Batman: Arkham Origins - Cold, Cold Heart
Return to Gotham City to ring in the New Year, Arkham Origins style. When the CEO of GothCorp is kidnapped, by Mr. Freeze, Batman sets out to bring him to justice. Along the way, he will uncover the tragic…
Batman: Arkham Origins - Cold, Cold Heart is an adventure developed by Rocksteady Studios, released 22 April 2014 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Batman: Arkham Origins - Cold, Cold Heart is
Batman: Arkham Origins - Cold, Cold Heart is an adventure game developed by Rocksteady Studios and released in 2014. It was published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Batman: Arkham Origins is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by WB Games Montréal and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, it is the follow-up to the 2011 video game Batman: Arkham City and is the third main installment in the Batman: Arkham series. Written by Dooma Wendschuh, Corey May, and Ryan Galletta, the game's main storyline is set eight years before 2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum and follows a younger, less-refined Batman. When a bounty is placed on him by crime lord Black Mask, drawing eight of the world's greatest assassins to Gotham City on Christmas Eve, Batman must bring Black Mask to justice, while also being hunted by…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Batman series
Batman: Arkham Origins - Cold, Cold Heart is the 137th of 221 entries we hold in the Batman series. The next entry was Batman: Arkham Origins - Season Pass in 2014. Its critic score of 75 is 2 points above the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition at 94.
How it was received
Batman: Arkham Origins - Cold, Cold Heart holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 4 hrs, roughly 1.3 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 / AMD Athlon X2, 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS / AMD Radeon HD 3850 or better with 512 MB of VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Batman: Arkham Origins - Cold, Cold Heart launched on 22 April 2014, within three weeks of Child of Light, Monument Valley, The Elder Scrolls Online and Duck Game. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Child of Light, Monument Valley, The Elder Scrolls Online, Duck Game.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Batman: Arkham Origins - Cold, Cold Heart yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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