Friday, 28 October 2022 15:55

Gotham Knights’ Arkham Asylum Was Never Going to Live Up to Rocksteady’s

Written by Jared Stewart
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Gotham Knights takes a stab at Arkham Asylum in a small way, dodging comparisons to Rocksteady's atmospheric and seminal Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Arkham Asylum is an iconic psychiatric institution in the DC mythology, and it is almost certainly cemented in that way due to its depiction in Batman: Arkham Asylum. It is admirable that Gotham Knights takes a stab at Arkham Asylum in its own narrative, but it inevitably falls short of Rocksteady’s iteration. One could argue that Gotham Knights’ Gotham City outshines the Arkhamverse’s, iterating on open-world activities in a much more narratively dynamic and cohesive way, but Batman: Arkham Asylum’s world-building and atmospheric presence makes Arkham's nonlinear experience truly memorable.

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