The sequels are bigger, but Arkham Asylum is better. It respects your time. It offers a tight 12-hour campaign with zero fetch quests. It is a haunted house of a game—one where you walk in expecting a fun time and leave feeling genuinely unsettled.
More importantly, the GOTY edition includes the PS3-exclusive content that was later ported to PC and Xbox 360, making it the most complete package available on modern stores. While Arkham City offered a sprawling open-world prison, Arkham Asylum offers something scarier: claustrophobia. You are trapped on a single island with the world’s most dangerous lunatics, and the walls are literally closing in. Batman Arkham Asylum Game of The Year Edition-P...
"In a genre littered with movie tie-in cash-grabs, a trip back to the Asylum proves that less was truly more." The sequels are bigger, but Arkham Asylum is better
Missing half a point only because the final boss fight against Titan Joker is, admittedly, a bit of a letdown. But the journey to get there? Pure perfection. It is a haunted house of a game—one
It is hard to believe that before 2009, the phrase “great superhero video game” was almost an oxymoron. We had the Spider-Man 2 movie game, sure, and the Arkham series' spiritual predecessor, Batman: Vengeance . But no title had ever made the player feel like the Dark Knight. That changed with Rocksteady Studios’ masterpiece, Batman: Arkham Asylum .