Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition

Description

Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition begins with Bruce Wayne imprisoned inside Arkham City, a sealed section of Gotham placed under the authority of psychiatrist Hugo Strange and the brutal security force TYGER. After recovering his equipment and becoming Batman, he investigates Strange’s secret Protocol 10 while confronting the Joker, Two-Face, Penguin, Mr Freeze, and other inmates fighting for control of the district. Catwoman follows a parallel campaign centred on stolen property and her uneasy involvement in Batman’s crisis, giving the story a second perspective on a city built around confinement, fear, and criminal ambition.

Gameplay involves moves freely across Arkham City by gliding, grappling between buildings, interrogating informants, locating Riddler challenges, and entering interiors shaped around combat, stealth, gadgets, and environmental puzzles. Freeflow Combat links strikes, counters, evasions, gadgets, and takedowns into uninterrupted combinations, while Predator encounters reward silent movement through vents, gargoyles, floor grates, and destructible walls. The GamePad operates as a portable Batcomputer, displaying maps, objectives, character files, upgrades, sonar information, and selectable gadgets, while motion control supports evidence scanning, remote Batarang steering, and cryptographic work. Battle Armored Tech allows Batman and Catwoman to accumulate kinetic energy during combat, then activate B.A.T. mode for increased damage.

It is the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum, expanding the first game’s institution setting for a larger district built around traversal and overlapping missions. The Wii U edition retains that campaign while including the Catwoman episodes, Robin and Nightwing challenge content, alternate character skins, additional maps, and Harley Quinn’s Revenge on the disc. It redesigns the interface around the Wii U GamePad and adds exclusive armoured costumes with the B.A.T. combat system. Graphically it is on-par, arguably slightly better albeit less stable than the other console releases.

Contemporary reception was favourable, with the no missing content from the original and all DLC expansion on disc gave it a clear value advantage. The GamePad additions were divisive, similar to all Wii U titles. The second-screen tools were either immersive or unnecessary complications along with the motion inputs and touchscreen functions.