Wednesday 26 October 2016

4 Batman Arkham games ranked

So I haven't done a rankings entry for a while and so I decided to bring it back by doing an entry ranking the 4 Batman Arkham games. These games are easily some of, if not the best comic book games of all time and the most iconic. I've personally played and finished all the games and so now I'm going to rank them from worst to best. And if you've played these games, then you should know how this is going to go. Anyway, let's start.
4. Batman: Arkham Origins: Starting us off at the bottom of the list is Batman: Arkham Origins. This is the prequel to the two previous games and it came out 2013. This is everyone's least favourite of all the Arkham games. The biggest problem is that the story isn't all that investing. It isn't very interesting either. There are good things in it. Like the gameplay was fun and it was still pretty fun to fight a whole bunch of criminals as Batman and the boss fights were fun too. It was also pretty cool to see Deathstroke in this and his fight was fine and so was the fight with Bane. But overall, this game really isn't all that fantastic. Also, I've said this before and I'll say it again, I don't entirely like Roger Craig Smith replacing Kevin Conroy as Batman. He's the same guy who replaced Sonic the Hedgehog's old actor. I've said that before. I don't hate the guy but I don't think he's the best when it comes to these kind of things. He does do a good performance, but his voice just doesn't match the characters he does sometimes. This game's still good I suppose but it's definitely the least of all the Arkham games.
3. Batman: Arkham City: Coming in at number 3 is the sequel to the first game, Batman: Arkham City. I don't entirely know how people see this game. As in I don't know if they see it as better or a little below the first game. I personally think that it's not as good as the first game, but at the same time, it's really great. The one thing I can definitely say is better than the first game is that the fighting's better with there being more criminals to defeat at once and the gameplay is good too. Especially the parts where you have to use the gadgets. And it was a better after the ending. In that I mean in the first game, after you finish the story, you can't fight any more enemies, but here you can. And on that note, I did like the ending. In case you don't know the story of this game, it has Batman going around Arkham City looking for a cure because Joker is sick from all the Venom he took at the end of the first game and at the end Batman does get the cure and Joker wants it really bad and so he sends Clayface to get it and to kill Batman. After you defeat Clayface, Joker attacks Batman and makes him drop the cure and it smashes and then Joker dies. That was a really risky thing there. And that's why Batman: Arkham City is at number 3.
2. Batman: Arkham Asylum: 2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum was the game that started everything. This was kind of a strange year to come out. Not a bad one, I'm just talking about the fact that it kinda came out of no where. It brought back Kevin Conroy as Batman and the action is top notch here. When you're Batman you get to do things like flip around all over the place and take down a whole bunch of criminals and thugs and bosses, which is awesome. It also had some cool bits where you had to fight these giant monsters and you got to punch them over and over and climb onto them and control them. It was a lot of fun to do that. And the whole story about trying to go through Arkham and find the Joker was fun. It also had Mark Hamill return as the Joker who's still the best Joker ever in my opinion. And seeing all these things play out and doing a whole bunch of tasks was great. It was so fun. The reason I like this more than Arkham City is because I think the story in this more interesting and more fun. And the only reason it's not at number 1 is because there's one game just better than this one, so let's get to that.
1. Batman: Arkham Knight: Last year's Arkham Knight was the game that defined Batman as the best comic book character to be adapted for a video game. It had incredible action, a great villain with the Arkham Knight, it had fantastic voice performance, it had the best Batman actor ever returning, it had a great twist reveal, it had some pretty horrific deaths and the visuals are stunning here. I wouldn't say it's as amazing as the visuals we got in the Kingdom Hearts 3 trailer for that game but the graphics in this are fantastic nonetheless. The story in this as well is amazing and so interesting. It's a really enthralling game story. And the fighting is incredible. You get to do more moves as Batman and he does things like more flips and jumps and just kicking a whole of criminal's butts. And the scenes with the Batmobile, while it had it's problems, was still fun. It was also sad to see Barbra die in this game. If you don't know how she dies, here it is. Scarecrow uses his gas on her and makes her think Batman is a monster and he's out to get her and so to stop her from seeing this, she grabs and gun and shoots herself in the head. That was honestly pretty scary. Thankfully she's not really dead. We're just supposed to think she is. And I actually did like how it turned out that Jason Todd the Arkham Knight. I guess I did kinda see it coming, especially given the small little hints it gave at it. And all that is why Batman: Arkham Knight is at number 1 as the best Arkham game. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.

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