Some sequences allow players to use tank-like vehicles with machine gun turrets and rockets to shoot enemies a vehicle's wheels are also used to torture an enemy in one sequence. Enemies cry out in pain when struck, and some takedowns are highlighted by brief slow-motion effects and loud impact sounds. Players engage in melee-style combat using punches, kicks, and gadgets (e.g., batarangs, explosives). Players traverse a variety of locations around Gotham while battling thugs, examining crime scenes, and occasionally rescuing hostages. His character isn't so much a villain as he is a leash, unwittingly giving slack to the Joker and deliberately holding the revenge-hungry Arkham Knight back from killing Batman.This is an action-adventure game in which players primarily assume the role of Batman as he battles several villains spreading chaos across Gotham City. Scarecrow isn't really a physical threat either - that comes from the army he enlisted via the Arkham Knight. Scarecrow himself isn't really a psychological threat, his gas just makes it easier for Joker to take over (Scarecrow, meanwhile, has no idea what's going on in Batman's mind). It just has the unfortunate effect of negating every other conflict in the game. It builds to a dramatic, resounding climax that you actually get to play through instead of watch via in-game movie. It's certainly the only truly satisfying arc of the game - Hamill's performance is as fantastic as we've come to expect (Kevin Conroy returns as Batman, but sounds strangely wooden this time around. In a way, the game's actual struggle isn't the external war against Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight, but the internal one between Bruce Wayne and the Joker.
He taunts and makes fun of Batman throughout the entire game, eager to have full control over The Dark Knight.
In "Arkham Knight," Batman discovers that there are four other people Joker exposed to his blood, and they all begin to exhibit aspects of the madman's personality - and it's finally happening to him, too.Įssentially, Rocksteady gave us the Joker as Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt's character in "Fight Club" who is suddenly revealed to be Edward Norton's repressed split personality. The evil clown you encounter is in fact a hallucination, a consequence carrying over from the conclusion of "Arkham City," where Joker infected Batman with a toxic sample of his own blood. In "Arkham Knight," the Joker is actually dead. Mark Hamill's iconic Joker is in the entire game. You get used to things the more you see them, and it's harder to have the Joker scare you when you see him all the time.Įxcept it's all a fake-out. That's a laudable goal - the Joker is something of a crutch in Batman stories, overused to the point where having him show up isn't nearly as unsettling as it should be.
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