Gotham Knights

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  1. GandalfCzarny
    Oct 29, 2022
    4
    This game just... exist. It's not terrible or something but it's souless, shallow, corporate product that noone gives any heart or warm on it. Everything here is just worse and waterdown version of Arkham series with unnecessary looter-shooter garbage. Definitely one of the biggest disappointment this year.
  2. lequocduc2k2
    Oct 23, 2022
    4
    This game is painfully repetitive and boring. It has all the most advanced technologies that modern game engines can offer, but the art direction is TRASH, a huge step-down from Arkham Knight. Gotham in this just feels like a dead random city, full of neon light, but half of its population has gone missing. The combat is actually a little bit more fun than what was shown in the trailer,This game is painfully repetitive and boring. It has all the most advanced technologies that modern game engines can offer, but the art direction is TRASH, a huge step-down from Arkham Knight. Gotham in this just feels like a dead random city, full of neon light, but half of its population has gone missing. The combat is actually a little bit more fun than what was shown in the trailer, but damn, the mission design is absolutely dog-sh*t, it's painfully boring, repetitive. And holy crap this is 2022, locking the story behind side quests is still a thing!? For some reasons, they decided to lock the best thing about this game behind its worst thing. WOW! I couldn't care less about other aspects, features of the game because they feel like the devs just copy & paste them from some **** live service games… Expand
  3. DeadDirected
    Jun 1, 2023
    4
    I thought the Performance issues are the only reason why it’s getting so bad reviews.. but damn.

    I started the game with an friend and we have around 10 hours of playtime, playing this game alone would make it even worse. We hoped and hoped for it to get better but at the end, it’s a „the division“ type of game, boring grinding, poor animations, poor open world, story is hella boring, the    I thought the Performance issues are the only reason why it’s getting so bad reviews.. but damn.

    I started the game with an friend and we have around 10 hours of playtime, playing this game alone would make it even worse. We hoped and hoped for it to get better but at the end, it’s a „the division“ type of game, boring grinding, poor animations, poor open world, story is hella boring, the coop is completely ignored by the game so you basically fight an enemy with x2 strength and only one guy is in cutscenes (sometimes they actually involve the other person what is even weirder)

    All in all this game is just another marvel avengers    … Expand
  4. FirstElement
    Oct 30, 2022
    4
    Game service without soul, tons of useless grinding activities, mobile interface and resources crafting system
  5. BR41N14C
    Dec 10, 2022
    4
    This game deconstructs everything the arkham franchise has built in previous games.
    Script, graphics, atmosphere, combat... Everything is inferior to previous games. (not to mention it's also terribly poorly optimized)
  6. PaulGR
    Oct 24, 2022
    3
    Unoptimized mess promoting the "woke" agenda.

    What could have been a good game is, once more, overshadowed by poor optimization, clunky controls, grindy missions, and an unhealthy dose of "wokeness". There is no true Full-screen mode. No matter the settings, the game fluctuates heavily between 20 and 140 FPS. I'd rather it's a stable 30 than getting a headache from these sudden    Unoptimized mess promoting the "woke" agenda.

    What could have been a good game is, once more, overshadowed by poor optimization, clunky controls, grindy missions, and an unhealthy dose of "wokeness".

    There is no true Full-screen mode. No matter the settings, the game fluctuates heavily between 20 and 140 FPS. I'd rather it's a stable 30 than getting a headache from these sudden fluctuations dipping to 20, then rising to 100 with a simple camera turn. Graphics are mediocre at best without RayTracing on. Reminds me of old PS3 games (e.g., Infamous: Second Son). If you turn RT "on" the game is a stutter-fest (RTX3080Ti, R9 5900X).

    Side missions while on patrol become a big chore after the second time. It's always the same setup of enemies and things to do. Same locations. Same tactics. Same objectives. It gets old very quick.

    Combat doesn't help either. It gets monotonous very fast. Other than the nice finishers, there is not much to comment on. It's clunky and doesn't feel fluid. It's just spam "X" until the enemy sponge dies. You even forget that you have a ranged move (range is so short it doesn't matter anyway).

    Traveling also feels like a big chore:
    - The bat-bike mechanics are out of a game released in the early 2000s. Physics are entirely off. To make the world feel "big," they tweaked the bike to go at 40Kmh, while simulating a "wind" effect around the edges of the screen so as to appear that you are going at 350Kmh. The scam is visible as you can barely overtake a bus. Getting anywhere is so sluggish and boring.
    - The hook that you grapple is hit-n-miss. You can use it on specified spots in the world which becomes very annoying when it auto-targets at a place that you are clearly not aiming at. Still, this is probably the only decent way to move around.
    - Gliding/flying is even slower than the bat-bike, which makes it a joke. It also forces your short cape to turn long, which is very ugly.
    - Navigating on foot is weird. There is no jump button and you can only move on objects that the game wants you to.

