The inclusion of the Batmobile seems to make up a rather large portion of the gameplay, as you will use the car in many, many situations. No matter where you are on the open streets, you can summon the car and jump right in. Yes, you can now drive Batman’s ride through the streets of Gotham with a touch of a button. It’s this feature that makes the single character combat (which can get stale) a bit more spicy and fun.Īnother huge part of Arkham Knight, is the ability to use the famous Batmobile. You can use Batman to being a takedown of an enemy and use Dual-Play to seamlessly switch to a partner to deliver the knockout blow. Dual-Play is even used in combat when two characters are be teaming up to defeat a group of enemies. Dual-Play has you switching characters on the fly with absolutely no loading times and experience different parts of the story in real time. Having multiple playable characters was something Rocksteady has experimented with in past Arkham games, but with the new Dual-Play Feature, it’s now an exciting part of the series. While Oracle isn’t playable, the other characters (even Commissioner Gordon at times) become playable as you progress through the main story.
Batman is not totally alone in his pursuit of the Scarecrow and The Arkham Knight, with Oracle (Barbara Gordon) Robin, Nightwing and even Catwoman helping out in the fight. While the identity of The Arkham Knight is a mystery to his allies and his enemies alike, he seems to know a lot about The Batman, his strengths, his weaknesses, and even all about his friends. Crane and has assembled an army to destroy The Batman. The Scarecrow isn’t alone however, as a new sinister villain named the Arkham Knight has teamed with the nightmare making Dr. Now it is up to Batman to prevent the total chaos that Scarecrow plans to unleash. The Scarecrow begins his takeover of Gotham City and it is quickly evacuated. Upon talking to this individual, you quickly discover that it’s The Scarecrow, another iconic Batman Villain that poisons you with his Nightmare toxin. After you burn The Joker, you take the role of a GCPD officer in a diner where you are asked to confront a customer smoking in the back. This is mostly how the entire experience of Arkham Knight works, you are presented with a task with little to no information as to what to do and it’s up to you to figure things out. All of a sudden you are just staring at Joker’s dead face, until you realize that YOU have to use the analog stick to start the machine and burn his lifeless body. You witness him get brought in and loaded into the cremator while Frank Sinatra is playing in the background. Taking place after the events of Arkham City, the very first thing you’re treated to is the cremation of iconic villain The Joker. Now, Rocksteady Studios is back with what might be the biggest and most exciting experience yet with Batman: Arkham Knight. The Arkham Origins prequel fits in there somehow too, but WB Games Montreal developed that. Then they followed that up with Arkham City, pretty much making them the supreme masters of Batman in video game form. First, Arkham Asylum raised the bar for superhero video games that no other developer has been able to reach. Rocksteady Studios created two of the very best Batman games in existence.