In 2009, Arkham Asylum reinvented the wheel not just for Comic Book license games, but third person action exploration games in general. With the fantastic blend of Rocksteady's patented free flow com… Read more
Decidedly Batman Arkham Asylum had lots of room for improvement and people usually don't hate money so a sequel didn't take too long to come. Two years after the first game Arkham City arrived and tri… Read more
Arkham asylum lies the standards of being a Great Batman game, as a sequel was going to destroy it's predecessor. Batman Arkham City improves and fixes everything in Arkham asylum thus creating a bett… Read more
If you would have told me when I was young that one of my favorite games of an entire generation of video game consoles would be a game based on Batman, I would have rolled my eyes and scoffed at you… Read more
By the time I reached the conclusion of Arkham Asylum, I was spent. Exhausted. The thought of beating up another random group of thugs bored me to tears. I needed a break. So I ignored City when it ca… Read more
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I originally thought that Batman: Arkham Asylum was the greatest Batman video game of all time, perhaps even one of the greatest entertainment mediums for the comic book hero ever made. But Rocksteady… Read more
The first game was revolutionary for it's great controls, interesting story and great take on the cast of batman characters. The sequel improved the controls but the story fell flat for me. The most e… Read more
2009’s best game was also its most surprising one – Batman: Arkham Asylum. It was a game that rose out of the cesspool of comic book games with its incredible graphics, excellent combat, terrific voic… Read more
Batman: Arkham City is not a game without its flaws. Many of them, though, depend on the sort of gamer you are, and therein lies the catch. Despite on its surface being little more than brawler with o… Read more
Batman: Arkham City (PS3) As far as sequels go, Batman: Arkham City is a big one. Compare it to the prequel Batman: Arkham Aslyum, and you’ll quickly find that everything about Arkham City is bigger a… Read more
How do you follow up the best superhero game of all time? This was the task that Rocksteady set themselves when going into creating a sequel to Arkham Asylum , one of the best games of 2009. Do you co… Read more
If I had to choose between the dense, detailed, and populated open world of Arkham City or the sparse, sprawling tundra of Skyrim , I'd pick Arkham City any day. Every crevice of this game feels detai… Read more
Glockstar Armani presents this game with 2 *GLOCKIE* awards for: *BEST VILLAIN: THE RIDDLER* *BEST GAME OF 2011* This is awesome-sauce. This is what it must feel like to be Batman, James Bond, and Jas… Read more
Before getting into the nitty gritty of why this game deserves praise, it should be known that I am by no means a perfect-score, reviewing whore-man. If anything, more recently, my tolerance of video… Read more
When Batman Arkham Asylum came out a couple of years ago, it’s fair to say, it surprised us all and got great critical acclaim. So, 2 years on, developers Rocksteady had to do something pretty special… Read more
Batman: Arkham City The Batman is back and no crim is safe as developer Rocksteady Games delivers an impressive follow-up to 2009’s surprise hit. It’s fair to say that Batman: Arkham Asylum caught us… Read more
As a game that was greatly anticipated following the surprise ’09 title of Arkham Asylum, Arkham City is a sequel that had a lot to live up to. The bar was set pretty damn high, so, was this title the… Read more
Licensed games always got the shaft back in the olden days, as anyone would tell you, and Batman was no stranger to mediocre tie-ins. While I can safely say that most of the retro Batman games were at… Read more
What I enjoy most about Batman lore is the different perspectives that authors include to challenge the concrete wall of Bruce Wayne’s morality. In “The Killing Joke”, Alan Moore creates an ambiguous… Read more
This sums up the game fairly well Do you like punching people in the face? How about wearing a costume? If you answer yes to either of these questions, then Batman: Arkham City might be for you. The g… Read more
Generally, licensed video games have had a bit of a sorry history. Save for a few exceptions they’ve largely been mediocre titles rushed out to squeeze money out of people who don’t know any better th… Read more
The best analogy I can make is if the film Batman Begins is to Batman: Arkham Asylum the game, then The Dark Knight film is to Arkham City. Arkham Asylum was already one of the best action/adventure g… Read more