    The world is empty and dead. There are just copy-pasted versions of the same 5 NPCs sitting around, reacting to you by jumping and saying a line from a pool of 10 voice-lines.

    Customization is pure marketing. They allow you to craft suits, yet it's basically just 6 different models that simply recycle their stats each time you craft them. You have the option to change the look of some body parts (hands, boots, mask) between 3 options that are so similar you won't even notice. it's there just to promote "character customization". At least you can change colors, if you manage to unlock them before finishing the story. If you unlock the glide ability the game forces on you long capes. There is no option to change them and this has already been an issue on Reddit as people are frustrated not being able to revert it back. Many consider not even unlocking the glide ability to avoid the long cape.

    To top it off, instead of spending time polishing and serving us a finished product, they decided to spent time injecting their "woke" propaganda in the game. It has it all. "Pride" parades and rainbow flags. There are text-messages between the characters in the context of: "Omg the Pride parade is in town. We are bad people if we don't go. We are OBVIOUSLY GOING!!" Paraphilia is being promoted plenty once more. Your politics have no place in our games.

    Overall: The game needs serious patching to optimize it. If it is stable it might be worth half the asking price (~30$). Since nothing else will change (e.g., combat/driving won't change) I can't recommend this unless you get it at 20$-max in a few months if you REALLY want it. By then, it will hopefully be stable.    … Expand
  7. muzmuz
    Mar 5, 2023
    3
    Badly optimized, clunktown of an action game with ludicrously terrible acting and unengaging gameplay.
  8. JowDF
    Nov 13, 2022
    3
    Palavras não bastam para expressar o quanto eu fiquei insatisfeito com esse jogo, em resumo está cheio de bugs, quedas de FPS, travamentos e fechamentos aleatórios, não recomendo a ninguém a compra, o jogo se encontra em um estado inacabado, os desenvolvedores precisam concertar-lo o quanto antes.
  9. Vasot
    Oct 27, 2022
    2
    THEY EVEN USE DENUVO MALWARE DRM FOR THIS DISNEYFIED ABOMINATION OF BATMAN'S UNIVERSE (We dOn't wAnt peOplE plAy thIs fOr frEe duh). The audacity of greedy companies trying to sell this unoptimized woke ******** game and trying to milk people in every way possible. I wish Warner Bros Montreal gets bankrupt soon.
  10. opxpp
    Nov 1, 2022
    2
    This isn't AAA Game this game can be a mobile game, not a PC game. The developer of this game used batman's name to sell the game noting more.
  11. HazzyDevil
    Oct 22, 2022
    2
    Gotham Knights - A live-service game that saw Marvel's Avengers and went noooope.
    Except it's too late in development to start from scratch. So instead we get a co-op game with remnants of a live-service.
    To get the good out of the way, story has got me hooked so far. Cutscenes are great and voice acting is decent. As for the bad: - Horribly un-optimised. Already getting random crashes    Gotham Knights - A live-service game that saw Marvel's Avengers and went noooope.
    Except it's too late in development to start from scratch. So instead we get a co-op game with remnants of a live-service.

    To get the good out of the way, story has got me hooked so far. Cutscenes are great and voice acting is decent.

    As for the bad: - Horribly un-optimised. Already getting random crashes and performance is terrible for a game that doesn't even look as good as the previous Batman games.

    - The controls are janky and feels like there's some sort of input delay even at or above 60 fps. - The character's movements also don't look smooth. They tend to just snap into position and lack any flow and at times will just move 90 degrees in mid-air whilst an animation plays out.

    - On that note of our characters just snapping into positions, this is especially true in the open world. You can't jump in this game. Instead there are fixed points where you can jump or grapple to which gives an option to press shift to do a jump. But I wouldn't consider this weird mechanic to be a standard jump. Excluding the ability to jump makes no sense in an open world game anyways. Seems like a design decision to save the devs the time to get this right which you would imagine shouldn't be an issue with games from today.

    - Traversal abilities to help get around the open world is gated behind repetitive missions which you need to do for EACH character.

