Batman Arkham City give you a huge map and allows you to explore the area at your leisure. If you want to set out on the main quest, you have the freedom to make that choice. But do not neglect the side missions and quests, for if you do, you will miss out on over half the game. Whether it’s running a phone trace on Victor Zsasz, helping Bane destroy Joker’s hidden stashes of Titan, saving political prisoners from the beating of a lifetime, or even playing the Riddler’s many games, there is always something interesting to do within the city’s walls.
Stereoscopic 3D makes all the difference
Going to see the latest movie in 3D at your local theater may have made many of you numb to the thought of 3D. It seems that more often than not, Hollywood is trying to turn 3D into its latest “Cash Cow” gimmick and keeps pumping out 3D movie after 3D movie. In 2011 alone, I have seen about four 3D flicks in theaters. All of them were forgettable to say the least and the ones that did have a decent 3D look to them were more about the depth of view rather than things jumping out of the screen at you.
NVIDIA has taken the high road when it comes to video games and Batman Arkham City is an amazing game that begs for you to add another dimension to your hardware. Prior to launching Batman Arkham City for the first time, I was able to hook up a 27” 3D ready ASUS monitor, 3D Vision 2 glasses, and a 448 core NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560ti all of which would boost my gaming into the realm of stereoscopic 3D.
At first I was worried that I wouldn’t be a fan, but just minutes into the game things started to fly off of my screen towards my face. As Batman would run or glide through the city, his cape inched ever close to me. Broken bits of wood from shattered walls and crates flew past my shoulder. My personal favorite though was opening a vent cover. As I feverishly tapped “A” to make Batman wrench the cover off of the wall, it did just that! The cover came off of the vent and peeled away from my monitor towards me.
