Batman: The Telltale Series

Batman: The Telltale Series
Developer(s) Telltale Games
Publisher(s) Telltale Games
Distributor(s) Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment[1]
Producer(s) Bryan Roth
Lisw Schulz
Composer(s) Jared Emerson-Johnson
Series Batman
Engine Telltale Tool
Platform(s)

Release date(s)
Genre(s) Graphic adventure
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Batman: The Telltale Series is an episodic point-and-click graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games and distributed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment under its DC Entertainment label. The game is based on Bob Kane and Bill Finger's Batman comic book series, though not tied to any previous adaptation of the work in film or other media.

Gameplay

The player takes the role of Batman, both as the superhero and as his alter ego Bruce Wayne. Telltale Games CEO Kevin Bruner has stated that playtime will be split evenly between them, though at times the game will offer the player a choice of whether to approach a situation as Wayne or as Batman.[15][16] The game's narrative offers a "fresh interpretation of the universe set in current times, not tied to any existing iteration of Batman in games, film, or comics", according to Telltale Games.[15] According to Bruner, the game is set a few years after Wayne decides to become Batman, giving them flexibility in their writing and gameplay to give the player some control on how they want to play the character without ties to any established narrative.[16] The game features a branching narrative, similar to past Telltale games, giving the player options in approaching a situation and having that choice affect later events in the game.[15] The game includes action sequences that are resolved similar to Telltale's other games, using quick time events. The series also includes investigation sequences, allowing the player to use Batman's detective skills to progress the story.[16]

The series also introduces a new feature called "crowd play", available on both the PC and console versions of the game. Crowd play allows the game to be watched by an audience who can participate in the decision-making process. When this feature is active, the player provides their audience with a link to Telltale's website with a unique code to participate in that session through any web-enabled device. These additional players are given the option to vote at the game's decision points, with the results presented to the main player to judge which decision to make. Optionally, the main player can have the game automatically take the most-popular decision for them. This mode is intended to be used for an audience at the same physical setting, such as a living room or movie theater; though this mode can be used through streaming services like Twitch.tv, Telltale warned that latency issues may hamper the viewing players' experience. Telltale's head of creative communications Job Stauffer said that they had seen their games, as well as older point-and-click titles, popularized on streaming channels. Furthermore, when they premiered Tales from the Borderlands at the Alamo Drafthouse, they found the audience shouting out which choices the demonstrators should take. This led to them working to create a more interactive experience for watchers. They premiered this feature at the San Diego Comic-Con in July 2016 to 500 attendees.[17][18]

Plot

Realm of Shadows

At Gotham City Hall, a group of mercenaries attempt to break into the hall's vault only to be intercepted and subdued by Batman (Troy Baker). In the vault, Batman encounters the elusive Catwoman (Laura Bailey), who attempts to steal an encrypted data drive. The two fight on the rooftop until Batman retrieves the drive and Catwoman escapes by using Batman's pick-pocketed Grappling Gun to latch onto a passing monorail. The scuffle between the two of them is witnessed by Lt. James Gordon (Murphy Guyer) and Sgt. Renee Montoya (Krizia Bajos).

Bruce returns to Wayne Manor for a private fundraiser to support the campaign of his good friend and mayoral candidate,Harvey Dent (Travis Willingham), who is running against the current Mayor of Gotham City Hamilton Hill. While mingling with other guests including the reporter Vicki Vale (Erin Yvette), Bruce is greeted by crime boss Carmine Falcone (Richard McGonagle) who discusses forming a partnership with Bruce. Bruce rebuffs his offer, making himself an enemy of Falcone. Sometime later, Bruce is contacted by his childhood friend, Oswald Cobblepot (Jason Spisak), whom he has not seen in 20 years. The two meet at Cobblepot Park where Oswald tells Bruce that there will soon be a "revolution" in Gotham.

