Batman™: Arkham Origins

I may be biased since I am a fan of Batman, but I have played "city" and "knight" and I really like the game. I have found some bugs seem its best dealt with initiating a mission restart (frustrating) but I really dig the story. But when the Bruce Wayne Birthday sale came on I had to pick up this game since i have not played it before.

I like the graphics. I like the gameplay. I like the story.

Could any of these be better?...I ain't giving a critique like that because I am not a game maker/designer. Are there some things I didn't like, sure. But overall the game is really cool origin story introducing lore that will show up in "city/knight" and maybe asylum but I have not played asylum, its next though.

It's like they took Arkham City and just tightened and polished everything to the 9's. Great game.

Plays really well on the Steam Deck, too.

Absolute Gold Want Everyyone To Enjoy This Perfect Game

This game is good but one of the buggiest out of the four but still good.

This Game is great, Gliding around the city feels a bit empty when compared with the other titles in the series but still an enjoyable game. I wish the multiplayer mode still worked as I've never played it

Its a great game just a bad port. The game can get extremely laggy. Now I understand this isn't the most popular or best selling arkham game but the way this game runs is embarrassing. I can't walk two steps without my frame rate jumping off a cliff. I've tried everything. I even tried running the game on the lowest possible setting and still its unbelievably laggy. This is a sad excuse of a port. I wish this game got better treatment like the other arkham games. If you like batman or the arkham series you will love this game just don't get it on PC play it on console.

This is the best batman game out there the gadgets are insanely fun the story was perfect it just has some minor glitches but doesn't worsen the expierence it actually just makes it funnier
100/10

Good story, great stealth, amazing combat

this game is my second favriot underated game i know and played number 1 is gotg that shit too good but this game not only has one of the greatest stories in the arkham verse the greatest character develpmont the greatest music (in my opinion the music part) the game is REALLY REALLY underrated and also
FUCK YOU WB I AM PLAYING THE SERVERS REVIVED SHIT WHY DID YOU SHUT DOWN THE SERVERS I CAN ONLY DO A COUPLE COMMANDS AND ITS GENUNLY A FUN ONLINE MODE
anyway uhhh 8.8/10

awesome game, interesting story line, liked fighting moves and hidden attacks personally.

pretty fun game! although my game did just now crash during the deathstroke fight, its a fun game!

Definitely the most underrated batman arkham game.The boss fights in this game are incredible and the graphics are still good .The dialogue between thugs is hilarious and the story is so good,I definitely would recommend anyone to play this game

Amazing game with exceptional combat and immersive gameplay.

Game wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. I only had like 2 actual bugs that messed up my game towards the beginning but otherwise it was pretty enjoyable and the story was good.

Despite a lot of people hating or having mixed opinions on this game, it still has a very good and well-crafted story and environment. A lot of people consider this as the "weakest" installment of the series; I still think you should give it a try.

Certainly the outlier of the series, being a bit more edgy and clunky in the way that only games made in the 2011-2013 period had. Even so, it's still a good game in it's own right with good graphics, a somewhat intriguing (if overused) story, and most importantly, fantastic game-play.

Still a great campaign which runs fantastically on Steam Deck with no changes to the standard settings.

Best Batman game you can get. Story is short but there is much to do after you complete it. The DLC makes it better 10/10 on of the best games from my childhood would beat again.

An awful port of an amazing game. I've lost count of how many times it crashed or got stuck in endless loading screens. And the list goes on—frame drops, physics bugs, sound issues... And why keep the online achievements when the server is no longer available? It's sad to see what used to be a really good experience ruined by so many problems.

Arkham Origins may be the underrated entry in the Arkham series, but it delivers exactly what fans love—brutal combat, stealthy takedowns, and a Gotham drenched in crime and snow. As a prequel, it explores a younger, more aggressive Batman facing off against assassins on Christmas Eve, with standout villains like Black Mask, Deathstroke, and a chilling early encounter with the Joker.

While the gameplay sticks closely to Arkham City’s formula, the boss fights are some of the best in the series (that Deathstroke fight? Legendary). The detective mode improvements and expanded Gotham make you feel like a true crime-fighter, even if the city can feel a bit empty at times.

