Gotham Knights

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  • Summary: Batman is dead. It is now up to the Batman Family - Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin - to protect Gotham City, bring hope to its citizens, discipline to its cops, and fear to its criminals. You must evolve into the new Dark Knight and save Gotham from chaos. Your legacy begins now.Batman is dead. It is now up to the Batman Family - Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin - to protect Gotham City, bring hope to its citizens, discipline to its cops, and fear to its criminals. You must evolve into the new Dark Knight and save Gotham from chaos. Your legacy begins now. Step into the Knight. Gotham Knights is a brand-new open world, third-person action RPG featuring the Batman Family as players step into the roles of Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin, a new guard of trained DC Super Heroes who must rise up as the protectors of Gotham City in the wake of Batman's death. An expansive, criminal underworld has swept through the streets of Gotham, and it is now up to these new heroes to protect the city, bring hope to its citizens, discipline to its cops and fear to its criminals. Players must save Gotham from descent into chaos and reinvent themselves into their own version of the Dark Knight.… Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 78
  2. Mixed: 39 out of 78
  3. Negative: 5 out of 78
  1. Gamers Heroes
    Oct 20, 2022
    95
    Gotham Knights is up there with Elden Ring as a Game of the Year contender. Its fast, responsive, and action-packed combat is surpassed only by a narrative that had me glued from the very first cutscene. A must-play for fans of open-world titles, and an easy pickup for anyone invested with the Gotham Knights or DC Universe.
  2. GamesHub
    Oct 20, 2022
    80
    While it does attempt to carve out its own identity with its slower pace and more intimate storytelling, it’s hard to separate this game from the Batman games of the past. But regardless of its lack of originality, Gotham Knights remains a compelling experience – one littered with intriguing and thoughtful interpretations of characters, and a creeping sense of dread that will keep you rushing through case files, determined to save Gotham from itself.
  3. Impulsegamer
    Oct 24, 2022
    80
    Gotham Knights is a beautiful game that tells an amazing story. Fans of Batman and Arkham Knights will definitely like what they see. Still, the game’s over-reliance on grapple and grind can wear thin, even with a terrific nightly progression system that advances main and side missions wonderfully. Final judgment should be reserved for robust multiplayer inclusion, however.
  4. Push Square
    Oct 20, 2022
    70
    Gotham Knights is the type of game you so dearly want to love, but time and time again it gives you a reason not to. What Warner Bros. Games Montreal has here is an excellent story with top-notch cutscene direction and a fun combat system, with too many needless and confusing mechanics bolted on top. If you can look past them, there's a genuinely great game here. We recommend trying your best to do so; you'll find a compelling narrative on the other side.
  5. Finger Guns
    Oct 21, 2022
    70
    A worthwhile entry into the DC/Batman game series, Gotham Knights can be a fun experience in single-player or co-op with its strengths lying in variety and its four-Knight team. However, its confusing UI, repetitive stripped-back combat, and lack of stealth options leave it unable to reach the glorious heights of the Arkham games.
  6. Comicbook.com
    Oct 20, 2022
    60
    Ultimately, I enjoyed Gotham Knights for what it was – a basic superhero game that provides players with plenty to do. It will not live up to the standard of the height of the Batman: Arkham series, but it's still a fun game, especially if you want to just tune out and beat up some nameless thugs. There is plenty of room for improvement in Gotham Knights, but this game provides a solid enough foundation for future installments, and I enjoyed a game that looked at the wider Batman family rather than focusing on just one character.
  7. T3
    Oct 20, 2022
    40
    Gotham Knights is a lacklustre entry into the Batman mythos that feels like a major step back from what has come before. Whether it's the monotonous combat, subpar 30fps on console, lack of co-op incentives and strain it puts on the single-player experience or the fact that Gotham is dull and slow to explore, nothing justifies its existence. While its story might offer the occasional glimpse of something that could have been, it gives me no great pleasure in saying that Gotham Knights is my biggest disappointment of the year.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 117 out of 311
  2. Mixed: 52 out of 311
  3. Negative: 142 out of 311
  1. LonestarBR
    Oct 23, 2022
    10
    I love this game, i just cant stop playing. You have to try, dont go for the reviews.
  2. Gamefhor
    Jan 2, 2023
    10
    Ez egy közepese játék nem érdemel 10 ponot. De 4.8 pontot se. El lehet szórakozni vele unalom üzőnek jó. Arkham gamekhez képest nagyon más aEz egy közepese játék nem érdemel 10 ponot. De 4.8 pontot se. El lehet szórakozni vele unalom üzőnek jó. Arkham gamekhez képest nagyon más a harcrendszere nekem batman harcrendszer jobban tetszik. A boss fightot jobban élvezem mint az arkham gamekbe. Nekem nem tűnt fel hogy 30fps a game. PS5 jól van optimizálva. 1 bug volt az se volt vészes.… Expand
  4. Djav1982
    Nov 26, 2022
    9
    Really enjoyed this game very challenging on hard mode ,fun great combat, good story recommend it
  5. Cha0ticneutral
    Oct 25, 2022
    6
    Gotham Knights is a game that has lots of good ideas but performs on none of them well. In it's current form of release, it feels like a gameGotham Knights is a game that has lots of good ideas but performs on none of them well. In it's current form of release, it feels like a game that was rushed out the door without polish and time to make most of it's components work properly.

