Hugo Strange, a prestigious psychiatrist, is put in charge of Arkham City, and arrests Bruce Wayne during a public appearance at a rally against the existence of the open-air prison. If that seems like a ludicrous concept, it quite bluntly is, and part of Batman: Arkham City’s writing addresses that without ever truly justifying it. He selects a large section of the Gotham slums and converts them into the titular detention city, now housing prisoners from both Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Penitentiary.
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Sharpe uses that as a springboard to become mayor of Gotham City. Picking up a year after the events of the predecessor game Batman: Arkham Asylum, former warden Quincy Sharpe has taken the credit for stopping The Joker.
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Interactive Entertainment, which is trying to build the same reputation in games as it has for movies. So while it is a great game, and it outright shames what every other studio is doing with their superhero licenses, it is not quite perfect either.īatman: Arkham City is one of the candidates for blockbuster status in a very crowded fall selling season for the video game industry, and that’s very important for its publisher, Warner Bros.
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With as far as the medium has come, Batman: Arkham City should be par for the course, not the exception to the rule. Game developer Rocksteady Studios has unequivocally delivered the greatest Batman game of all-time, and arguably the greatest comic book-inspired game as well, a notch they’ve had on their belt once before.But honestly that’s not nearly as prestigious an achievement as it should be. For a game that was officially announced shortly after the release of its award-winning predecessor, Batman: Arkham City has turned out to be a phenomenal accomplishment for all involved.