If you want to talk about surprises in gaming you talk about Batman: Arkham Asylum. A videogame based off a hugely popular comic and film franchise is almost certainly doomed to mediocrity, yet the th… Read more
Arkham Asylum was great. Arkham City is good. The open world doesn't take long to navigate around at all - you can do it in a couple minutes from one side to the other - and there's really bugger all… Read more
Seemed like the main selling point of Arkham City leading up to release was its "open world." That open world is really just a larger version of the hub world from the first game. Once I learned to ig… Read more
The thing about Arkham City isn't so much the gameplay. Its honestly great, intuitive and adds upon an already great system set up before, the FreeFlow combat system works amazingly, and the addition… Read more
Some people didn't seem to be into this game as much as they were into Batman: Arkham Asylum a couple years ago, but I think the only real difference is that this game wasn't a surprise. People were b… Read more
(Warning – this review does contain some spoilers. The wrap-up paragraph is spoiler free, so if you really care that much about a Batman game, look away until that last paragraph) Have you ever consid… Read more
Liked: Roaming around a huge city, discovering crimes in progress, makes you feel like Batman out on the prowl. Enemies freaking out at what you’ve done makes you feel more like Batman Stellar Voice A… Read more
You might think that comic book heroes are perfect as video game protagonists. Already imbued with demigod-like resilience, a wealth of well explained super-powers, and villains that complement them l… Read more
Ok son, I think you and I need to sit down and have a chat. A chat about what people on the street are calling “collectables”. Your friends have probably told you they’re pretty cool, and that to get… Read more
For the short amount of time that I have played this game, I have taken a liking to it, the last Batman game that I owned for my self was the Batman begins game for the PlayStation 2 which I could not… Read more
It’s hard to follow up one of the most cohesive interactive experiences of the past generation. When Rocksteady Studios released Batman: Arkham Asylum, they found themselves showered with praise, game… Read more
The wait for Batman: Arkham City has been a long one, especially after its predecessor Arkham Asylum blew away the gaming community back in 2009. Batman had long been a franchise that had done reasona… Read more
There was a time when Batman games were viewed with contempt. Like most of the licensed drivel that publishers would pass for games, these experiences were often short, under developed, and untrue to… Read more
This game is an incredible virtual experience of the comic books. It is clear that the makers trawled through the comics and incorporated as much from the lore as they could. Initially I found the gam… Read more
I shouldn’t like comic book games. I don’t even read comic books. I’m pretty sure I haven’t even touched one. My only experiences with super hero characters are watching the big-budget Hollywood adapt… Read more
Arkham Asylum was my game of the year when it was released. I got it on a whim just because I always liked batman, and it was the best comic based video game made to date, period. I was excited for th… Read more
When Batman: Arkham Asylum was released in late August 2009, it flipped all expectations for the game on their heads with its revolutionary combat system. The animation combined with the simplicity of… Read more
The follow up to Arkham Asylum has some pretty big boots to fill. With Arkham City , Rocksteady has shown how you do a sequel to a masterpiece. In August 2009, the unthinkable happened. A videogame ba… Read more
Batman Arkham City is a game of refinement not innovation. Batman Arkham City is the sequel to Rocksteady Studios' Batman Arkham Asylum. In many people's mind Arkham Asylum was the 2009 game of the ye… Read more
Arkham Asylum was a spectacular game. It was focused, involved, character driven, and all around top notch from beginning to end. For a Batman fan, it was nirvana. The idea of a sequel to something li… Read more
Let's get this out of the way right up front: yes, Batman: Arkham Asylum is my favorite game from 2009. And no, Arkham City is not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it is largely… Read more
Rocksteady's new “Batman: Arkham City” offers an exciting experience, even if at times it feels slightly familiar. If you're interested in “Batman: Arkham City” and have yet to play it's two-year-old… Read more
