10 Video Game Sequels That Made The Original Even Better

Arkham Asylum cleverly teased a wider world outside its gothic walls, feeling like both its own thing while also being an amalgamation of all previous incarnations of the character - especially the best Batman adaptation, The Animated Series.

City, however, knew that that tightrope can only be walked for so long before you have to mark your own identity on a property, and so better established the universe this version of Batman inhabits.

Miraculously it does this without contradicting ANYTHING brought up Asylum's lore, which was doubly impressive when you realise the sequel was being planned from the beginning. There's a secret room in Warden Sharpe's office you can access with a clever appliance of explosive gel, that shows the blueprints for Arkham City, a year before the game's announcement.

Showing that Sharpe, Hugo Strange and Ra's Al Ghul had been planning this for a long time, Asylum went from a representation of Batman as a whole, to the first chapter in a wholly unique take on the Caped Crusader, all thanks to its sequel.