"Batman: Arkham Origin" is out and the reviews are in and gamers are liking the new franchise title.
Players take on the role of a young Bruce Wayne in the early stages of his crime-fighting career. The Caped Crusader will battle Black Mask's eight assassins in his defining moments as an investigator.
Check out the below snippets of the "Batman: Arkham Origns" reviews:
IGN rated the game 7.8 out of 10:
"Batman games are like pizza: even when they're not very good, they're still pretty good. Next to Arkham City, Arkham Origins is a bit of a disappointment in its lack of new ideas and use of win buttons, making it the least interesting of the trilogy. But as excuses to dive back into the excellent free-flowing combat and predator takedowns go, this story isn't bad."
GameInformer gave "Arkham Origins" 8.5 out of 10:
"Gotham City is considerably larger than Arkham City's walled-off version, but that doesn't mean more time is lost to gliding between destinations. Fast travel stations are placed in each borough, and the city is designed in a way that allows Batman to stay airborne with the Bat-claw. If you don't use fast travel, Gotham Pioneers Bridge is enormous and takes a considerable amount of time to navigate.
"This world is littered with secrets and villain-specific side activities. Riddler returns as a welcome foe that has hidden extortion files all across Gotham. For those of you who will track all of them down (a doable feat with a handy in-game locator) and aspire to hit 100-percent completion, Challenge mode is loaded to the hilt, pushing players to collect 288 gold medals. And if you really want to dive into this game, New Game Plus is once again unlocked after the story concludes. There's also I am the Night mode, which only offers one life and no saves."
Kotaku says it's a must-play:
"'Origins' is an incremental installment, not a transformative one. It doesn't have the massive leaps forward that differentiated City from Asylum. It's almost understandable since WB Montreal have been tasked with harmonizing along to someone else's lead vocals. Right here, right now, the result is good enough. But the very success of the Batman video game franchise could prove to be its biggest limitation. And decisions to ever so slightly vary the template could be a slowly contracting deathtrap that not even the Caped Crusader can escape."
