Batman: Arkham Knight

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  1. Gamer2019jl
    Oct 8, 2019
    9
    História envolvente, com reviravoltas, gameplay fluído. Adição do Batmóvel deixou o game muito mais divertido. É muito bom usar o Batmóvel pras perseguições e pra atirar nos inimigos. Jogão. Vale muito a pena.
  2. hughanderson
    Oct 1, 2019
    4
    This is probably the most disappointing game I have ever played.
    ............
  3. Conkeydon1312
    Sep 25, 2019
    1
    World of tanks simulator parts **** got to me, they are the most annoying thing i ever had to do in a game
  4. Andreixam
    Sep 18, 2019
    10
    O melhor jogo de herói de todos os tempos.
    Mecânicas ótimas, história excelente, jogabilidade incrível...
    Que jogo!
  5. blacksmithbl
    Sep 16, 2019
    9
    I'll just start by stating the obvious - this game is amazing from top to bottom, graphics, combat, semi-open world, etc.

    So for me everything in the game is top notch aside from: 1) Story - It's really not it and could've been done so much batter, we all know that. 2) Batmobile - It's cool af but at one point I was under the impression that the game should be called Batmobile:    I'll just start by stating the obvious - this game is amazing from top to bottom, graphics, combat, semi-open world, etc.

    So for me everything in the game is top notch aside from:

    1) Story - It's really not it and could've been done so much batter, we all know that.

    2) Batmobile - It's cool af but at one point I was under the impression that the game should be called Batmobile: Arkham Tank cause you literally need it for EVERYTHING.

    3) The thing that made me almost hate the game - RIDDLER. Nothing more to say except f that guy and whoever thought it was a good idea to put in TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE trophies in the game. That was two hundred too much.    … Expand
  6. Voodoo123
    Sep 14, 2019
    10
    Just completed this on psplus - it is an excellent game full of details and easter eggs from other DC worlds (Otisberg!!!) sporting the best gameplay in the series. The visuals are excellent with a seamless open world to explore with top notch voice acting and a unique story. For any DC fan (or fan of any other arkham games) this is a MUST HAVE.
  7. TheSlasher41
    Sep 13, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Batman: Arkham Knight is a good game. It has great visuals and great combat that’s fluid and satisfying but it’s also very flawed. It’s story is terribly written filled with plot holes and illogical errors. One part of it is a poor rip off of Under the Red Hood with a really obvious twist. Scarecrow and The Arkham Knight were wasted in the main story in favor of Joker. Rocksteady turned Jason Todd into a bad villain. He’s generic, whiny and is a brat with 0 motivation except revenge. Jokers plot is ok but the blood subplot is horrible.

    The boss fights are horrendous. The Tankmobile gameplay is repetitive and the opposite of Batman. The side missions are repetitive and lacking. Kevin Conroy phons it in as Batman. Batman is boring. The ending is a rip off of the The Dark Knight Rises.


