Build enough meter and you can cash it in for a special attack like an unblockable series of strikes, or an aerial storm of batarangs-you get the idea. The result is some flashy, cape-swishing fights that look straight out of a choreographed movie.ĭepth comes from Momentum Abilities, which build up as you land attacks and perform perfect dodges. While it still sports the very magnetised, combo-heavy combat of its predecessors, the game places more of an emphasis on dodging attacks than it does countering-in fact, there’s no counter button whatsoever. It’s a shame then that in its search, the game is instead more memorable for its extraneous systems, technical issues, and scattershot writing.Īt its core, Gotham Knights is an open-world action game. It’s fitting too that, as the developers are trying to find an identity outside of the Bat’s shadow, so too is the game’s vigilante cast of twenty-somethings. While Rocksteady’s 2009 smash hit Arkham Asylum would establish the tone and mechanics for every Batman game to come-a series WB Montreal themselves contributed to with 2013’s Arkham Origins- Gotham Knights is a standalone title, removed from the burden of continuity that damn near a decade’s worth of storytelling imposes.
And it’s precisely for that reason that I was interested in checking out WB Montreal’s Gotham Knights. Aside from that, he’s just a libertarian power fantasy-a moneyed man that will do what that state can’t. To me he’s always been a vehicle for stylish action movies or cool open-world video games.
I’m just going to say this up front: I don’t really care about Batman.
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