Batman: Arkham Knight - 10 Big Story Moments Fans Will Debate For Years

2. Did The 'Big Alliance' Really Live Up To The Hype?

From the very getgo of Knight's announcement it was clear that Rocksteady wished to emphasise the point that the villains would now be working together to take down the Bat, unlike Arkham City where they were competing with each other to exert control over the area. There's no denying that the finale had a formidable cast of characters, but whether that alliance lived up to expectations is an entirely different matter altogether. For better or for worse Rocksteady saw fit to include two of the alliance's biggest hitters - Penguin and Two Face - as minor side missions situated way away from the main story's content. Penguin's motif to make a quick profit is very fitting and his side missions with Nightwing are actually a lot of fun, but one can't help but feel as though the developers didn't really know what to do with Two Face - making him rob banks in Knight because well...he likes to rob banks, right? Obviously Harvey was meant to be financing Cobblepot's operation, but what exactly were the two doing to actively kill Batman? Nothing really. In fact, the only member of the alliance apart from Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight to actually take a role in attempting to kill Batman in the main story was Harley Quinn - a far cry away from being the alliance players were promised when Knight made its first trailer début. As it stands the nefarious 'team isn't wholly detrimental to Knight's narrative, but it's hard to argue against the fact that gamers were misled in its marketing.