Batman: Arkham Origins - PC

idk why the reviews are so hit or miss. this game is amazing. it does not loses anything the other games had in fact it adds lots of cool things. in fact the boss battle with deathstroke is insane and maybe the best boss ive ever fought. story is great, gadgets and combat are flawless. you have to keep in mind the ranging varieties of pcs out there, when people complain about glitches and game breakin combat etc. the game arrived complete and works just like it should. im very happy I built a pc and waited to get this game, instead of my old 360. great game, looks amazing on pc, and great deal at $27.27.pc specsAMD FX 8100 OC 3.7 GHZCORSAIR HT100i LIQUID COOLING2X4GB KINGSTON HYPER BLUE RAM (8GB TOTAL, PLAN TO ADD 8 MORE)ASUS MA5990FX PRO. REV 2GIGABYTE RADEON 7870 GHZ EDITION 2GB (CROSSFIRED WITH)POWER COOLER RADEON 7870 GHZ EDITIONXFX PRO 750 WATT POWERSUPPLY1 TB WESTERN DIGITAL HARD DRIVE

First of all, this POS game showed up with no activation code on the manual, and it took about a week for Warner Brothers to send me a code, after making me send them three photos of my receipt, game box, manual, screen shot of my amazon account, ect. Then I get to play it and it is a cruddy PC port of a console game which means you spend all your time pounding the left mouse button, then the right mouse button, then the left mouse button, then the middle mouse button - you get the idea. Not only is it boring, but it is glitchy. The game is stable enough (probably cause its been out for quite a while) but they forget to tell you what to do at multiple points, so you have to quit and google it. For example, at one point you have to use your batclaw to pull a stupid raft along a canal, but once you latch onto something, there's no way to release your batclaw because they didn't program a prompt to tell you you have to crouch to release it, so you can launch your batclaw at something else to pull your raft by pounding the spacebar 100 times. THis kind of crap happens again and again, making the game practically unplayable. Then some of the bosses are damn near impossible to beat, like Deathstroke. Save your money and blood pressure and say no to this piece of crap.

Great game and wonderful addition to the Batman Arkham gaming franchise. Extremely smooth and agile play with freeflow combat that, like each new game in the series, has been the case. The story takes place as a sort of prequel to the Arkham Asylum game and most of the characters pulled from the DC rogue's gallery are well done. Without delivering any spoilers the story makes for a fun play through.

I purchased this game last year but stop playing due to bugs in the pc version which cause me to be stuck in certain areas plus I couldn’t get into the storyline at all. I just recently forced myself to finish this game and write a review about what I thought about it. I just wanted to say I absolutely loved arkham asylum and city which are two of my most favorite games ever. However this one was the worst one of them I felt. The game started out good up to the 1st boss fight but as soon as you get out into the city you can immediately tell that most of it was reused from arkham city! I wanted to give the new developers a chance to prove themselves with this game but you can tell that it was a complete cash grab buy using the arkham series to make a safe and quick buck.First let me start off with what I did like and enjoy about this game. The graphics on pc were really well done and the game looked and ran smooth for the most part except for the bugs in some areas. The quick travel batwing was a nice addition to the game and helped saved time in gliding from area to area in the city. I loved the fact that that added the batcave in this game to me it is an important base to have in the batman series. It spent a lot of time just wondering around talking to Alfred and the training area. The deathstroke fight was both exciting and fun to play through trying to counter his moves as well as trying to land a solid hit on him. It kept you on your toes trying to figure out what he would do next but unfortunately that is the only biggest highlight in the game. The new voices of batman and joker did a really good job at holding the game up but not even they could save the game from it awful storyline.I want to talk about what I didn’t like about the game starting with the villains. The developers picked a straight D list of villains to appear in this game. The only two who I thought might show potential was shiva and deathstoke. While I found the deathstroke fun and exciting the shiva fight was a complete let down. They made her out to be a fearsome and deadly assassin but when you finally fight her it is nothing but her throwing around cryptic messages and summoning ninjas to come and fight you. As for the rest of the villains like firefly, electrocutioner, killer croc cooperhead and deadshot were a complete joke.Next the things I didn’t like about the city and a few of the characters. The city itself was devoid and lifeless with most of it being reused from arkham city! There were very few cars or even ppl out on the streets. As a matter of fact the only ppl out on the street were corrupt police officers and henchmen. I found detective Gordon to be a completely annoying character complaining most the time. The side characters like penguin, anarky, mad hatter and riddler were just put into the game just to fill a space as busy work not really serving a purpose in the game.Finally the storyline itself which starts out interesting takes a turn for the worst once joker makes his appearance. It starts off with trying to establish the relationship batman has with all these characters to throwing it all out the window to focus completely on the joker. While I do like joker they let him take up way to much of the spotlight in this game all the way up until the end. I felt they could have left joker out of this game and maybe focus more on blackmask or even another one of batmans main villains not shown in this game.There were a few parts I did enjoy about this game but not enough for me to like it. I could go on but I feel like most of what I didn’t like about the game has already been said on other websites as well as a few comments on amazon. All in all I would say just skip this game and wait for the new arkham knight game coming out this year by Rocksteady the devolpers of the first and second arkham games. I think arkham knight will take the series back to the greatness after the cash grab of origins.2/5 DLC – InitiationSeven dollars for less than 30min Dlc are you serious? You can go to the movies and watch a 2hr show and get more enjoying for cheaper! This dlc server no purposes what so ever to the game. It is suppose to tell the back story of how Bruce Wayne meet one of his fighting instructors and trains in his quest to to be one of the best fighters. Instead it is 3 brawler fights and 2 stealth tests and no real back story about his master.

I was not expecting this to be better than Batman: Arkham City, but it was because there was not a ton of Riddler Trophies that one needed to completely finish the game. It arrived on time, and was easy to load on to my PC without requiring a major upgrade in PC capabilities that Batman: Arkham Knight would require.