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BATMAN ARKHAM: CITY - A FIRST HOUR, FIRST IMPRESSION
I’ve never played any Batman games. “What kind
of a gamer are you?!” - I’ll have you know I’m an
excellent one, just never got round to it. Same as
I haven’t played any BioShock or Resident Evil
games. Alright, I’ll stop before I drop any last
shred of credibility because the day has come;
Batman has been experienced and I quite liked it.
With the forthcoming release of the third
Batman title in the Arkham series, I thought
it was time to at
least experience
one of the games
for myself after
hearing so much
good about them. I
felt no better option
than to play the
most recent game.

(£5.24, around $8), filled with all the DLC,
including extra side-missions and characters,
I picked myself up an official wired Xbox
controller, downloaded and installed the
mammoth 18GB game. I had a bit of trouble
setting the game up to play, as Games for
Windows Live didn’t want to play ball at first,
meaning I couldn’t save the game originally,
but once that was sorted I got to playing.
I decided to do an hour rundown of how

After getting the
‘Game of the Year’
edition for the PC
at an absolute steal
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Batman Arkham Special Edition