With their sense of freedom and loving grasp of the Dark Knight's comic universe, 2009’s Batman: Arkham Asylum and its 2011 sequel, Batman: Arkham City, are two of the best superhero games ever made. Batman: Return to Arkham brings both games - and all their DLC - to the current generation of consoles, but an unremarkable graphical upgrade doesn’t do them justice. That’s not to say it’s not noticeable. Textures in Return to Arkham are much sharper: Batman’s suit, for example, looks much more detailed. His cape in particular stands out beautifully, pebbled, catching the light. The bigger issue is performance. For a remastered version of older games, it’s disappointing that neither Asylum nor City runs at 60 frames per second - they’re both targeting 30. In fact, Asylum suffers from some odd stutters when Batman runs through a corridor or turns a corner. The issues aren’t bad enough to interrupt combat flow, but occasional chugging is a noticeable distraction. Outside of the two campaigns, all the DLC challenge maps and additional skins are here, so you can play as 1970s Batman - or even better, animated Batman - from the get-go. But there’s nothing to differentiate the extra content from what was included in the Game of the Year editions, and the lack of making-ofs or behind-the-scenes details is a missed opportunity. If you’ve never played Arkham Asylum and Arkham City and own a current-gen console, Return to Arkham is a fine place to start. But for those who already own both on PC or last gen, there’s no real reason to pick this up beyond a rather uninspiring and technically disappointing graphical upgrade.

Both games in this collection play as well as they did when they came out, and run much smoother with stable frame rates and greatly improved loading times. Overhaul of the graphics makes environments look brilliant, and while character models are touched up some they still show their age. Batman oddly looks much uglier, particularly in the face due to details of certain facial features being more enhanced than they were on the previous gen of consoles. Aside from those few quirks, I'd say this is a remastered collection worth recommending.

If you never played the Akrham Series, then you're in for a treat. This is one of my favorites series, and one of the best games based on a Super Hero. This game includes Arkham Asylum and Arkham City from the PS3/360 Gen. It has updated Graphics and framerate, which all looks and runs beautifully. The only gripe about this change is the atmosphere of areas seems to be brighter than before. Though it's not too much to kill the enjoyment of the game. The games have a fantastic cast for the characters with actors from the animated series reprising their roles such as Kevin Conroy as Batman, and Mark Hamill as Joker. There a lot of content and side missions in both games to keep you busy for a very long time. My other criticism about this collection is that Arkham Origins is not part of of it. I know its not made by Rocksteady but it's still part of the Arkham timeline, so its relatively important to to the lore. So if you never had the chance to play the games, pick this up and prepare to go on a journey of a life time.

This really takes me back! I forgot how great these Arkham batman games were. As far as this PS4 version of the games they are fantastic. Great graphics for what they are to boot. Arkham Asylum and City were the best out of the 4.

Two great games remastered, i never got to play them until now.