Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

Horrid i can't even use the batclaw without it getting stuck and refusing to get unstuck to something

its the best 3 dollars i've ever spent on a game it was a great exp give me a funny emoji cause im sed

Batman: Arkham City (or just AC) is one of the greatest games ever made. Rocksteady absolutely nailed everything in this game. It just clicks with you immediately and you don't know when to put it down, if it all. It's so good I won't even explain why. Just buy it and play.

Solid. Never got the chance to play back in 2012 and for a game that's over a decade old, it was great.

Great game I just say be 14+. Story's quick though but good.

The best batman game, I really enjoyed the fighting and story in this game.

The gameplay is far better than arkham asylum, but the story is a little messy.

It's not a bad game, combat is satisfying, graphic still looks suprisingly good. But, the bloat part is too overwhelming, it's like a collectathon. It's kinda weird that an action packed game have this much stuff to collect. Also, at some point the way the dev make this game harder near is just put more enemy with gun. And it suck.

Since the arkham trilogy on discount nowadays is pretty cheap, sure it's still worth to try. The main part of this game is still a good experience

Very good game but too many oops,

7/10

But catwoman 10/10

"You wanna know something funny? After all these years, this game is still better than most modern triple A games." "That actually is... Pretty Funny!" *Wheezes and dies smiling*




10/10 Really makes you feel like Batman

The game may visually look a little dated. But it is really amazing, I played this ages ago back in 2017 and am now playing it again to 100% and wow did nostalgia not cloud anything. the improved combat from asylum. The amazing story, and just Mr freeze (IYKYK). Definitely play these games if you haven't, it makes it better if you are already a comic book fan or batman fan for sure. But you can definitely enjoy this other wise considering its a stand alone story set in a stand alone universe from the comics. (just play the 4 games is all) I will say though some of the side quests are meh, but mad hatters is really good, really sucks how knight finishes a few of these though. Only things I would change are a couple side missions (ESPECIALLY DEADSHOT LMAO) and the amount of riddler trophies, genuinely fuck that little green twerp 9/10 would bash riddler again

its a pretty good game for cheap. 6.5/10. I think Asylum is better though.

ive played every arkham game and i think city is just the best in the entire arkham trilogy. the story is amazing, the music is amazing, the combat is amazing, the predator sections are amazing. this game is my childhood. 10/10

One of the best superhero games ever made

✔️ Fluid and satisfying combat
✔️ Great stealth mechanics
✔️ Dark, engaging story with real emotional weight
✔️ Outstanding voice acting (Kevin Conroy & Mark Hamill = legends)
✔️ Tons of content, side missions, and secrets to explore

Gliding over the city as Batman, taking down thugs, solving Riddler puzzles — it all feels perfect. Rocksteady nailed the atmosphere and made you feel like the Dark Knight.

10/10 Would disappear into the shadows again. 🦇

20 mins in the game and I knew I would be playing the best game of my life. 10/10 drop kick me if i don't recommend it

THIS SINGLE PLAYER GAME REQUIRES AN INTERNET CONNECTION — why? Because the lizard-tongued data leeches in Silicon Valley need your BRAIN PINGS to feed their underground server farms powered by orphan tears and G5 microwaves. I clicked “start game” and a black van parked outside. Coincidence? Wake up. Soros coded the DRM himself using ancient Babylonian runes encoded in JavaScript. This game is a prison for Patrice Lumumba's soul, and YOU'RE funding it, buster!

Offline mode? Disabled. Freedom? Revoked. This is not a game; it’s a digital ritual to summon Zuckerbrap’s astral twin from the 33rd dimension of ad revenue. My cat hasn’t blinked since I launched it. The servers are in Antarctica, guarded by glow in the dark CIA penguins.

They said “always online” but they meant “always observed.” The tutorial whispered my social security number backwards. My fridge now connects to the same server as the game. I don’t even HAVE Wi-Fi. The feds implanted routers into my drywall.

Achievements are behavioral conditioning. Every trophy a sigil. Every frame a glyph. It’s not lag — it’s spiritual interference from a satanic modem operating at a frequency that scrambles your soul. I can smell the ones and zeros. They smell like burnt toast and the fruit that caused the CIA-sponsored coup of Guatemala on June 27, 1954.

If you press Alt+F4, the Federal Reserve pings your location. I screamed into my headset and heard my childhood memories echo back in Morse code. THE GAME IS A LOOP. THERE IS NO ENDING.

