It’s a lie constructed by you, me and anyone else who thought they knew what it took to take this series beyond Batman: Arkham City, or even Batman in general. E3 already spoilt what is arguably one of the best opening sequences to a game, ever, during the Sony pre-E3 presser, so I’ll move on beyond leaving you with this: anything and everything you thought you knew, and expected from Arkham Knight, is a lie. While the game’s story is the most poignant place to kick off this review, I’d be doing Rocksteady and Batman fans a huge disservice in detailing any of it. And in keeping with the same grey storytelling Rocksteady has become a master at, often detractors from the force of Batman’s will for justice become unlikely, but ready, allies to the Dark Knight and the task at hand. Plenty of foes fill and command the streets of civilian-evacuated Gotham, but even Nightwing has dropped in from his hood at Bludhaven to lend a fighting stick or two. And like all of the previous games in the Arkham series, Knight takes place in the span of a single night, leaving our weary but eveready Caped Crusader with a giant task on his hands. His 70+ years of history emerge at every possible moment, and never announced. As it would be if Batman were real (I like to believe he is), every moment is a challenge and a surprise. It takes every slice of meaningful media ever constructed around the man, and collates it into one of the single most important Batman stories ever told, only you're not turning the page or watching passively from the couch, you’re living it, one unbelievable moment at a time.īatman: Arkham Knight is a difficult beast to write about in review form though. It’s Batman’s, too, but in a way no one has ever experienced before. It’s a dark and lonely place, despite its constant badgering at you because the story it’s telling isn’t wholly yours. From the outset this is a journey that transcends videogames and storytelling, it’s now the benchmark for any other superhero game to come and it is absolutely a work of narrative art. That’s my catchphrase for Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Knight.
The PC issues were not made apparent to us ahead of writing this review, the copy and score reflect the platform the game was reviewed on. Note: This review was written after playing a PS4 debug build of the game, which is closely in line with Xbox One.
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