LO3: Batman Arkham Knight Review

Batman Arkham Knight is a Rocksteady Studios game, published by Warner Bros. This is the newest and the last game of the Batman Arkham franchise, rated at pegi 18 for age certification. This game allows the players to have the most realistic and closest feel to being the batman which any game has ever offered the players before. This game gives the players a third person perspective on being the batman and is a continuation of the Arkham franchise.

The general diegesis of this game is set in dystopian Gotham City that has recently been overrun by criminals and mental patients from the asylum, but the biggest threat is Scarecrow during this game. He has set in motion a diabolical plan to use a device know as the cloudburst to spread his fear toxin within the whole of Gotham, infecting everyone within the radius. Batman is given one night so solve and resolve this problem in order to save Gotham, whilst battling his own demons.

I personally believe that this general diegesis is a fantastic way to continue the 'Batman Arkham' series after following the death of the Joker in 'Arkham City'. I personally believe that this game allowed the player to connect with the verisimilitude environment of dystopian Gotham which made the game a lot more interesting, this could also be due to the open world features, which allowed you to roam around Gotham looking for different problems and missions to solve and complete.

The gameplay of Gotham Knight is a lot more smoother than the pervious games, this literarily makes you feel like the batman himself because your movements are so fluent and not disturbed by any in  game glitches or bugs. I also enjoy the new glide feature that has been incorporated within this game, it allows the player to glide a lot longer and cover a greater distance whilst gliding as if you were literally flying, where as if you compare the glide system to the pervious games this is a huge step up. I also like the new weapon selection system, this is a easier means of selecting weapons although I think it is quite slow if you were to use it within a combat mission, this is because most the combat scenes require you to be fast and physical, but this new weapons selection screen slows down the momentum within the game.

Also another new feature that has never been seen before with the Arkham franchise is the new Batmobile feature, this allows the players to use Batman's famous Batmobile. What is unique about this car is that it can transform from a car to a tank just by holding the second left trigger button, this increase Batmans fire power whilst he is in tank combat.

This is also the first Arkham game that allows the users to play using 'Dual Play' this is used as a means of support during certain combat scenes, allowing the players to switch between their favourite characters within the Bat Family. This can be used as a combination finisher or as a personal combat preference when fighting. Also a new feature which has been incorporated within the Arkham saga is the Fear Takedown', this is a new mode where Batman can move quickly almost like a bat swooping down to take out his prey within combat scenes without allowing the other AI characters any time to react to the 'Fear Takedown' feature. Along side the new environmental combat feature I personally believe that the combat features of the 'Batman Arkham Knight' game have been improved beyond proportion, this environmental feature allows Batman to use the environment and his surroundings to his advantage, meaning he can throw crates and slam enemies into walls.

I personally believe that when producing this game the developers at Rocksteady had to take into careful consideration what kind of tools and gadgets that Batman would use in combat and in technological situations. Due to this they took into consideration that the character Bruce Wayne is a billionaire, so he would be able to purchase top of the notch equipment within the diegesis of the world.

I believe that next generation consoles were the best means of playing this game, the reason why I believe this is because the processing speed of both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are really high, meaning they would be able to process at a very high speed all the new features the batman game has to offer without slowing down. Although the frame rate might drop from time to time, I personally believe that this isn't really much of a problem within this game.

I personally believe that 'Batman Arkham Knight' Is one of the best in the franchise and I would gladly recommend it to other people that are interested in purchasing this came from the Arkham series, because in comparison to 'Arkham Origins' this game wasn't a disappointment to the series at all.