It's how I'd want a modern BattleZone to play out and while it might not cohere with the character quite as well as the freeflow fisticuffs, I always found it to be a welcome alternative.Īs an actual device to aid movement around the city, the Batmobile isn't necessary. While the rest of the world might not agree with BatKilmer's suggestion that anyone digs the car, I enjoyed the strafing-and-shooting tank combat. Arkham Knight is still reliant on repetitive loops of close combat, predatory stealth and basic detection, and the Batmobile adds another layer of activities to interrupt those loops. Thirty nine hours later, the main plot and many of the side-missions put to rest, I'd grown to love that car. Astonishingly that was the only technical issue I had, playing with the original release of the game, once I'd knocked my settings down a notch from max and turned off the Nvidia FX doohickeys (my system specs are listed at the end of the review). My mood wasn't improved by the fact that the gouts of smoke the BatTank spews up as it squeals its tires, doing more donuts than Homer Simpson's boy racer alter ego - they caused my framerate to tank. Half an hour in and I wanted to smash the bloody thing to pieces. And, yes, your eyes don't deceive you – he's only gone and replaced the figure of baby Jesus in the manger with his shiny new toy.
There it is trundling down the church aisle. There he is, at dinner, driving his car into the gravy boat and ruining everything. For a while it's as if Batman is a toddler who just got a vroom vroom for Christmas and refuses to put it down because it's the best thing EVER. It's an outrageous and unwanted insertion. Want to solve a buttons 'n' levers puzzle? Oh, you better believe you'll need to be in your car. Want to take down a tank? Get in the car. Want to travel across the city? Get in the car.
I thought so too, during the opening sequences, when the vehicle is introduced to great fanfare and insists on involving itself in every single activity. If you were to listen to popular consensus, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the addition of the Batmobile was a preposterous mistep for the series, comparable to the time when Bubsy met 3D. It'd be dishonest to pretend that my thinking about the game hasn't changed in the months since – I enjoyed it much more in the moment than my memory allows me to believe – but on one point I still stand against the critical tide. I was mid-way through my introductory review paragraph when Warner pulled the game from digital shelves. Is it any good? While the game was unavailable, there seemed little point in telling you Wot I Think but I did in fact play this latest Batventure in its entirety when it first released. There's been so much talk about Batman: Arkham Knight but one question has been left unanswered, at least round these parts.
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