Gotham Knights (PC, Steam, PS5, Xbox) lets you fight crime with the four successors of Batman. However, initial tests of the game have been rather mixed.
What is Gotham Knights? Gotham City is threatened to be taken over by the secret organization “Court of Owls”. You want to prevent this in the role of the Bat-family – because Batman is dead.
You have four roles available:
- Batgirl
- Robin
- Nightwing
- Red Hood
You control these four characters in a third-person perspective through the open world of Gotham City and try to contain crime.
Gotham Knights is an action role-playing game that releases on October 21 for PC, Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. The story can be played solo, but also in multiplayer. You can team up in co-op as a duo to clean up Gotham’s underworld together.
Additionally, the “Heroic Assault” mode is scheduled to be added on November 29 – a standalone mode for four players.
The game was developed by WB Games Montréal, the studio also responsible for the Arkham prequel “Batman: Arkham Origins”. However, it’s important to note that Gotham Knights is not a sequel to the Arkham series, but a standalone game.
Already on October 20, the first tests of the game were published. How is the new Gotham adventure received?
What the first tests say about Gotham Knights
On the website Metacritic, reviews from various media are compiled and summarized into an average score – the “Metascore”.
As of now, there is only the “Critic Score” for Gotham Knights on Metacritic. A user rating is still pending.
Currently, Gotham Knights stands on Metacritic as follows:
- It achieves a Metascore of 69/100 from 51 reviews on the PS5. Of those, 26 are positive, 23 in the middle range, and 2 negative.
- On the Xbox Series X, Gotham Knights gets a Metascore of 68/100 from 22 reviews, with 12 positive, 8 in the middle range, and 2 negative.
- On PC, it scores 67/100 from 11 reviews, with 5 positive, 5 in the middle range, and 1 negative.
What is being criticized? Overall, Gotham Knights is described as a somewhat entertaining superhero game that has weaknesses in various areas. This includes the technology – it was criticized beforehand that Gotham Knights would only offer a 30 FPS mode.
Some opinions:
- “Gotham Knights did not excite me with its overly familiar goals, battles, and activities, but it also did not disappoint me,” writes GameInformer.
- “Gotham Knights is a dense and mostly gripping action RPG with a compelling (though predictable) story and the best Gotham City seen in any video game,” states IGN (Italia): “From a technical perspective, there are some annoying performance issues, and it doesn’t seem like the game was really made for next-gen, but the gameplay is solid and playing in co-op with a friend is definitely worth the experience.”
- “If you want to jump around and beat people up, there are hundreds of other games. If you really want to play a DC action game that takes a modern and admittedly bold step away from the big black bat, then Gotham Knights is good enough. It’s just that it doesn’t impress in the shadow of earlier Batman titles, in the shadow of Batman himself, and it disappoints,” finds VG247.
The colleagues from GameStar and GamePro have also taken a closer look at the game. GamePro rates Gotham Knights with a 65: “Gotham Knights evidently suffers from its troubled development, burying a fun core under many issues,” it states.
Praise is given for the beautiful game world and presentation, as well as fun abilities and the story, which is ultimately predictable. Criticisms include the loot system, the “at best moderately enjoyable movement,” and the XP grind. You can find the complete review here at GamePro.
GameStar also describes the game as quite entertaining but repetitive. Additionally, there are criticisms regarding tough boss fights. At the same time, however, according to the review, there are also a “lot of good approaches”, especially in co-op. You can find the GameStar review with rating here.
Also, you can find the review video from GameStar here:
What do you think of the new Gotham game? Is the “Batman game without Batman” something for you? Or would you rather skip it? What are your expectations for the game? Tell us in the comments!
While Gotham Knights will soon be released anew on Steam, another game has suddenly disappeared from the platform – and quite suddenly:
