Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure video game based on DC Comics' superhero Batman and developed by Rocksteady Studios. Released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, it is the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009). It was released worldwide for consoles, beginning in North America on October 18, 2011, with the Microsoft Windows version following on November 22, 2011.

Arkham City was written by veteran Batman writer Paul Dini with Paul Crocker and Sefton Hill, and it is based on the franchise's long-running comic book mythos. In the game's main storyline, Hugo StrangeGotham City. Batman must uncover the secret behind Strange's "Protocol 10" while protecting the other inmates from many of Gotham's most notorious criminals also imprisoned within Arkham City. The game's main characters are voiced by many actors from the DC Animated Universe, namely Kevin Conroy and Mark HamillJoker. The game is played as a third-person perspective action-adventure game with a primary focus on Batman's combat abilities, stealth and detective skills, and gadgets that can be used in both combat and exploration. Arkham City expands Batman's arsenal of gadgets and combat attacks and offers a more "open world" structure, allowing the player to complete side missions away from the primary storyline.

The game received widespread critical acclaim and is one of the highest-rated video games of 2011 according to review aggregator Metacritic. It was the recipient of several awards including awards for Game of the Year, Action game, Action Adventure game, Adventure game and best original music score. A Game of the Year edition was released on May 29, 2012 in North America, and will be released on September 7, 2012 for the rest of the world. A Wii U version is set to be released in 2012, called Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition. It will be developed by WB studios in Montreal and Burbank.[13] A spin-off iOS game, Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, was developed by NetherRealm Studios and released on December 7, 2011.[14] Variety reports that plans for a follow up to last year’s unbelievably successful Batman: Arkham City (both in terms of critical acclaim and sales) are already in full motion. Not only that but Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have issued a proposal to the developers at Rocksteady that urges them to feature the Justice League within the game, at least in some capacity. incarcerates Batman in Arkham City, a new super-prison enclosing a portion of the fictional reprising their roles as Batman and the Joker. The game is played as a third-person perspective action-adventure game with a primary focus on Batman's combat abilities, stealth and detective skills, and gadgets that can be used in both combat and exploration. Arkham City expands Batman's arsenal of gadgets and combat attacks and offers a more "open world" structure, allowing the player to complete side missions away from the primary storyline.

The game received widespread critical acclaim and is one of the highest-rated video games of 2011 according to review aggregator Metacritic.[10][11][12] It was the recipient of several awards including awards for Game of the Year, Action game, Action Adventure game, Adventure game and best original music score. A Game of the Year edition was released on May 29, 2012 in North America, and will be released on September 7, 2012 for the rest of the world. A Wii U version is set to be released in 2012, called Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition. It will be developed by WB studios in Montreal and Burbank.[13] A spin-off iOS game, Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, was developed by NetherRealm Studios and released on December 7, 2011.[14] Variety reports that plans for a follow up to last year’s unbelievably successful Batman: Arkham City (both in terms of critical acclaim and sales) are already in full motion. Not only that but Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have issued a proposal to the developers at Rocksteady that urges them to feature the Justice League within the game, at least in some capacity.