We’d all been stung by low-effort Activision superhero tie-ins throughout the 2000s, to the extent that any title that placed you in control of a comic book icon came with a tacit warning.Īnd then you went for a short walk in Arkham Asylum’s intro, and everything changed. Telltale’s brand of action can’t hold a candle to the Rocksteady games below, but if QTEs aren’t tantamount to a hate crime in your own assessment, there’s a flow and pacing to Telltale’s Batman, alternating between moral dilemmas and fast-unfolding action that pulls you along with it.īefore Rocksteady took The Bat and made him cool again, this was a license there was very little reason to get excited about. While action-focused games might see this as dead time since he can’t just bust out the knuckle sandwiches at a moment’s provocation, here you really get to feel the character’s duality – and the pressure of keeping up a hidden identity.
Firstly, it’s interesting just to spend time with Bruce Wayne and occupy his mindset. If you’re more interested in the conversations Batman and Bruce Wayne have than the scraps, Telltale’s episodic Batman games are your first port of call. Venture onwards down our list and find Waynes, campaigns, and Batmobiles – the 10 very finest ways to inhabit superhero royalty. Just as well you didn’t come here for the best Batman games released 1995-2005, then. So you’ll find a schism through this list – on the one side, platformers carrying the licenses of Batman’s early ‘90s movie outings, on the other, those blockbuster action games from Rocksteady and Telltale’s thoughtful, dialogue-heavy take on being Master Wayne. The 2000s brought us many things – frosted tips, Wheatus, Brangelina – but great Batman games were not among them. He seems like such a mainstay in gaming now, but for a few years there between his 16-bit outings and Rocksteady’s seminal Arkham series, Bats wasn’t a big name in gaming.
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