. This game starts off not as the psychotic alter ego but as the madman behind the mask, Bruce Wayne. However, I still think that despite the larger and arguably longer story of Batman: Arkham City, the greater emphasis on the size and scope of the tale takes away some depth and doesn’t give many of the more interesting aspects of the story the time they need to play out. I don’t dislike the game whatsoever, I think it’s fun and really makes use of the aspects of Batman’s character that never got the depth that they needed in the prior game. So bigger must clearly mean better? Well, not by my standards, small as they are.

It has a much larger map, at least five times that of the asylum, and features more characters for Batman to interact with.

This game, as far as I’ve seen, has been widely regarded as the best of the Batman series of games and I can see why. Now it’s time to pick up with the final game included in the Batman: Return to Arkham collection on the PS4: Batman: Arkham City.

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