Eh, not interested.

The new Gotham looks atmospheric as all get out, and expanding the playable characters and allowing them full access to the city with civilians in the streets is a nice change of pace, but as soon as player and enemy levels in conjunction with the XP was introduced and co-op was clearly the focus of the game, all my interest died off. It's like the Division, but with Batman.

I saw the numbers flash on screen with every blow, how barely-effectual each strike seemed to be (TBF, this could be attributed to the game's pre-alpha state and rougher animations and the like) against the enemy, in tandem with the clearly-simplified Freeflow-inspired combat system, and I checked out.

I get it: the Arkham series is done, and you can always play those if you want to -- they're not going away.

However, it also feels like a huge betrayal of expectations to introduce the Court of Owls within a post-Batman continuity*, but remove it from the more mature and established Arkham universe in favor of an online co-op action-RPG with in-game resources that are most assuredly hinting towards MTX implementation. They could have gone post-Knight -- maybe even planned to until it was decided to remake the game into its own continuity -- and had the Bat Family keep the peace and combat the Court, until the new Knightmare Batman hinted at in the post-credits Knight scene made his formal appearance, or something.

*As if he's really dead, though. Batman actually being dead in this story is about as likely as it was that anyone other than Jason Todd was going to be the Arkham Knight.