Batman: Arkham City: Harley Quinn's Revenge:
After recently purchasing the Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition, I finally had the chance to play the short, roughly 2-hour DLC Harley Quinn's Revenge. Taking place several weeks after the downfall of Arkham City and it's ruthless warden, Professor Hugo Strange, this entertaining DLC follows Batman, who is somewhat emotionally torn and depressed after the deaths of his true love Talia al Ghul and mortal enemy The Joker, who is called by Commissioner Jim Gordon to investigate a disturbance in the Sionis Steel Mill area of the former super-prison. The police, after shutting down most of the sprawling hell-on-earth called a penitentiary, have had a bit of trouble taking down Joker's nearly impenetrable fortress he's set up in the Industrial District. In fact, his mourning girlfriend Harley Quinn has had Joker's henchmen, now following her after his death, blow up the only bridge leading into the Industrial District. Batman infiltrates the fortress, enters the Steel Mill, and then goes missing. After no communications with the Dark Knight for two day, Alfred and Oracle (for the uninformed: the crippled Barbara Gordon, former Batgirl, and Commissioner Gordon's daughter) contact Tim Drake, the current Robin, to go find him and save him from Quinn, who blames Batman for the death of the Joker, and may intend to torture and kill him. An interesting aspect of this short DLC is the fact that it begins with Robin trying to save Batman, and then backtracks, shows how Batman was caught, and then goes forward again. So it alternates playing styles. Although Robin's fighting style and gadgets are cool, nothing beats Batman's super-fast fighting style and huge array of useful gadgets. One aspect of the DLC is that, just like the Challenge Maps, the difficulty is slightly kicked up a notch, with the enemies harder to take down, and your character is more susceptible to damage. this DLC is also quite short, and therefore may disappoint some people. I found it entertaining enough, and it was pretty fun while it lasted. The only problem is it isn't open world (one of the best parts of the original game) and it doesn't have a final boss battle. But what is cool is that you can go back to the police barricade on the other side of the blow-up bridge and talk to Gordon and explore the police barricade, as opposed to the original game when you couldn't enter any TYGER guard locations or police areas unless the story allowed for it. The combat and stealth stages are very similar, and the sequence where Robin must take down Harley and her armed thugs is similar to the Two-Face stealth scene in the final Catwoman episode, in that you must take Harley down before you finish off the thugs, or else infinite numbers of them will continue to show up (with the exception of the sniper, you should take him down first). I was hoping for an appearance by the rejoined Abromavich Twins (Mr. Hammer, who works for the Joker, and Sickle, who worked for the Penguin), but unfortunately that didn't happen, hopefully, if Rocksteady does an Arkham City sequel, which probably will happen, they'll make an appearance there. Overall, Harley Quinn's Revenge is a short, fun DLC, which, although it's not nearly as good as the game it's following, delivers some thrills and exhilarating action and stealth sequences, which will keep you occupied and entertained for 2 and a half hours. 3.5/5 stars.
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