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The game's Gotham City is separated into smaller islands and each is closed off from the next in a way that makes sense within the game's fiction: Scarecrow and the titular Arkham Knight are on the loose raising the bridges between burgs keeps their ground forces from spreading. In large part, the studio achieves this by gating progression off in a way that isn't obvious. The play space is exponentially larger than 2009's first entry Asylum, but Rocksteady's been incredibly careful to not overwhelm the player. There are simply too many things I can do at any given moment and it's easy enough to abandon one activity and move onto the next.Īrkham Knight surprisingly doesn't suffer from this open-world ADD despite the amount of missions available - be they subterranean races in the Batmobile, searching for the hidden-in-plain-sight Riddler statues or discovering the mystery behind crucified out-of-towners. Whenever I'm playing Rockstar's crime simulator, I can't shake the feeling that whatever story mission I'm doing is a distraction keeping me from taking peyote and flying around as an eagle or holding up a liquor store.

Grand Theft Auto V's faux Los Angeles, for example, is rife with open-world options. None of the myriad open-world games I've played in the past almost 14 years have come close to doing this. It's been a while since I was this happy to be wrong: Arkham Knight's genius is that despite its physical size, the game never feels larger than whatever carefully constructed moment you're in.

Interactive marketing department, riddling the series I love with bloat and unnecessary features solely because the PlayStation 4's and Xbox One's more powerful hardware allowed for bigger experiences. My worry was that Arkham Knight would be a product of the Warner Bros.

Twenty times bigger than Arkham Asylum! My eyes glazed over. In the long run-up to its release, I'd become increasingly disinterested every time developer Rocksteady Studios mentioned how the game had grown compared to its prequels. I didn't want to like Batman: Arkham Knight. This article contains spoilers for Batman: Arkham Knight you've been warned.