8 Video Games That Totally Fell Apart After Incredible Openings

3. Batman: Arkham Knight

Rocksteady sure know how to make an entrance. Arkham Asylum had that eerie "walking the Joker to his cell" interactive cutscene, and City put you in the shoes of Bruce Wayne as Hugo Strange figured out his identity, but Arkham Knight - now that was a rollercoaster ride of pure fan service.

Being called upon Jim Gordon, flying across a rainswept Gotham, signalling the Batmobile and blowing the holy hell out of a puny gangster car - what it lacked in pathos, it more than made up for through sheer fanboy escapist thrills.

Then... the story unravelled, and revealed itself to be nothing like what was advertised. The titular Arkham Knight was by no means "a completely new character", and it was a fact rubbed in a number of times as Joker popped up instead.

Even the Clown Prince, having been declared dead by Rocksteady multiple times, was ostensibly the main villain all over again, appearing in Batman's psyche over and over (and over) again, possibly getting the most screentime other than Bats himself. Three terrible encounters with the Knight later (including one twitchy as hell underground car chase) and all that initial goodwill had fizzled away to nothing.

And that's without even mentioning the abundance of 'tank fights' we had top endure.