    Short conclusion (review below) - Wait for a sale or until they've fixed, patched, and improved on the issues described below. It's not as terrible as some say but there are valid points all around.

    Character control
    A big issue this game has is with it's most basic elements, immedietly I noticed that character movement just feels "off". It feels weightless and like it's too fast for the input you're giving it, not being able to jump in a superhero game outside of contextual situations is very strange and is hard to adjust to. Moving around the city does not feel fluid, it feels very awkward most of the time and as a result a large part of the game is not enjoyable. Obstacles I think I can jump over I find out I cannot, sometimes there is a strange slowdown/delay after hopping over a table where the character just awkwardly doesn't move for a couple of seconds, which can be very bad for stealth sections.

    It feels almost as if nobody actually played this game before they released it because it doesn't feel good to play most of the time, which for a superhero game is not good I'm afraid.

    Combat
    The combat is not as bad as some other's have said, but it doesn't hold a candle to the Arkham series this game picks up from (whether the devs like it or not I'm afraid, it will be judged on that series). It introduces momentum abilities which are a good idea in themselves, the problem is sometimes pulling them off can be very hit or miss, for instance sometimes the inputs do not work when expected and it ruins the flow of combat. You do start with a basic moveset which feels crappy but you unlock more as you go, so you do have to give it a chance before you judge too soon.

    Another gripe I have is the tutorial for the timed combat, it is not actually a tutorial, it doesn't teach you anything. It doesn't tell you how you can know if it's a timed strike or not, you just hit the target until it says 5/5 hits. It feels unfinished and it's frustrating that such a big element of the combat is just left to you shrugging your shoulders going "adunno?".

    UI
    The amount of confusing menus and choices made by the devs on this one are strange to contemplate. Lots of menus and popups where I look at them and I actually don't understand them or why they're there. The text is so big it feels like I'm playing a game meant for the visually challenged most of the time, along with pop up boxes taking up a 5th of the screen.

    Framerates/graphics
    Look, it's basically a ps4 game parading itself as a ps5 game. It's locked a 30 FPS and even after the day 1 update it still lags below that sometimes. That might a dealbreaker for you. The graphics themselves are decent, I believe game design beats graphics anyday, look at Elden ring for example.
    It's not going to blow you away but some of the design and art choices are nice.

    Ultimately Gotham knights atm feels like a good game being held back by strange choices and a severe lack of polish and fixes. With patches and large updates this can be the great game it could be, I just hope they continue to make changes it needs. It's not a bad game by any stretch, but it needs serious work moving forward. I would wait for a sale or until they've fixed and improved the feel and fluidity of everything.    … Expand
  6. halobreaker
    Dec 29, 2022
    3
    I REALLY wanted to like this game. I loved the Arkham games, especially Arkham Knight. The combat was fluid, and the character progression andI REALLY wanted to like this game. I loved the Arkham games, especially Arkham Knight. The combat was fluid, and the character progression and storytelling was well paced. The city actually felt ALIVE! In Gotham Knights, the city feels dead and hollow. The combat is clunky, repetitive and not intuitive whatsoever. Basic skills which are available straight out of the gate in Arkham Knight are locked behind skills which require skill points in Gotham Knights. The side missions are basic and all of them feel lazily scripted and very copy paste with little to no variation between the similar types (I did two investigation scenes back to back and they were the exact same clues and setup for both). There isn't very much incentive to switch between characters, as they all play basically the same with very slight variances (you can cape glide with Batgirl but not with anyone else, you can stealth takedown enemies from Gargoyles as Robin but not as anyone else). The voice acting gets annoying very quickly, as there only appears to be a small selection of recordings for each character when you're out exploring. The concept of this game was very promising, and had they spent more time on developing the individual characters, their skills and move set, it could have been a really fun game to play. Instead, it feels like they've taken a giant step backwards in the franchise.

    The driving on the Batcycle is also horrendous. It doesn't give any sensation of speed, it handles like something from a late 90s Sega game and the character animations when you're driving are non -existent. It may as well be a large piece of ham on the bike with the throttle taped open.

    Overall, I don't believe this is a AAA title worthy of a $90 price tag. It feels and plays more like a made-for-mobile game. Maybe it's more fun in multiplayer but I gave up on the game before giving that a chance. With a campaign that's just over 10 hours, I'd say wait until this comes out free as a PS Plus title.    … Expand
  7. D3M0N07
    Oct 27, 2022
    1
    Trash. . .if u don't believe go buy and play. . .Batman: Arkham Knight much more better than this sh*t. . .
  8. milkau
    Oct 27, 2022
    0
    Worst Batman game ever. Just BAD!! Missions are lame, characters are boring and the fight is very repetitive. don't buy it.

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