Batman Arkham City detailed analysis

Hello everyone, today I want to continue the series of reviews of games in the Arkham series. Today I will analyze Batman: Arkham City.

Development

The first sketches of the game were made during the development of Batman: Arkham Asylum, and in the game itself there was a secret room where there were city concepts.

Full development started in February 2009. Initially, the game was supposed to have a Batmobile, but for the sake of balance it was not added, and since Arkham City was five times larger than Arkham Asylum, the developers decided to add more challenges and additional quests . In general, there are significantly more activities and characters in the game than in the first part, and the plot has become larger and deeper. Actually, we’ll move on to the plot now.

Plot

It all starts with Catwoman trying to steal something, but ends up being targeted by Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face.

Afterwards we are switched to some kind of press conference where Bruce Wayne speaks for the cancellation of the Arkham City project, which involves a part of the city closed by walls in which prisoners will be kept.

But suddenly there is an attack and Bruce is taken to Arkham City.

We wake up and find out that a certain Hugo Strange has found out that Batman is Bruce Wayne and Batman is somehow interfering with Protocol 10. We try to escape, but we get hit in the face and we are led along the corridor, where prisoners attack us, and at the entrance the Penguin and his minions are waiting for us, whom we defeat and, having climbed onto the roof of the house, we get our equipment.

We learn that Catwoman is being tried by Two-Face. We go to the courthouse and save her, ask about Protocol 10, but she doesn’t know anything, and they shoot at us from the bell tower. It turns out it was the Joker, and we are actually going to the bell tower.

At the entrance we see armed bandits, which should not have happened in Arkham City, but with the bandits Harley Quinn. She leaves, and the bandits take hostages.

We deal with the armed bandits and see our old friend Aaron Cash, he tells us that the church was captured by the Joker bandits and they were looking for doctors. They took one of them, and now we need to find the doctor and the Joker.

But first we need to visit the place where they shot at us. On the spot we find out that they were shooting remotely, and there is a bomb in the bell tower, we jump out just before the explosion and, taking the Joker’s trail, we head to his lair.

At the entrance we deal with the bandits and see this picture, the doctor is thrown to the mercy of the crowd, but suddenly she was taken to the smelter, well, we have no choice but to go save her. After a short fight, we return to the hall and try to get into the Joker’s office, but we get a boot in the face and fight again.

We defeat Mr. Hammer and come to the Joker’s office, but there we see a dead Joker, who turns out to be fake and we are knocked out.

Now we again need to https://slotsnogamstop.co.uk/review/gxmble/ play as Catwoman, who wants to rob Hugo Strange’s vault, but first we need to get into it. Poison Ivy will help us with this. We make our way to her, but she wants to kill us for something, then it turns out that she wants to kill us because Selina didn’t look after Ivy’s flowers while she was in the hospital.

After a short battle, we are captured by Ivy and switch to Batman.

We find out that the Joker was looking for doctors for a reason. After an overdose of titanium, he began to slowly die, and now there is a piece of the Joker in Batman. Well, now it’s in our best interests to find a cure.

No, just look at him fucking, he’s a demon incarnate. Apparently the blow with explosive gel did not go without consequences.

Only Mister Freeze has the medicine, and he is unknown where. We follow the trail and end up in the building of the former police station, defeat the bandits and learn from one of them that Mr. Freeze is in the Penguin Museum. We go to the museum, but we find out that jammers do not allow entry into the museum. We destroy the jammers and go to the museum. At the museum we learn that Jim Gordon sent undercover police officers to Arkham City.

Now our task is to save the cops, find Freeze and, if possible, defeat the Penguin.

Next we find ourselves in the arena, where we defeat bandits and a titanium mutant, which is unexpected, because in the last part we seemed to destroy all the titanium.

After the battle, we find ourselves in the ice peak lounge, we save other policemen and find ourselves in a hall where we cannot stop the penguin with Mr. Freeze’s gun, so we go to the next room and find Mr. Freeze. He is not in the best condition and therefore will not be able to prepare medicine without a suit, but he says that his suit contains information on how to hack the cannon.

We take information from the suit and get a device for hacking the gun. We return to the penguin, but he blows up the floor below us and we end up with Solomon Grundy.