Bruce attends a press conference for the construction of a hospital dedicated to his parents' memory where a reporter confronts him about evidence of an offshore account directed to his parents by Falcone. Bruce denies it and leaves the press conference. He returns to Wayne Manor only to find it being ransacked by the GCPD overseen by Lt. James Gordon. He states to Wayne that they are here to seize the documents revolving around Wayne Enterprises under the orders of Mayor Hamilton Hill. Bruce confronts Harvey Dent who denies any knowledge. Bruce also meets Dent's girlfriend Selina Kyle. While Dent takes a business call, the two deduce each other's identities after seeing injuries they sustained during their fight at Gotham City Hall. Selina reveals that she stole the data drive for a client and that she was supposed to deliver it to a warehouse at the East end of Gotham. Selina reluctantly gives Bruce the address of her contact and Bruce decides to go to the warehouse as Batman.

Batman arrives at the warehouse only to discover that an explosion had killed numerous mercenaries and police officers prior to his arrival. Batman suspects Falcone to be behind the incident after finding a white rose on one of the bodies. After investigating the crime scene, Batman deduces that a mercenary sniper had shot a chemical barrel during a shootout with GCPD, causing the explosion. Exposure to the chemical caused a police officer to turn vicious and tear apart a mercenary's face with his bare hands. The surviving mercenaries stole hundreds of barrels filled with the same chemical. Batman finds the sniper on the other side of the warehouse and interrogates him about the incident. The sniper reveals that Falcone had ordered the mercenaries to steal the chemicals and the data drive contained the container number of the chemical, but they had to search for it themselves when Catwoman failed to deliver it. Someone had tipped off the GCPD, resulting in the shootout.

Bruce returns to the Batcave and decrypts the data drive. He discovers evidence of Falcone's criminal organization, as well as connections between Hill and Falcone. Faced with an opportunity to finally defeat Falcone, Bruce can either take the evidence to Vale or Lt. James Gordon.

Batman assaults Falcone's headquarters. After fighting though his guards, Batman confronts the crime boss in his office. Batman interrogates Falcone about the chemicals. Falcone admits to having ownership of the chemicals, but denies playing a part in the shootout at the warehouse. Falcone also reveals that everything said about the Wayne family being affiliated with his organization is true and this is confirmed when Batman notices a fallen photograph of Falcone and his parents. An angered Batman leaves Falcone for the police. As Batman returns to the Batcave to confront his butler Alfred Pennyworth (Enn Reitel) about the matter, a news broadcast by Jack Ryder (Robert Clotworthy) talks about the allegations that Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne had worked with Carmine Falcone.

Children of Arkham

Alfred admits to Bruce that the Waynes collaborated with Falcone and Hill to control Gotham, claims they did it to secure his future. Bruce then re-investigates the death of his parents at the hands of Joe Chill and discovers that it was not a mugging, but an assassination. He confronts Falcone, now in police custody, and he claims that he had nothing to do with the Waynes' deaths before he is shot and killed by a drugged Renee Montoya. Based on Renee's testimony upon recovering from the drugs, Batman deduces that Cobblepot (now calling himself the "Penguin") was behind the killing and tracks him down. Thanks to Penguin's bodyguard Blockbuster (Steven Blum) the Penguin is able to easily evade Batman after being confronted by him but not before Batman finds out that Penguin plans to track down and kill Catwoman. Bruce arranges a meeting with her where they fight off thugs sent by Cobblepot.

