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Given the atrocious track record of Batman in
video games in general, the innovative Arkham
Asylum and Arkham City were (pardon the pun)
game changers. Arkham Knight is the concluding
part to the Arkham trilogy, available on new-gen
only. It features a full roster of Batman’s greatest
villains including a newcomer, the formidable Arkham Knight, who
was designed exclusively for the game by Rocksteady and DC.
The most significant introduction to the series is the playable
Batmobile, a strategic asset for the Caped Crusader in the war
against Arkham Knight and his armoured mercenaries. B: AK
offers up passages of genuinely challenging gameplay, whether it’s
deciphering Riddler’s puzzles or mustering the skill and patience
needed to defeat incessant waves of enemy tanks. The narrative is
exceptional, too, considering Rocksteady decided to pen the story
in-house and not enlist Paul Dini, the Batman aficionado who wrote
the first two games.
Towards the end of the B: AK, elements of the gameplay become
repetitious, but this still doesn’t spoil the fun. However, as the
credits roll you can’t help but feel that this is the right time for the
studio to step away from the franchise.
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VIDEO GAME
HISTORY – AUGUST
Date: 1996
August of 1996 was a busy month
for video games, whether we knew it
then or not. Crash Bandicoot and The
Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall both released
this month. Portal developer VALVE also
opened its doors for the first time this
year.
Date: 2004
August 3, 2004, saw the release
of id Software's DOOM 3 . The
franchise reboot was reasonably
successful, and even had a
series of novelisations that
debuted in 2008.
Batman: arkham
KNIGHT
QUOTE
THIS:
TWEET of the MONTH
"You were looking at your phone. What, are you
tweeting? Hashtag "There's a freaking ghost after us!"
Ashley in Until Dawn
There is a hidden room in Half-Life that has Gabe Newell’s face plastered all over the walls.
There are three locations in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind named after Pokémon: Marowak’s
Spine, Weepingbell Hall and Kakuna Burial.
One of the games used to test Microsoft’s Kinect was a simulator that let you play as a seagull
and poop on passersby.
Did you know?
"I feel like I should do all the things I never find the time to do
because of work/but I seem to just keep playing Arkham Knight."
Alex Hutchinson - Creative Director at Ubisoft Montreal
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