This might sound familiar. In 2009, Joystiq awarded Batman: Arkham Asylum its number three spot in that year’s top ten list of games and here we are, two years later, giving that game’s sequel the same honor. But it’s not the same honor.
Referencing the failure to launch of Pandemic’s open-world Dark Knight movie tie-in game, I identified Rocksteady’s success as one primarily of scale: “Instead of building an open-world Gotham City, they built an intimate (and immediately captivating) Arkham Asylum, as full of history and lore as you’d expect the comic book icon to be.” Of course, Batman: Arkham City is an open-world game.
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