    - The open world aesthetics is okay at best. But in comparison to the previous batman game Arkham Knight from seven years ago, fails miserably. Looks like just an ordinary city (with some specific locations that look decent) rather than Gotham City. Even with today's technologies such as ray tracing, it still doesn't compare. Even WB Montreal's Arkham Origins looks way better.

    - Combat feels really slow and this is only made worse with the point about character movement and the input delay. Maybe this will change as I play more but at the moment it doesn't feel good. Also a key seller of the Batman games was the freeflow combat with the ability to counter. That's gone here, and instead we have to dodge before we can counter. Similar to Marvel's Spider Man, except the combat in that game felt good.

    - UI looks like something from a mobile game.

    - Similarly, the various loot that gets dropped feel meaningless and is akin to something from a f2p mobile game/live-service game.

    It's not Saints Row levels of bad. There is a foundation there that can be appreciated and one that can be improved upon, but this is not a game I can recommend right now. The only reason I'll continue to play it is because of the story.    … Expand
  12. Daniel2009
    Oct 23, 2022
    2
    It's a disappointment to the batman arkham games the story felt out of place and the Gameplay wasn't good
  13. jeison_brown
    Oct 24, 2022
    2
    It's very ingenious to add Denuvo to a game that lacks some kind of optimization. The graphics are almost the same as in Batman Arkham Knight, only cartoon. Probably the developers are sitting and thinking: Our game has terrible optimization. What'll we do? Let's add Denuvo there and kill the optimization completely, yes you are a genius, sir!
  14. c_ache
    Oct 25, 2022
    2
    - русский язык отсутствует, точнее вырезан, так как изначально он был. Может хватит смешивать игры с игроками и политику?
    - интересный только начальный ролик, хотя факт, что рас аль гул победил бэтмена мне совсем не близок (что за мода обесценивать все старое, чтобы новое заиграло новыми красками?)
    - геймплей скучный и однообразный - оптимизация ужасная, 3080ti 12gb + 9900K + 32GB ram +    - русский язык отсутствует, точнее вырезан, так как изначально он был. Может хватит смешивать игры с игроками и политику?
    - интересный только начальный ролик, хотя факт, что рас аль гул победил бэтмена мне совсем не близок (что за мода обесценивать все старое, чтобы новое заиграло новыми красками?)
    - геймплей скучный и однообразный
    - оптимизация ужасная, 3080ti 12gb + 9900K + 32GB ram + DLSS на ультра производительность и прыжки с 30 до 50 кадров в 2,5K 3440*1440
    - микрофризы постоянные
    + задница бэтвумен огонь =)    … Expand
  15. Neithercard
    Oct 22, 2022
    2
    For a studio which last game was Arkham Origins in 2013, it is unacceptable that this game was deliver the way it was.
    -The court of owls were not made justice. They lost the chance to develop the organization and were left almost as a side villain.
    -The combat is slow and tedious. They got rid of the counter button of the Arkham franchise and you have to roll/jump to avoid getting    For a studio which last game was Arkham Origins in 2013, it is unacceptable that this game was deliver the way it was.
    -The court of owls were not made justice. They lost the chance to develop the organization and were left almost as a side villain.
    -The combat is slow and tedious. They got rid of the counter button of the Arkham franchise and you have to roll/jump to avoid getting punched.
    -The city is beautiful BUT it barely has NPCs and cars, if feels completely empty and the batcycle goes slower than walking.
    -The traversal is awful, only batgirl has a good traversal movement.
    -The dialogue is off, there are awkward silences between takes and the script is just lazy.
    -The story is predictable. Since the first cutscene you know who is pulling the strings.
    And last, Batman/Bruce Wayne is made as a suicidal, bland character.

    Wait for a sale before you touch this game. It is not worth your hard earn money    … Expand
  16. RickyTot
    Nov 1, 2022
    2
    Gotham Knights is one of those games where if someone says it's good you can automatically tell they have bad taste.

    Performance issues aside, this is a below average, bad game. The developers cut corners on so many things and it only highlights how great the Arkham games are. The city feels lifeless and plain compared to Arkham Knight's. The Batcycle is atrocious. Collisions with    Gotham Knights is one of those games where if someone says it's good you can automatically tell they have bad taste.

