Batman: Arkham Origins

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  1. pur__0_0__
    Apr 19, 2021
    7
    There are three big Arkham games by Rocksteady, each one of them considered to be the pinnacle of gaming, especially under the superhero genre. However, there is one game that is normally buried in this conversation. No one takes pride in owning this game, and it is seen more of a bootleg, wannabe Arkham game - Batman: Arkham Origins. The one with barely any story and mobile game-likeThere are three big Arkham games by Rocksteady, each one of them considered to be the pinnacle of gaming, especially under the superhero genre. However, there is one game that is normally buried in this conversation. No one takes pride in owning this game, and it is seen more of a bootleg, wannabe Arkham game - Batman: Arkham Origins. The one with barely any story and mobile game-like graphics, but hear me out. Batman: Arkham Origins may not be as good as the other Arkham games in the series, but it's still criminally underrated.

    Batman: Arkham Origins takes place in Batman's early years of crime fighting. On Christmas Eve Batman learns someone has put up a bounty on his head, and now all the future big villains like Deathstroke, Killer Croc, Deadshot, Lady Shiva, Firefly etc are looking for him to kill him. He finds out about a killer named Black Mask, and decides to catch him. It is later revealed that the villain was Joker. Joker tried to commit suicide to escape Batman, but Batman stopped him immediately. From there Joker learnt about Batman's no-kill rule, and he told all about it to Dr Harleen Quinzel when he was sent to the Arkham Asylum.

    This was the first Arkham game that I had played. I only played it to the part where we have to fight Deathstroke and then I watched the video of the gameplay afterwards, since I didn't legally own the game and it would be wrong to enjoy a game through piracy. I played all the other Arkham games recently, about two years after Epic gave them all. And it was only after playing those did I decide to watch a few videos and take a look at it.

    Although one of the complaints towards the game is that there is barely any story, it is very gripping within itself. The part where Bruce and Alfred have an argument whether Batman should go out or not was a really emotional one, and when the Batcave was attacked I actually thought for a moment that Alfred died. My heart almost skipped a beat, but then later on when it was shown that he's still alive I realised how obvious it was. Another complaint about this game is the poor graphics, which are nowhere even close to the ones that Rocksteady makes. I mean, I can't support this argument, other than the fact that as long as my potato PC can run on anything other than the lowest graphics I'm happy with it. Also because I'm gonna try the game on the lowest graphic settings anyway, the graphics don't matter to me.

    The main menu of this game is pretty dope. I don't see why no one seems to talk about that. It's like if Arkham City had been able to do it properly. Batman's costume is one of, if not the greatest original Batsuit to ever be shown in any media. The voice acting by Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker are also really great (this could be my bias speaking since I like both of them). The fights are very bad compared to the other games, but as "games" itself they are pretty good.

