1) There's still less lost in terms of the gadgets Batman still has at the beginning of the game compared to some others. The remote control batarang is actually there from the beginning, as I recall, since it's a requirement. I do agree about the line-launcher, given how essential that thing was in the last game, you'd think he'd keep it around. 2) Whilst it does require downloading, once you have downloaded the content, the Catwoman chapters do fit seamlessly into various intervals in Batman's story, before dovetailing together at a point. 3) I agree on this one, but saw little difference between the controls of this game and that of Arkham Asylum, personally. 4) It's a problem all of them suffer because of trying to squeeze them all in there. They're pretty bad thumbnail characterisations, especially for Two Face, Bane, and a couple of others. 5) Debatable. They actually serve a purpose in training you for one bit of the story and give you a special upgrade after a point. The Advanced ones are solid, though. 6) You can play it stealthy, to some degree. That's what a number of the tools are for. And just like the last game, there are points where you have to be stealthy, or you will die fairly quickly. I don't know where 'survival horror' enters the equation, especially the 'horror', because it was certainly no Resident Evil.
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Terrific game
I'm going to be like Yahtzee and explain some negs first instead of lauding it like everyone else has done...
1) The fact of having all your weapons back from the game is a lie. The line launcher, remote control batarang and sonic batarang come in at different parts of the game (and to top it off they're all inverted controls but that could be switched in options i haven't tried it yet) 2) Likewise to the previous statement, I was under the impression that Catwoman missions would be sort of a break in the narrative instead of DLC where you have to download updates and then the DLC which I despise with a passion because of how long it takes. 3) The controls can be hard as with getting from one handrail to the next during the Mr. Freeze confrontation was mind boggingly difficult. 4) The villains sometimes seem to go to catoonishly evil due to the darker nature of the game. Ones like Bane, Riddler and the Penguin are examples of this because in the cartoons and comics made them seem more rounded, particularly comic Bane. Bane was a good step in this direction of roundedness got taken away from me when you finish his side quest. It was like the film "20 Minutes or Less" where they couldn't go a minute without saying an f or other curse word. 5) Augmented Reality missions suck. 6) Another minor complaint is the survival horror of last game is gone in this one. I did really like that but I wish they went with a more stealth approach.
But overall It is one of the best games I've played ever.