Batman: Arkham Origins Game Review

While Rocksteady, makers of the original Novels, working on a new unannounced project, the young Canadian studio Warner Bros. Games Montreal released Batman: Arkham Origins - A prequel to the entire history of the dark knight.

The game takes place a few years before the events described in the first part of the series, on Christmas Eve. Black Mask raises a riot in the prison Blekgeyt and takes hostage the Commissioner of Police.Bruce Wayne, who has for some time keeps order in Gotham, sent to help, but do not have time to save the cop and capture the villain, falling into a trap for CRIC - mutant reptile friendevery fan of games and comics. It turns out that Black Mask squad of assassins hired to kill the superhero, and to draw attention to threaten the lives of innocent citizens in the future of Arkham City.

Along the way the main plot of the game, as well as performing various side quests, you will meet with such iconic characters as Bane, Deadshot, Deathstroke, Penguin and Riddler.The rest - Mednogolovka Shiva, Firefly and Taser - is not so impressive and more like extras designed to somehow add freshness happening.However, not always the lack of interesting history results in uninteresting battle.Battle with Firefly brings the number of epic-limit for a series of levels, and the episode with the Taser strike an unexpected outcome. And of course, the Joker, which, in order to avoid unnecessary spoilers, nothing we say.


Story Batman: Arkham Origins sometimes resembles a mess of seemingly unrelated events and places crookedly sewn locations to which you can send a false mission, but makes one very unexpected twist in the first halfgames and a special reveals some of the characters, giving moments of happiness the true fans of the series. Unfortunately, not everything is done uniformly high quality.Staging can cause wild delight especially in the moments when the young Batman brutally breaks through the jaw or using gadgets.But then you will definitely show the wretched scene on the engine with sagging detail, where the "rubber" heroes are facing each other, and try to communicate, almost without moving his facial muscles, and allbody, looking at it in different points. And, of course, can not upset by the fact that the audio diaries that reveal the inner world of the characters in the previous parts in Origins is almost completely absent.

In addition, Warner Bros. Games Montreal replaced the voice actors.Of course, it is difficult to guess the voice of Batman Ezio from Assassin's Creed II, and Troy Baker is trying to emulate the good Mark Hamill, but it is far past the Joker.Besides familiar names flashed in the credits of games from Ubisoft Montreal, with Assassin's Creed game unites even maniacal desire authors include towers and collect useless stuff in huge numbers, running from point to point to press a single button.


Puzzles and research sagged.You are stuck in a maximum of a couple of places because the output is not visible for a specific object and not illuminated ledge, for which you can grab that can be regarded as something incredible, becausein all other cases Batman once said out loud what to do, or you show it on the screen pop-up message.

The combat system has not undergone any improvements and also includes all the systematic and repeated clatter hitting a single button, with a rare touch of the button counter, jump orstunning in cases where the opponent is running at you with a distinctive mark or arms over his head.A positive factor is the fact that tightened battles with the unreal amount of enemies with clubs, boxes, guns and other nasty weapons on normal difficulty herequite a bit. Indeed tightened battle to meet only at the end.Ito them will be much easier and faster to pass because of the new gadget - gloves, which by the accumulation of charge can beat current.And traditionally, many clashes can take place in a stealth mode, cutting down enemies one by one, using the environment and techniques.Doing this is quite simple, even if you notice: robots are not distinguished intelligence and wit, permanent section while searching for a man-bat, while we quietly sit on the gargoyle somewhere near the ceiling.

Detective mode has been changed slightly.Batman and his gadgets have become so steep that they can recreate and scroll through the events on the scene in three dimensions and to anticipate where the fly small objects.So now you have to "rewind" the stage and careful look at the screen to notice the red lines and triangles, leading to the evidence.


Side jobs cloned those that were in the last part, sometimes adding a plot and opening up new possibilities superhero.Unfortunately, some of them impossible to pass because of the bugs: lost the desired button or an action script. All kinds of mistakes will haunt you in the story.Minor errors, such as passing through a polygon is not so terrible, but the curve of the camera and the screen demonstration through the wall with translucent textures may negatively affect the perception.Not to mention the final battle, which has to pass blindly from the fact that the shells guns that disable jammers, like stuck in landfills and recharge for a few minutes, which is critical in the battle against the clock.

The main feature of this part of the series was the multiplayer mode is located on a separate disk version Xbox 360. Online Batman sounds pretty crazy, but in reality is even worse.Surrendered to the development of Splash Damage, who excelled game Brink, it offers only one mode, which is not really so bad if it were not for the technical realization.The game does not start until all 8 people will be in the lobby. Search players tiring and it takes ten minutes of real time, and then the game requires a few minutes to start.If one person comes out, all the throws back to the lobby and have to start over again. In general, a paradise for sado-masochists!


The apparent desire of Warner Bros. cash in on fame last two games of the series, secondary and weak quality control of the project do not give a chance to encroach on the laurels polished to a shine Arkham City. But even so, the game is still fun to play. Batman: Arkham Origins It may give moments of joy because of the story, some bosses and the Christmas mood snow-covered city.

Total 7/10

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