Batman - Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (USA / Korea)
PlayStation 3
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Reviewed in 2012
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Batman Arkham City GOTY with all DLC including Harley Quinn's Revenge, the most complete version of an absolute masterpiece. Catwoman, Nightwing and Robin also playable. The ultimate Batman game.
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Category
Action Adventure1 player16+
Description
Game of the Year edition of Arkham City bundling the base game and all downloadable content. Published by Eidos and Warner Bros, released in 2012 across Europe, North America and Korea. Full Batman adventure in the Gotham prison district, Catwoman-playable chapters, Robin and Nightwing missions, Harley Quinn's Revenge story expansion, downloadable Challenge maps and alternate costumes.
Batman - Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition review
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Art direction
★★★★★
"Iconic"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
MAX
Story
★★★★★
"Masterful"
A nocturnal, gothic, rainy Gotham bathed in shadow and neon: the city becomes a character in its own right. The polished design of the enemies and the dark-comic atmosphere compose a striking visual identity. This art direction, dense and stylish, gave the superhero game its credentials.
Dark and cinematic, the music wraps the Dark Knight in a gothic orchestra with eerie accents. Each confrontation and each prowl through the shadows pulses with a menacing tension, worthy of a great film. This sonic breadth, faithful to Batman's universe, elevates the game's oppressive atmosphere.
Locked inside an open-air prison given over to chaos, Batman unravels a plot where his worst enemies intersect. Vaster and darker, the tale pushes the vigilante to his moral limits, up to a striking finale. Its assumed darkness and carefully drawn characters make it a peak of the superhero game.
Gameplay
"Masterful"
This expanded edition extends the Arkham City playground with its side content and challenges, without ever touching the brilliance of the core. Aerial traversal, fluid combat and predatory stealth still respond to the slightest input. The finest way to rediscover an adventure whose gameplay has lost none of its splendor.
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
The playground grows: an open-air prison-city where you glide, investigate and face a gallery of legendary villains. The combat stays gloriously fluid, and the freedom of movement the cape offers multiplies the pleasure. Bigger, richer and as masterful as ever, this entry elevates an already brilliant formula and stands as a benchmark of the genre.
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Chaining strikes in a fluid ballet of counters, then slipping into predator mode to pick off guards one by one from the gargoyles delivers a heady sense of mastery that calls for the next encounter. Riddler puzzles and gadgets to unlock keep the exploration alive. A little backtracking drags, but the flawless embodiment of the caped crusader grips you from start to finish.
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Massive"
Compiling the game and all its add-ons, this Game of the Year extends Gotham's prison grounds with extra challenges and maps. To the main plot, the Riddler's puzzles and the contracts it folds in additional playable content that pushes the finish line further. Owning the most-stocked version makes it the reference edition.
Technical info
💾9,1 GB📅07/09/2012
Published by Warner Bros. Interactive
Batman - Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (PS3) price, value & rarity
The Game of the Year version of Arkham City, the series' peak, folding in all the add-on content. Widely distributed as the definitive edition, it stays common and cheap. Its advantage is offering the masterpiece in its fullest out-of-box form, making it the cut to favour for playing, without scarcity value for the collector.
Is Batman - Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition still worth playing in 2026?
This Game of the Year edition gathers Arkham City and all its content, including Harley Quinn's Revenge and the extra playable characters such as Catwoman, Nightwing and Robin. It is quite simply the ultimate form of what remains one of the best super-hero games ever crafted. Gotham's open district, the polished combat and the rogues' gallery have lost none of their force, and the additions genuinely enrich the package. For anyone discovering the series or wanting the most complete version, this choice imposes itself as obvious.
