GothamKnights excels as a multiplayer superhero experience, but doesn't fully live up to previous Bat games.
Gotham Knights MSRP $69.99 Score Details “Gotham Knights isn't very ambitious and has performance issues, but it should still please Batman fans.” Pros Cons As an open-world Batman game that’s not connected to the Arkham series and kills off Batman in the first five minutes, Gotham Knights was always going to be a risky endeavor for Warner Bros. Games.
The narrative was consistently able to surprise and entertain me with its twists and unique takes on classic Batman characters … Still, the narrative is one of the stronger aspects of Gotham Knights. It manages to subvert expectations, doing so in a satisfying way, not a frustrating one. Killing Batman is a huge narrative risk, and Gotham Knights confidently handles it in a way that doesn’t result in a playable Batman . It’s other areas of the game where results are much more mixed.
Gotham Knights is slower-paced than the Arkham games, but rarely ever felt super-repetitive unless I was fighting a boss with a gigantic health bar. It also doesn’t feel super-original or creative. While Batman: Arkham Asylum helped redefine the action game genre with its content, Gotham Knights is content with playing it safe and delivering a standard action game experience. It’s missing a special “it factor,” like Marvel’s Spider-Man’s web-swinging, to call its own.
That might seem like a lot, but these systems are not as overwhelming as they first appear. Playing normally, I was always flush with resources and mods to craft the best gear, so I didn’t have to spend much time optimizing my character’s build. As long as I met the level requirements for a mission and equipped the most powerful gear, these systems never got in the way of my experience. And if they do for someone else, players can always turn down the difficulty and deal more damage that way.
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