Games that works like "Batman Arkham"


I was a little insecure if to put it in the first or the second group because I found the game very boring
The curse of the experienced gamer: Once your are familiar with the game mechanics you've "seen them all". Especially if you started with one of the top titles. ;-) After three Assassins Creed i left the series because of "not again...".
You may review your list for Rise of Tomb Raider parm 8. 100%. At least the first title of that build (Tomb Raider (2013)) could not replay achievments on the starting (tutorial) isle without starting a complete new game. I don't know if that's valid for Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Rise of... but it annoys me that much that i will always remember. But if you reached Rise of... with 100% and still want more then go to both other titles.
 
The curse of the experienced gamer: Once your are familiar with the game mechanics you've "seen them all". Especially if you started with one of the top titles. ;-) After three Assassins Creed i left the series because of "not again...".
You may review your list for Rise of Tomb Raider parm 8. 100%. At least the first title of that build (Tomb Raider (2013)) could not replay achievments on the starting (tutorial) isle without starting a complete new game. I don't know if that's valid for Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Rise of... but it annoys me that much that i will always remember. But if you reached Rise of... with 100% and still want more then go to both other titles.

I played all those 3 games many years ago, but "Tomb Raider (2013)" is not even listed because it's almost a completely different genre, and I didn't like it so much that I almost dumped the sequels too because of it ...
- it wasn't really open, there were a lot of restrictions and locked out areas
- combat sessions were a DOOM like game with you against an entire army in little rooms ... I was like "WTF NOOOO !!" every single time I was stuck in those events ...
- most of the game was almost unplayable for me because I wasn't never sure if I was watching a static cinematic or if I was playing or I had to wait for quick events ... most of the time I just died with things like these, I'm playing and running around, at some point my commands does nothing, so I realize that a cinematic just started, after different minutes I put down the gamepad and suddenly a quick event appear ... WTF ... or maybe she is running in the cinematic and at some point she stops and die because I don't know that the game just started ...
- the entire range of puzzle in the game is "burn it", if there's something around that can burn, well that's the solution even to a puzzle that you still didn't know it existed


Luckily I then tried "Rise of The Tomb Raider", and turned out as a completely different game, a lot better, really open, the combat sessions where corrected with the possibility to use also stealth, it was good in general and also DLCs were good ... so it got many of the parameters used here.

"Shadow of the Tomb Raider" is almost the same as "Rise", except for the different story it mostly has graphic improvements and some tweaked skills here and there, so it shares the same parameters. Probably I didn't listed it because I considered it equal to "Rise".
 
Last edited:
I agree. HL2 got me excited about FPS's but it set the bar too high. I'm going back to platformers.

EDIT: Actually, what I want to do, is lower my expectations, enjoy games that aren't perfect. Many games are pleasant.
 
Just started playing "En Garde!".

From the start I can clearly see that the control system is pretty different from Batman Arkham, so it will not enter that list.

I will have to see how many parameters it will share with it anyway.
 
Well, "En Garde!" is so different that it can't even stay in less similar games ...

The points in common could be only 5, 6 and 8, but 5 is REALLY a stretch anyway, there's a story, yes, but it's not very cinematic ... and while it is possible to complete 100% even after the end of the game, it means to replay entire episodes.

The combat is visually very similar to Batman Arkham, but lacks cinematic sequences and is more difficult because of the high number of buttons required, also the fact that you can't counter easily while near a group, and another thing is the camera that doesn't show when someone outside the view is attacking ...

En Garde! (7 basic buttons) = Attack, Counter, Evasion, Jump, Kick, Run, Grab/Throw
Batman Arkham (3 basic buttons) = Attack, Counter, Evasion/Jump/Run

It is anyway a very good game, more similar to titles like "Prince Of Persia Sand of Times" (excluding the climbing sessions), where you just follow the road and go on with the story, the animation and the combat is really well made, there are a lot of very cool moves and interactions with the surrounding objects, I didn't expected it to be so polished.
It is also very funny, it doesn't take itself seriously and so it's full of jokes ... just an example, to evade from the prison cell you just remove a picture to reveal a hole in the wall, so the protagonist say "Oh cool, there's a convenient secret exit put here", and when you enter the hole a guard shout "Oh no !! She found the convenient secret exit !!".

I'll put a better review in the other thread after I finishing it.
 
Last edited:
Back
Top