The Web-Head Vs The Dark Knight; A Batman: Arkham Asylum Review

Up until 2009, Spider-Man was my all-time favourite super hero and Spider-Man 2 was my favourite super hero video game. It was open-world, and if you found yourself tiring of the story or the side-missions, you could simply veer off in any direction you pleased and web-sling to your heart’s content. You could actually see the webs sticking to the buildings and, unlike Spider-Man games since, if there was no building there to swing from then you couldn’t swing – which made it all the more challenging and immersive. My friends and I would spend hours just swinging amongst the high-rises of virtual New York city, taking turns to execute humanly impossible manoeuvres between narrowly-spaced buildings, passing the controller only when we ended up stuck to the side of a skyscraper like a bug on a windscreen.