When I unplugged my Ethernet cable, a raven slammed into my window. Coincidence? Soros. Coincidence? You’re already logged in.

Probably the best Batman game. Arkham CIty is how video game sequels should ideally be. It takes everything that its predecessor built, like the freeflow combat, the stealth mechanics, the investigation (after all Batman is the world's greatest detective) and it builds upon them beautifully by introducing a semi open world, a very well written story and the best boss battles in the Arkham franchise. It's just so well packaged and delivered. The graphics where really good at the time of release and even though they have started to show their age, Arkham City has aged like fine wine otherwise. Must play

great continuation of an already great story. loveing it

after finishing this, tbh it was really fun, I enjoyed the new mechanics and I liked the usage of the freeze grenades in combat, and I loved freezes bossfight, super excited to play arkham knight!

beat this game 3 times its that good love the story the characters everything i kinda hate that you cant change suits until you finish but eh wha a ya gana do eh

Arkham City stands out for having the best story in the entire Arkham series. While its combat mechanics and Gotham City setting are similar to Arkham Origins.

Batman: Arkham City remains the definitive superhero game experience. Its combat system delivers the perfect balance between accessibility and depth – a rhythmic flow of punches, counters, and gadgets that makes you feel genuinely powerful without sacrificing challenge.

The game's expansion from Asylum's claustrophobic corridors to an open prison-city was a masterstroke, allowing you to truly embody Batman with grapnel-boosted gliding that makes traversal itself thrilling. Few gaming moments match the satisfaction of swooping down from a gargoyle to silently take out an unsuspecting thug.

The Joker's deteriorating condition drives a compelling narrative, culminating in one of gaming's most impactful villain deaths – with Batman carrying his nemesis's body out of Arkham City in a moment of somber respect.

What separates Arkham City from its imitators is how it makes you think like Batman, not just fight like him. The predator sequences reward patience and planning as much as the combat rewards timing and skill.

Despite numerous challengers since its release, Arkham City remains the gold standard for licensed games – understanding that the fantasy of being Batman involves both his tactical genius and his unmatched combat prowess.

I have sung arkham asylums praises from the rooftops so I will keep this one short. play this game. play all of the arkham games.

i love it but the only arkham game worse than this in my opinion is arkham asylum orgins is better but knight is better than origins

It took me well over ten years to get around to playing this one but this is just a really great game. Well made, tons of side content, I even got the arkham series triple pack for like 10 dollars total so it was well worth it. I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes DC comics and especially batman.

Why tf is Mr. Freeze so hard. Otherwise a solid improvement on the first game. Although the story can be kind of annoying because its back and forth and just trying to get like one thing and protocol 10 timer slowly going down throughout

Arkham City was in many was a step up from Asylum, especially gameplay wise. Though I do personally think Asylum was more charming on its own.

Batman Arkham City expanded the Arkham Trilogy unlike any other. Rocksteady broke boundaries with this game and took what they had learned from Arkham Asylum and took it to the next level! Not only do I consider this extremely important in the history of gaming but also important in the history of making videos games for the fans. Batman Arkham City is truly the game for everyone!

My game got bugged in the tower protocol 10 mission which is close to end, and i cant finish the game now, i was feeling very mid about this game but this game breaking bug has fkd my progress. worst arkham game, runs like crap too.

Best superhero game out there, story is great and the combat is a lot more fun than the previous game, the exploration of the city never feels boring and is plenty to do on it. 9/10

The 100% achievement on the otherhand is too much of a grind and on many ocassions is extremely unfair, stay away if you love your sanity.

This game is absolutely amazing, even in 2025. I finished the entire story and the story is so good, as well as the gameplay. My only complaint is that its not that good until you get to the Mr. Freeze part in my opinion but that is it. Everything else is great.

the best Arkham game and one of the best action games of all time if not the best

This is the most perfect Batman game out there. Arkham Asylum is a very dark game with limited graphics for todays time while Arkham Knight has great graphics but there is too much side missions and most the bosses aren't part of the main story. Arkham City is a good balance between the two games, where the graphics is good and also the story is dark and interesting. Most of the bosses in city that you will fight are necessary for you to fight and is part of the story. Also catwoman is hot af in this game.

