User blog:TheBlueRogue/Batman: Arkham Origins Review Roundup

Batman: Arkham Origins is out, and it's time to return to Gotham City once again. The game takes place five years before 2009's Arkham Asylum, and follows a younger and less refined Batman who has a bounty placed on his head by the crime lord, Black Mask.

The game is out and reviews are in. What do you think of Arkham Origins? Strengths and weaknesses? How about the series-first multiplayer inclusion Let us know in the comments!

8.7/10
===="The quality of the combat, the diversity of the dialogue from lead characters to two-bit crooks, and the sheer amount of things to do make this stretch of Gotham an enjoyable place to visit. Origins proves the Arkham formula is strong enough for another team to tamper with, but if the series wants to really break free of its restraints in the next generation, they’re going to have to teach this old bat even more new tricks."====

8.5/10
===="Batman: Arkham Origins delivers more of what made Rocksteady's games great, but doesn't break new ground. Like a youthful Bruce Wayne, it isn’t as crafty, and it takes its dings during combat, but still puts on a hell of a show when it needs to. Once Joker steps into the spotlight, it becomes a hard game to put down."====

8/10
===="Batman: Arkham Origins is a wonderful version of somebody else's game. While a return to the Arkham series is welcome – and if you take only one thing away from this review, it should be that Origins is a worthy entry – there's no denying that Warner Bros. Montreal has taken Rocksteady's tremendous template and crafted a similar experience."====

7/10
===="Where Arkham Asylum and Arkham City surprised me with their ambition, Origins is comfortable taking the best from what has come before without contributing much of its own — or even fully understanding what worked about those systems. It's built on a solid foundation but it doesn't take the world's greatest detective to see that something significant is missing."====

Hated It
''No middling reviews of Batman: Arkham Origins have been received yet.

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