Feature: Deploy BatFranchise
Have You Played… Batman: Arkham Knight?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Maybe it's the E3 scent in the air or maybe it's just that I'm craving some big budget biffing, but I'm missing my favourite Multiple-A franchises right now. The Arkham games in particular. Oh, to be the bat-like man once more.
Tagged with Batman: Arkham City, feature, Have You Played, Rocksteady, Warner Bros., Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham Knight.
Feature: Batbeards and Batbruises
The Joy Of Arkham Asylum's broken Batman
A few hours into Arkham Asylum [official site], I thought Batman's cape was glitching. It does occasionally catch on railings if you brood-squat at an odd angle, but this was different; an occasional flash of colour in the gloom of the garment* caught my eye and I thought Bats' big old utility belt was glitching through the cape. But, no, the cape had been torn…
Tagged with Batman: Arkham Aslyum, Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Origins, feature, Rocksteady, The Joy Of, Warner Bros., Batman: Arkham Knight.
Feature: Sandbox satisfaction/dissatisfaction
Are Open World Games Living Up To Their Potential?
By Alec Meer • 4 years ago • 147
Once a week most weeks, the RPS hivemind gathers to discuss An Issue. Sometimes it's controversial news, sometimes it's a particular game, sometimes it's favourite things and least favourite things, sometimes a perennial talking point. This week, off the back of most of us being obsessed with Metal Gear Solid V, we're talking about open world, or sandbox games. Big map, go where you please,…
Tagged with feature, open world, rps verdict, Assassin's Creed Unity, Batman: Arkham Knight, Far Cry 4, Grand Theft Auto V, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.
Feature: Losing the plot with story games
Where The Hell Was I?
By Philippa Warr • 4 years ago • 9
Tagged with memory, RPS Supporter Program, Supporter, Batman: Arkham Knight, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
Which Digital Game Store Is Best For Refunds: Steam vs. UPlay vs. Origin vs. GOG
By Angus Morrison • 4 years ago • 46
Rumour has it that the decrepit Arkham Knight port beat a retreat on account of Steam refunds. After all, what better way to get a dastardly developer to blush and shuffle its hooves than to reverse its cash flow? Until June, when no-questions-asked refunds came into force, such a feat was impossible. Perhaps, after years of pro-consumer jabs at Microsoft and other corporates, Valve sought…
Tagged with EA Origin, feature, gog, refunds, Rocksteady Games, Steam, Ubisoft, Uplay, Valve, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Assassin's Creed Unity, Batman: Arkham Knight, green man gaming.
Feature: Team RPS debates the Knightfall
Rock, Paper, Shot Takes: The Arkham Knight Debacle
The first in a new (hopefully) weekly series, in which the RPS hivemind gathers to discuss/bicker about/mock the most pressing (or at least noisiest) issues in PCgamingland right now. Hot Takes are go. Alec: It will surprise literally no-one to hear that we are discussing Bat-Like Man: Arkham Kerrnigut and its somewhat disastrous PC port, which while technically last week's news remains this week's news…
Tagged with feature, rock paper shot takes, verdict, Batman: Arkham Knight.
Feature: Learning no lessons
Holy Tutorial Blindness, Batman!
By Philippa Warr • 4 years ago • 18
Tagged with feature, RPS Supporter Program, Supporter, Tom Francis, tutorials, Batman: Arkham Knight, Gunpoint, Heat Signature.
Feature: Batman Returns... Later
On Arkham Knight's Withdrawal From Sale
Tagged with feature, Supporter, Batman: Arkham Knight.
Feature: Batmobiles, shonky acting and infini-combos
Batchat: On Arkham Kerniggut's Strengths/Failings So Far
We didn't have Batcode for Batman: Arkham Kerniggut [official site] until yesterday (perhaps because of issues with the PC version), so Adam's full verdict is a little way off yet, but as both he and Alec have been playing it when they can, they had a chat about what's working and not working in their experiences so far. Does the transforming, deathdealing Batmobile open up…
Tagged with chat-o-think, feature, verdict, Batman: Arkham Knight.
Batman Arkham Knight E3 2015 Trailer: Everyone In Gotham's Gone To The Rapture
Well now, someone wants to be making Bioshock games instead of superhero games, don't they? This trailer for this year's Batman: Arkham Knight [official site] does a number of unusual things. Like be in first-person, like star someone other than Batman (a Gotham cop who sounds an awful lot like Breaking Bad's Mike Ehrmantraut to my ears), like be kind of a shooter, and like…
Tagged with E3 2015, Rocksteady Studios, Warner Bros., Batman: Arkham Knight.