Where most of Arkham City had players using grappling hooks to swing around and glide through the city's rooftops, Arkham Knight keeps players grounded in the Batmobile. The Batmobile, which has both destructive and acrobatic panache, lends a perspective absent from the previous games. This is his city and while it should change - especially after the middle of town was converted into a freaky prison colony in the last outing - it shouldn't be wildly different every time. That familiarity isn't a bad thing, though, as continuity between Batman's video game adventures should enhance the fantasy that you actually are the Caped Crusader. In fact, if Gotham seems overwhelmingly familiar when you start playing, that's because the city, though significantly bigger, does indeed borrow architecture from the last game. Batman's dank, wet world is gloriously represented even if it feels like you've been on these streets before. The streets, thugs and heroes of Arkham Knight glisten with detail and reflected light.
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The face-lift that open world's received on the new PlayStation 4 hardware is truly impressive. Commissioner James Gordon remains remarkably understanding of his peers.įor its new entry in the series, Arkham Knight, developer Rocksteady chose to double down on the open-world exploration of predecessor Arkham City, giving players an expanded metropolis and a souped-up Bat-vehicle to explore it with. But for a fan of Batman: Arkham Asylum like myself, however, this sample of Arkham Knight was disconcerting. If you were a fan of that Joel Schumacher-directed 1997 nipple fest or the open-world distractions of the 2011 video game Arkham City, then that gameplay might sound pretty awesome. And if any of the above sounds a whole hell of a lot like the camp film Batman & Robin, well, that's because it's eerily similar.
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This is a description of the things I did in a demo of Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Knight, due out this June on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
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Onscreen, a computer-animated Alfred appears and gets snippy with master Bruce. On the streets of Gotham, giant, bulbous tanks strafe around each other shooting at the speeding Bat-vehicle as it tries to escape. Neon green and red lights flash as Batman maneuvers the Batmobile through loop de loops in a gaudy underground racetrack.