Batman: Arkham Knight is a letdown on several fronts. While it sports some terrific highlights, the majority of the campaign is trite, while anything ancillary to that is downright vapid. The overbearing emphasis on the shoddy Batmobile is distasteful (how on Earth did Batman even cope without it before, since it’s crucial to literally everything here?), and the stimulation of “being the bat” just doesn’t have the same jolt it used to.
The frankly embarrassing state of the PC version pushes things over the edge, however, turning a passable action game into something that really should be avoided for the foreseeable future. While it’s still playable, and even enjoyable in a fair few instances, its baseline problems combined with the PC’s unique setbacks make Arkham Knight fit for the price drop list.
But hey, at least there’s plenty of DLC coming. Priorities, right?
Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.
RDR2 still looks astounding on PS4 Pro. i cannot imagine how it could look with a next gen upgrade.
It's obviously never gonna happen since Sony killed the game and studio, but Driveclub. Even in its current state, 10 years after release, it still puts many competitors to shame ...
One way or another, these games provoked strong reactions.
I don't think Days Gone divided fans. For the most part, gamers loved it. It was the reviewers who were divided. Self-loathing racist pieces of shit that took exception to the main character being white. This was a fantastic game, one of the best open-world games I ever played, and I've played them all.
For the most part, when it comes to Last of Us 2, incels, homophobes, and closet national socialist types didn't like it. I repeat not all, but most.
Days Gone is a great game and it was attacked by the leftist socialist people that are actually closet fascists. As a great poet once said: "Socialism is the mother of fascism."
The Order got hit from anti-Sony Xbox fans.
Out of these 3, Last of Us 2 stands above as being a work of art. It's still generating a ton conversation to this day.
Amazing gameplay, but TLOU2 had one of the worst, most convoluted and uneccessary plots I ever seen in a sequel. Terrible story and the characters were forgettable. I didn't give an F about anyone in the story.
I don't think any of these divided fans, other than LoU2. The rest were either victims of biased reviews or just generally agreed that they weren't as good as they could've been or just overall disappointing.
Batman: Arkham Knight wasn't in the best shape when it swooped onto Switch at the end of last year. Fortunately, the game has today received a monster 16GB update, one that's guaranteed to fix all of its problems, right? Well...
Another rushed port job, it's disappointing to see better looking games run/perform better than a game from 2015
Dummying down a game that is meant to run on XB1 and PS4 is going to be challenging to run on a system that is probably as powerful as a PS3. I give them a congrats for bringing it to the Switch and I hope this challenge pays off for them. As for me grabbing Arkham Knight on the Switch I am good I have the PS4 version.
Batman: Arkham Knight Still Runs Poorly On Switch Despite Massive Update........ But is still a better game than suicide squad *fixed the title*
Bat mobile is actually rather easy to handle, and fun to drive, I am not even a driving fan. I imagine without it, we would be hearing loads of complaining about how Gotham is too big to traverse thru without any help. The bad PC port deserves to be called out for its shortcomings, but that doesn't make its console counterpart any less enjoyable. Game is great and RK defo took advantage of the new consoles power, if you are really tired of the Arkham series formula however, the game does little to change that.
Ewww. Jim Sterling.
His reviews are entertaining but I stopped taking his scores seriously.
I'm not giving you the pleasure of clicking your stupid review.
This review is for PC folks, it was barely workable when I downloaded it from steam, so 5/10 is a a fair score. Fortunately I got a refund and bought it for playstation, much better on that platform
I do disagree with his assertion that the Batmobile is complete trash. I enjoy the "racing" tracks, vehcile combat and traversing around the city with it, perhaps the technical issues just made it hard for him to like anything from this game
5/10 is a fair score. He was playing it on the PC. So maybe the experience itself made him give it a 5. I really like this game but personally it's just a 7.5 for me. It did not blow me away like The Witcher or Bloodborne did. It's like i was playing Arkham City again.. with a car.