Why Batman's Arkham Series has one of Gaming's Greatest Combat Systems – Art of the Level

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1. Thank you so much for watching. We put a lot of time into this one and love the Batman Arkham series. Do you have a favorite Arkham game?

2. The Batman Arkham games were so awesome and fun to play and you felt like Batman with his Detective skills , combat , driving the batmobile , Detective crime solving and so on, you really felt like the Worlds greatest Detective 🙂. Rocksteady captured the feel and atmosphere of Batman and they have changed the Superhero game genre forever and how to make an awesome Superhero game .

3. Rocksteady needs to come back to make a proper court of owls game… I'm just saying…

4. It really is I wish a lot more games would kind of adopt this not even adopted just make it their own but also like add to it in a way you know

5. Nothing will ever match the Arkham series

6. Still to this day I love bats series 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 just recebeat Arkham city and asylum again 🔥🔥 knight still looks amazing for a 2015 game I wish more devs pushed their game series to look good and feel believable imagine a fully polished assassins creed with the vibe of unity, some sea exploration like black flag smh Ubisoft rushed them out a year and a half too much

7. Meanwhile gothem knights can’t add a counter system….

8. But what developer of Gotham Knights did is changing it totally.. 🤦‍♂️ I taped out from the series

9. Rockstady did a great job
   Then WB Montreal come with BA Origin

10. There was a Jet Li game a while back ago with the same mechanics, I think Arkum just has a better story and graphics for the time

11. IGN is on a roll.. some really really good produced videos! In a sea of newscasts and reactions. This is refreshing

12. I actually played Dark Tomorrow through to the credits multiple times. The gameplay and graphics were horrendous, but had a charm to it. The cutscenes were dope tho, and we got see a lot of characters not yet well known to non comic readers like Ratcatcher, Ra’s Al Ghul, Killer Croc, Ventriloquist and more.

13. We need to show this to the devs of Gotham knights

14. But Dunkey said they’re boring so they must be boring. What a fucking idiot that guy is

15. Arkham city perfected the combat. The combat challenge levels were so much fun and could be played in short bursts when you had time so it was a shame they were replaced by batmobile race stages.

16. Amazing video !!!! 🙏🏻

17. lol this game have one of the most boring combat in gaming… Is basically just series of quick time events…
    Of course IGN would love, it doesn't require any skill or strategy.

18. This combat system spoiled me. Now if games don’t have sick counters and bone breaking finishers it just doesn’t hit the same

19. I want a switch Version !!! I had it on x360 loved it to dead. Now i only have a switch lite because i'm struggleing minimum Wage lost house etc.. but games sooths my pains!!

20. Didn't Insomniac's spider-man use the same fighting system from rocksteady too?

21. Anybody else break their necks playing Arkham Asylum at the display on Target? That’s what made me beg my mom to buy it. Top 10 favorite games for sure!

22. This is a direct indirect at the dissatisfaction of the Gotham Knights combat system LOL

23. Very professional and informative. Great work IGN!

24. Absolutely fantastic series of games – however I think it’s often over looked that the Spider-Man 2 movie game had this exact type of combat in 2004.

    While Batman perfected it 5 years later, it could be argued it Spider-Man did the ground work for Superhero franchises.

25. Arkham Night looks still great even measured by nowadays graphic standards even though it came out 7 years ago,which is pretty mind blowing !!

26. What are you guys smoking on

27. I enjoyed Batman Begins too

28. I give this video an IGN 7

29. there's many games that tried to replicate arkham combat. but other's look like the enemy attack one by one while others just watch. in arkham games, the enemy looks like they swarms attack and work together but they gave batman fast movement animation to get the sense that batman is way faster than the enemy

30. Yeah you guys are wildin the best combat system is Bully nuff said

31. DMC5 has The greatest combat system

32. I remember a game that came out on the PS2 that had a similar combat system. Not as refined and that game was Jet Li's Rise To Honor.

33. Show this to the youtuber jackass who calls himself Videogame Dunkey. That guy actually found this game's combat "boring" and "monotonous". One of the most annoying and overrated youtubers of our time

34. @berlin

35. Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor is Amazing

36. Doesn't spider man game do this now

37. It's because they stole it from the Spider-Man games before it. Especially Spider-Man 2 and Ultimate Spider-Man.

    ESPECIALLY ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN

38. The combat system while being flashy it was way too simplistic a blind monkey could play it. I cant see how mashing one button for attack and countering with another that requires zero timing whatsoever to pull off, is considered one of "the greatest gaming has ever created" lol…

    If you want a complex combat system look no further than the Devil May Cry series, literally has infinite combination possibilities with amazing style and its combat mechanics that requires more than 2 braincells to pull off.

39. A great game is one you can play 10 years later or longer. This is one of them.

40. Gotham Knights sucks eggs

41. Arkham Origins had the best combat out of all of them in my opinion. It seem tuned better and had a higher skill ceiling

42. Imma be real. I love the arkham games to death. Been playing since I was 6 years old. But it just does not have the best combat system. I think there are so many games out there that have great combat systems. So to say that this series has the best is a little on the nose.

43. If this game wasn't born, then we wouldn't get stuff like Spider-Man and more future superhero games to come.

    Rocksteady are Legendary for this.

44. I think sleeping dogs did it better but Arkham did it first.

45. The combat in these games are way too satisfying. It will forever be fun

46. Great art segment for Arkham that was the greatest CB Game of all time. But lets not forget Batman Begins was its template more than any Batman game, without it Arkham won't exist.

47. Rocksteady's take on the caped crusader is a milestone in not just superhero gaming, but gaming in general. The combat is almost perfection in Batman Arkham Knight.

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