One of the great triumphs of the games was how satisfying Batman felt to control. The greatest moments of joy found in Rocksteady’s erratic thirdperson shooter, however, come when the thumbsticks are in neutral. cinematics are regular high points, from King Shark offering to relay stories of the “hammerhead conflicts of my youth” to Captain Boomerang delivering dad jokes to the groans of his companions, and Lex Luthor mulling over potential “workplace applications” of the killer mutants running about Metropolis. The gags come thick and fast, and we find ourselves often smiling through a story in which the world’s greatest defenders of justice are murdered by a ragtag group