    Performance issues aside, this is a below average, bad game. The developers cut corners on so many things and it only highlights how great the Arkham games are. The city feels lifeless and plain compared to Arkham Knight's. The Batcycle is atrocious. Collisions with objects do no feel impactful and the physics don't make sense. The physics in this game make NO sense. The grappling hook always zips you across in a straight line regardless of the angle. You're basically flying like Superman. The combat is not fluid like in the Arkham games. The writing is so dull that you can tell the writers do not care about these characters. The animations for these characters is terrible. This entire game feels like it was made by amateurs. The missions are incredibly repetitive as you you're tasked with fighting goons to progress in the story. And this is all before addressing the performance issues. I will give the game credit in that the customization is great, but that's the only highlight.    … Expand
  17. Aderamonde
    Nov 14, 2022
    2
    This is a janky, poorly designed mess of a game that makes Marvel's Avengers look pristine by comparison.

    Characters struggle to get around Gotham using a traversal system that feels new but lesser than Arkham's. They stop moving when caught on doorways or corners. The time trials also exacerbate its poor traversal gameplay by causing players to lose unfairly. The combat is serviceable.    This is a janky, poorly designed mess of a game that makes Marvel's Avengers look pristine by comparison.

    Characters struggle to get around Gotham using a traversal system that feels new but lesser than Arkham's. They stop moving when caught on doorways or corners. The time trials also exacerbate its poor traversal gameplay by causing players to lose unfairly. The combat is serviceable. I legitimately have fun pounding criminals to the point of unconsciousness, but when they try to escape, the game yet again forces me into its incredibly poor traversal system.

    The graphics look good in my opinion, but the game is still plagued with frequent framerate dips at the time of writing. True to being a current-gen game, it also makes good use of my SSD; it doesn't take longer than 6 seconds to load nearly anything.

    Please save yourself the trouble and wait for a sale and multiple patches. Better yet, just don't buy it. The aggravation this game will inevitably cause you is not worth $60. Jason Todd's hoodie is too excited to be here, as its laces stand erect, presumably in search of Onsen or a functional patch.    … Expand
  18. Razrback16
    Oct 22, 2022
    1
    Sad to see WB Montreal release this, very disappointing. I'm not a fan of the art style, the new combat, or a lot of the voice acting - the combat is terrible, and the art makes the game feel like it's for little kids. WB Montreal previously did such a good job on Arkham Origins, so when this was announced I had originally hoped they would be doing another Arkham game set between Origins &Sad to see WB Montreal release this, very disappointing. I'm not a fan of the art style, the new combat, or a lot of the voice acting - the combat is terrible, and the art makes the game feel like it's for little kids. WB Montreal previously did such a good job on Arkham Origins, so when this was announced I had originally hoped they would be doing another Arkham game set between Origins & Asylum - there is a ~10 year gap between Origins & Asylum in the Arkhamverse so it would have been a perfect spot to put the Court of Owls with Batman working with the future Batfamily (Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing, etc.), but instead they decided to do a completely new continuity (as if we don't have enough of those, already).

    Game has awful performance to boot. Steam reviews are mixed - this is not good. I don't even blame the developers for this. I blame the idiot executives at WB who decided to green-light this. It should have been shot down in the pitch room. Very disappointing game.    … Expand
  19. D3M0N07
    Oct 27, 2022
    1
    just wanna say a word. . . . TRASH GAME, sh*ts everywhere!!!
    please dont buy this game. . . play Batman: Arkham Knight. . .
  20. movielover86
    Oct 30, 2022
    1
    It's like a ps3 game, absolute rubbish.

    Clunky gameplay and poor graphics.

