I just played through Knight and Origins and all I can think is why does this looks so much worse than the 2015 or 2013 Batman games? Hell I bet I fire up City or even Asylum and they look better in some ways. Not just in terms of effects but the art direction in the new game is so bland and the animations are super shaky. How is this the same universe as the previous Arkham games? The sections of Gotham you explore in those games were as much a character as the people in it, full of interesting touches all over. It also serves to help navigate the city without using the map all the time as everything is a landmark making it easy to know exactly where you are. This just looks like a fairly normal city and in a single shot I can pick out multiple buildings that look near-identical. Everything looks so incredibly sterile and bland.
I get that Rocksteady is in another league when it comes to in-game assets and effects compared to the studio that did Origins but it's been a decade since then. I hope by release it's looking better or I hope they delay it to give it a bit more time in the oven. This makes me curious to see what Rocksteady's 2023 Suicide Squad game is going to look like.
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