Gotham Knights

I'm gonna be as polite as I can here: Pros: The game has good graphics, the city looks very nice, people and characters are modeled well. The game runs well without losing any frames, not sure if that's because of my pc or the game itself but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. Multiplayer is pretty fun, and its the only thing keeping me somewhat forgiving because that single mechanic carried this game by itself for a bit. Cons: Everything else is straight garbage. 1. The story is terrible, it uses the characters you like from DC and takes out everything that made them awesome. Red Hood is way too emotionally unstable and doesn't even try to be more gritty or antihero, Tim is a naive technology wizard that can't figure out how to hack anything, ♥♥♥♥ is trying way too hard to be cool and failing. Batgirl is incredibly optimistic, but everybody else is also way too optimistic after having their mentor and foster father die so I don't know why they all take it so hard in the beginning, then forget about it and remember it again whenever it's convenient. The worst part is that the villains act even dumber than the main characters. For example The Court of Owls, the main antagonist, doesn't care about logic and their big plan is "try to kill the heroes with fire and giant sawblades". Everything feels inconsistent and stupid, the writing is just awful. 2. The gameplay needs a full rework. Beginning gameplay is decent but the first punch mechanic is able to get a character throughout most of the game. Spamming the mouse button is better than trying to figure out the timings on some of the other moves and getting hit by enemies. To combat this in their game and to make the enemies seem a lot tougher than they are, the game developers decided to make several enemies able to just auto dodge every single attack the player can do except for one. I hate this, its infuriating, a very lazy game mechanic and feels terrible to play against. The other issues with gameplay revolve around having the same exact puzzles and missions to play over and over again, as well as sticking on ledges or high places when you wanted to jump off. And shout out to whoever decided that the Q button, the one used for stealth takedowns, should also have a secondary function as a loud ranged attack if the player is too far away. Its been a great time sneaking up behind someone only to emit the equivalent of a massive gunshot, alerting literally everyone in a 100 foot radius. tldr, massive issues, terrible story and gameplay. If you want the gaming equivalent of a B movie go right ahead, i wont stop you. It's not gonna be good and you shouldn't waste your money or your time. Buy the previous Arkham titles if you want a good DC game.