Arkham Asylum is another blast from the past in the action genre. Recently got the trilogy for cheap and to be honest I had fun with the first arkham game, it wasn't short or long for 10 hours of fun. I'm not a huge DC fan because I grew up with marvel and that might sound controversial but I don't hate this game or the batman series keep that in mind.
Gameplay
More than decent, you get a lot of gadgets and a detective mode to find where to go next. Examples are the batclaw, sequencer, gel, batarang and the list goes on. With plenty combat and health upgrades comes a good stealth game with variety and style. It's not so stealth focused but you have to keep in mind that some enemies have guns and they can easily take you down. As for the atmosphere it's great since you are in a asylum and the design is not repetitive and the game has some kind of open world not like arkham knight but you can freely collect green riddles and other collectible stuff like interviews on tapes. For a third person action it's not the easiest game, for someone who is not familiar with the arkham games you can choose between difficult levels but the combat oh man, that's the sweet spot for this game... The combat for me is no doubts good, perfect for a stealth game even if you think you killed them they are only sleeping because I guess that's a rule.
Story
Batman captures joker and takes him into the asylum where is gang is waiting for him, a breakout happens when joker's men are taking over the whole asylum and harley quinn helpes him. Batman must stop joker but he also got James Gordon, the father of oracle and at first he's captured with officer boles (myeah) joker released some of his gang ready to take on batman. Searching for oracle's father is not easy because going in the morgue he finds scarecrow, giving batman PTSD from his past when his parents where killed by a thug. After that batman gets out and goes outside of the asylum trying to rescue some doctors but he also mets bane, luckily his car saves him after the fight. Some time later batman tells oracle about a batcave underground where he can examine something after he found out that dr young was involved about a formula including a venom that creates tough guys called titans. After another encounter with scarecrow batman encounters quinn again, after she gave him a time limit to save some innocents batman follows her where he was lead to fight some thugs behind an electric floor. Moments after he finally gets quinn and put her in jail but she made ivy free from her cell. She discovered joker's plan in the gardens and she knew that underground where croc lives is a plant connected to the titan formula. Batman gets down and running away while collecting spores and blowing up a hole to stop croc from chasing him. Joker really though that making crane more powerful with young's formula is a smart idea but that didn't work out, he even used the formula on his thugs. Batman had to make an antidote to reverse the effects of the titan formula, going back to his cave and after that fighting Ivy for the last time since she took over with her plants. She was injected with the venom and batman fought her and got out and so joker knew that he was impossible so at last he invited batman to his party in order to get him but things didn't got smooth because he fought his titan thugs and then joker injected himself and taking on batman. Bat used the claw to drag joker down and finish him off and after that rescuing Gordon and saving gotham.
Tehnical problems
Modern headsets suck, they force you to use their shitty software and their built-in usb speaker and some games don't even support that. So I had to play the whole game with a different headset with realtek speakers, so beware of this.
Conclusion
Goated game for his time and worth the cheap penny, outdated? nope, 2009 and still has a hard penis for all of his characteristics.
Gameplay
More than decent, you get a lot of gadgets and a detective mode to find where to go next. Examples are the batclaw, sequencer, gel, batarang and the list goes on. With plenty combat and health upgrades comes a good stealth game with variety and style. It's not so stealth focused but you have to keep in mind that some enemies have guns and they can easily take you down. As for the atmosphere it's great since you are in a asylum and the design is not repetitive and the game has some kind of open world not like arkham knight but you can freely collect green riddles and other collectible stuff like interviews on tapes. For a third person action it's not the easiest game, for someone who is not familiar with the arkham games you can choose between difficult levels but the combat oh man, that's the sweet spot for this game... The combat for me is no doubts good, perfect for a stealth game even if you think you killed them they are only sleeping because I guess that's a rule.
Story
Batman captures joker and takes him into the asylum where is gang is waiting for him, a breakout happens when joker's men are taking over the whole asylum and harley quinn helpes him. Batman must stop joker but he also got James Gordon, the father of oracle and at first he's captured with officer boles (myeah) joker released some of his gang ready to take on batman. Searching for oracle's father is not easy because going in the morgue he finds scarecrow, giving batman PTSD from his past when his parents where killed by a thug. After that batman gets out and goes outside of the asylum trying to rescue some doctors but he also mets bane, luckily his car saves him after the fight. Some time later batman tells oracle about a batcave underground where he can examine something after he found out that dr young was involved about a formula including a venom that creates tough guys called titans. After another encounter with scarecrow batman encounters quinn again, after she gave him a time limit to save some innocents batman follows her where he was lead to fight some thugs behind an electric floor. Moments after he finally gets quinn and put her in jail but she made ivy free from her cell. She discovered joker's plan in the gardens and she knew that underground where croc lives is a plant connected to the titan formula. Batman gets down and running away while collecting spores and blowing up a hole to stop croc from chasing him. Joker really though that making crane more powerful with young's formula is a smart idea but that didn't work out, he even used the formula on his thugs. Batman had to make an antidote to reverse the effects of the titan formula, going back to his cave and after that fighting Ivy for the last time since she took over with her plants. She was injected with the venom and batman fought her and got out and so joker knew that he was impossible so at last he invited batman to his party in order to get him but things didn't got smooth because he fought his titan thugs and then joker injected himself and taking on batman. Bat used the claw to drag joker down and finish him off and after that rescuing Gordon and saving gotham.
Tehnical problems
Modern headsets suck, they force you to use their shitty software and their built-in usb speaker and some games don't even support that. So I had to play the whole game with a different headset with realtek speakers, so beware of this.
Conclusion
Goated game for his time and worth the cheap penny, outdated? nope, 2009 and still has a hard penis for all of his characteristics.