About Batman: Arkham Origins
Batman: Arkham Origins is an action adventure game developed by WB Games Montréal, with contributions from Splash Damage, and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in 2013. It is a prequel to the Arkham series and takes place several years before the events of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. Gotham sees a younger, less refined Batman at an early point in his career, still learning who he can trust while the city's police and criminals regard him with suspicion.
The story begins on Christmas Eve, when the crime lord Black Mask places a bounty on Batman's head and eight of the deadliest assassins in the DC universe arrive in Gotham to collect it. Over one long, snowy night you face figures such as Deathstroke, Bane, Deadshot, Copperhead and Firefly, cross paths with Penguin and Anarky, and meet a young Captain Gordon for the first time. Along the way, the first encounter with the Joker sets the tone for a rivalry that defines the entire series.
The game keeps the series' signature FreeFlow combat, where you chain strikes, counters and gadgets against groups of enemies, and adds new opponents such as the Armored Enforcer and the Martial Artist that demand different tactics. Case File detective mode lets you investigate crime scenes and reconstruct events step by step to find clues. Gotham is larger than in earlier entries, and Most Wanted side missions send you after notorious criminals across the city. New tools include the Remote Claw and the Concussion Detonator.
The GOG version is a single-player experience with achievements, cloud saves and controller support, and it supports English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Korean. The game runs on Windows. For players who enjoyed Arkham Asylum and Arkham City or who want to see how the Dark Knight's war on Gotham's underworld began, Batman: Arkham Origins offers a dense story, a large city to glide across and a strong roster of classic villains.
Key Features
- Prequel story – Years before Asylum and City.
- 8 assassins – Hunting Batman on Christmas Eve.
- Black Mask – The crime lord behind the bounty.
- Case File mode – Reconstruct crimes as a detective.
- FreeFlow combat – Fluid melee against groups.
- New gadgets – Remote Claw and Concussion Detonator.
- Most Wanted – Optional criminals across Gotham.
- Controller support – Play with a gamepad.
PC Version and Compatibility
The game runs on Windows. The minimum setup is Windows 7 or 8, an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM, a GeForce 8800 GTS or Radeon HD 3850 with 512 MB, DirectX 9.0c and 20 GB of storage, with a GeForce GTX 560 or Radeon HD 6950 and 4 GB of RAM recommended. Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Korean.
Global Activation & What You Receive
This GOG key unlocks the full game Batman: Arkham Origins. It is a Global key that can be activated worldwide. Sign in to your GOG account, open gog.com/redeem, enter the code and the game is added to your library, where you can download it directly or through GOG Galaxy.
Why Buy This Game?
Why buy it? A Batman prequel with eight assassins, Black Mask, Case File investigations, FreeFlow combat and a large snowy Gotham to explore.
Related Games
Following a later chapter of the Gotham story, Gotham Knights puts the Bat-family in charge after the Dark Knight is gone. Building blocks into a humorous superhero adventure, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham offers a lighter take on Batman and his allies. Telling a choice-driven episodic story, Batman: The Enemy Within explores another side of Bruce Wayne and his enemies. Swinging across a snowy New York in open-world action, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales suits players who enjoy acrobatic superhero combat.
