Batman: Arkham City
Game » consists of 23 releases. Released Oct 18, 2011
When Gotham City's slums have been transformed into a secluded super-prison, it's up to Batman to uncover its conspiracy in the sequel to 2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum.
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5 (44) 4 (16) 3 (1) 2 (1) 1 (0) 4.7 starsAverage score of 67 user reviews
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The Darkest of all Knights 0
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 have a new title in the series, Batman: Arkham City.Arkham City takes place a year after the events of Arkham Asylum. Arkham Asylum has been deserted, and now all of the criminals have been moved to a secluded section of Gotham City, now called Arkham City. Supervillain Hugo Strange has somehow beco...
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The World's Greatest Detective Is Back 0
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. Rocksteady had quite a task ahead of them, if they hoped ever hoped to surpass the original game, but they have. Batman: Arkham City is everything that its predecessor was and more. The combat remains fantastic, while still adding a few more wrinkles of depth and enjoyment and the story is one of t...
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Batman: Arkham City Review 0
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 time Batman fans clung to the NES game as the only claim to greatness. Arkham Asylum changed all that, and exepectations for Arkham City couldn't be higher. It doesn't dissapoint.You actually start off the game as Bruce Wayne, not Batman, as he is arrested and taken into Arkham City during a politi...
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Liked Arkham Asylum? Want more of that? Here it is! 0
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 expecting it to be anything other than mediocre at best, but against all odds it wound up being one of the best games of 2009.In the time since Asylum you'd have hoped other comic book game developers would've looked at that game and seen the benefit of actually putting effort into your licenc...
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Become Batman and defend Gotham by entering the dangerous Arkham 0
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 later, and here we are with Arkham City. The game not only surpasses Arkham Asylum in almost every aspect, it raises the bar for action games in general.Batman's back, and he's ready to dish out some justice.Arkham City offers up more exploration than the AsylumPicking up quite some time after the e...
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Arkham City 0
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, being said I was still looking forward to the newest Batman game due to the fact that I have been reading so much Batman comics lately. The quality of Arkham city really took me by surprise, form both a gameplay and story perspective. Rocksteady learned a lot from Asylum and that really shines throu...
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Arckham City Video Review 0
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 by always having something going on in the city to make it feel alive. The best part of this game is the best part of the previous one. You always feel like Batman and you always feel like a badass. Rocksteady did a great job with how batman feels when he uses his grapple to get around. It's a li...
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A Singular if Familiar Experience 0
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 predecessor “Batman: Arkham Asylum” then you should take the time to pick it up and give it a play. At this point the original game is at a price where the barrier of entry, the cost of the game, is low enough that your chances of enjoying it are pretty good. “Arkham Asylum” was a great game, but th...
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"Batman: Arkham City" Refinement over Innovation 0
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 year, so naturally, expectations were high coming into this game. Rocksteady definitely made another great game, but don't look for something new.Arkham city keeps all the same aesthetic you would want in a current Batman game. You feel like a predator while in stealth, every thug is scared to death o...
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WHERE ARE THEY?! Arkham City Review 0
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 based on a licensed comic book character was released, and was not terrible. In fact, it was the opposite of terrible. Batman: Arkham Asylum was the pinnacle of superhero games, and was Game of the Year for many gamers and critics. Developer Rocksteady Games had come from relative obscurity to release o...
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Arkham City Does Not Disappoint 0
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 just pressing a single button to counter an enemy attack with a brutal punch or kick was purely stunning. It doesn’t hurt either that the game delivered a fine story voiced perfectly by Kevin Conroy (Batman) and Mark Hamill (Joker). Mark and Kevin both reprise their famous roles in the much anticip...
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Arkham City is a grander scale adventure for Batman 0
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 only one game under the belt Urban Chaos: Riot Response.It was a super hero game which are hardly known for quality and it was based on a licensed property, when have those been good?Yet it came out and was fantastic. Two years later Rocksteady is back in the Batmobile with the sequel Batman: Arkham C...
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Batting a Home Run 0
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 adaptations of the last decade and loyally following Batman: The Animated Series as a child. I was Batman crazy as a kid, despite never reading a single comic book. I had the figurines. I had the clothes. I had the video tapes. I had everything but the comic books. And now, here I am, enjoying the sequel...
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Lost in Arkham City 0
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 of the year nods, and copious sales numbers. The relatively new development houses managed to meld combat, stealth sequences, narrative pacing, and character into a tight, focused package that felt nearly perfect. Normally when a licensed video game comes out, the nature of it being based on previo...
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I like it 0
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 get a liking to, but Arkham City is one of those games that makes me think twice about buying the game, I have played it, at a friends house, but I am seriously thinking about getting it for my self. The graphics are ten times better than the last Batman game that I played, I really like it, great ...
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The Dark Knight Stikes Again 0
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 like black complements white, they should be perfect in this role. This has sadly not been the case. Usually reduced to shallow movie tie-in games that are, at best, poor and at worst, shameless cash grabs by movie studios trying to boost the profits of their movie, they have not been worth the discs...
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Batman: Arkham City Review 0
(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 considered that all of this is your fault, Rocksteady?Back in the year 2009, in the days before Matt Smith, a previously unknown developer named Rocksteady released a really good Batman game. Not just ‘good for licensed games’, I mean really damn good. Fast and fluid combat, thick and heavy atmosphere, a c...
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Play it like Arkham Asylum 0
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 ignore the distractions of that hub world, I discovered one of the best sequels of this generation.I must admit, the melee combat system just doesn't do it for me. I don't have a problem beating dudes up, but I can't string together lengthy combos and pull off the fancy moves....
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Another Fantastic Batman Experience 0
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 than to scoop up anything labelled with the name of a franchise they like. But in 2009 Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum hit shelves, showing us that licensed video games can’t just be good but also truly great. In late 2011 its sequel Arkham City arrived, and once again Rocksteady proved their abili...
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Expansion aside, the laser-beam story is as great as ever. 0
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 ending in which the reader must choose whether Batman can be corrupted or not. In Batman: Arkham City, the next environmentally logical step in Rocksteady’s perceived trilogy, like Arkham Asylum, Batman is battered and beaten, and by the end, through gradual wear-and-tear, his suit is ripped, and he...
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The shining paradigm of all licensed games ever made 0
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 least decent, hardly any of them managed to vitalize Batman's true potential, instead being so-so sidescrollers at best and terrible beat-em-ups at worst. After the golden age of SEGA/Nintendo, Batman went into hibernation, and we didn't hear a murmur of development on a new Batman game for nearly ...
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Its The Bats! 0
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 to follow it up. And that, they have.VisualsOne of the first things you’ll notice in the sequel is that it has had a huge visual overhaul. Arkham Asylum was by no means terrible to look at, just not the best there was, Arkham City however, is trying to be up there with the best. Batman himself look...
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We Built This City on Rock N' Roll 0
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 Jason Voorhees, all at once. The large map, the INSANE amount of villains, and all of the other goodies crammed in here make this game more tightly packed than the luggage compartments in coach during a discount flight (hey, these run-on sentences can't ALL be winners). Also, screw the Joker; the RIDDLER ...
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