Some music does play whenever you’re on the Batcycle, but it’s a nondescript background piece that doesn’t really excite much. There is no music as you traverse the city, and considering how large it is, that is a long time to hear only your character’s grunts as they trapeze from building to building, and perhaps an occasional quip from nearby NPCs. While the voice acting is great, and cinematics have a soundtrack, running around in the city is accompanied by…nothing. It is kind of jarring playing as Red Hood, though, because he is the only one with straight-up lethal weapons, pistols, for his Gun Kata style of fighting.Īudio work is a bit of a mixed bag here. Most cutscenes feature a few different lines depending on who you currently have selected, but it’s mostly reaction dialogue such as Red Hood being a bit more terse in his handling of someone escaping the scene versus Batgirl’s more methodical choice of words.

The story in Gotham Knights is pretty entertaining, and written well enough that it doesn’t really matter which character you play as. Gotham City has become awash in crime, owing to The Batman’s sudden disappearance following Commissioner Gordon’s untimely end, and it’s up to our new heroes to take up the mantle and fight for justice.

They are eventually assisted by Alfred, who had finally been convinced by Bruce to take a long-overdue vacation, coincidentally right as things popped off with Batman’s latest enemy. Naturally, he has such an event planned out to the letter, and the Gotham Knights as they might be called consist of several of Batman’s proteges – Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, and Red Hood round out the cast of playable characters.

Bruce Wayne is given a hero’s death, taking out a powerful adversary when he sees there are no other options. The Batman is no more, something the Gotham Knights makes sure you understand with its opening cinematic. Slight spoiler warning here, but if you’re been paying any attention to this game, then you’ll know the main plot point.

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