10 Video Games That Were Scored Way Too Highly On Release

8. Batman: Arkham City

IGN: 95 Gamespot: 90 Eurogamer: 90 The debate will rage on as to which title holds up better over the coming years - and those bygone since release - as two now-legendary Arkham titles (and one slightly-naff cash-in) continue to divide gamers. Which is better; Arkham Asylum, or Arkham City? There are many who stick with Asylum as the stronger of the two; it had a better drip-feed of characters who felt meaningful, the combat was still fresh and revolutionary and the overall atmosphere and experience was far tighter. For City it's clear developer Rocksteady needed to go bigger and better than Asylum, thus they set about drawing up a list of almost every single Bat-villain they could think of - without giving some of the most interesting ones centre stage. Still, Joker's eventual fate remains one of the ballsiest moves ever seen in any piece of Batman fiction, but the run-up to his final revelations can be spectacularly scattershot, throwing random villains at you for one or two missions before the core narrative returns to jolting along. Some loved this idea of touching upon the wider aspect of just how many enemies Batman had, but for the rest of us it just wasn't as immaculately polished as Asylum, although the critical response didn't seem to reflect this very well.