Bruce and Alfred then decrypt the phone of one of the thugs and uncover a voicemail proving that Hill and Cobblepot are working together. Bruce confronts Mayor Hill (Robert Pescovitz) as either himself or as Batman. Hill admits that he hired Cobblepot and leaked information about the Waynes in order to discredit Dent's campaign and further corroborates that he, the Waynes, and Falcone were partners. Knowing that Cobblepot will betray Hill, Batman teams up with Catwoman and heads to a planned public debate between Hill and Dent. It is too late to stop Penguin from assaulting the debate and holding Hill and Dent hostage. Penguin then proclaims he is part of a group called the Children of Arkham who are dedicated to exposing and eradicating the corruption in Gotham City and shows a video of Thomas Wayne forcibly committing his mother Esther Cobblepot (Lorri Holt) to Arkham Asylum and using drugs to drive her insane, much to Batman's shock. Batman is then attacked by Blockbuster. As they fight, Hill admits that he was the one who arranged the assassination of the Waynes before he is killed by Penguin. After defeating Blockbuster, Batman then has the choice of either trying to rescue Dent or Catwoman.

In the aftermath, the Children of Arkham release a full list of all of the innocent people Thomas Wayne had forcibly committed to Arkham Asylum, further tarnishing the Wayne name.

New World Order

With Mayor Hill dead, Dent becomes the new Mayor of Gotham City. Meanwhile, Batman is summoned by Gordon, who informs him that Mayor Dent has gone missing and Montoya has gotten in trouble trying to follow the Children of Arkham, but he does not have enough officers to send to both incidents. Batman must then choose to either assist Mayor Dent or Montoya. Dent is either rescued by Batman or forced to kill one of his attackers with his bare hands while the chemical shipment Montoya is tracking is either destroyed or escapes depending on the choice. Batman then realizes the Children of Arkham have managed compromise the GCPD's communications. He consults with Lucius Fox (Dave Fennoy), who concludes that the Children of Arkham have hacked Wayne Tech's communication network.

Bruce then meets with Regina Zellerbach (Lorri Holt), the chairwoman of Wayne Enterprises, who informs him that the board has decided to force Bruce to step down from his position as CEO due to the fallout of his father's crimes being made public. The board of directors also decides that Bruce's replacement as interim CEO will be Cobblepot. Bruce then meets with Mayor Dent to warn him that Wayne Tech is compromised. Regardless of whether Dent's face is scarred or not, he begins to show signs of a more aggressive split personality. While in Mayor Dent's office, Bruce notices a newspaper where Vicki has managed to get an exclusive interview with the leader of the Children of Arkham (Steven Blum). As Batman, he confronts Vicki and convinces her to tell him that she met with the leader at a Sky Train depot.

Batman heads over to investigate Vicki's lead and discovers that the Children of Arkham are planning to use the trains as a delivery system to spray the chemical at another rail station, potentially exposing thousands of people to it. After getting into a battle with the leader, Batman is able to destroy the train, but is wounded in the process. Catwoman rescues him and takes him back to her apartment to recover. Batman then has the option of further romancing Catwoman or not. However, if Batman had chosen not to help Catwoman in the previous episode, she does not fully reciprocate his feelings. The next morning, Mayor Dent arrives at the apartment and finds Bruce. Believing correctly or not that Bruce and Selina have been having an affair, Dent attacks them in a rage. Bruce manages to subdue Dent who briefly regains his senses and flees in shame.

Bruce then heads to a press conference to officially announce that he is stepping down as CEO of Wayne Enterprises. He can choose to stick to script in order to not make any more trouble for himself or he can take the opportunity to try and warn the public about the threat the Children of Arkham pose and that Cobblepot is working with them. Afterwards, Bruce takes his place in the crowd and is encountered by Vicki. She injects him with the chemical and reveals that she is Lady Arkham, the leader of the Children of Arkham. Vicki then goads the drugged Bruce into attacking Cobblepot.