    Arkham Knight is an ok game but a major disappointment as the finale of the Arkham Series. Rocksteady didn’t want to make it and it was obvious.    … Expand
  8. Profigamer
    Sep 12, 2019
    6
    An otherwise excellent game, it is totally marred by extremely annoying, long sequences of tank battles, which many of them are stealth in gameplay. It damages the game so much that the player wants to throw the gamepad out of the window. If I wanted to play stealth World of Tanks, I would buy such a game. It is a shame that a bunch of idiot developers came up with such a stupid gameplay ideas.
  9. PhilipBlake
    Sep 12, 2019
    7
    Welcome to World of Tank Gotham Edition! Kind of...
    Batman Arkham Knight is overall a pretty good game, the visual aspect is really well done, this is a great open world in Gotham, the voice acting and music score was really awesome and the main story is well conceived. Most of the main mission are really interesting and nice to play. The wrong part came from the side mission, most of    Welcome to World of Tank Gotham Edition! Kind of...
    Batman Arkham Knight is overall a pretty good game, the visual aspect is really well done, this is a great open world in Gotham, the voice acting and music score was really awesome and the main story is well conceived. Most of the main mission are really interesting and nice to play. The wrong part came from the side mission, most of them are really annoying and absolutely unnecessary, most of them does not feet the main story at all. And the very wrong part came from the Batmobile mission, and there's really a lot of them. This looks like an eternal battle with stupid tanks and all these parts are exactly the same. Just boring as a World of Tanks game was. That's sad since this is really about reduce the quality of the game, and even if you choose to do not do the side mission you have anyway a lot of them in the main arc missions too. And what is really wrong is you need to do all the side missions if you expect to have to correct complete ending and that's a shame since as I've said the game is really good otherwise.    … Expand
  10. Bader123
    Sep 10, 2019
    9
    This is the first time I try this combat style and I loved it , and the game keeps you engaged with different gameplay variations
  11. PressW
    Aug 19, 2019
    8
    Why i took 2 points because Scarecrow didn't give me that feeling he is main villian because he mostly runs away from us and the Arkham Knight we see Batmobile more than him and why game is named Arkham Knight if the main villian is Scarecrow. We needed to see Arkham Knight more and he was like a teenager.
  12. ToddChavez
    Aug 18, 2019
    9
    Batman: Arkham Knight is an impressive game on almost every level, with non-stop variety and great action.
  13. Franky3121
    Aug 18, 2019
    5
    Batmobile sucks
    Boss fights suck
    Arkham Knight talks so much crap
    Scarecrow isn't even the main villain
    Side Missions are terrible and repetitive

    Worst way to end a good series
  14. p1menta
    Jul 26, 2019
    8
    there's not really a lot of difference between this one and the last batman i've layed (the first one), that's not exactly a bad thing since the fist one is really good. but for me it just looked like a really big dlc rather than an actual new game.
  15. jiso
    Jul 23, 2019
    4
    This is an odd game. It has all the fun and enjoyment of the previous Arkham games but then it'll do a 180 and force you into batmobile missions. If I wanted to place a racing game or a tank battle game, I would've bought one of those instead.
  16. tomjoneser
    Jun 28, 2019
    7
    Let's just come out and say it. Something we never thought we'd say.

    Too...much...Batmobile. At first it's amazing to have this much sought after addition into the Arkham franchise. But over time it becomes a tedious time consuming and occasionally unfun affair. It really knocked this game down a peg. The rest is tried and true to the Arkham franchise. If you've played previous    Let's just come out and say it. Something we never thought we'd say.

    Too...much...Batmobile.

    At first it's amazing to have this much sought after addition into the Arkham franchise. But over time it becomes a tedious time consuming and occasionally unfun affair. It really knocked this game down a peg.

    The rest is tried and true to the Arkham franchise. If you've played previous installments then you know what you're in for, which is a lot of fun being Batman. Story was ok. Not great but not terrible. Wish we could have had some main story play as the sidekicks to be honest.

    It's worth a cheap purchase, which at this stage is what you should be getting it as. Still a fun game overall!    … Expand
  17. joker2400
    Jun 23, 2019
    10
    Great and satisfying ending to the trilogy. Rocksteady deserves all the praise.
  18. Albaepica
    Jun 11, 2019
    10
    Storia avvincente e missioni secondaria coinvolgenti, a mio parere il gioco migliore della saga.
  19. Greatgamer
    Apr 9, 2019
    10
    I like the story
    I like Gameplay
    I like the graphics
    I like voice acting
    Great conclusion I am BATMAN
  20. MVBramley
    Mar 26, 2019
    5
    I played and enjoyed Arkham Asylum and Arkham City when they came out. I am a Batman fan and a fan of the Arkham series.

