Game review -Batman Arkham city
November 3, 2011 - Posted in Games
Based on DC Comic’s Batman, Batman Arkham city is the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum. Developed by Rocksteady Studios, published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment it is a game for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, Microsoft Windows. Officially announced during the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards this game will release in North America on October 18, 2011.
Arkham City, like its predecessor, is an open world action video game that integrates elements of stealth and predator maneuver. All the gadgets of the first game are present at the start of this game except Ultra Batclaw but they have improved or have new capabilities. Four additional gadgets have been revealed in this game. The game incorporates more puzzle elements; like Batman’s “Detective Mode”, which highlights elements such as enemy skeletons and clues on-screen, is used to perform forensic actions like tracing the origin of a sniper round.
Paul dini and all writers set the events of the game in motion when Two-Face, seeking to gain reputation among the inmates and other villains outside the city, makes a plan to publicly execute Catwoman. Batman decides that he must stop the execution by entering Arkham City for the safety of Gotham and of his past relationship with Catwoman.
According to Batman Arkham City’s director Sefton Hill, the main aim of the game is to deliver ‘Batman in Gotham’ feeling. Arkham City has a five times larger virtual footprint than Arkham Asylum and the navigational aspects are now better. To create challenge for the Batman player Rocksteady admitted more villains. Hugo Strange was selected as a primary antagonist; Catwoman also has her own issue to the incidents in Arkham city. Though first it was said to be published in multiplayer mode but at the end the developers decided to keep it in single player mode. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Arkham City include a stereoscopic 3D mode for 3D HDTVs and for 2D HDTVs via Inficolor 3D glasses. This game uses TriOviz for Games Technology, integrated with Unreal Engine 3. All Arkham City game play and cinematic have S3D support. This game got M from ACB, T from ESRB, and 16+ from USK and it’ll be a huge success according to the whole team.