Guardian of Gotham

After Bruce Wayne viciously beats up Oswald Copplepot, he is placed into Arkham Asylum by Mayor Harvey Dent. While he still struggles with the drug Vicki injected him with, he meets with a mysterious psychopathic patient with green hair and chalk white skin (Anthony Ingruber), whom the others call "John Doe". John saves him from being beaten by two inmates. In the rec room with other inmates like Victor Zsasz (Kiff VandenHeuvel), Arnold Wesker (Larry Brisbowitz), and Blockbuster, John Doe informs Bruce more about Vicki Vale's motivation for her actions as Lady Arkham. She was the daughter of the Arkhams who were apparently killed by the Waynes after they disapproved of Thomas' methods. Bruce asks Victor Zsasz about the identity of John Doe. John Doe causes a prison riot to help Bruce get a phone call in return for a potential future favor. To help Bruce get a phone call, John gives Zsasz a cut before he's killed someone, prompting Zsasz to lash out at a fellow inmate.

Bruce is shortly released afterwards with Alfred coming to pick him up. On the ride home, Bruce receives a call from Mayor Dent who revealed that since the Children of Arkham have gone underground (as evidenced by Vicki disappearing in the news), he directed the people's anger towards the Waynes as revenge for Bruce's potential affair with Selina. Mayor Dent has drastically increased the security around the town and Bruce and Alfred end up in a brief altercation with a guard and some citizens on the way home. Selina Kyle chooses to leave town to avoid the war between Batman and the Children of Arkham.

Once Bruce and Alfred get to the Batcave, Bruce uses the Batcomputer to synthesize an antidote for the drug and decides to investigate the Vale household as Batman. At the Vale residence, Batman discovers that Vicki brutally murdered her adoptive parents to use her father's company to store the drugs. The only survivor was the adoptive son of the Vales who assists Batman in destroying a drone sent by Penguin to kill them. Lieutenant Gordan and Montoya arrive to take the boy into protective custody, but Commissioner Peter Grogan (Robert Clotworthy) takes over due to his distrust of Batman. At the Batcave, Batman, Alfred, and Lucius discover that the Penguin's used his new resources to compromise Batman's technology.

On television, Mayor Dent announces that he is seizing the Wayne Estate to finance his security system. Bruce can either go as himself or Batman to talk to Harvey on a rooftop, during which, Harvey orders a city block that has the building containing the Children of Arkham's drugs in it blown up, which kills several innocent people in the process.

While in the Batmobile, Batman is informed by Lucius Fox that Penguin has a Black Box that's allowing him to hack into all of Batman's technology. Batman is then given the choice to go to Wayne Enterprises to stop Penguin or to Wayne Manor to stop Harvey.

Development

Bruner stated that the game will be similar in maturity to their previous titles The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead.[15] The game will be rendered using a "non-photorealistic" style inspired by comic artists Jim Lee, Greg Capullo and Neal Adams. To meet this, Telltale is updating its game engine to be able to produce improved rendering results.[19]

Episodes

The game will be separated into five episodes, released in intervals.

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
1"Realm of Shadows"Kent MudleZack Keller, Patrick Kevin Day, Shanon Ingles, Nicole Martinez & James WindelerAugust 2, 2016 (2016-08-02)[2]

Batman battles Catwoman and a group of mercenaries for a hard drive stolen from Mayor Hill. Batman recovers the hard drive and begins the process of decrypting it. Meanwhile, as Bruce Wayne, he hosts a fundraiser for Harvey Dent which is gatecrashed by Carmine Falcone, who attempts to propose an alliance with the Waynes. Later, he encounters an old friend, Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot, who speaks of a revolution coming to Gotham, and warns Bruce that he will have to pick the right side when it comes. Afterwards, an anonymous source leaks evidence to the public that Falcone and the Wayne family have had dealings with each other, though Bruce believes it is just a ploy to hurt Dent's chances to oust Hill. Bruce then meets Selina Kyle, and both of them recognize each other due to the wounds they inflicted on each other earlier. Selina tips off Batman to a rendezvous point where she was supposed to deliver the hard drive to Falcone, and he goes to investigate, only to find the bodies of both mercenaries and policemen who had been killed by a mysterious psychotropic chemical explosion. Batman subdues a surviving mercenary, who admits that he was hired by Falcone to steal the chemical. Once the hard drive is decrypted, Batman discovers that it is all of the blackmail evidence Hill collected against Falcone, and passes the evidence on to either reporter Vicki Vale or police lieutenant James Gordon.