Gameplay : 5/5
Graphics : 4/5
Audio (Sound effects, voice acting) : 5/5
Soundtrack : 3/5
Story : 4/5
Characters : 5/5
Worldbuilding : 3/5
Immersion : 4/5
Replayability : 4/5
Bugs Cleanliness : 4/5
Price/Quality Value : 5/5

Difficulty (1-Very easy, 5-Very difficult): 2/5

Overall : 4,2/5, Amazing

good game. adds a lots of new devices to use than previous games.

Great game, and it should definitely be included with the three Rocksteady games! I love the Christmas aesthetic, the younger more aggressive Batman, the beginning of all these important relationships in the batman world, the music, the acting, and more! There are somethings I don't like such as the long bridge that takes forever to cross, some very low quality textures, some weird glitches, but nothing that ruins the game for me! If you like Batman Arkham games, this is definitely a must play!

Arkham Origins is a good game. Out of the four games in this series, it is easily the worst entry, but that does not mean it is bad; it only says that this game is the lesser of these gods. I enjoyed my time with this game for the most part, and can recommend it to people who enjoyed its predecessors.

For the most part, this game is a carbon copy of the formula of Arkham City, and so it does many of the same things well. The combat is excellent, Batman's stride is still as confident as ever, and the game manages to capture that atmosphere of being in Batman's world in the same way as its Rocksteady siblings.

However, it is hard to ignore that many of these elements just come off as slightly less polished, and generally of being of a slightly lesser quality than the elements present in the other three games. First of all, while I cannot really put my finger on what makes the story in this game less interesting than that of the others, it simply did not manage to engage me as much as I wanted it to. The story somehow feels like a footnote, rather than a main event. In part this is because the game is a prequel, but some of the main villains of the universe do make an appearance, so you would expect the story to be somewhat impactful. But for whatever reason the cutscenes and events of the game feel somewhat superfluous. Part of the reason for this has to be that the editing and general structure of the story just felt more rushed to me, like the developers were working on a strict time and money budget to get it out the door. In fact, this sentiment holds true for just about every aspect of the game.

I have always vastly preferred the linear structure of Arkham Asylum to the semi-open world one of Arkham City. I have played these games many times (Arkham Asylum I have probably completed about 5-7 times in my life), and while the Gotham City open world is cool, I am mostly here for the set pieces found in the main story, as they have the highest production value. This was true for me even in Arkham City and in Arkham Knight, which are both games in which I nonetheless completed just about all side activities. But it is extra true in Arkham Origins. The side activities here gave me a strong feeling of 'been there done that', as they in many cases were simply less involved versions of side activities that had already appeared in Arkham City. The Riddler puzzles feel even more mindless and even less enticing than before, and I just didn't bother with them at all this time. I will say the city itself is less annoying to traverse than in City, as thankfully this time around they have done away with the "horse shoe"-shape of Gotham that always made you take the long way round to an objective.

It is cool that we got to fly through Gotham in Arkham City, and the Batmobile added another wrinkle in Arkham Knight. When these games were released, I liked the idea of exploring Gotham a lot. But more than a decade later, having to trudge through the city just feels more cumbersome than anything else. Sometimes you do get into a flow state while paragliding across the rooftops, but just as often Batman feels sluggish, as he gets caught on something. Or worse yet, when you make him run across a building on foot, it just looks awkward and antithetical to the image of the slick Batman who has a perfect economy of movement. After a few hours, I therefore simply gave up trying to engage with the side content in the city, and instead beelined it from one story objective to the next, making the game feel like Arkham Asylum in this way. This greatly increased my enjoyment of the game.

I should also mention that this game shows its age a bit in the graphics department. That might seem like a very obvious thing to say (and furthermore it is not the game's fault that it does not live up to 2025 graphical standards), but it still stuck out to me while playing, because the other games in this series have been remastered. I played through Arkham City relatively recently, and thought it looked fantastic still. In Arkham Origins, by contrast, you will frequently see extremely muddy textures. Batman's character model itself looks great, which is good because you'll be seeing a lot of it. But many of the signs and environment textures look fairly ugly, and can take away from the atmosphere of the game a bit, in my opinion.

