It's basically a side story that revolves around a playable character with different gameplay elements at her disposal. Her part in all going on is actually pretty far between, you get a major role in the beginning and another one at the end, before you can control her freely around Arkham. She isn't as bulky as the main character, even at her prime. She has a more limited amount of gadgets at her disposal and needs to actually climb buildings using her whip upon button pressing instead of Batman's handy batclaw.Ĭatwoman also requires her own set of upgrades like decrease of damage from bullets or melee. The most notable addition over the last game is a new playable character, Catwoman, who plays a bit differently than Batman. There are many twists over the course of the action, like the mystery of a plan called 'Protocol 10' and the introduction of many familiar faces in the Batman universe. Upon arriving Alfred sends his gadgets by Batwing so he could dress up as Batman and initiate the story that unfolds within this 'peculiar' prison that's actually a whole city under quarantine. Bruce Wayne gets caught up in the turmoil and arrested by guards under orders of Hugo, who at that point pretty much had the current mayor under his thumb, and thrown into Arkham City. Opposed to this extreme measure, Bruce Wayne runs for mayor of Gotham and the political elite didn't manage that pretty well. Arkham City is one huge garbage bin of humans.

It's not about the dream of having the most sophisticated mind facility in the world anymore a gigantic pool of possibilities to understand and work with some of the most twisted, deteriorated mind in Batman's Universe. Using chemicals, Hugo managed loosen up the mayor's mind into some absurd ideas about quarantining a large portion of the city and condemn the most dangerous portion of the area to absolute chaos. The island home to the most dangerous criminals seems to have lost its initial purpose and the political forces have clashed within Gotham, when things came to worse, Hugo Strange, highly proficient psychologist and advanced chemist, who worked in dodgy experiments within the Arkham Island came to power. Two years after the first game Arkham City arrived and tried the somewhat easy task of making everything grander. By Junior_AIN | Review Date: February 2, 2019ĭecidedly Batman Arkham Asylum had lots of room for improvement and people usually don't hate money so a sequel didn't take too long to come.

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