    There's no doubt when one says that even the "worst" Arkham game is actually pretty good. The only reason why it's so criminally underrated is because people tend to compare it with other Arkham games. I had played it before having played the original trilogy, but after trying them I got spoilt. So I think the best way to play this is by playing it without any memory of a previous game.    … Expand
  2. MrPajamas
    Mar 12, 2021
    7
    Batman: Arkham Origins was quite a blow to me. After the amazing Arkham Asylum and the excellent Arkham City came disappointment in the form of Arkham Origins. I think the series should have ended in Arkham City because there was a game at the top. What struck me right away was the graphics. Previous games looked great, but this time the game seemed graphically worse than the previousBatman: Arkham Origins was quite a blow to me. After the amazing Arkham Asylum and the excellent Arkham City came disappointment in the form of Arkham Origins. I think the series should have ended in Arkham City because there was a game at the top. What struck me right away was the graphics. Previous games looked great, but this time the game seemed graphically worse than the previous part. Apart from the textures, which simply looked kind of out of focus, the cut scenes, for example, were just quite weird. Not only were they often a cut-scene of the cinematic type, which does not use the graphics from the game at all, which means nothing about it, but I was rather annoyed by the appearance of the characters. Alfred was fine for me, but maybe Batman was quite weird, but especially the Joker. What did they do to him? It wasn't really bad, it wasn't, but he looked a lot better before. But the Joker no longer plays such a role here as before, because the main role of the villain was taken over by Two-Face, which you probably already know here that the game will simply not have the previous ones, because at least no one has a Joker for me. What I also praised the previous games for was the so-called I call it scanned scenes in the manner of Far Cry, although I don't like to say the comparison myself, but I don't know what else to compare it to. I honestly don't even know if they were here anymore or not, but probably not, because if they did, they would be etched in my memory. For example, I remember the luxury passages with Scarecrow or the amazing part of Arkham City, where Batman learned to sail better, but I'd hit the spoilers, which I don't want. There is simply no such memorable part in the game, or at least not for me. So I've criticized the game quite a bit, but don't get me wrong. It's a good game. The Batman threshers are still great, so are the solutions to the puzzles, even though the detective parts annoyed me here rather than enjoying them, but that will probably be me. Overall, it's just a good game that just doesn't have the previous ones. I recommend, but probably only to Batman fans.… Expand
  3. nietzfk
    May 20, 2023
    7
    At least there's the Joker... better than Arkham Knight (in terms of storytelling) but far behind Arkham City...
  4. PS1Snake
    Nov 12, 2021
    6
    I actually really like this game but the bugs are absurd. I had to break the game in order to get past one of the glitches, and I couldn't finish the final encounter with Joker because the game wouldn't give me the prompt to dodge his attacks. The fact it's been 8 years and the game still doesn't work is insane. I heard it works better on console so maybe try it out on that.
  5. vova22379
    Nov 27, 2021
    5
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  6. NeeRay
    Jan 3, 2021
    7
    After passing Batman Arkham Asylum, I wrote that after one part, it is always better to continue it.
    How wrong I was. I do not know who and why does not like this part, but it gave me more emotions for its passage than Asylum and City combined.
    Arkham Origins is a game about Bruce and Alfred's relationship. It's about Gotham's introduction to the bat. First encounters with all of    After passing Batman Arkham Asylum, I wrote that after one part, it is always better to continue it.
    How wrong I was. I do not know who and why does not like this part, but it gave me more emotions for its passage than Asylum and City combined.

    Arkham Origins is a game about Bruce and Alfred's relationship. It's about Gotham's introduction to the bat. First encounters with all of Batman's main villains. Especially, only this part perfectly shows the relationship between Batman and the Joker. If you play carefully, you can understand why they are so dependent on each other. Why this mutual hatred and concern.

    Gameplay of course, this part is not far away from Arkham City. But the developers did work on the bugs. The city is divided into sections and we do not have so many hiding places of the Riddler. This made it easier to find them, and the tests on the caches themselves were not surprising. Most of it is simple. There are interesting additional missions. The mission with the mad Hatter and Alice sends us into a flashback of the Scarecrow.
    Returning to Arkham encourages nostalgic memories.

    What's definitely improved is the evidence analysis. This process has become more complete. But playing Batman has become much easier, having pumped a couple of skills, you can "cut down" several enemies in the crowd at once, and they are very imbued in all battles against any opponents. Using them simply makes no sense in individual approaches to certain enemies.

    There are several new villains in the game. There are new types of enemies, the same couple.
    An interesting mission to investigate the murder of the founder of Gotham.
    Ent in the game is served NORMALLY. Look for the pentagrams on the walls. Listen and read the biography (as it was before). There was a bat cave, although it is not much use, mostly there is training and dialogues with Alfred. Cinematography has become even a level higher. But if the graphics have become better, then it does not catch the eye. Batman has moved more naturally in transitions from one enemy to another, but still flies like a nut.....

    In general, this is still the same Batman, but you need to look at it in a new way. It makes no sense to compare it with the original as well as the last three parts about Lara Croft. Restart on that and restart. To show something old but in a new way and with a fresh look.    … Expand
  7. ELBARTO08
    Jul 30, 2021
    6
    Batman Arkham Origins : the game released after Arkham City to tell us the beginnings of the Batman of the Arkhamverse
    It's a shame to put this note for an Arkham game as a fan, but this game deserves it
    the script is very good and offers us incredible sequences while leaning much more on the detective side of Batman, the scenario is very well paced between action scene, infiltration and    Batman Arkham Origins : the game released after Arkham City to tell us the beginnings of the Batman of the Arkhamverse
    It's a shame to put this note for an Arkham game as a fan, but this game deserves it
    the script is very good and offers us incredible sequences while leaning much more on the detective side of Batman, the scenario is very well paced between action scene, infiltration and detective phase
    but the problem are the graphics, the game is less beautiful than Arkham Asylum while it comes out four years after Asylum (it shows that the game was made by Warner Montreal and not Rocksteady)
    all this without talking about all these bugs of textures and the terrible sound design of the game (sometimes you can see that the characters open their mouths but we do not hear what they say, or sometimes the speech of some bandits is shifted compared to the movement of their mouths) but THE BIGGEST WEAKNESS of the game is well the number of glitch, sometimes you can teleport below the Map, and remain stuck in a door without being able to open it)
    The animations of the characters are less fluid than before

