It seems Batman has been the superhero since 2008 with the theatrical release of The Dark Knight. He has broke the box office, starred in two great games, and have gotten new shows and an another upcoming movie. Love him or hate him, the vigilante with the creepy and frequently mocked voice is dominating pop culture.

I didn’t buy Gotham City Impostors and didn’t have much of an interest for it, but I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to try it out. Starting off, the game makes you sign up for Warner Bros account in order to play. If you don’t have a chat pad for your console, this can be excessive. Even after this, you have to scroll through pages of Terms of Service and Private Policy to continue. Already, I am not happy with GCI.

Finally, I get to the main menu. The game informs me I have 60 minutes of unrestricted play, this is more then enough. There are two teams like TF2: the Bats and the Jokerz. I click play and it gives me the game modes. There are four choices on this screen:

Team Deathmatch Traditional game mode, shoot to kill. Once your team or the enemy team reachs 50 kills or time runs out, the game is over.

Fumigation A conquest style mode where your team must capture three “gasblaster” points. Once all of them are captured at the end of the match (or one team has two out of three) the last alive on the losing team will die.

Psych Warfare A basic CTF mode where members of each team must attempt to capture a neutral car battery and return it to their Propaganda Machine. The other team has 30 to defuse this until a point is gained.

Initiation A tutorial to teach you the basics.

I quickly decide to try out Team Deathmatch since I’m new to GCI. The game asks me if I want to try Initiation, I accept to learn how to play. There is an unskippable cutscenes that lasts about 7 minutes and blunt intructions given to you over a crappy intericom. This tutorial lasts about 10 minutes and hardly teaches you anything about the game other then how to shoot things and throw ninja stars. Finally, I can try the actually game.

Luckily, Initiation doesn’t cost you your playtime. I quickly have to choose one of the poorly introduced classes. Playing the actually multiplayer, I am satisfied. After some connection issues, the game runs very smoothly. I like GCI, but it’s a game that I would play $15 for, maybe you might think differently.

THE BREAKDOWN

Pros

Good gameplay

Beautiful art style

Well designed maps

Great humor

Free DLC planned for next month, including a map

Cons

Connection issues

Excessive account make at first played

Poor tutorials

Paid DLC at launch, over 100 to choose from

Final Score: 7.5/10

-Destructomundo