Batman Arkham Knight Review!

It's been four years since we saw the events of Arkham City transpire and now we finally have our last installment in the Arkham trilogy. Batman Arkham Knight shows us what its made of with a darker story, an open world and new gameplay features. While it does get pulled down with a good amount of repetition, Rocksteady have managed to capture how it truly feels to "Be the Batman."

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Presentation
Batman Arkham Knight is probably the best looking of all the Arkham games. Gotham City is a dark and grungy location full of destruction and mayhem. The feeling created by the city really adds to the tone of the story. The characters and city have been designed in a way that the create a sense of realism and the voice acting, especially Scarecrow, is superb.

Story
The story of previous Arkham games has always been on the dark side but Arkham Knight manages to go darker. Throughout the game you'll experience terrifying and emotional moments usually brought on by Scarecrow's fear gas. Most of the characters like Scarecrow, Two-Face and Penguin have all been redesigned or changed to add to this dark tone. The Arkham Knight himself adds a more "it's personal" feel to the story as he know Batman and his moves. This will provide a serious challenge for the player and on a larger scale the Arkham Knight is a great addition to the story.

Gameplay
Arkham Knight sees the return of the free-flow combat, predator sections and detective work of the previous games. In this game the combat has been greatly upgraded, Batman can now move faster, take down multiple enemies quickly and use objects in the environment for takedowns. Rocksteady have also introduced duel combat which allows you to team up with Nightwing or Robin and switch between them and Batman. Its a really interesting feature and the best I've seen so far. The biggest addition to gameplay is the Batmobile. The Batmobile is great when driving around Gotham being all scary and powerful but falls short when you have to use the tank mode. The story really pushes you to use this and after a while becomes really repetitive. Also it doesn't seem like something Batman would use and really pulls the player out of the feel of the game. 

Personally I feel Batman Arkham Knight is a worthy follow-up to Arkham City and ties up the trilogy beautifully. Though it does suffer with repetition issues, once you look past them it is truly a great game. Batman Arkham Knight gets a GAG Rating of "9.0"

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