The story takes place before Batman's partnership with Robin ( Josh Keaton) [65]—although Robin is a playable character outside the main story—and before Barbara becomes Batman's ally, Oracle. The Remote Claw was criticized for making stealth sections too easy, allowing multiple enemies to be disabled without moving from the player's starting position. The game tells a prequel story set several years before the events of the first two titles, with a "young, unrefined" Batman battling an array of assassins lured to the seedy and sinister Gotham City on a snowy Christmas Eve after a huge bounty is placed on his head. Travel back to the days before there was a Batman and take control of a young Bruce Wayne as he completes his martial arts training.

Defeating enemies earns points which can upgrade Batman's statistics or unlock gadgets and costumes; costumes unlocked in the game can unlock costumes in the console version and vice versa. The Shock Gauntlets are among the last gear you unlock, which is good, because once charged (by hitting a few guys in regular combat) and activated, they let you completely ignore everything that makes combat interesting.New and Familiar Characters: Encounter a full cast of iconic DC Comics characters including Black Mask, Penguin, Deathstroke, Bane, Anarky, Captain Gordon, The Joker and others. And after what happened tonight, I promise the good people of Gotham that I will work tirelessly — I will lobby the city council — go to the governor if I have to — do everything in my power to get Arkham Asylum reopened. The Gotham City Police Department is aware of "the Batman", and does not condone his approach to crime-fighting. When using the Wii U Gamepad, you're encouraged (but not forced) to use the LCD as a viewfinder and control the first-person perspective camera with the motion controls instead of the sticks, which is unwieldy and gimmicky. Led by Commissioner Loeb, the GCPD is thoroughly corrupt; Branden and his SWAT team are hunting for Batman to claim the bounty for themselves.

Batman's relationship with Alfred is strained; the butler, an overbearing parental figure, reminds him of his parents' deaths and Alfred sees Batman as a spoiled child squandering his inheritance on a vigilante crusade.Taking place before the rise of Gotham Citys most dangerous criminals, the game showcases a young and unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. The events in Arkham Origins take place about eight years before Batman: Arkham Asylum, in midwinter Gotham City. The game introduces a fast travel system, allowing Batman to remotely summon his plane (the Batwing) to transport him to other areas of the game world quicker than gliding or grappling could. Similarly, IGN and Destructoid noted that the content lacked originality and innovation, providing generic environments and removing, rather than adding new abilities and weapons. On October 31, 2013, these issues were addressed by WB Montréal; in a community post, it said that the development team fixed many of the multi-platform problems and an update would be available by November 7.

The DLC also contains two alternate skins for the character: Initiation Bruce Wayne (based on his monastery attire) and Vigilante Bruce Wayne (a masked ninja outfit). Batman can freely move around the open world of Gotham City, interacting with characters and undertaking missions. The gameplay was described as a mediocre shooter, incapable of supporting the necessary use of guns by its villains and with poor control of movement. The North American version also contains the 2013 DC Comics super-villain documentary, Necessary Evil.Games industry peeps may consider this sort of thing to be a big deal, but to the player it makes very little difference to t