Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Hand-to-hand and gadget combat against gangs of human thugs, with punches, bone-crunch finishers and some blood spatter, but no gore or dismemberment.
Alcohol appears in the setting and enemy chatter references drinking.
Plot involves a terminally ill Joker, a warden's genocidal 'Protocol 10' plan to slaughter the prison population, murder, and betrayal.
Innuendo and crude sexual remarks from thugs, plus flirtatious dialogue and posturing during Catwoman segments.
Frequent moderate profanity in villain and thug dialogue.
Female characters such as Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy wear tight, revealing outfits.
Occasional grim, unsettling moments and a creepy asylum-turned-prison atmosphere, but not built around scares.
The world is a prison overrun by gangs; the player, as Batman, fights ongoing violent crime and gang activity.
Villains such as the Joker and Hugo Strange menace and torment captives, referenced and shown in the story.
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What it is
Batman: Arkham City is a single-player open-world action-adventure superhero game in which you play as Batman inside a walled-off prison district of Gotham holding the city's criminals. Gameplay centers on fluid melee brawling, stealth takedowns of armed thugs, gadgets, gliding traversal, and detective puzzle-solving. Combat is frequent but bloodless with no killing or gore; content skews darker in its story, which involves a dying Joker, a warden's plan to mass-murder the inmates, kidnapping, and murder. Female characters wear revealing outfits, thugs make crude and sexually threatening remarks toward Catwoman, and dialogue includes moderate profanity and drug references (the fictional steroids TITAN and Venom). There are no microtransactions, no online play, and no chat.
How it's framed
The game frames Batman as a non-lethal vigilante who subdues rather than kills, positioning the player against organized criminals and villains; violence is presented as heroic crime-fighting, while the darker plot elements are treated as serious, tragic drama rather than glorified.
Details
- Developer
- Rocksteady Studios
- Publisher
- WB Games
- Released
- Sep 7, 2012
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