Everything great about Arkham Asylum dialed up within an open world setting. But the titular setting also feels like it is only building up to give you more reason to explore as the caped crusader, whilst being contained enough to remain as brisk as it is.

The variety to the enemies in Arkham City makes the combat all the more fun, as they feel like there's always something putting your own knowledge of button combos to the test the more the game goes on - leaving you perfectly prepared for the game's boss fights. On that note, the game's boss fights (especially the Mr. Freeze fight) feel like they're building off everything that one would know their respective supervillains are capable of, and as a result are just as fun to play out as one could hope from any good superhero video game.

Yet on the whole, it's also a perfectly paced narrative - one whose twists add more to the game's emotional payoff, never held back by the free roaming nature of the game or its many side quests. As far as superhero games can go, this might just be the perfect one.