  • If Bruce gives the evidence to Vicki Vale, she will thank Bruce for the information while showing concern over Bruce's safety. Vicki then departs releasing the information on the media outlets.
  • If Batman gives the evidence to James Gordon, he will thank Batman for the information while not asking Batman where he got it from. Before heading home, Gordon states that it will not affect the investigation into the Wayne Family and their ties to Carmine Falcone.

Batman then attacks and apprehends Falcone, who claims that they were both set up since the chemicals belonged to him. Falcone then theorizes that the Waynes were behind the theft, since they are the most powerful criminal family in Gotham. To prove it, Falcone shows Batman a picture of him together with Thomas and Martha Wayne. Angered, Batman returns to the Batcave and demands answers from Alfred.

2"Children of Arkham"Jonathan StauderJames Windeler, Patrick Kevin Day, Andrew Hanson, Shanon Ingles & Megan ThorntonSeptember 20, 2016 (2016-09-20)[7]

Alfred admits to Batman that the Waynes collaborated with Falcone and Hill to control Gotham. claims they did it to secure his future. Batman then re-investigates the death of his parents and discovers that it was not a mugging, but an assassination. He confronts Falcone, now in police custody, and he claims that he had nothing to do with the Waynes' deaths before he is shot and killed by a drugged Officer Montoya. Based on her testimony, Batman deduces that Cobblepot (now calling himself the "Penguin") was behind the killing and tries to track him. instead finding out he plans to track down and kill Catwoman. Batman arranges a meeting with her, where they fight off thugs sent by Cobblepot. He then uncovers a voicemail proving that Hill and Cobblepot are working together and he confronts Hill. Hill admits that he hired Cobblepot and leaked information about the Waynes in order to discredit Dent's campaign, and further corroborates that he, the Waynes, and Falcone were partners. Knowing that Cobblepot will betray Hill, Batman teams up with Catwoman and heads to a planned public debate between Hill and Dent,but is too late to stop Penguin from assaulting the debate and holding Hill and Dent hostage. Penguin then proclaims he is part of a group called the Children of Arkham, who are dedicated to exposing and eradicating the corruption in Gotham City and shows a video of Thomas Wayne forcibly committing Penguin's mother Esther to Arkham Asylum, much to Batman's shock as he is then attacked by Blockbuster. Hill admits that he was the one who arranged the assassination of the Waynes before he is killed by Penguin. After defeating Blockbuster, Batman then has the choice of either trying to rescue Dent or Catwoman.

  • If Batman rescues Dent, Catwoman is shot and flees the scene while avoiding Penguin's men. Dent ends up in the hospital.
  • If Batman rescues Catwoman, half of Dent's face is horribly burned by Penguin smashing a hot light on it. After finding out that Penguin got away, Gordon sees what happened to Dent and tells one of his cops to call a paramedic. Catwoman hides out in Wayne Manor.

In the aftermath, the Children of Arkham release a full list of all of the innocent people Thomas Wayne had forcibly committed to Arkham Asylum, further tarnishing the Wayne name.

