I started working at GameStop last week. I've worked there in the past (4 years, various stores in Colorado 2006-2010) and decided to go to my local store to see if they had any positions open. So now I'm a Senior Game Advisor working around 20 hours a week. A perk to working at GameStop is "checking-out" games for 3 days at a time. My manager suggested I try Batman Arkham City and I figured why not? Arkham Asylum had fantastic reviews but I never tried it back in the day.
So I bring home a copy of Arkham City for the PS3 and pop it in my system. The game is a lot of fun and I recommend it for anyone who hasn't played it yet.
Game Play
The game play is typical for action adventure type games. You start off as Bruce Wane and get thrown into the "jail" town of Arkham City. The game tells you how to hit guys and eventually how to use the multitude of Batman accessories you pick up (like the grapple gun). You get to hit guys and counter their attacks. I really like how the game continuously reminds you how to use abilities. It's easy to swap between main quest objects and side quests on your map. Fighting mobs of criminals is entertaining and when you knock out the last one you get a little slow motion scene with your final hit. I personally had the hardest time against enemies with guns. I finally learned the easiest thing to do is to sneak up on them individually and use a stealthy strangle until everyone is dead. I died a lot while playing. I think it would go more smoothly for someone used to this genre of game. There are a lot of side-missions and extras (like picking up Riddle trophies) for completionists.
Story
The main story line was a joy to play. You see many of the "big bads" of the Batman series and have story events to take down most of them. I didn't finish the story, but did get more than halfway through (Diablo 3 was a bit distracting...).
Graphics
The graphics are what I've come to expect from modern games. It is crisp clean and fun to look at on my new 50' Plasma. The world is dark and it seemed as I played my Batsuit got more frayed.
Overall I had a good time playing it and now can talk about it to customers, which was my primary goal. I'd let to try it again to finish the main story. Next check out is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Game Play
The game play is typical for action adventure type games. You start off as Bruce Wane and get thrown into the "jail" town of Arkham City. The game tells you how to hit guys and eventually how to use the multitude of Batman accessories you pick up (like the grapple gun). You get to hit guys and counter their attacks. I really like how the game continuously reminds you how to use abilities. It's easy to swap between main quest objects and side quests on your map. Fighting mobs of criminals is entertaining and when you knock out the last one you get a little slow motion scene with your final hit. I personally had the hardest time against enemies with guns. I finally learned the easiest thing to do is to sneak up on them individually and use a stealthy strangle until everyone is dead. I died a lot while playing. I think it would go more smoothly for someone used to this genre of game. There are a lot of side-missions and extras (like picking up Riddle trophies) for completionists.
Story
The main story line was a joy to play. You see many of the "big bads" of the Batman series and have story events to take down most of them. I didn't finish the story, but did get more than halfway through (Diablo 3 was a bit distracting...).
Graphics
The graphics are what I've come to expect from modern games. It is crisp clean and fun to look at on my new 50' Plasma. The world is dark and it seemed as I played my Batsuit got more frayed.
Overall I had a good time playing it and now can talk about it to customers, which was my primary goal. I'd let to try it again to finish the main story. Next check out is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Agreed. To me both games feels like the closest thing that we ever get to experience on what it feels to be the Batman. The only way it could be better is if they allowed us to go the batcave to brood over a case. On the other hand that would probably be hard to make interesting in a game. ;)
ReplyDeleteMy only nitpick is with the riddler trophies and his challenges. I am not really much into collecting stuff in games for no purpose or doing challenges. So that I had to collect and complete enough of them to proceed on the riddler side mission was annoying. In fact I haven't finished that yet. /sigh
I didn't have the game long enough to get into riddler trophy collection. Though if I owned the game I would probably pick up every bloddy trophy because of my completionist nature.
DeleteThanks for the comment and reading my blog =)