This general feeling of comic-book-ness - that you’ll either figure it out or give up trying to - permeates the game.Īcross Gotham Knights, a truly impressive number of canonical Gothamites appear, and there are some complicated levels of canonicity to them. Like most DC comic books today, Gotham Knights is content to drop you in this absolute morass of canon statements and just assume that you will either figure it out through exposition or break down and read a wiki alongside the in-game, menu-driven information about these key characters. If this sounds like a lot of information, it is, but Gotham Knights does not really expend much energy explaining this backstory to you.
Gotham Knights is content to drop you in an absolute morass of canon statements and just assume that you will figure it all out If you have played an Arkham game, and you pick up Gotham Knights, you will not feel alienated if you’ve never played one of these before, you’re probably going to pick it up fairly quickly, anyway. There are heavy and light attacks that get better the more you commit to rhythmically punching them out, and you charge a meter that allows you to unleash special Momentum attacks that can instantly KO an enemy or stun a group. This is an action game based on one-vs-many combat encounters. This game does share a substantial amount of game design substrate with that franchise, however. That game ended with a dead Batman and a Gotham city in need of a new generation of saviors – that’s not this dead Batman, and these saviors are not the ones that city needed. I have to say that directly here, if only because it could be quite confusing.
While there are many shared characters between the games, this is fundamentally a different story in a slightly parallel universe. Notably, Gotham Knights is not a follow-up to 2015’s Arkham Knight.
To keep the heroics of Gotham going, Batman’s four protégés – Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood, and Robin – pick up where he left off in combatting, and investigating, the criminal underworld of Gotham.
In the opening cinematic, which drags on for what feels like an eternity, long-time villain Ra’s al Ghul uses some magic, a sword, and his general annoying demeanor to essentially badger Batman into a heroic, yet sacrificial death. That’s the central conceit of Gotham Knights, the new third-person action game from WB Games Montreal. Batman is dead, and it takes four people to do his job.
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