There’s so much potential, and although the game does introduce ways to narrow your selection as it gets towards the latter stages, the fighting is truly brilliant. Or you can leap from the skies, silence an enemy, and get right back to the rooftops before anyone realises you were there. Or you could treat things like Solid Snake, and get lots of stealthy silent takedowns. You can, if you want, go in swinging your fists like a madman. The game drip-feeds a long line of special pieces of weaponry and machinery to utilise against the criminal hordes, allowing you to clear rooms exactly as you wish. It’s not just about the power in your fists of course. Yet it feels somewhat tighter, and a whole heap more fun too. It is reminiscent of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which packed a fantastic set of brawling mechanics. With only a couple of buttons used to attack, counter, and stun, the action is fast and free flowing.

First and foremost, you’re packing a whole heap of moves and counters in order to take out these goons. Thankfully Batman has all kinds of goodies to keep these criminal sorts in check. If they’re packing a hefty projectile weapon, they’ll shine red. If they’re simply waiting to give you a slap across the face, they’ll glow blue. Similarly in Detective Mode, your enemies will show up bright and bold too. Now instead of being totally lost as to how to get out of a room, you have a nice glowing grate just waiting to be ripped off the wall. A quick stab of the left bumper and the world will start to glow, with bits of the landscape you can fiddle with suddenly glowing orange. The first, and most often used, is Detective Mode. Unsurprisingly things take a fairly swift turn for the worst, and you’ve a good 12 hours of exploration, combat, and goon pummelling to take in before those closing credits roll.Īppearing like a traditional third-person title - though with Batman mysteriously way off to the left which can feel a bit fiddly for the first half hour - the Dark Knight obviously has quite a few tricks up his sleeve in order to bring peace back to Arkham Island. Set in the titular Arkham Asylum, where all of Gotham cities meanest, most sadistic, and downright crazy criminals are kept well hidden, you start the game helping lock the Joker up once again. At least until Batman: Arkham Asylum anyway. Yet in the gaming world, the caped crusader hasn’t truly had a title worthy of his epic name etched on the front cover. (Pocket-lint) - Over the last few years, thanks to a selection of fantastic films, Batman is once again at the forefront of our imagination.

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