Batman™: Arkham Knight Premium Edition

Great game but sadly no achievements

This game first came out when I was a child and it was the first game I ever played all the way through to the end. After revisiting it now to 100% it, I've been made to feel like a kid again. Great game, loved the graphics, the atmosphere overall really makes you feel like the dark knight in a race against time.

Let's get this out of the way first. Obviously, this is the best-looking game in the entire Arkham series, and combat in this game is at its absolute best. But in everything else the game falters. - The story is just absolutely ridiculous. At no point it feels like a Batman story and it's more akin to something out of a Michael Bay film. - Characters are outright awful. Batman feels like a complete and utter idiot. The edgelord surfer bro that is the Arkham Knight is one of the most annoying characters in all media and Scarecrow only succeeds at anything because, again, Batman constantly acts like a dunce. - Combat is at its best in the series. It's the most varied, deep and fun... but there's just so little of it. The majority of the battles in the game are tank battles in the batmobile, and those have no variation at all. The last one of them is just as deep and interesting as the first one, which is none at all. - I appreciate having the batmobile as a tool... on paper, but the execution is just terrible. The thing is slow, cumbersome and just not fun at all. Using it for traveling is slower and less versatile than just gliding. Using it for puzzles slows the game to a crawl. And as I pointed out before, combat with it is painfully boring. - Another victim of the batmobile focus are the predator sections. Very few of them and most are in open spaces, which defeats the purpose. - This is a minor complaint, but character designs have exacerbated the issue from Origins where the push for realism in textures takes away a lot of the character's charm. Batman's mouth looks gigantic, Man-Bat looks just ugly rather than scary and Nightwing's mask is stupid. - Collectibles aren't as many as in Origins, but they're still too many and passing the 25% mark they're just not fun to collect. And you know a game has ran out of ideas when they add races as challenges. It's an alright game. It's playable, but easily the worst of the series.

Really great game. Especially the batmobile is so much fun. The changing environment (where lower levels of the city are not accessible) is nice feature to experience the city in a completely new style. The world is full of riddles, challenges and tropies. Guess that's what most like about Arkham games. Only drawback is the sometimes really anoying fighting style. Special enemies require special moves and such. What's challenging at the beginning gets more and more frustrating with larger crows to the end. Not really the casual style I prefer. But perhaps that's what others love about Arkam games. So I cannot blame the game for thinks which are for sure intended. It's just my preference. And playing with mouse&keyboard does not help relaxing this issue. I really enjoyed the game. Never felt bored or stuck.

This could have easily been a 5 star rating, but unfortunately they've done many things wrong They re-inveneted the formula of its predecessors, the extremely enjoyable roaming through the city and beating up criminals, which feels extremely satisfying. Also the depiction, appearance and presentation of the Joker is very well done A very good idea was the implementation of the batmobile, but they did everything wrong what could have been done wrong, so after all it was a bad idea. It almost spoils the whole game The controls are annoying to the hilt, mainly you are driftig around totally out of control, running everything over what's in your way. Chases and pursuits of other cars are a pain in the buttocks. And there are a lot of them. Riddler raceways are among the worst parts of the game! They are tough as nails and you get mocked by the Riddler at each and every mistake you do while driving. I hate to mute the game, I almsot rage-quitted it. They are pointless, frustrating, not fun and no more than a chore. And there also tons of them The battles with the batmobile are also quite pointless After all, that damn thing destroys the whole game for me. Whenever I have to get into the car, the fun level drops to zero and the frustration begins Cut the Batmobile and you would probably have a kick-ass game. Better stick to the other Arkham series games instead, you're better off with those imho