    Unfortunately Arkham Origins didn't ever run properly on my PC and I gave up on getting this third real installment in the series, because there were problems with the PC port and until recently I didn't own a PS4. By the time I'd gotten a PS4, I'd more or less    I played and enjoyed Arkham Asylum and Arkham City when they came out. I am a Batman fan and a fan of the Arkham series.

    Unfortunately Arkham Origins didn't ever run properly on my PC and I gave up on getting this third real installment in the series, because there were problems with the PC port and until recently I didn't own a PS4. By the time I'd gotten a PS4, I'd more or less forgotten about the series (and this game in particular), but when I saw it at a very low sale price, I couldn't resist it.

    Somehow I was going in cold; I knew next to nothing about the story or any changes that had been made to the gameplay (I hadn't even heard about the addition of the Batmobile). I settled in to play it and I was almost immediately impressed by the art design, acting and storytelling. When it came time to actually take control of the Batman, that's when things started to go wrong.

    At first I thought I was just rusty. I've not played an Arkham game in some time and I thought that having recently played similar games (such as the PS4 Spider-Man and certain Assassin's Creed titles), my confused hands might take a little time to adjust to the control scheme. However, things didn't get any better. The addition of the Batmobile only seemed to compound the issue. Almost everything about the control scheme feels incredibly counter-intuitive, to the point where my biggest challenge in the game is fighting with my own instinct to push a specific button to perform a specific task.

    For instance - while driving in most games, you would use one of the right triggers to go forwards and a left trigger to reverse, but in this game square reverses the car... unless you are in battle mode, in which case it fires your secondary weapon. As for controlling the Dark Knight himself, I instinctively try to open my gadget wheel using a left trigger, but that summons the Batmobile (or more likely triggers the voice of Kevin Conroy telling me that I can't summon the Batmobile). Instead you pull up the gadget wheel on the d-pad, which feels clunky - especially because the rest of the options on the D-pad there look just like the gadget wheel (missions wheel, etc) and I keep opening those by accident.

    For the first time in well over a decade I found myself hunting for an option to remap the controller, but that option didn't appear to be available.

    In early Arkham games, I was impressed by how they make you feel like Batman (in the same way the Spider-Man game makes you feel like Spider-Man). Everything you do looks cool and effortless. In Arkham Knight, my Batman looks like a recovering alcoholic, stumbling around the screen and bumbling into enemy fire.

    Possibly as a result of my issues with the control scheme, or maybe to replace emphasis on Batmobile combat, fistfights now feel so difficult that I was forced to play in easy mode. I hated the Batmobile at first, but I got more used to it (because it is easier) and now prefer it. However, the battles do feel a bit rote. Worse still, driving around a city blowing up drone tanks just doesn't feel very Batmanny, not in the same way combat has in the previous games.

    And I wish the HUD, the controls or the over-use of the car were the only sources of frustration, but they aren't, unfortunately. The game is often buggy, often confusing and often leads you wandering around some dead end trying to initiate an encounter or mission that isn't technically available yet.

    For example, on my first visit to GCPD, I picked up a Riddler mission. I followed the navigator to a big metal door with a lone green light shining on it and spent thirty minutes trying to figure out how to get inside. Hours later into the game, I found that same door again with a big green question mark painted on it - and it opened for me. When the game had sent me before; the mission just wasn't available. I'd wasted 30 minutes feeling stupid and frustrated.

    Later a bug prevented a hoard of enemies from entering a room, which was needed in order to progress in the game, so I spent over 20 minutes in an empty room assuming I had missed something.

    Later still, a prompt to open a door didn't appear, so I assumed it wasn't enter-able and wasted time exploring another empty environment.

    At one point I followed a forensic trail backwards by accident (because the city looks the same and nothing indicated the direction I should travel in) and spent a further 20 minutes investigating a dead end.

    All of this makes the game incredibly tedious and not much fun to play.

    However, it gets a full five points, because in spite of all of this, there is enough there to compel me to keep playing it.

