There are familiar landmarks from Arkham City – the Sionis steel mill and the Wonder Tower are immediately recognisable – but the layout has changed quite a bit. The setting this time is a snowbound Gotham City, long before Hugo Strange's prison makeover. ![]() ![]() Rest assured, you're never short of people to punch or be punched by. We also see Batman's first encounter with a youthful Joker, and other cameos that I won't spoil. Eight assassins have been hired to claim the prize, including A-listers Bane, Deathstroke and Killer Croc, and a parade of low-rent DC villains including Firefly and Electrocutioner. It's Christmas Eve, and skull-faced mobster Black Mask has given the caped crusader an early present in the form of a $50,000,000 bounty on his head. Despite the change of tone and time period, this is a disappointingly timid retread of Rocksteady's games. ![]() ![]() It's an interesting twist on the Arkham formula, but only in terms of story. He's not the stoic, Kevin Conroy-voiced Batman of Asylum and City, who calmly asks criminals to turn themselves in before he beats them up, but a hot-headed, teeth-baring vigilante who punches first and asks questions later. In Arkham Origins we join Batman in his angsty teenage years.
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