The Batman Arkham Games: Why They’re Still Awesome Sauce

The Batman Arkham trilogy games are peak superhero gaming with its free flow fighting style to the gameplay, this 16 year old game series is one that has people going back to play. In chronicle order it goes Batman: Arkham Asylum ,Batman :Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Knight all of them made by Rocksteady Studios. 

Batman Arkham Asylum

This one was the game in the trilogy and won the game of the year for its amazing gameplay story telling and genuinely for its immersive feeling which made the player feel like you're actually Batman. with every corner there could be a jump scare waiting for a maniac to pop out from a vent the game makes you fight many supervillains inside of Arkham Asylum. 

Batman Arkham Asylum was the first to bring the free flow fighting style to fighting games. With this mechanic the player could fight big groups of goons with fluid movement and looked like a skilled martial artist. 

And uses many sound cues and dark unexplored areas in the map to bring the horror of the asylum come to life. Many people remember playing Batman and getting terrified of the intercom chime before every announcement left an unsettling feeling. Intercom Chime from Batman Arkham Asylum 

Batman Arkham City

Arkham city is the sequel to Arkham Asylum and the second game of the series in rocksteady's awesome trilogy of batman games. This one continuous Batman story in a section of Gotham which was closed to contain the inmates and bad guys in.

In my opinion it has some of the best story telling the way that you can visibly see batman slowly getting poisoned by the joker blood in his system and many chances when you see the hero fall down and the feeling of not being able to stop all the villains 

The feeling of slowly dying and the pressure of stopping protocol 10 and other villains is just a masterpiece of storytelling and all the boss fights in between the main mission. Like getting the cure from Mr. Freeze makes it more intense because Harley Quinn steals the antidote for Joker's poison, making Batman look for Harley Quinn for his poisoning.

This game's map and story telling and the free flow fighting style that was also added made this game feel very interesting and this made Batman Arkham city earn the game of the year award.

Batman Arkham Knight

Batman Arkham Knight was the last game of the trilogy. And brought a lot of cool features like the Batmobile and a new massive map. This game has the best graphics in the whole trilogy, the building and the mechanics make it feel real. 

The map has a whole 3 different big islands called Miagani island, Founders islands, Bleake island and with all these islands there has to be a faster way to travel so they added the Batmobile a tank with the speed of a race car this Batmobile makes you feel like batman fighting thru the Arkham knights army. 

The game is mentally hurts Batman, his fear of not being able to save the city or to not save people who he cares about. Scarecrow shows him some one close to him Barbra Gordon killing her self and batman sees that at his fault but it's all an illusion near the end shows his dead parents and one of his long lost sons that he thought that the joker killed was always alive and now is the Arkham knight plotting revenge on Batman for leaving him to suffer in the jokers hands 

At the end of the game and after all 248 Riddler trophies scarecrow unmasked batman to the world and to not put the life of his peers and city in risk after he leaves from the capture of scarecrow he fakes his death to the people and started using doses of scarecrow gas to inflict fear into villains. 

Overall this batman trilogy reformed the way fighting games play of the next superhero games from the graphics from Arkham Knight to the horror implement the Arkham Asylum had or the most iconic free flow fighting fluid style or the annoying 200-300 Riddler trophies in each game made Arkham trilogy Absolute cinema.