3"New World Order"Jason PykeNicole Martinez, Meredith Ainsworth, Patrick Kevin Day & Jessica KrauseOctober 25, 2016 (2016-10-25)[11]
With Mayor Hill dead, Dent becomes the new mayor of Gotham City. Meanwhile, Batman is summoned by Gordon, who informs him that Dent has gone missing and Montoya has gotten in trouble trying to follow the Children of Arkham, but he does not have enough officers to send to both incidents. Batman must then choose to either assist Dent or Montoya. Dent is either rescued by Batman or forced to kill one of his attackers with his bare hands while the chemical shipment Montoya is tracking is either destroyed or escapes depending on the choice. Batman then realizes the Children of Arkham have managed compromise the GCPD's communications. He consults with Lucius Fox, who concludes that the Children of Arkham have hacked Wayne Tech's communication network. Bruce then meets with Regina, the chairwoman of Wayne Enterprises, who informs him that the board has decided to force Bruce to step down from his position as CEO due to the fallout of his father's crimes being made public. The board also decides that Bruce's replacement as interim CEO will be Cobblepot. Bruce then meets with Dent to warn him that Wayne Tech is compromised. Regardless of whether Dent's face is scarred or not, he begins to show signs of a more aggressive split personality. While in Dent's office, Bruce notices a newspaper where Vicki has managed to get an exclusive interview with the leader of the Children of Arkham. As Batman, he confronts Vicki and convinces her to tell him that she met with the leader at a Sky Train depot. Batman heads over to investigate Vicki's lead, and discovers that the Children of Arkham are planning to use the trains as a delivery system to spray the chemical at another rail station, potentially exposing thousands of people to it. After getting into a battle with the leader, Batman is able to destroy the train, but is wounded in the process. Catwoman rescues him and takes him back to her apartment to recover. Batman then as the option of further romancing Catwoman or not. However, if Batman had chosen not to help Catwoman in the previous episode, she does not fully reciprocate his feelings. The next morning, Dent arrives at the apartment and finds Bruce. Believing correctly or not that Bruce and Selina have been having an affair, Dent attacks them in a rage. Bruce manages to subdue Dent, who briefly regains his senses and flees in shame. Bruce then heads to a press conference to officially announce that he is stepping down as CEO of Wayne Enterprises. He can choose to stick to script in order to not make any more trouble for himself, or he can take the opportunity to try and warn the public about the threat the Children of Arkham pose and that Cobblepot is working with them. Afterwards, Bruce takes his place in the crowd and is encountered by Vicki. She injects him with the chemical and reveals that she is Lady Arkham, the leader of the Children of Arkham. Vicki then goads the drugged Bruce into attacking Cobblepot.
4"Guardian of Gotham"Mark DrosteEric Stirpe, Patrick Kevin Day, Shanon Ingles & Luke McMullenNovember 22, 2016 (2016-11-22)[14]

After Bruce Wayne viciously beats up Oswald Copplepot, he is placed into Arkham Asylum by Mayor Harvey Dent. While he still struggles with the drug Vicki injected him with, he meets with an unknown psychotic patient with green hair, intensely pale chalk white skin, crazy laugh and twisted sense of humor (Anthony Ingruber) whom the others call "John Doe" that saves him from being beaten by two inmates. In the rec room with other inmates like Victor Zsasz (Kiff VandenHeuvel) and Arnold Wesker (Larry Brisbowitz), John Doe informs Bruce more about Vicki Vale's motivation for her actions as Lady Arkham. She was the daughter of the Arkhams who were apparently killed by the Waynes after they disapproved of Thomas' methods. Bruce asks Victor Zsasz about the identity of John Doe. John Doe causes a prison riot to help Bruce get a phone call in return for a potential future favor. To help Bruce get a phone call, John gives Zsasz a cut before he's killed someone, prompting Zsasz to lash out at a fellow inmate.

  • If Bruce uses the opportunity to make a phone call, Victor Zsasz will kill the inmate.
  • If Bruce tries to stop the fight, he will be nearly killed by Victor Zsasz, but is saved by the security guards.

Bruce is shortly released afterwards with Alfred coming to pick him up. On the ride home, Bruce receives a call from Mayor Dent who revealed that since the Children of Arkham have gone underground (as evidenced by Vicki disappearing in the news), he directed the people's anger towards the Waynes as revenge for Bruce's potential affair with Selina. Mayor Dent has drastically increased the security around the town and Bruce and Alfred end up in a brief altercation with a guard and some citizens on the way home. Selina Kyle chooses to leave town to avoid the war between Batman and the Children of Arkham.

