![]() The problem here lies in the fact there just isn’t enough variety to justify taking these challenges over and over again.Īfter about 4 or 5 random crimes, I felt like I had seen most of what the open world challenges had to offer. To level up players are forced to engage with menial open world crimes to unlock the bigger “premeditated” crimes. ![]() This wouldn’t inherently be a problem if leveling didn’t feel like a grind and the gear system was explained more thoroughly rather than players navigating a messy UI to understand the intricacies of it all. Story and side missions are locked behind level requirements that you are forced to meet to actively engage with them. Where to even begin with what happened here? Players are asked to engage with a crafting and gear system that allows you to equip your chosen Knight with a suit, melee and ranged weapon that increases their power level and base stats and allows them to take on high level missions. Leveled enemies can at times feel very spongy and some boss encounters are so poorly designed that I started questioning if I was playing the encounter wrong. Where the game begins to stumble is in its gameplay design choices. Gotham Knights attempts to differentiate itself from most superhero games by having a full customizable gear system and having the game be full co-op. Players then go on nightly patrols in a fully open rendition of Gotham City and investigate the mysterious circumstances behind the death of the Dark Knight as well as other villains who see his death as an opportunity to wreak havoc in the city. ![]() Gotham Knights puts you into the boots of Batman’s closest allies: Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood and Robin, as they pick up the call of Justice after Batman’s death. If the Arkham games are the Burton films, Gotham Knights feels like a Schumacher film… for better or worse. Unfortunately for these Knights, the game struggles to stand apart due to a myriad of issues. In many ways the development and resulting game are put in the same situation living in the shadow of the sublime Batman Arkham video games. Montreal, opens with Batman’s death as the main characters of the game are grappling with the legacy he leaves behind and struggling with where to go next. It’s interesting that Gotham Knights, the new Bat-Family game from Warner Bros.
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