![]() Once you get a nice string going, your combat range increases, letting you leap across the screen to hit the next thug rather than losing your chain because he was too far away. The combat has been streamlined even further than with the previous game with the upgraded ability to counter multiple incoming attacks at once, it becomes much easier to manage the oncoming crowds. Her segments run a bit harder due to her inability to glide and her lower health bar. Batman, however, can’t handle this alone there are brief portions of the game where control shifts over to Catwoman, letting you try new ways of navigating, stalking, and fighting the multitude of thugs roaming around. ![]() Yet you never lose the sense of urgency in the game’s main campaign, even as you’re zip-lining and gliding around, saving political prisoners, dealing with other members of Batman’s Rogues Gallery such as Deadshot, Mr. Arkham City is a massive wide open playground, letting you go where you want, as you want. Of course, a few minutes later you’re suited up in the Batsuit, smack dab in the middle of a turf war between Two-Face, the Penguin, and the Joker, while trying to unravel what Strange has planned, something he calls “Protocol 10.”įor fans of the previous game, as well as the Batman mythos, this game is a masterwork. Strange warns him to stay out of his way or he will reveal Wayne’s secret. While leading a public campaign to shut the facility down, Bruce Wayne is arrested and thrown in as well. In the aftermath of the attempted breakout in Arkham Asylum, Warden Quincy Sharp has now become mayor of Gotham and has turned a whole chunk of Gotham into a new supermax prison, Arkham City, with Professor Hugo Strange overseeing it. Rocksteady Studio’s Batman: Arkham City is the sequel to 2009’s smash hit Batman: Arkham Asylum, and, like its predecessor, this game is written by Paul Dini, one of the leading minds behind Batman: The Animated Series, and has Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamil once again reprising their roles as Batman and the Joker. “Shut it down? By the end of tonight, I will be a hero, just like you … Batman.” These are the words spoken by Hugo Strange during the title screen of Batman: Arkham City, but it isn’t Batman he’s speaking to - it’s Bruce Wayne, who is handcuffed to a chair and about to be thrown into the eponymous prison.
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