RadioTimes.com<\/a>, we\u2019ve been playing Gotham Knights for a little while now, from its lengthy single-player campaign to its interesting multiplayer options (you can bring one online friend with you at any point in the open world, or you can randomly match up with a stranger in the same way).<\/p>\nGotham Knights comes to us from Warner Bros Games Montreal, the same company that worked on Batman: Arkham Origins as well as various bits of DLC for Rocksteady\u2019s Arkham Knight. And even though Gotham Knights takes place in a new continuity, it\u2019s hard not to make comparisons with the much-loved Arkham franchise.<\/p>\n
Of course, the game\u2019s core concept doesn\u2019t exactly help to wade off comparisons: Batman died at the end of 2015\u2019s Arkham Knight, and he also dies at the start of Gotham Knights, leaving four of his sidekicks to pick up his final investigation. It feels like a premise that could have happened in the Arkham-verse, but in this case, it\u2019s happening in a different universe altogether (presumably for corporate behind-the-scenes reasons).<\/p>\n
Those four sidekicks \u2013 Tim Drake\u2019s Robin, Dick Grayson\u2019s Nightwing, Barbara Gordon\u2019s Batgirl and Jason Todd\u2019s Red Hood \u2013 were also familiar to Arkham fans, but they\u2019ve been rebooted here with tweaked backstories and new voice actors. There are other similarities, too: a plot about Harley Quinn branching out on her own, barely mentioning the Joker, also feels like it could\u2019ve worked as an Arkham Knights sequel.<\/p>\n
As the game opens, using a lengthy cut-scene to show how Batman died in this new universe, it\u2019s best to try and force the Arkham games from your mind. While there was a semblance of grittiness in the Arkham-verse, Gotham Knights seems to embrace the pulpy nature of comic books instead, with arch dialogue at the forefront and over-the-top Easter eggs in the background.<\/p>