Batman was created greater than 80 years in the past and has starred in video video games for 40 of them, almost half of his existence, however the dozens of Batman video games throughout numerous platforms and console generations have hardly ever strayed removed from the fundamentals. It doesn’t matter what decade it’s, it doesn’t matter what {hardware} you’re taking part in on, odds are that in any given Batman title you’ll be gliding off gargoyles, firing grappling hooks, and flinging Batarangs at guys in straightjackets.
Batman’s fixed reinventions within the comics have left the video games principally taking part in catch-up for the higher a part of their historical past, largely tied to fashionable motion pictures and TV exhibits moderately than taking the character someplace really new, however inside these constraints, and finally past them, we’ve seen real masterpieces with the Batman Arkham collection, slept-on gems, unmitigated disasters, and entries so weird and inexplicable they belong contained in the Black Casebook. LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight is the most recent and most complete Bat recreation to this point, which suggests it’s the right time to take inventory of what that legacy truly appears like.
These are the most effective, worst, and weirdest Batman video video games.
