So Arkham City takes place about six months after Arkham Asylum and mayor Sharp formerly warden Sharp and Hugo Strange have turned a large part of Gotham into a super prison where they been throwing all Batman’s greatest villains into. So I’ll skip the opening, so let’s just say Batman is thrown into the super prison and into the longest night of his life. 

This time around they give you a bigger world to play around in and more moves and gadgets to play with. The combat is some of the best fist fighting around, it gives you so many moves and gadgets to play with while taking on some of Arkham’s worst, from laying down explosive gel or using the batclaw to pull some poor thug closer to give him a hard punch in the face, you can’t help but feel like a badass, when you are taking on ten guys at once like they’re nothing, its just fun. Stealth is the other big part of this game. It’s better this time around with the A.I being smarter and giving them more things to make it harder for you, from giving some of them heat sensing goggles so they can see you when your hiding in the dark or giving them backpacks that fuck with your Detective mode. It takes some of Batman’s coolest villains and throws them into a small place, so of course your going to have to fight them. some make just cameos, why others are bosses. It makes you play each one different, some are you using stealth to avoid some of them and take them out from behind or a straight up fist fight with one of the great villains. The boss fights are really cool, I can’t remember the last game i played with a real boss fight in it. 

The story is great and has a few really good twists, that just left me smiling like an idiot. The dialogue is awesome, I found myself hiding on roofs listening to thugs talking about the prison or the happenings around town. And I just love listening to Mark Hamill’s Joker, its by far my favorite Joker.

It took me about eight or ten hours to beat the game and I barely touched on the challenge rooms, but the ones I did were a lot of fun. And I still haven’t got all the Riddler challenges done and I will be going back to do that. 

The only reason you shouldn’t play this game is if you don’t like Batman and that’s not even a good enough reason, this game is a fucking masterpiece.

My point is this is a great game, if not the best game this year, pick this one up.

-Girr