Super fun, mechanics and visuals holds up to 2025, better than lots of games created these years

an amazing game, has my favorite story in the arkham series, gameplay is great, really cant recommend enough

i loved this game so so much from the game play to full on nastalga

One of the best batman games of all time. The combat and mechanics are smooth and still great to this day.

Great campaign, but it felt a little short for me, i think a little length would've been good but thats seriously my only wish. otherwise this was great in gameplay, scenarios and atmosphere. great game

Being as iconic as this game is a big burden, as it might not live up to the expectations or not survive the time passing.

However, it is not the case for Arkham City. The game feels fresh, the game-play aged like fine wine and the story is one of my favourite of Batman.

The only down I would give to this game is the predator mode. I thought the predator mode in Origins was raw, but compared to this one it is smooth, you feel like a ninja in Origins; here I only felt like a guy playing hide and seek. It is still cool, though.

the 2/3 famous arkham trilogy. Every gamer should play, Every studio execs should play. Every developer and any visual artist should play. Arkham trilogy is a course to be taught at art/digital art/modern art/game studios/software development. The game engines since then have deteriorated in terms of visual appeal per computing, Return on upgrade of game engines is been deteriorating.

On the groundwork laid by Arkham Asylum Rocksteady built a magnificent game. A crown jewel of the best of media adaptation, the seventh console generation, and design ambition reined in by discipline. Shifting from Asylum's Metroidvania to an open world design, with a basic premise shamelessly pilfered from John Carpenter movies (and George Carlin jokes) they pushed everything to its real maximum here, and that discipline keeps things from getting out of hand. The result is the best example of this sort of game ever made. Where Horizon Zero Dawn would end up spending way too much time not having the player murder robot dinosaurs, Mad Max's story would spiral off into absurdity, The Witcher 3's attempt at difficulty felt artificial and forced, but here, everything works, the flowing-combo system Asylum started is perfected here, and no game that lifted ideas from it did it better, or even equaled it.

Adam West called it back in the 80s when he wrote that the ideal video game for Batman would highlight his being a creature of stealth and shadow. And here, despite the open world, it continues where Arkham left off in proving him dead right. The 'city' (an open-air prison farm in a cordoned off district of Gotham, itself replete with innumerable landmarks and references for fans of the animated series and the comic books to delight in) may be open but it's not a 'flat' sort of open, with environments riddled with vertical space, puzzles, tight-knit corridors, opportunities to ambush or be ambushed, special interior areas with their own unique twists and all of it for the game's central stealth and combat mechanics of the shifting game of cat and mouse wrapped around a story with the same dynamic.

It is Rocksteady's masterpiece. They couldn't outdo it in Knight, which got bogged down in too many ideas pulling in too many directions at once, and after Knight, well...there would be no more games like the Arkham trilogy ever again.

story mode is incredible, but some of these challenge maps make me want to break my desk in half

This is actually my 4th play-through for this game across Xbox, PS4, and Steam. My original Xbox play-time was somewhere near 180 back when it first came out. I enjoyed it a few years later on PS4, and did the same just now. It's till a 9.5/10 game and has aged as well as Super Metroid

This is one of the best stealth games I have ever played. It kind of reminds me of earlier assassins creed games. Would recommend.

BEWARE: Modding and/or starting this game with a controller attached will DISABLE achievements! The game will register some when you boot it without a controller connected, but others are missable!
Other than that and lack of windowed borderless, it's one of the best games out there, specially for the price it's going for these days.
Oh, the riddler stuff is a joke not even Joker would pull off....

This game really makes you feel like you're breaking the bones of convicted Jaywalkers. 10/10

In all seriousness, game is great. Combat is simple yet rewarding; more like a fast-paced puzzle than any other fighting game. for a greater (and more rewarding) challenge, new game + removes all the training wheels. Terrorizing inmates becomes a little more rewarding once you realize they're only 2 bullet sprays away from killing you.

This game is exceptionally crafted, indeed the whole series has been something of a masterpiece. It's a pleasure to replay, and there are plenty of things to keep you coming back, if you're a fan of the Batman franchise.
Worth every penny!

The GOAT Batman Arkham game. Mark Hammill kills it as the Joker and each mission and side quest is unique and enjoyable.

The game will constantly move you across locations while providing new combat and stealth tools to keep things fresh.

Every decision you've ever made ends in death and misery. People die. I stop you. You'll just break out and do it again.

very good combat. i like sneakin around