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Batman: Arkham City for PlayStation 3
Batman: Arkham City for PlayStation 3 is an action-adventure set in a walled part of Gotham used as a prison. Behind those walls, gangs and familiar villains have established their own territories. Batman becomes involved in a plan reaching beyond street fighting. You investigate Hugo Strange's preparations, follow Joker's storyline and choose which other problems to tackle along the way. The district connects these events without turning every assignment into a separate level.
You travel over rooftops with your grapnel and glide to your next destination using your cape. From high up, you observe enemy groups before choosing a route. In combat, you combine strikes, dodges and counters, with gadgets providing direct assistance. Armed enemies more often call for stealth and individual takedowns. Detective Vision reveals enemies and clues, alternating investigation with finding a safe approach.
Alongside the main story are side missions, hidden riddles and challenges for practising Batman's techniques. New tools change what you can do in familiar locations. You play the campaign alone. This copy is the original standard PS3 edition with Batman's base adventure. The Catwoman download, extra playable characters and Harley Quinn's Revenge are not promised as included. You mainly cross the district on foot, climbing and gliding; a drivable Batmobile is not part of this edition.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Batman: Arkham City for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Batman: Arkham City
Rocksteady Studios developed Batman: Arkham City as the sequel to Arkham Asylum. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released it for PlayStation 3 in 2011. The European release followed in October. The most visible change was moving from a psychiatric institution to an enclosed urban district. Batman could therefore choose destinations more often and move above streets and courtyards, while buildings still provided distinct locations for investigations and confrontations.
In interviews, Rocksteady explained how the larger surroundings called for different capabilities. Gliding became more prominent, and existing gadgets returned with expanded uses. Combat gained more responses and combinations without abandoning the basis of well-timed strikes and counters. Detective Vision remained important for investigation. City thus grew from Asylum's systems rather than simply surrounding exactly the same tasks with a larger map.
The game divides its characters between the main story and independent side missions. That gives the city more events to investigate at your own chosen time. Extra characters and expansions followed the original release; the later Game of the Year bundle brought additional content together. This standard disc is not that bundle. The later Return to Arkham reissue also changed the technical presentation for other consoles. Here, the original PS3 Batman adventure and free movement through the prison district remain the focus.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Batman: Arkham Asylum keeps its PS3 setting more compact, with buildings on one island that you gradually learn. City builds on the same alternation between fighting, stealth and investigation but lets you follow more personal routes through an urban district. You mainly notice the difference between assignments: gliding above rooftops becomes a larger part of travelling in City.
Batman: Arkham Origins likewise uses Gotham for combat, gliding and investigation on PS3. The story follows a younger Batman hunted by assassins on Christmas Eve. City continues after Asylum's events and places established villains in a walled prison district. The foundations of counters and gadgets are related, while the period and story situation differ clearly.
Assassin's Creed II lets you climb through historic cities and approach targets from rooftops on PS3. Ezio can also disappear into crowds and travels between different cities. Batman uses one enclosed district, a cape and detective equipment. Both make building height important, but City puts more emphasis on gliding, following clues and defeating enemy groups with fists.
Dishonored combines urban routes, stealth and preparing an attack on PS3. Corvo uses supernatural powers and can resolve many situations unseen. Batman relies on gadgets and more often enters direct fights whose rhythm is determined by counters. Dishonored uses a first-person perspective and divides its journey into missions; City lets you move more freely within one connected prison area.
BioShock Infinite also uses verticality and rapid movement during a story in an unusual city on PS3. Booker travels along Sky-Lines and fights with firearms and Vigors, accompanied by Elizabeth. City mainly uses gliding to let you choose a route through Gotham. Batman also investigates side cases and fights at close range, while Infinite focuses more on advancing gunfights and travelling with a companion.
