open world and betaing up supervillians three times your size, what is not to like?
The gameplay is fantastic, the much loved combat system returns and with new attacks and motions it has been improved on what was seen to be an already perfect fighting system. he Riddles returns but this game gives you a face to hate instead of a voice, just like in the Asylum the Riddler will ask you to find trophies and solve riddles, but the ultimate goal isn't just to annoy him but to safe the hostages that he has snatched, you will feel an instant sense of reward when you discover the loations where the hostages are being held and even more reward when you save them and the Riddler is angrily questioning you how you solved his mazes. You will pick up other side missions along the way such as investigating murder victims or tracking a mysterious shooter through out Arkham City, some side missions don't end with Batman beating up the bad guy, some of the invovle him getting away which leads you to think that there will be more of them in another game, if they release one. the story will suck you in when I got this game I told myself that I will only play it for an hour or two before turning it off but I then found myself playing this game for 10 hours straight, the story will reveal new villians for you to chase and the thill is just going throught the story just to find out who the next bad guy will be, I don't want to give too much away but the ending will be such a twist that you would not even believe it if I told you, so I won't you can figure it out for yourself. The boss battles are easy as Gamespot says but that doesn't stop them from beaing fun as the start of any boss battle, you will be wondering around trying to figure out how to hurt those villians.
The graphics are flawless, Batmans cape with blow in the wind along with the snowflakes, Batman will pick up battle scars along the way just like in the old one.
If you preordered this game you will recieve the Catwoman bundle which will allow you to play as a new character in the main campaign, if you didn't preorder it you can buy this bundle off the Playstation Network or Xbox Live, which is what I would highly recommend Catwoman is a really fun to play as and her own storyline twists with Batmans and even expains certain blanks in the story that you may have missed with out it.
On the whole i say that this game is fantastic and deserves at minimum to be nominated for game of the year, I would saw winbut with the other games coming out this year I wouldn't think it would win. This game has a brilliant mix of open world and story, this game isn't a perfect Christmas gift because it would involve waiting to play it which no one can