10 Most Underrated Moments From The Batman: Arkham Video Games

3. The Scarecrow Opening - Arkham Knight

Arkham Knight promised to amend the mediocre instalment of Arkham Origins and regardless of your opinion of the prequel, Arkham Knight was a welcome return. And my oh, my did they start the game of with a bang.

From burning the Joker to Gordon’s narration, it all builds to the diner. Playing first-person as a cop in an Arkham game is certainly jarring when compared to the usual Batman antics, and so we were all intrigued. Slowly the scene turns south as you investigate the smoker in the back booth when suddenly, the world goes insane.

The diner is swarmed with fear gas as the world melts away into a fiery haze of insanity, as the customers start brutalising each other. Their skin wrinkled and zombie like, the game becomes a first-person shooter. Helplessly trying to defend yourself, you fire blindly trying desperately to stay alive. Before panning out in a security cam to watch your character get pounded into the ground before you realise that it was all the fear gas.

Scarecrow was back...

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