10 Video Games MUCH Better Than We Thought They'd Be

7. Gotham Knights

It's fair to say that Gotham Knights is far from the most polished game. It’s been justifiably raked over the coals for terrible optimisation on modern consoles, barely hitting 30fps at the best of times and for having various clashing game design philosophies that make it hard to say what the game is even going for.

HOW-EVER, where Gotham Knights might be scattered in its gameplay, the story, overall mystery behind how Batman died, cutscene direction, slow-burn reveal of the Court of Owls and by FAR the character writing, is some of the best in Batman video games, period.

The latter especially frames a series of proteges suddenly thrown into the limelight.

Each are shown trying their best in four separate ways to live up to the idea of “Batman”, in a Gotham immediately taking advantage of the power vacuum.

When you’re not visiting statues of Jim Gordon in the open world as Barbara, discussing his loss with Renee Montoya, you’re talking to Alfred as Robin about how he would essentially play “ghost chess” against Bruce, being given a series of instructions for Wayne’s next moves, while he was out on patrol.

WB Montreal “get” Batman mythology and what drives each member of the Bat Family. Gotham Knights is far from a perfect GAME, but everything else is pretty great.