I've had no freezes or glitches or anything else people reported as bugs but the game is still the very definition of mediocre.
Too much time in the old section of the city we already were in in AC and all those locations are exactly the same, the church, the courthouse, the steel mill...
The Bridge is just ****e. The limited areas of access make zero sense and make traversing it a pain in the ***, I know I have to cross the bridge and it makes me want to stop playing. This is why they really included those fast travel points because honestly, the entire game isn't that huge if not for the fact that your flight abilities suck due to them not allowing you to grapel up too high.
The new section is kind of nice but just too dead and empty. The inability to grapnel places not close to as high as the building you can go up next door can be infuriating. Also I'm on a roof, theres a ledge at the corner of the roof thats literally raised up an inch, not a few feet or anything, an inch and Batman can't step up onto it, he has to walk around it. The game takes too long giving you all your combat moves and by the time you get them to have to relearn your fighting style. It's sloppy and makes fights repetitive and tedious and completley unfun unlike City's combat challenge modes which I still go back to. This kind of **** is terrible and makes you want to just stop playing constantly. It took me 3 tries to finish the last Blackgate mission, which is only like 20-30 mins and just so boring I couldn't get through it.
Oh and I could give two ****s about the Riddlers data packs all over the place. What a tedious worthless, boring, unrewarding achievement.
I payed $8 so whatever I guess but I can safely say I'll never replay this in anyway even to do the new game plus.
Compared to Arkham City which I'll likely go back and play again at some point and have played already like a dozen times through and still play the combat challenge maps regularly like Nightwing etc.
What it comes down to is if you're desperate for Batman and understand what a beta test is and are basically ok with this game feeling like that the entire time go for it. If you skip it you're missing out on nothing. I practically went through withdrawl from AC4 Black Flag. This I was thrilled to be done with so I can get onto the better games I got during this Steam sale.