    The game is bad, but the design is fantastic. The story has provided some fantastic Batman scenes and character moments. Not only that, but there are storytelling techniques being used here that you rarely see, that take full advantage of the video game medium.

    As a result I am both frustrated and impressed    … Expand
  21. GreenManGaming
    Mar 23, 2019
    8
    If this is in fact the last Rocksteady-developed Batman game, the series will end on a high note. Arkham Knight is the biggest Batman game yet, not just in map size, but in the wide range of different types of gameplay, and its collection of characters. The addition of tank combat thematically clashes with everything Batman stands for, but it is fun, and having access to the Batmobile forIf this is in fact the last Rocksteady-developed Batman game, the series will end on a high note. Arkham Knight is the biggest Batman game yet, not just in map size, but in the wide range of different types of gameplay, and its collection of characters. The addition of tank combat thematically clashes with everything Batman stands for, but it is fun, and having access to the Batmobile for the first time gives us a new world of possibilities for interacting with Gotham City. Arkham Knight is an outstanding game on almost every level.… Expand
  22. TheRaggedFlygon
    Mar 6, 2019
    8
    Arkham Knight is a fantastic game that gets a lot of hate for the same reason that the Dark Knight Rises does — many argue that it fails to live up to its predecessor, 2011’s revolutionary Arkham City. Nevertheless, Arkham Knight delivers the best game play of the series with a perfectly suited open world while it does leave a bit to be desired when it comes to story, boss fights, andArkham Knight is a fantastic game that gets a lot of hate for the same reason that the Dark Knight Rises does — many argue that it fails to live up to its predecessor, 2011’s revolutionary Arkham City. Nevertheless, Arkham Knight delivers the best game play of the series with a perfectly suited open world while it does leave a bit to be desired when it comes to story, boss fights, and difficulty.

    The gameplay is near perfection. The predator and combat sequences have been improved upon with new gadgets and moves and fine tuned to give us the best gameplay in an Arkham game yet. Upon replaying any of the earlier games, it becomes clear that the gameplay was improved by the time Arkham Knight came out. The Batmobile sections, although overused at times, add another fantastic method of transportation around Arkham City. The open world feels the perfect size and is full of Easter eggs and puzzles. The combination of the batmobile and grapple gun gives Batman a variety of options to explore the city.

    However, for all of the game’s gameplay achievements, it falls short with its writing. The game’s titular villain turns out to be quite disappointing, a very powerful moment in the game is ruined by a later revelation, and overall the story feels like a bit of underwhelming conclusion to the Arkham trilogy. The secret ending also requires 100% completion and potentially sets up future games. Nevertheless, AK is a massive improvement over Arkham Origins in terms of voice acting and the original cast from the first two games has returned.

    The side missions are also particular disappointing and the return of a character who was phenomenal in previous games is lackluster and leaves much to be desired. Along the same lines, the boss fights in this game are particularly bad especially when compared to the iconic boss fights from Arkham City. The boss fights were very much a step in the wrong direction for the series.

    Lastly, I found the game to be far too easy. Even when playing on the hardest difficulty, the AI difficulty does not increase, instead all that happens is their damage input increases while your health drops. It would have been great for Rocksteady to make more meaningful difficult changes.

