Batman: Arkham City, How is there not a thread about this already? Options

[Tanegar]

Is it bigger? Yes. Is it better? ...Maybe. It's certainly no worse than Arkham Asylum, and Arkham Asylum was damned good. I'm not through the campaign yet, so I can't really talk about later events, but so far it's a lot of fun. There are multiple new enemy types, and combat is harder, but it's harder in a good way; real difficulty rather than fake difficulty. Stealth is also harder due to new enemy types, but again, it's real difficulty, and requires real skill to overcome. The boss fights are more varied than Arkham Asylum's, but IMO are more irritating than satisfying. YMMV.

That said, there are a few bugs, which I found surprising given Arkham Asylum's blessedly glitchless state. They're not prevalent; I cannot say for certain that you will even encounter them. On one (and only one, so far) occasion, I punched a guy who flew up above the room's invisible ceiling, rendering him invincible. I had to leave and re-enter the area so that his position reset in order to clear that room. Also, after installing the game, I had to start it three times before it quit crashing out. I still get an error message every time I exit the game, though. I haven't seen any gamebreaking bugs, but as I say, I'm not through with it yet. My overall completion at the time of this writing is 27%.

Overall, based on my experience so far, I give it 8/10. It's very good, and I recommend it, but technical issues and a few "YMMV" design elements bring it down just a bit.