The game I'm telling about is Batman: Arkham City. The story is the events after Batman: Arkham Asylum. Here the new mayor has walled off a huge portion of Gotham city to be home for all of Blackgate prison's inmates and Arkham Asylum's patients named Arkham City. The city is run by Hugo Strange and his Tyger soldiers. Inside the powerful rule the weak and Hugo has gained enough power to put even protestors thrust into the city. Medical teams and lightly armed soldiers enter to help but it is still extremely chaotic with the criminals capturing and torturing the food bringers and medics. Bruce Wayne is thrown in for protesting and Batman is the only one capable of foiling Hugo Strange's unknown plot known only as protocol: 10 and shutting down Arkham City.
The graphics are very nice. The night in Arkham city is awesome. There is little to no buildings that look just like flat towers with windows painted on as well. With the huge courthouse that Two-Face resides to the flower on the windowsill at the edge of the map everything is done right. In a free roaming game like this that is extremely important. From the shadows you lurk in as Batman to the the sweat beads on the thugs face, this game makes you fell like batman.
Almost everything that Batman does in the comics you can do here. Drop down on enemies from gargoyles far above to hacking into streetlight security tapes and radio signals. There is one part in the beginning where someone tries to shoot Catwoman with a sniper rifle. You enter detective mode and scan where the bullet entered through the window to the pinpoint hole in the floor detecting the shooter at the top of the church. You hear about a hostage situation inside. Harley Quin's thugs have hostages and you are surrounded by automatics inside. You being Batman of course drop a smoke pellet and grapple up to high statues in the old abandoned church. The thugs each take places and you enter detective mode. Every vent, breakable wall, and window is highlighted in orange. You see the enemies skeletons, recognize their weapon, detect their fear level, and listen in on every nervous conversation. Silently you take them out from behind and venture up into the church only to dive and glide out the window from the explosives inside.
I give this game a near perfect score. The only thing I have to complain about is the small to large gaming crossovers. At the end of the first game Joker injects himself with Titan virus giving him a huge hulking disposition, bones jutting out, and long fingernails. This serum is from Resident Evil. I really didn't like this. At least Joker got most of it from Bane's venom but I don't think I'm okay with Batman and Resident Evil in the same universe.
To trump off my annoyance a mysterious figure with fantasy swords and a magical aura tells batman that he is "almost ready" and disappears. I'm pretty sure this character is from the God Of War series. He only appears if you land on a specific rooftop in the beginning of the game and has no real story significance but he is annoying nevertheless.
There's my review on Batman: Arkham City. Pick it up soon
and say "I'm Batman" in that low gravely voice everyone loves. Bye!
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