Batman Arkham Knight-game review. media diary

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Batman Arkham Knight 

This is the 3 game in the franchise developed by rock-steady (past titles include batman: Arkham asylum, and batman: Arkham city) following up from the events of batman asylum scarecrow is back and is once again threatening the city batman has sworn to protect and so he shall, this time Arkham is much bigger spreading across 3 different islands and looking stunning despite the map size, but as the map has gotten bigger batman can’t get around as easily anymore he needs something to get around quicker, so rocksteady introduced the first drivable batman-mobile in the game series. This was possibly the greatest decision rocksteady made for the games series, fans of batman has always wanted to drive there every own bat mobile (I know I have) and now they can, the only fault I can come up with is the only thing it is really used for, destroying unmanned tanks which becomes very competitive over time, it’s just the same thing over and over, however it is still very fun. Also the is some parts of the story where you have to get behind a certain type of tank to destroy it which means you have to be stealthy, not allowed to be seen as on shot from this tank causes critical damage this was also very annoying until you find out that the tanks are on a specific path then you can destroy them easily.

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As this game is following up from the last, the story carries on to the joker is dead and batman still feels guilty about his death, and because he has been injected with fear toxic from scarecrow he can now see the joker running around with him, which is a nice feature in my opinion, this is because he’s in your head messing with you but it’s hilarious because in the last game he sent his infected blood to a lot of hospital infect people with killing them so batman has to stop it, and he did but three people got infected so batman contained them and he runs test on them to find a cure, quite predictably Harley Quinn breaks them out part way through the game and you have to get them back, but the is one part of this that is my favourite part of the game, one of the jokers was a singer before he got infected he runs in to a room with a turn table with bombs planted everywhere and a bomb put on his chest, he invited batman in to the stages and music comes on as the infected joker passes batman he turns into the real one because batman is struggling with the toxin but it is a real funny part because of the song that is being sung by the joker, with him still being in the game made me and a lot of fans really happy.

They are a lot of other villains in Arkham too, two face who has decided to rob a load of banks and you have to stop him, after stopping 3 he turns up to the last one and you beat him and put him in Gotham city jail, hush, he decides to take all of Bruce wayne money, the riddler, he has set up lots of riddler challenger all around Gotham and he has also captured cat woman, you have to complete 9 challenges to get keys to get the explosive collar off her, when you get cat woman free (eventually) you get to fight him, for 2 seconds then he says “you want to fight me batman?, you must earn the honour to do so” “complete all of my challenges”. And the are many more.

The main villain is scarecrow he has infected all of Gotham (apart from those who got out) with his fear toxic, which makes everybody  see their worst fear, the is also another villain called “the Arkham knight” he knows everything about batman the weak points in his suit, his past, his fighting moves, his real identity. Find out who this person was, was really surprising to me, I’m not going to tell you go and play the game, but looking at other reviews people have been saying it was very obvious, but it wasn’t for me, I liked the surprise.

The last thing I would like to say about the story is about the ending of the game, is quite sad not the actual ending but the wont be another game after batman: Arkham knight this is the last one, I’m not going to give the ending away but I’ll let you guess what happens or go and get the game it is one of the best out this year.

Finally I would rate this game 8/10 this is because the was a few easily found bugs at the start of the game (they has been fixed now) but apart the game is one of the best I have played this year definitely in my top 5 games of the year.