    Overal, Arkham Knight has a story and boss fights that fail to live up to consumer expectations following the massive success of Arkham City. Nevertheless, the Arkham freeflow combat and predator sections have been perfected in this game, and yes, it does make you “feel like Batman”.    … Expand
  23. Alaa-ahmad
    Mar 5, 2019
    10
    Really I like this game Great Combat
    Wonderful Graphics Brilliant Story
    The Bat Signal appears in the sky
    Waiting for you Dark Knight
  24. jon2007
    Mar 4, 2019
    10
    Great game
    Trust me you will like it
    Two thumbs Up
    Best Batman Game ever
  25. Br_AgSs
    Feb 21, 2019
    9
    Not much to say about his game, story is good, graphics are good, combat is good , villains are good, skins are good, driving is good. Its a very nice game
  26. Chowjust
    Feb 20, 2019
    8
    Another solid addition to the Batman: Arkham series. By now you should know what your getting. A game with a great story for Batman fans (even it is very predictable) a very good combat system, and all set in an open world where you play BATMAN and get to meet heaps of interested characters from the comics. I'm a huge Batman fan so I'm pretty biased, but do genuinely think this is a goodAnother solid addition to the Batman: Arkham series. By now you should know what your getting. A game with a great story for Batman fans (even it is very predictable) a very good combat system, and all set in an open world where you play BATMAN and get to meet heaps of interested characters from the comics. I'm a huge Batman fan so I'm pretty biased, but do genuinely think this is a good game, and with the addition of the bat-mobile to change up the combat and break up the game-play (even if it does get a little repetitive), I think this is a solid addition to the series.… Expand
  27. Instable
    Feb 6, 2019
    8
    Отличная игра. Правда управление через чур нагроможденное.
  28. Voredon
    Jan 31, 2019
    10
    Arkham asylum was the e best prologue that set the best possible standards of Batman games and Arkham Knight is the best epilogue that could ever be, combined with the batmobile, the optimization is very good and the graphics even for 2019 are very good. Batman's gadgets, the presence of Robin, Catwoman and many villains and the atmospheric scenario make the game very valuable at it'sArkham asylum was the e best prologue that set the best possible standards of Batman games and Arkham Knight is the best epilogue that could ever be, combined with the batmobile, the optimization is very good and the graphics even for 2019 are very good. Batman's gadgets, the presence of Robin, Catwoman and many villains and the atmospheric scenario make the game very valuable at it's price, the main story lasts many hours and the side missions have voice acting and some cutscenes, the only disadvantage is that there is always night but that's not even notable with the produced atmosphere… Expand
  29. oknsnl
    Jan 29, 2019
    8
    Gameplay : 7 (Good Combat Mechanics and average skill tree)
    Story : 10 (Very good batman story)
    Car Action : 6 (I like first few bat mobile centric missions but there are too many :()
  30. Plusle
    Jan 27, 2019
    8
    If this is in fact the last Rocksteady-developed Batman game, the series will end on a high note. Arkham Knight is the biggest Batman game yet, not just in map size, but in the wide range of different types of gameplay, and its collection of characters. The addition of tank combat thematically clashes with everything Batman stands for, but it is fun, and having access to the Batmobile forIf this is in fact the last Rocksteady-developed Batman game, the series will end on a high note. Arkham Knight is the biggest Batman game yet, not just in map size, but in the wide range of different types of gameplay, and its collection of characters. The addition of tank combat thematically clashes with everything Batman stands for, but it is fun, and having access to the Batmobile for the first time gives us a new world of possibilities for interacting with Gotham City. Arkham Knight is an outstanding game on almost every level.… Expand
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#12 Best PS4 Game of 2015
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#14 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2015

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87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 89 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 82 out of 89
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 89
  3. Negative: 0 out of 89
  1. Pelit (Finland)
    Sep 1, 2015
    87
    Batman: Arkham Knight presents a technically proficient and overall satisfying ending to the Arkham series, but suffers from overuse of the novelty item Batmobile and extremely repetitive tank battles. [Aug 2015]
  2. Level7.nu
    Aug 26, 2015
    70
    Batman: Arkham Knight is the best looking game in the series so far, and includes a lot of cool stuff for fans of Batman. But at the same time it’s starting to feel like Rocksteady is almost too comfortable. It lacks new content, except the pretty bad designed Batmobile parts. If you haven’t played the previous games that much you will probably think that this is one of the best games this year.
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  3. Games Master UK
    Aug 18, 2015
    90
    A million different elements blended seamlessly into one brilliantly cohesive experience. [Summer 2015, p.64]
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