Once Bruce and Alfred get to the Batcave, Bruce uses the Batcomputer to synthesize an antidote for the drug and decides to investigate the Vale household as Batman. At the Vale residence, Batman discovers that Vicki brutally murdered her adoptive parents to use her father's company to store the drugs. The only survivor was the adoptive son of the Vales who assists Batman in destroying a drone sent by Penguin to kill them. Lieutenant Gordan and Montoya arrive to take the boy into protective custody, but Commissioner Peter Grogan (Robert Clotworthy) takes over due to his distrust of Batman. At the Batcave, Batman, Alfred, and Lucius discover that the Penguin's used his new resources to compromise Batman's technology.

On television, Mayor Dent announces that he is seizing the Wayne Estate to finance his security system. Bruce can either go as himself or Batman to talk to Harvey on a rooftop, during which, Harvey orders a city block that has the building containing the Children of Arkham's drugs in it blown up, which kills several innocent people in the process.

  • If the player went as Bruce Wayne, Mayor Dent orders Bruce to be executed but he is saved by Gordon.
  • If the player went as Batman, Batman saves Gordon from being executed by Mayor Dent's men.

While in the Batmobile, Batman is informed by Lucius Fox that Penguin has a Black Box that's allowing him to hack into all of Batman's technology. Batman is then given the choice to go to Wayne Enterprises to stop Penguin or to Wayne Manor to stop Harvey.

  • If Batman goes to Wayne Enterprises, Batman defeats Penguin in a fist fight and saves his tech, but Mayor Dent burns down Wayne Manor in the process. When a person asks Mayor Dent if this was necessary and what the people would say, Mayor Dent quotes "Just tell them Wayne put up a fight."
  • If Batman chooses to go to Wayne Manor, he and Alfred defeat Mayor Dent and his men. When James Gordon and the police arrive, Batman has the choice to send Harvey to Arkham Asylum (where Batman claims that the people there might be able to help him) or Blackgate Penitentiary (where Batman will say which is what murderers deserve). Afterwards, Batman is told by Alfred Pennyworth and Lucius Fox that Penguin is hacking the Batcomputer. With no other choice, Batman cuts the power to all of his tech to stop Penguin from taking over it leaving all of it inoperable.
5"City of Lights"TBATBATBA
The battle for control of Gotham City reaches a fever pitch as Bruce discovers a renewed sense of purpose and Batman finds himself pushed to the limits in a desperate effort to restore order.

Reception

Aggregate review scores
Game Metacritic
Episode 1: Realm of Shadows (PC) 74[20]
(PS4) 70[21]
(XONE) 65[22]
Episode 2: Children of Arkham (PC) 73[23]
(PS4) 66[24]
(XONE) 83[25]
Episode 3: New World Order (PC) 73[26]
(PS4) 74[27]
(XONE) 73[28]

Batman: The Telltale Series received favorable reviews from critics. Praise was aimed towards Telltale's updated engine, the action sequences, atmosphere, and the portrayal of the titular character while the technical issues and Troy Baker's performance as Batman were criticized.

Episode 1: Realm of Shadows

Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 74/100 based on 39 reviews,[20] the PlayStation 4 version 70/100 based on 22 reviews,[21] and the Xbox One version 65/100 based on 15 reviews.[22]

Episode 2: Children of Arkham

Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 73/100 based on 20 reviews,[23] the PlayStation 4 version 66/100 based on 13 reviews,[24] and the Xbox One version 83/100 based on 8 reviews.[25]

Episode 3: New World Order

Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 73/100 based on 16 reviews,[26] the PlayStation 4 version 74/100 based on 11 reviews.[27]

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  23. 1 2 "Batman: The Telltale Series - Episode 2: Children of Arkham". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  24. 1 2 "Batman: The Telltale Series - Episode 2: Children of Arkham". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
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