Finally, this is a personal gripe, but I like turning off the counter indicators over enemies' heads when they attack. Having played these games so many times, I am very familiar with the combat system pioneered by Arkham Asylum (a flavor of which is present in so many character action games now, of course), and so I enjoy them playing on Hard. In the three Rocksteady games, playing on Hard turns off the flashing counter icons during combat, which I enjoy because it allows me to be immersed and to focus on the animations of enemies, rather than mindlessly waiting for those warnings to appear. However, in this game, turning off the icons can only be done by turning off hints, and it is therefore separate from the game's difficulty setting. This is fine in and of itself, but I feel that the reason for this approach, is that Arkham Origins is not tuned as well to allow for combat without the indicators. It is clear to me that the developers expected the player to have them on while playing. It mostly is fine when dealing with regular enemies in big groups (though even there the combat seems more difficult to digest visually, and thus I would occasionally get hit without feeling like it was my fault).

However, the boss battles simply do not work without the counter icons. Arkham Origins has a bunch of boss fights that are effectively quick time events, or which feature quick time events to carry you from one phase of the battle to another. In previous games, the animations would be designed in such a way as to allow you to read that an attack was coming through the animation alone. In this game, however, the boss animations often do not betray at all when you are supposed to counter. I was forced to turn on the icons in Deathstroke's third phase, simply because I literally could not tell what I was supposed to do, and had grown sick of dying after 10 attempts.

The counter icon thing may sound like a small thing, but to me it is emblematic of the way Arkham Origins manages to be a good one of these games, but is just slightly less finely tuned than the other entries into the series. It still manages to satisfy, and I applaud the developers for being (mostly) successful in crafting a capable one of these games. But despite this, I cannot ignore that this game feels rougher than its brethren. It is still a good game in its own right though, that is worth picking up if you want to have another Batman adventure.

When Barbara said “pwn” I clapped my little bat paws.

Nice to finally finish the Arkham games. Before this month, I'd only done Asylum and Knight, and the technical leap between the two entries certainly felt a great deal more impressive having skipped the crawl into what would become the maximalist rogue's gallery that is Knight.

Despite having personally found City a little empty overall, Origins exudes a stronger sense of identity, weaving its imposing architecture into many facets of the city - Blackgate prison’s dizzyingly high ceilings that create the illusion of the night sky, bizarre flying buttresses made of iron girders running through the halls like the institution's ribcages. Even the ATMs look like gothic confessionals. Gotham feels more like a forsaken cathedral, architecture looming with ominous spires and shadowed alleys like corridors to crypts. This feeling is at its strongest in the predator hunting sections, it’s particularly gratifying to blend into an environment as haunting as the throwdown you’re about traumatise the armed guards with. Arkham has always been good about this - but characters, too, seem carved from the same cold stone as the city. The cauliflowered mugs of the mobsters and the gnarled, storied skin of the named entities just have this wonderfully textured comic feel. The character animations carry a more deliberate weight, adding a brutality and theatrical element to the combat I always felt was missing. The game has a much improved lighting and physics engine too, I adore the striking visuals it gets used to create - flaming warships and plush hotels losing a battle with the elements. it’s all gorgeous, amazed they even got a 360 to agree with this. The cutscene direction is so good here that it’s making what came before even more laughable (and I’m supposed to understand why people were so cruel to the “B-team” here for all this time?). Cutscene director wants to fuck and suck Deathstroke so bad and it’s beautiful because love is so pure ❤️. Just a real focus on screen presence of the villains here that can make the stakes feel a thousand times higher. The Christmas setting is novel, but I like how they incorporated it with the OST, with the use of church bells and festive instrumentation, accentuating the haunted requiem that looms over the block. There are points that remind me of a 2D Boy soundtrack.

Gameplay really is More Of The Same, but I find it hard to scoff at another slight remix of a core I honestly find very good. Combat generally feels “better” in how slippery and responsive it feels, but they dialled it up too much imo. For a game that sells the illusion of heft pretty well it’s ridiculous that you can press X and Batman can instantly Stinger punch half a mile down the street to the next thug. I like that the Riddler shit was dialled waay back, to the point where you can barely see the collectables while free roaming, even with Detective Goggles on. The detective segments themselves are one of the more focal improvements over what Rocksteady had offered, allowing you to illustrate a timeline of events as you discover more clues in a crime scene. Enjoyed the story here a great deal more than City also, having a league of hitmen hired to kill a younger, more emotionally vulnerable Batman turns out very well.

Earnestly a little surprised that this game has never shaken its reputation as the runt of the litter after all of this time, but some blame must be placed on Warner Bros’ lap for neglecting it. It’s been landlocked on the seventh gen of consoles, and isn’t deemed worthy of being included in the Arkham lineage. Maybe it’s all Troy Baker’s fault. I’ll blame him no matter what.

might not be rocksteady or the best batman in the arkham games but its a pretty fun decent game. i would recommend it for any Batman fan wanting for more.

