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Batman: Arkham City Review

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So...another game burned off. It was a really fun time, gliding around Arkham City, taking out random thugs with no gang affiliation whatsoever, using Batman's arsenal of gadgets.

Let's split this game between the pros and cons:

PROS:
- Freeflow 2.0 was amazing. It greatly expanded upon the movepool from the first game, and added a practical use for the Cape Stun. All of Batman's Quickfire gadgets are fun to use, and the double and triple counters are fun to pull of. Oh, and FreeFlow Focus is beast.
- Predator Gameplay was also an improvement. Enemies are now more smarter, as they will blow up gargolyes, take hostages, set mines, and even jam Batman's Detective Mode.
- Storyline was creative, fun, and invogorating. I'm surprised that Rocksteady managed to add so many villians, whether they'd be simple cameos or part of a side-mission. The great voice acting also helped. Tara Strong was suprisingly good as Harley Quinn, and Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill are great as well. But in my opinion, Victor Zsasz, Riddler, and Mr. Freeze had the best voice acting.
- Challenge maps are addicting, fun, and obsessive.
- Riddles are more harder to obtain, and truly bring out the Dark Knight's intelligence.

CONS:
- Though the combat was great, the animations were SLIGHTLY sloppy, as there were numerous clipping incidents with Batman's cape. Sometimes, the punches don't even connect.
- Catwoman's story was rather dissapointing. I wanted more episodes with her.
- Arkham City was rather tiny for my tastes

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The cape animations do need some work. Oftentimes, it would be halfway across the room if you reacted too quickly and then bundled all over his back, all in about a second.

I do agree the city was a bit too small. I didn't like how Wonder Tower took up such a big part. It was too in the way.

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the size of arkham should have been bigger...anyways thought just occured, if they wanted to get rid of the villian problem, why didn't the just give them a death sentence or something? well arkham city was just a shooting range if you think about it.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which

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Just killing criminals for stealing things or having others kill for them isn't really worth the death sentence, but I'm against it no matter what, but this is still fiction. haha

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