Gotham Knights

Most disappointing game I have played in years.

It’s been over a year or maybe longer since we’ve been covering news and building self hype for Gotham Knights. At the time, it appeared to be a 4 player Batman Arkham Asylum type game. First major disappointment was revealed earlier this year that the game is only 2 players co-op. This was kinda mumbled under the developer’s breath. I think that the appearance of it being a 4 player game was done on purpose. First of all, the game features 4 characters. In this day and age, why would we not think it could be 4 players. Eventually the devs stated that they couldn’t do a 4 player co-op because it would be too complicated. Fine. I’ll try it out with just 1 friend. I figured I could at least have the experience of an Arkham Asylum with 1 buddy right. Well that turned out to be one of the worst experiences I’ve had in gaming in years. 

This game controls like you’re trying to roll a big giant square around a room and none of the buttons or your actions seem to match up with what you would think should be happening on screen. I’m talking about getting so frustrated that I would just close the app because I was so frustrated that I couldn’t even get over a few street thugs. I’d run up to a police car, expecting to vault over and Red Hood would just dead stop with 0 animation. The cops begin to engage me, I can’t move. I have to walk the character backwards and turn him to get around the car. I don’t get it, I run up to the car and no button presses do anything. I’m raging at this moment. I’m already at the end of my attempts at playing this game and I feel like the controls are just not working for me. The dead stop kills me. I can’t push around the vehicle, the vaulting is automatic, the jump button doesn’t work, I can’t roll backwards. Jesus, my frustration grows just writing about it now.

Bat strats!

Batman is dead! You play as Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood, or Robin. Wait a sec, haven’t we gone over this before? Sure we have, we’ve been talking about Gotham Knights for almost, well it’s been exactly one year since I first wrote about this game. Well it’s finally coming out next week and WBGames is stepping it up with the promos. Over the weekend we found out about the 4-Player Mode Free DLC. Today we get this trailer showing more of what to expect in Gotham City. Honestly, I’m planning a day around this game next week, probably two. How long do you think it will take to beat it? Tune in LIVE to Gouki.tv when we stream Gotham Knights during launch week.

FREE DLC coming soon after launch.

The image and release date is posted on the official site, but there is no more information. Well in my minor sleuthing across the internet, there’s like 30 floors or something of an enclosed battle arena. There’s no video or even images at this point. On the official website there is a Learn More button, but that just leads you to the FAQ. Maybe this was planned or maybe it wasn’t. Maybe this is some mode they just decided to create a few months ago, when people started to realize this game WAS NOT 4-Player. Will this 4-player battle arena nubfarm mode sway your purchase? We’ll find out more when we get the mode on November 29, 2022.