Good improvement on the first 2 games. Pretty fun. Combat is repetitive but fun, story is the point of these games.

little buggy , I like the darker tone and its Christmas themed.

im not a DC crazy i like marvel more but the dark knight series is just so good. This is an amazing game after watching all the dark knight series the game made more sense if u dont have this game i would suggest buying it it cheap and fun it can be a bit confusing but u will get it like, E.G. 1 tap x2 means double hit 1 on keyboard. and at christmas this game is $1 aus so yeah i highly suggest this game (:

Origins somehow offers worse graphics, game play, and glitches than the original Arkham game six years before it. The core mechanics and premise is still a lot of fun, but so many corners were obviously cut you can count on your immersion and fun being regularly interrupted.

i remember playing the game in xbox 360 and it has and still have great vibe for me but there is sth in steam version that let me down and that is online achivements of the game i bought it to make it 100% trophy and because of online server is shutdown i can't do it

Really loved this game story was really good. Riddler is quite annoying as always but had a great early batman years enjoyment

Play this first, before Asylum & City.

[quote] Rating: 9/10 [/quote]
Game starts with a banger intro, hooked me right away.

Story takes place before Arkham Asylum, so I highly recommend you to play in chronological order and not release order. I feel this game is little underrated (ignoring bugs). Combat feels so much better now. Graphics is stunning as always, just lower the in-game brightness for natural batman dark tone and you will have a blast, especially if you love cinematic story.

They added more enemy bosses, which I felt the previous games didn't focus enough on. But it's not all roses and butterflies. Game is definitely still buggy, with few prominent ones like inconsistent grappling hook, simultaneous double batman voices, ground takedown not working, etc. In fact, a game breaking glitch in the DLC made me restore old save from steam to proceed!

While the issue isn't going to be fixed anytime soon, the game in itself is good. I had a fantastic time.

Arkham Origins sadly gets slept on way too much, which is a shame because it's arguably on the same level as Knight. Has a few minor issues but otherwise a fantastic introduction for early Batman with the combat and story, and after the absolute grind City was for achievements this was a nice breath as I got very lucky to find people who helped me get the multiplayer achievements :) 10/10

The combat system is just as good as the other games. Stealth feels good and the story up to where i played is pretty good. If you played the other games then i would recommend you play this one.

At first I could see all the problems with this game like a different feeling combat compared to Arkham asylum, Kevin Conroy RIP not voicing batman, and the weird game pace. But there are many strengths to this game, the bosses for one are the best in the whole Arkham series, the cut scenes are also done brilliantly and the story overall was really quite enjoyable. The environment and Christmas aesthetic go beautifully and seeing all the snow over Gotham just looks amazing. Overall this Is a hidden gem in the Arkham series and in my opinion I think it rivals Arkham city.

Better than I expected, I think most of the negative reviews were pretty harsh. I had a lot of fun, good story, good arenas, boss fights are better than arkham knight. Worth a play.

Very underrated game. Tons of collectibles to get as well as plenty of things to do after beating the main story. Highly recommend.

had a few bugs that dragged down the game for me, as well as some strangely designed "dungeon" layouts that I wasn't personally enjoying compared to the other Arkham games.

story is pretty solid
gameplay is basically the same as city, which is a good thing
generally just more of the same, which isn't a bad thing

aside from the bugs I enjoyed the game, but didn't feel inclined to do much more after the story

In my opinion the best story in all Arkham series along with Shadows. City may be more funny and comic book-like but Origins felt more personal. Fantastic soundtrack and great Joker.

Its good game with all great combat and the deathstroke fight was goat for me

Buggy mess. Don't bother unless you have a fix handy or better yet get it for console so you don't have these slapdash pc port problems.

While the game looks fun it has many issues. The audio continuously will drop out, the enemies become transparent and can even be entirely invisible. The gameplay is fun but the bugs outweigh the cost. There is also no sensitivity changing option in the menu

Arkham Origins is pretty good actually. The game is considered the black sheep of the Arkham series (mostly because it was made by WB Montreal and not Rocksteady Studios). This does show in the gameplay department......somewhat. The gliding sucks. Not as fun to do as in Arkham City.