Arkham City Catwoman ConceptBatman Arkham City is a fantastic game. It is essentially Arkham Asylum, but better. The game is much larger in scope due to the city element and Rocksteady did a good job… Read more
I wasn’t so sure that I was ready to come back to the Arkham franchise; honestly I didn’t even finish the first one because I burned out on the combat that became more of a chore then a reward. That,… Read more
Batman Arkham Asylum really surprised people with it's quality, including myself. It was a critical and commercial success, and people were wondering if Rocksteady could strike magic again. Two years… Read more
Arkham Asylum was a game I feel like had a lot going against it. I mean it's a licenced game based on a comic book. The vast majority of which are might crappy. I don't think anyone went into the game… Read more
As someone who saw Batman Arkham Asylum as one of the greatest games of all time, and also as someone who absolutely loves everything Batman, it was hard not to have hype to the heavens for Arkham Cit… Read more
The bad thing about being the first mover in the game of the year conversation is that this masterpiece maybe forgotten in the fodder that is the renaissance of releases for Q4 2011. A game I spent a… Read more
I wonder if the rest of the Justice League gathers around the Fortress of Solitude and gossips amongst themselves their envy towards Batman. Superman doesn’t get to appear in any award-winning video g… Read more
Note: The following gameplay videos might contain spoilers, so watch at your own risk. Batman: Arkham Asylum came out of nowhere in 2009. Yeah, it has Batman in it, but no one expected it to be that a… Read more
The industry sort-of changed in 2009. We, as gamers, are accustomed to seeing licensed video games ever year, mostly stemming from a movie release or a contract agreement. The release of Rocksteady’s… Read more
Its still pretty weird thinking back to the release of Batman: Arkham Asylum that the game turned out so well. Think of the challenges it faced, developer Rocksteady took on the Batman license with on… Read more
2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum had no expectations to live up to. The track record of the Dark Knight in video games is spotty. For every good game, there are about 10 mediocre ones, and for the longest… Read more
Fantasy, as both genre and concept, is a crucial principle behind a vast majority of video games. Whether you're trundling across devastated stretches of battlefield in some behemoth armored vehicle,… Read more
Batman: Arkham Asylum was nothing short of a gaming tour-de-force. It had fantastically simple, yet deep combat, a story that kept everyone hooked, and it was bursting at the seams with extra content.… Read more
Batman: Arkham City is an incredible sequel to a game with some of the most robust mechanics you'll find in anywhere in the medium. Picking up six months after the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum , th… Read more
Batman Arkham City is the greatest game this generation! As I stated at one point or another Arkham Asylum is the best game I've played since the Metal Gear Solid series which is the highest complemen… Read more
In 2009, Rocksteady released a little game called Batman: Arkham Asylum . It quickly became one of the most beloved superhero games ever made, and with good reason. Fast forward two some years, and we… Read more
I have a lot of mixed emotions with Arkham City..... in one hand I loved the game where in the other I felt slighted. I want to give a fair review to a game I truly enjoyed but maybe my expectations w… Read more
Batman Arkham Asylum was a really cool, linear game with a great combat system, and fan-service oriented story that didn't really end that well. Batman Arkham City proposes new additions to the combat… Read more
Arkham City is such a well polished game it makes the persistently nagging “good guy” batman attitude become a non issue even for me and I’m quite the supporter of eye for an eye justice. I’m no exper… Read more
When Arkham Aslyum was released just a bit over two years ago, I didn't know what to expect. The road for Batman games, hell, the road for any kind of licensed games were pretty terrible. But Rockstea… Read more
I'm going to open this up with one simple statement. This is the greatest super hero game of all time...by far. To start, the gameplay remains fantastic as always. It's the easy to be good at, difficu… Read more
I remember when I beat Portal 2 for the first time I couldn’t quite decide how I felt about it. This wasn’t due to the game having done things poorly or having a lack of emotion, no, my indecisiveness… Read more
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