Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition includes the following DLC: Catwoman Pack Nightwing Bundle Pack Robin Bundle Pack Harley Quinn’s Revenge Challenge Map Pack Arkham City Skins Pack Batman: Arkham…
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition is an adventure developed by Rocksteady Studios, released 29 May 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 22.5 hrs to finish.
What Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition is
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition is an adventure game developed by Rocksteady Studios and released in 2012. It was published by DC Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Prologue New Arkham City inmate and rising warlord, Two-Face devises a plan to publicly execute fellow prisoner Catwoman after she tries to steal back some of her ill-gotten gains from his hideout. Meanwhile, Gotham City itself has degenerated into a police state managed by Mayor Sharp, where citizens with the slightest trace of a criminal record find themselves shipped to the prison district. Those who dare to challenge Sharp's policies are the target of arranged disappearances, becoming political prisoners trapped behind Arkham's walls. Among these is Bruce Wayne, who holds a rally attacking the proposal of turning half his city into a walled-off reserve for criminally inclined persons…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 64 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Batman series
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition is the 120th of 221 entries we hold in the Batman series. The next entry was LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes in 2012. Its critic score of 94 is 21 points above the series average of 73. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition holds a critic score of 94 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 24 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 94, across 152 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 22.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 79.6 hrs, roughly 3.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 2GB RAM and ATI 3850HD 512 MB or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 17GB.
What it launched against
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition launched on 29 May 2012, within three weeks of Max Payne 3, Persona 4 Golden, Diablo III and LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 3, Persona 4 Golden, Diablo III, LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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