I jumped a few ramps using a last minute boost, but there were no opportunities to race through the streets of Gotham. In this demo the emphasis was on the tank transformation as there was very little room to put your foot down. You get to drive it for the first time and it's not just a car - it doubles as a tank in Battle Mode. The Batmobile is the new star of the show here. "Batman: Arkham Knight treats the Batmobile almost as another playable superhero with its own set of unique abilities and skills." To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Once the layout of the location is mapped and all five victims marked it was just a case of using some of Batman's newest abilities to rescue them and push the story forward. It started familiarly enough, with The Bat looking down on the plant to scope it out, throwing the batarang around the perimeter to case the joint using its video functions. My demo was the second main mission in the game, which involved rescuing five employees from ACE Chemicals - an enclosed industrial plant where the Dark Knight can get to grips with a stack of new skills and the Batmobile itself. But Batman: Arkham Knight? It was like sitting down to watch Batman Begins after enduring the shitfest that was Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin movie. Yeah, the last Batman game - the one not made by Rocksteady - was the weakest of the bunch. By this point I should have been tired and cynical and spoilt by so much quality. I played Batman: Arkham Knight on my last day at the show. One was terrible (more of that later this week) and you already know I enjoyed Far Cry 4 and Mortal Kombat X.īut one game stood out amongst the crowd in a year where there was a shit-tonne of high quality, triple-A games on display. Some I got to see for literally minutes and play for even less, some I got to play for too long and had to politely make for the exit. I was lucky enough to see and play a lot of games at E3 last week. "Arkham Knight is like sitting down to watch Batman Begins after enduring Schumacher's Batman & Robin."
Batman: Arkham Knight played like the full game, thanks in part to the Batmobile. Some demos offer only a glimpse of the finished game.