That's it though? In all other areas, I find that WB Montreal did a pretty decent job of continuing the gameplay of the Arkham series. Some of the new additions are cool such as the Shock Gloves. The boss fights, while not as great as those in Arkham City, are still pretty good and certainly better than those in Arkham Asylum. Apart from the aforementioned gliding mechanics, Arkham Origins still maintains the enjoyment that the Arkham series provides.

The standout feature of this game that makes me slightly prefer this one to Arkham City, however, is the story. It has a clear focus and every situation that Batman goes through ties into the main narrative in a cohesive fashion. This is where I think Arkham City struggled. I quite enjoyed seeing Batman's dynamic with Alfred, a younger Commander Gordon and of course, Joker. Speaking of whom, the new voice actors for Batman and Joker do a pretty good job as well. Roger Craig Smith as Batman is only slightly different from Kevin Conroy but I think that he suits a younger Bruce Wayne quite well. Troy Baker is excellent in everything he does and The Joker is no different.

I would say this game is underrated. If you love the Arkham games and have somehow not played this, give it a shot. At least for the story.

This game is up to par with every other Arkham game and is more than worth the download especially if you are someone who has only ever played the original trilogy!

The developers have pleased Us with a lot of bosses, oh, there are really a lot of them!
The Killer Croc is the first to be dealt. And so, the video screensaver before the fight with the villain, and I finally fell in love with this game. What a graphic!!! What a drawing! I can't take my eyes off! What overshadows the picture (although it's darker than Gotham and its Dark Knight) is that We win pretty quickly and effortlessly.
Then Slade aka Deathstroke Wilson. I've been through this fight five times. That was awesome! It's spectacular, spectacular, dynamic, and much more difficult than the aforementioned Croc. You can also play for Destruction in training mode, for which special thanks to the developers.

Then there was Deadshot, Copperhead, Shiva, and in the midst of all this mess, HE appears: a madman, a sociopath, a sadist, a maniac, a genius villain and the "self-proclaimed prince of the underworld" - the Joker. Another plus in the piggy bank of advantages.
But the most difficult fights were with Bane. Yes, we had to fight him twice, and both times the Bats scored well, but still with

Second Arkham game I've played (Asylum being the first), still City and Knight to go eventually. Good game overall, I liked the storyline and its open-worldness. The first battle of the whole game (with KC) was so so buggy for me, I'd lose sound and he would disappear completely, but the rest of the game played completely fine?.. Otherwise I'd recommend if you're looking to go through the series.

Great origin game to a good series, just a tad short. Even while doing all the side content

Good,but not great.

I played this game in order of release with the rest of the Arkham games and felt both a sense of mild satisfaction, and also a feeling of tiredness. The game's visuals were a fantastic upgrade from the previous two games, but with so much feeling the same, after a while, the fatigue kicked in and I started to feel bored quite quickly with the combat and story.

Story:
While there are moments where it really kicks off well, Origins really feels like a rollercoaster of good and mediocre that left me feeling a little put out from what this game, I felt, was truly capable of story-wise. The voice actors of Batman and Alfred were great in their performances, but without Mark Hamill as Joker, it felt wrong and put me off (no offense Troy Baker). In the end, it was probably the weakest of the Arkham games in terms of stories, but it's by far not the worst story I've ever seen in a video game.

Gameplay:
This section is quite short because much of what would be considered gameplay is more of less a carbon copy of many of the other Arkham games previous to this title's release. The hand-to-hand combat is the exact same and while is rewarding when the combos start to role, it can feel extremely repetitive in times due to the lack of major changes. If you liked the gameplay from the previous Arkham games, then you'll love this, if not then vice versa.

Visuals:
This game took a big step up in terms of visual fidelity and overall art design. The previous games, while good for their time, have started to show much of their age compared to this title which has aged quite well. The options given are good, if not a bit less customizable than some other games of the time. Overall, the visuals were a big boost to my overall enjoyment of the game and the world it's set in.

Overall:
It's a good, not great Arkham game that might satisfy the itch if you stretch out the Arkham games over several months, but not something to marvel in back-to-back gaming sessions with Asylum, City, and later, Knight.

6/10 is a ok game is worth playing if you LOVE the arkham games but it has many faults

pros:
cutscenes
combat

cons:
by far the most bugs out of all arkham games
voice acting
open world


DLC:
7.5 really fun and i enjoyed it!