We kill him a couple of times and defeat the penguin. We come with the penguin to Frieze and find out that the medicine that Frieze prepared has expired. But there is still a chance, the medicine will require the blood of Ra’s al Ghul, but he is dead. But his organization is now in the city, and the killer from this clan is running away right in front of us and leaving his blood.

We follow the trail, but we fall into the trap of assassins. We are almost losing, but Robin comes to our aid, who went here because Alfred asked to help Batman. But we say that everything is in order and send Robin to Gotham so that he can deal with the Joker’s blood.

We continue to follow the trail and find ourselves in the sewer, from which we find ourselves in an underground city – the Miracle City, which Ra’s al Ghul built long before the events of the game. But Batman is getting worse and worse and he is almost dying, but he finds the strength to continue his journey.

In the bowels of the city there is a Lazarus Pit, which we need, because it was it that gave Ra’s al Ghul immortality. Having found the entrance to the lair of the League of Shadows, we meet Talia al Ghul, she, in turn, says that in order to get to the Lazarus Pit, you need to pass a test. We pass a test, which cannot be called a test, but be that as it may, we find ourselves in the chambers of Ra’s al Ghul. Ra’s al Ghul says that if we want to pass the test, we must kill Ra’s al Ghul.

We defeat Ra’s al Ghul, but he takes Talia hostage. We knock him out and take a blood sample.

Next, we get out of the subway and find out that the mayor of Gotham, Quincy Sharp, was brought to Arkham City, we interrogate him and find out that he built Arkham City at someone’s orders, with the condition that he would put Strange in charge.

After this, we go to Freeze for medicine, but he says that the Joker stole his wife – Nora Freeze. Because of this, for some reason he attacks us. Well, we naturally defeat him, but while the fight was going on, Harley Quinn stole the medicine.

We leave Frieze’s lair, but then Vicki Vale’s helicopter flies up to us, which was shot down. We rescue her at the crash site. Now nothing stops us from going to the Joker’s steel mill. But we face heavy security. But even she doesn’t stop us and we stumble upon Harley Quinn tied up for some reason, and after that we find ourselves in the Joker’s arena, where we naturally win, but suddenly Protocol 10 begins and the ceiling collapses.

Batman gets stuck under the rubble and the Joker leaves with Talia al Ghul, who tricks the Joker to save Batman.

On such a sudden note, we switch to Catwoman.

She nevertheless agrees with Ivy that she will help her in robbing Strange’s vault. We head to the vault and take the keys from the guards, rob the vault and learn that Batman is under the rubble and we have a choice: leave with the money or save Batman. Saving Batman.

Now we, as Batman, need to go to the Miracle Tower and stop Protocol 10, which, as it turns out, simply destroys all prisoners and buildings in Arkham City.

With the help of helicopters we get codes for the Miracle Tower and climb to its top.

Having risen to the top, we meet Strange face to face and defeat him.

But then, out of nowhere, Ra’s al Ghul appeared and killed Strange, who, as it turned out, was in cahoots with Ra’s al Ghul and also wanted to destroy the criminals. But Strange manages to execute Protocol 11, which blows up the Miracle Tower. Ra’s al Ghul escaped surveillance in flight and crashed, and Batman went to the Monarch Theater, where the Joker took Talia al Ghul hostage.

Having reached the theater, we fight with Clayface, who was previously pretending to be the Joker. It seems that we have already won, but the Joker blows up the floor of the theater. We continue the battle with Clayface and the Joker, trying to jump into the Lazarus Pit, falls, and the pit along with the room is undermined. Batman, having got out from under the rubble, drinks the medicine, but then the Joker plunges a knife into Batman’s shoulder, who dropped the medicine for the Joker, who in turn tried to collect the remains, dies. Without any deception. Joker is dead.

This is where the game ends, but there is also the Revenge of Harley Quinn DLC, which is not the most interesting. In it, for Robin, we need to free Batman and defeat Harley Quinn.

Gameplay

Batman: Arkham City has become much more diverse than its predecessor, this game is a competent development of the gameplay solutions of Batman: Arkham Asylum. That is, if in the first part the combat system, although it was breakthrough, but in my opinion it was sorely lacking in variety. In the same game, the combat became much more diverse: new combos, gadgets and enemies appeared in it. Well, the main innovation of this game is Catwoman, she is not very different from Batman, but she does a good job of breaking up the gameplay, although she annoyed me because she appeared at the most interesting moments of the plot and interrupted it.

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