

A lack that can make itself known at the worst moments.Īt one point, I was in Gotham’s police station my ears are ringing with the sound of the alarms, there’s an incinerated body in front of me, and armed police are searching the building for me. You can’t jump in Gotham Knights, you can dodge, climb, or perch, but jumping isn’t in your wheelhouse. However, there is one place Gotham Knights is painfully awkward: clearing low obstacles.

Climbing onto a motorbike is cool, but leaping onto a motorbike in motion, like Zorro mounting a stampeding horse, is cooler and keeps up the pace of the crimefighting. At a press of a button, the Dark Knight-inspired mechanical motorcycle phases into existence, facing the direction you’re running, and even starts moving if you begin to sprint. If you want a speedier way to get through the city, you can always call your bat-bike. The grappling hook is like a combination of the heroic-fantasy in Marvel’s Spider-Man, where you swing through your city as protector and defender constantly looking to snuff out crime, and the zombie survival game Dying Light which uses the grappling hook as an additional tool in your movement arsenal. Such a simple tool, but it made me feel like Gotham is my stomping ground as I leap from rooftop to rooftop, chasing down criminals below. It’s child’s play to scale skyscrapers, simply looking at ledges or high platforms and tapping ‘F’ when the grapple icon appears. That smoothness also extends to your utility belt, with the grappling hook becoming this lazy crimefighter’s best friend.
