Batman: Arkham Knight Review (Bobby Kenobi)
It's the weaker of the 3 Batman Arkham games made by Rocksteady. But It's still pretty good.
Improvements over the other 2 games are the graphics mostly, it's kinda surprising it uses UE3 and manages to look this good and finally after so many years and some patches it runs flawlessly (performance wise), just make sure to install it on your ssd/nvme and not a mechanical drive. And the second improvement that is most noticeable over the other 2 is the melee combat, its way more refined and feels more fluid than previous 2, city was almost at the same level but with the extra quick gadget moves and some other stuff this one feels better.
Sadly, story wise its a downgrade over the other 2 that are made by the same studio, and the worst part out of this is they locked the final cutscene under 100% completion, meaning you gotta do the stupid riddler challenges and trophies if you want to watch the cutscene, if you don't feel like it just play until you have done most of the stuff and side content and just watch that cutscene on youtube, you'll probably save 10h~.
The game focuses way more than AC in open world activities and on top of riddler stuff, they added bases, mines and other activities besides the stories from other villains and lots of them require you to use the car, the car doesn't handle as well as most people would expect, its serviceable, the combat is more fun than the racing challenges or traveling with it.
The DLCs aren't bad but they feel less polished, batgirl dlc has some random crashes, harley, nightwing, robin and red hood dlcs are pretty short and last catwoman dlc is short but it has a fundamental design flaw in the last battle, they designed it so badly you need to avoid using whatever you have learned playing the game and not counter, use special moves, gadgets or anything other than spamming attack as quickly as you can, otherwise the floor traps will get you, i've seen plenty of people with problems in that last fight in the dlc and that's what worked for me, do not even bother with counter attacks.
Overall the game is ok, if i was reviewing it on release date or close to it i wouldn't recommend it, but since plenty of time has passed, most people will be able to run it smoothly and base game bugs have been ironed out. Grab it when it's on sale for cheap around major sales and enjoy the last entry of the Arkham series.