Regarding the guy that said a major bug prevented him from playing because he got stuck in a room: The gadget he was supposed to use has 2 firing modes. He used the wrong one because he didn't pay attention to the tutorial.
This game is mad fun! It was great to play as the Batman and interact with his greatest enemies. Batman and Joker are voiced by the original actors from the animated series! The game is a substantial improvement over Arkham Asylum. Some say the story was better in that one, which it may have been, but the difference is barely noticeable for me, as none of the stories were mind-blowing anyway. They were both OK and both serve the same purpose: putting Batman in an environment filled with villains for him to fight. Apart from the story, everything is certainly better in this game, especially the combat, which is now it's a lot more fluid.
The things which keep it from getting a 5/5 from me are the following:
- There are a few out of character moments for Batman, though, like ripping the heart out of a bad guy just because he is technically not alive. A future game lets you know that he survived, but at that point I was like "Damn, what the fuck am I playing, Batman or Deadpool?" and immediately searched online to see if the guy survives.
- The game is a console port and you can tell. It has a few control quirks specific to a less than stellar PC port, like the remote batarang controlling like shit and oversteering long after you stopped moving the mouse, and some unintuitive key bindings. The save system is pretty bad too in my opinion - the game does not auto-save when you quit the game (remember this is an open-world game), there's no option to manual save and if you get some collectibles and die, you gotta do it all over again. The best way to save is to go inside a building.
Overall, a great purchase. Could have been legendary with a bit more work, but as it stands, it's the best Batman game ever made until 2022.
