Luckily there is a wide variety of takedown moves, like hanging from a gargoyle and tying an enemy up in the air, or sneaking up behind 2 of them and knocking their heads together. You’ll often have to segregate them and take them out one by one, all stealth-like, in order to clear the area.

It’s not always the best move to jump head first into battle, especially if the bad guys have machine guns. It’s easy to counter moves and string together combos, making the player truly feel powerful over the enemies. After a daring escape and a little help from Alfred, Bruce dons his Bat Suit and is ready to delve into the mysteries surrounding the events unfolding inside the city’s inner walls.Īrkham City Armored Edition plays just like its predecessors, with awesome controls and a battle system that is the envy of every other third person brawler. Hugo Strange knows that Bruce is really Batman. Bruce Wayne is captured and thrown in with the prisoners and it’s here we find that Dr. The game begins with Bruce Wayne campaigning to shut down the central part of Arkham City, where for some odd reason the mayor has decided that’s the perfect place to put all of the criminals. You’ll be fine with the story if you didn’t get to play that game, but those that did will be happy to find out that you start the game with most of your gadgets that you ended the first game with. In some ways it makes for a great launch title, since it stands to reason there’s a group of people that haven’t had the chance to experience the game yet, and while I wouldn’t put my stamp of approval on a ‘double dip’, I can’t deny that Batman is still a blast to play and one of the better games available to purchase for the Wii U.įor those new to the franchise, Arkham City is the sequel to Arkham Asylum, a game released about three years ago on the 360 and PS3. Now that the game is out, those concerns still hold water, but it doesn’t make the Wii U version any less fun or exciting than what many of us experienced a year ago. When the Wii U was shown proper at the E3 2012 show back in June, many journalists and gamers were baffled to see Nintendo give so many precious minutes of its E3 press conference to Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition since it’s not an entirely new game, but rather an enhanced port of a game that came out over a year ago on PS3 and 360.

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