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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edaLZ5zs3J4

2009
360/PS3/PC

Arkham Asylum really defined one-vs-many combat for the rest of the 2010s. The way that you flow from enemy to enemy has a rhythm to it that feels real good when you master the combat and get chains going.

That combat feeling is actually secondary to the literal stalking that you do as Batman in the rooms where the enemies have guns. Arkham Asylum takes the stealth genre, a genre that centers around your character being weak in order to create gameplay balance and tension, and turns it into an empowering experience. Arkham games give you so many fabulous toys to play with, down to the heart rate monitoring of criminals, that makes the whole thing an absolute delight.

On the flipside, theres a lot of story and dialogue that quite honestly gets in the way of the fun unless youre a DC nerd. Joker and Harley Quinn are taunting you the whole time and it adds nothing but a bunch of pointless banter that has kind of crushed the atmosphere of big budget games in the last 10 years.

Asylums the best of the Batman games because it gives you a sense of place that the open world ones lacked. The almost metroid-like map is pretty cool for a big budget 3d game like this.

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xyzzy