    So this game is completely forgettable,''Osef'' as we would say in France, a game that seems to be a demo so it is not complete, thousands of bugs, the game that crashes almost all the time and graphics that sometimes seems atrocious because of many bugs textures
    and it's a shame because the scenario is good and very well written
    but Warner Bros Montreal did the bare minimum, not very encouraging when you see that they are going to make Gotham Knights, which is not part of Arkham Verse, so at least we can be relieved that they are not going to ruin a flagship license of video games    … Expand
  8. I9gz
    Mar 28, 2021
    7
    Despite a great story with some of the best boss battles in the series, the bad open world and a jarring visual style bring the game down greatly, and most of the new gameplay additions aren't anything to write home about. The gameplay is still extremely fun, though, and WB Montreal did a decent job of bringing a new layer of violence to Batman's combat through the animations and sound.
  9. Umur
    Aug 28, 2023
    7
    It is not the best game among the batman series but nonetheless it is an okay game.
  10. F3T1W
    Aug 27, 2021
    6
    Batman walkthrough telling the past before Arkham assylum, shock gloves were good
  11. ErkilPoaro
    Oct 5, 2021
    5
    It's less frustrating than Arkham Knight so that's a positive, but the painfully slow traversal mechanics kill any momentum and joy out of the gameplay, that long a** bridge and buildings get in your way.
    For the love of God, please no more Joker. The execs were like: Joker is the most popular Batman villain so put him in every game. The main story was really short and nothing special.    It's less frustrating than Arkham Knight so that's a positive, but the painfully slow traversal mechanics kill any momentum and joy out of the gameplay, that long a** bridge and buildings get in your way.
    For the love of God, please no more Joker. The execs were like: Joker is the most popular Batman villain so put him in every game. The main story was really short and nothing special. When the credits started rolling I was like "So, that's it?". Cold Cold Heart DLC was good, though.    … Expand
  12. MarsKramer
    Jun 24, 2023
    6
    6/10. Message cannot include less than seventy-five letters, so I have to write it.
  13. arllda
    Feb 4, 2023
    6
    if you like batman movies, comics, i.e. batman, you will probably like this game, I think this game is average, not good, close to bad, even bad.
  14. farrrullll
    Jan 27, 2023
    7
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  15. hekoh
    Feb 2, 2023
    7
    the worst game on the saga, bad pc port, different dub actors. it wasn't developed by rocksteady and it really shows. just a mid game
  16. Suprizer
    Apr 22, 2023
    5
    Batman games are a triology and they have this parody game called origins... Weak comperated to other Batman games in every way,fights are less fluent puzzles don't require using your brain story at first was alright than went **** real fast. at first i was going to give like 3 or 4 but final mission was alright and just that mission itself raised this game to a 5 for me
  17. archverstza
    May 31, 2023
    7
    Not the best batman game but definitely not the worst. It has all the same mechanics as all of the Arkham series games do, the only thing I personally don't like is the setting. It is a very boring and depressing open world. Another thing bringing this game down is the amount of bugs and little issues on the PC title.
  18. Dartza
    Aug 1, 2023
    6
    Had the previous entries in the Arkham series not set the bar so high, this game would be much more well received. The story is intriguing, but at the end of the day, the change in voice actors tended to pull me out of the narrative. The gameplay is more of the same from Arkham City, but it isn't and doesn't feel like a main line Arkham game.
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74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Riot Pixels
    Dec 13, 2013
    65
    "You don't want to be the guys who messed up and ran into the ground one of the absolute, top-rated franchises of all time. You don't want that at the top of your CV. 'Yeah, I'm the guy who turned a 96 into a 60, that's my claim to fame,’ said Arkham Origins’ producer Ben Matts a couple of days before the game’s release. Turns out, they did exactly that.
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  2. Armchair Empire
    Nov 27, 2013
    90
    There's definitely some re-tread going on with Batman: Arkham Origins, but the combat, the relatively good story (B-list villain aside), the powerful feeling of being Batman in video game form has only muted my enthusiasm for the franchise by the smallest of margins.
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  3. PC PowerPlay
    Nov 25, 2013
    80
    You can't go wrong with sticking to Rocksteady's Bat-formula, however it is starting to feel a little played out. [December 2013, p.93]
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