The first-person introduction - after a wonderfully moody Joker cremation to remind you he’s definitely dead, yep - where a cop mills about a heavily detailed diner eavesdropping on citizen chatter reminds you how much humanity is squeezed out of the Arkham series in favor of Bats versus criminals in increasingly bombastic scenarios.īatman: Arkham Knight (PC, Xbox One, PS4 )Īrkham Knight is stitched together with exceptional technical proficiency at the cost of tonal instability. I get it, it’s tough working around “no kill” lore in an open world, but you’re adding to your own problems at this point. They don’t die, nor do drivers in the vehicles Batman t-bones.
The Batmobile, which transforms into a tank, electrocutes anyone it hits at breakneck speeds away from the car. Gotham is emptied of 6.3 million civilians. So much of Arkham Knight is written around the problem of blending Batman with an open world.
The word “drone” is thrown around so much not because of its current cultural position, but to keep reminding that Batman is not killing. If the difference between the real Batman and a pretender is that he’s not wearing hockey pads, what does that mean for a padded out Batman game? If the real Batman doesn’t kill, what does that mean for a Batman game that insists on putting him in a literal tank, often to kill 30 other tanks at a time? Unmanned, mind.
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