    Story is meh at best, terribly paced and terribly.
  21. ONEEX
    Nov 6, 2022
    1
    Уже который раз серия этой игры выходит с плохим портом и оптимизацией ?! Сколько можно?
    Управление на ПК деревянное - приходится нажимать по несколько раз чтобы двигаться после сканирования и многое другое. Разочаровывает.
    Так же нет смысла от крафта, ибо всё равно враги ложяться что с обычным оружием и вещами, что с прокаченным. Бред в общем.    Уже который раз серия этой игры выходит с плохим портом и оптимизацией ?! Сколько можно?
    Управление на ПК деревянное - приходится нажимать по несколько раз чтобы двигаться после сканирования и многое другое. Разочаровывает.
    Так же нет смысла от крафта, ибо всё равно враги ложяться что с обычным оружием и вещами, что с прокаченным. Бред в общем.
  22. Lother
    Oct 30, 2022
    1
    Batman - dead
    Tim telling Oracle "I'm not talking about Oracle, I'm talking about BARBARA FREAKING GORDON"
    Activist graffitii all over the city
    wke af
  23. T4KED0WN
    Oct 25, 2022
    1
    Below 50% GPU usage even with Ryzen 7700X. Shader compilation stutters are also present and very frequent. They are compiled during gameplay rather than in a menu or startup resulting in constant stutter. Denuvo on top of that. The recommended specs are insane and my pc is way above them and it is still unable to run this. Most of the issues with the game are fixable, but i heavily adviseBelow 50% GPU usage even with Ryzen 7700X. Shader compilation stutters are also present and very frequent. They are compiled during gameplay rather than in a menu or startup resulting in constant stutter. Denuvo on top of that. The recommended specs are insane and my pc is way above them and it is still unable to run this. Most of the issues with the game are fixable, but i heavily advise against buying this in the current state.… Expand
  24. cookiecutterx
    Oct 24, 2022
    1
    Atrocious optimization, boring and repetitive gameplay and awful graphics compared to Gotham Knight, which was released in 2015!!!!! There is literally nothing to love this game for.
  25. eXcali
    Oct 24, 2022
    1
    - The gameplay is super boring, apparently the game designer didn't play the original Batman trilogy
    - Сombat is monotonous, it's like I'm playing a game on a dandy console and all my buttons are broken except for the only working one
    - Optimization is just terrible, it would be better if the development of the game was entrusted to Saber Interactive RTX 4090 + 12700K not enough for    - The gameplay is super boring, apparently the game designer didn't play the original Batman trilogy
    - Сombat is monotonous, it's like I'm playing a game on a dandy console and all my buttons are broken except for the only working one
    - Optimization is just terrible, it would be better if the development of the game was entrusted to Saber Interactive
    RTX 4090 + 12700K not enough for smooth gameplay in this game.
    It feels like the developers made the game with one foot and the other picking their nose
    --------------------------------------------------
    Batman: Arkham Knight says hello.
    Developers need to learn optimization from The Witcher 3, Fortnite, SOTTR, Super People and Resident Evil    … Expand
  26. JayG0001
    Nov 19, 2022
    1
    Enjoying the game but apparently, this game only runs on a BATCOMPUTER. The framerate is all over the place.

    This game is not for everyone, it's for people with dead parents and inherited lots of money.
  27. Attila94
    Dec 12, 2022
    1
    Ни слова по русски ! Игроки хотят играть, добавьте субтитры
  28. xargon
    Jan 2, 2023
    0
    Game is crashing randomly and constantly. Performance is poo even on high spec computers. Skip it for now or wait for 90% discount or something.
  29. Yaba
    Oct 28, 2022
    0
    the game is boring, voice acting is bad, story is bad, characters are not interesting, gameplay is bad, roaming the city and parkouring is so bad and slow, the UI is extremely bad and its not easy to get used to it with many menus, many tutorials and endless reading, missions are scattered everywhere, driving the motorcycle is bad and boring, performance is crap and keeps dipping below 60the game is boring, voice acting is bad, story is bad, characters are not interesting, gameplay is bad, roaming the city and parkouring is so bad and slow, the UI is extremely bad and its not easy to get used to it with many menus, many tutorials and endless reading, missions are scattered everywhere, driving the motorcycle is bad and boring, performance is crap and keeps dipping below 60 no matter what system you have as GPU utilization drops in open world although CPU is not a bottleneck, if there was a subzero rating, i would give it -10.

    on top of all this, they integrate Denuvo, to be honest its not even worth pirating, they should have built upon Arkham Knight like prequel or anything else as it doesnt matter for batman games because they are not that connected as a series.

    i wish RockSteady continued working on this series instead of these noobs    … Expand
  30. ImperialKnight
    Oct 24, 2022
    0
    7 years later, they manage to make a game run AND look worse than its predecessor at the same time. Don't waste money on this piece of garbage and just play or replay Arkham Knight instead
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 26
  3. Negative: 2 out of 26
  1. INVEN
    Nov 14, 2022
    59
    A Batman family that couldn't get out of Arkhamverse's shadow. The game design structured around Co-op shows a lack of motivation. So many problems with monotonous combat, empty Gotham city, insufficient hero abilities, optimization issues and so on. A screenshot of Gotham city from photo-mode is the only thing that comforted me.
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  2. GameSpace
    Nov 7, 2022
    80
    Overall, Gotham Knights plays very well on the PC, once you figure your Steam settings. Playing as the Knights instead of Batman is a change for this style of game based in Gotham.
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  3. Ragequit.gr
    Nov 6, 2022
    71
    The main problem with Gotham Knights is not its level of quality. It's that it could have been far superior, comparable to the past titles in the series. The key ingredients for the success of the franchise are here too, but either in a limited or undermined form, by the commercial direction the title has taken towards the looter territories and indeed, the more mundane ones at that.
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