- Title - Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Original Release - August 2009
- How to Play it - You can get this on the last two generations of Microsoft and Sony consoles, as well as PC and Mac. It may be playable elsewhere, but these are the easiest avenues.
Arkham Asylum is one of those seminal games of the last console generation, the kind of surprise hit that ended up having an unexpectedly large influence on the industry. Going in, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Certainly, it would not be a bad game, but it could be a situation similar to both Half Life and Half Life 2, in which it doesn’t seem fresh and interesting because the competition have spent years aping it ad nauseum.
Ultimately, I found Arkham Asylum to be both good and bad in ways I did not expect.