Last week Warner Bros Games, Rocksteady Games, and DC Comics unleashed what could possibly be the best Batman game ever; quite possibly the best video game based on a comic book license as well. This was no easy task considering how great Arkham Asylum turned out to be. It might be early and there's still a ton of games left to be released in the next month or so but I'm confident that Arkham City is already a major contender for game of the year. In the following write up of the game you'll find out exactly why I feel this way. I'll try to keep this spoiler free outside of mentioning some plot threads that carried over from Arkham Asylum which was released in 2009. If you haven't gotten around to playing that yet, I highly suggest doing so but there's enough going on here that's fresh that you could probably pick up Arkham City and still understand what's going on. On with the review.
Lets get up to speed real quick before we dive into this thing. In Arkham Asylum we followed the Dark Knight into the compound that housed Gotham's most dangerous criminals after the Joker set a plan into motion to take over the Asylum. This led to encounters with an assortment of villains ranging from the likes of the Scarecrow to Killer Croc. Of course in the end the Joker's plot was foiled by the world's greatest detective but not before other plans were set in motion, leading to our sequel. The warden of Arkham Asylum, Quincy Sharp manages to use the breakout and chaos to his advantage. Sharp launches a successful campaign to become the mayor of Gotham. Once elected he sets in motion the plan to section off a portion of Gotham as the new correctional facility dubbed Arkham City. And that is where things begin.
