Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition Reviews

Puzzles bit too simple, dont really like playing as catwoman after getting used to playing as batman. Still good game but could be better and worth playing surely

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10

WHOOO THE STORY OF THIS GAME. Although I fricking love the atmosphere and tone of Asylum, this has gotta be my favorite Batman game just by all the massive improvements in like every detail and stuuuffff. 10/10 amazing experience

Its fucking awesome, this game is so good. Cannot Describe with words alone. JUST GET IT ALREADY!

the best game in the arkham franchise and for good reason the story is brilliant the foreshadowing and even being a 13 year old game it still story wise is one of the best ive played

The game has creative gameplay and is not boring like the Origin part. The storyline is truly impressive, worthy of being one of the best installments in the Batman game series.

One of the best games made. PERIOD. Story... Great Gameplay... Great Simply The GOTY

Great game! Gripping story, addictive gameplay, interesting puzzles, fascinating freeflow combat system which is fairly easy to learn but very hard to master (gamepad is a must). Classic!

"Batman: Arkham City is the ultimate superhero experience. The combat is smooth and satisfying, the stealth gameplay is thrilling, and the open-world Gotham is beautifully dark and immersive. The story is gripping, with unforgettable performances by Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill. Every side mission feels meaningful, and gliding across the city as Batman is pure joy. One of the best superhero games ever made – a must-play for any action or comic book fan!"

The first time I set foot in Arkham Asylum, it was like walking straight into Batman’s own therapy session: claustrophobic halls, shadows that felt like they were watching you, and this constant, gnawing sense that something awful was waiting just around the corner. But then Arkham City rolls out and, dude, it’s chaos on steroids. Suddenly, you’re not boxed in anymore. Gotham’s nastiest creeps get their own sprawling playground, five blocks of pure, unfiltered mayhem. Arkham City doesn’t just up the ante, it blows the whole damn table away. Game of the Year Edition is the one you want. Seriously, it’s like the director’s cut with all the bells and whistles, Catwoman’s sneaky escapades, Nightwing and Robin flexing in their own crazy challenge maps, and Harley Quinn’s last hurrah that somehow gets you right in the feels. If the original game was a museum piece, this is the entire gallery tour, audio guide and all. The first time I dove off Ace Chemicals, cape whipping in the wind, I felt like a total boss. The city’s not just background noise, it’s alive. Frozen, sure, but still buzzing with secrets, ambushes, and little stories that just kinda pop up when you least expect them. One minute I’m breaking up a gang beating on some poor sap, next I’m knee-deep in Riddler puzzles that practically taunt you. It’s not just playing Batman, it’s living inside his nightmares and dreams all at once. What really gets me? Arkham City’s tight. Yeah, it’s massive compared to Asylum, but there’s zero filler. Every alley matters. Every hidden nook is hiding something, usually trouble. Whether I’m clinging to the side of Wonder Tower or poking around in a sketchy morgue, I never feel like I’m just wasting time. Fighting is still the gold standard. That free-flow combat is just... a chef’s kiss. Once you get in the groove with counters and gadgets, it’s like you’re choreographing a street brawl with ballet moves. Addictive as hell, too. Most games wish they could make you feel this slick and deadly. Let's not forget the toys, because Bat’s got a bag of tricks that’s actually useful, not just fluff. Disruptors that short out guns, freeze bombs opening new routes, all that. Gliding over Gotham and swinging from rooftops? Never gets old. Honestly, feels more Batman than half the movies. But here’s the secret sauce: the villains. They’re not just roadblocks, they’re legends with baggage. Joker’s unraveling, Freeze is heartbreak in a cold suit, Hugo Strange is just next-level creepy. They all bounce off Batman’s own broken psyche, and it’s wild watching those stories crash together. That Batman-Joker relationship is straight-up Shakespearean. Every run-in oozes history and this weird, twisted respect/hate thing. The writing’s razor-sharp, the dialogue snaps, and the voice actors, man, Conroy and Hamill are on another level. Every scene just lands. And that ending. No spoilers, promise, but damn, it floored me. Not because it was huge and flashy, but because it felt right. Like the whole game was building to that exact moment, and it paid off big time. DLC? Harley Quinn’s Revenge is a gut-punch. The challenge maps and all the extra skins keep you coming back, but honestly, the main story is where it’s at. That’s the ride. That’s the legend. Arkham City is the top dog. Superhero games wish they could touch this. It’s gritty, thrilling, tragic, and unforgettable.