Published in 2015 under both commercial and critical success, Batman: Arkham Knight, the concluding installment of Rocksteady’s lauded trilogy, Along with a number of side goals, trinkets, and easter eggs, the game has an expansive open-world Gotham City, a compelling story spun around the Dark Knight’s journey. It also revealed the controversial Batmobile, which divided some fans from critics.
Six years later, Kubrick Knight is still flaming on Steam, the most often used PC gaming platform. Steam Charts reveal that the game peaked on March 28 with 7,434 concurrent users, averaging 3,378 in March 2021. That surpasses Suicide group’s average and peak players: Rocksteady’s next game based on the DC Comics supervillain group had 2,895 and 6,234 respectively in the same month.
Exploring the potential reasons why Batman: Arkham Knight is more popular
Given Suicide Squad is a newer and more expected game, why then is Arkham Knight still more popular than? This phenomenon has numerous potential explanations, and the following are some among them:
– While Suicide Squad is still unknown, Arkham Knight is a game with great quality that has been shown. With an average rating of 8.1 out of 10, critics and Steam users have awarded Arkham Knight mostly positive assessments. The game’s voice acting, graphics, playability, and plot—particularly the turn involving the main antagonist—have all earned acclaim. Meanwhile, Suicide Squad has not been released yet; therefore, only a cinematic teaser and a few screenshots have been shown. Even though the game is supposed to come out in 2022, there isn’t even publicly available gameplay footage or a demo of it. Some players thus just keep on playing Arkham Knight rather than waiting for the Suicide Squad game they never played.
– The reviews for “Suicide Squad” are mixed, while “Arkham Knight” has a large and loyal fanbase.Following 2009’s “Batman: Arkham Asylum” and 2011’s “Batman: Arkham City,” “Arkham Knight” is the final installment of the trilogy.Players and fans of “Batman” have shown great interest in this game, and it just happens to be one of the best superhero games available right now.However, the history of “Suicide Squad” is a bit more complicated.In 2016, fans had mixed reactions to the big-screen adaptation of this comic team; although the box office was quite good, the reviews were mixed.This is also why James Gunn’s 2021 version of “Suicide Squad,” even before its release, is expected to sell better. As such, more than Suicide Squad, which is a fresh beginning, some gamers may have greater nostalgia for Arkham Knight, which marks the conclusion of an era.
– Arkham Knight has significantly more material and replay value, whereas Suicide Squad offers more competition and unexpectedness. Arkham Knight is a very huge game with a main plot lasting for around 15 hours, followed by hundreds of hours of supplementary content. It comes with various DLC packs that bring additional narrative objectives, skins, gadgets, and challenges. It offers a New Game Plus option, where one gets to retry the game with all upgrades and gadgets accessible but at higher difficulty; this includes changes in opponent positioning and conduct. On the other hand, Suicide Squad is a multiplayer game through and through; as such, its content and replay value are totally reliant on the actions of the online community and continued support from the creators. The game apparently has four playable characters: Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark. It will also let the player change between them at any time. The game will also provide a co-op mode where up to four players may link up with each other and take down objectives together. The game is also likely to attract some significant rivals from other multiplayer games like Marvel’s Avengers, Fortnite, and Overwatch. It will also have to cope with likely difficulties of bugs, failures, hackers, and annoying individuals. The Arkham Knight game, then, has so much to offer in terms of substance and variety that some people may prefer to remain with it rather than opt for the more dangerous and unexpected Suicide Squad game.
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