When comparing Call of Duty: Ghosts vs Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Slant community recommends Batman: Arkham Asylum for most people. In the question“What are the best singleplayer games on Steam?” Batman: Arkham Asylum is ranked 75th while Call of Duty: Ghosts is ranked 129th. The most important reason people chose Batman: Arkham Asylum is:
Arkham Asylum is the first game to bring us freeflow brawler melee combat in its full glory. It invented the combat genre where you fight a multitude of enemies who take turns attacking you, while the player has a basic attack, a parry+counter and a combat roll. Getting multiple hits in on enemies builds up a combo streak that makes batman stronger. This streak is reset by getting hit by an enemy. Other games, like Assassin's Creed, had superficially similar combat systems, but not as optimized as this and they did not feature hit/combo streaks. Arkham Asylum's freeflow combat system is very suitable to be played with controllers.
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Pros
Pro Variety of environments
Pro Neat campaign
This heavily story-driven Call of Duty campaign features a cool cast of characters, a villain who is basically what Batman would be if he were evil, and a bunch of great set pieces, like an escape from a prison inside an abandoned casino, a tank assault on an enemy base, two missions on a space station in Earth orbit, and a fight on a monorail.
Pro Awesome co-op mode
Players are sent to abandoned towns to fight hordes of aliens, kinda like the Zombies modes in previous Call of Duty games, but with randomized objectives that they have to complete in order to progress. It has some of the most fun gameplay in the entire Call of Duty series.
Pro Runs at 1080p and 60fps
Like all Call of Duty games, it focuses heavily on running smoothly, creating gameplay that feels way more fun than its 30fps counterparts.
Pro Freeflow combat pioneer
Arkham Asylum is the first game to bring us freeflow brawler melee combat in its full glory. It invented the combat genre where you fight a multitude of enemies who take turns attacking you, while the player has a basic attack, a parry+counter and a combat roll. Getting multiple hits in on enemies builds up a combo streak that makes batman stronger. This streak is reset by getting hit by an enemy. Other games, like Assassin's Creed, had superficially similar combat systems, but not as optimized as this and they did not feature hit/combo streaks. Arkham Asylum's freeflow combat system is very suitable to be played with controllers.
Pro Fun stealth & gadgets
Remaining stealthy and getting stealth takedowns is important in Arkham Asylum's gameplay. Arkham Asylum gives the player a relatively large number of different gadgets to use for different combat purposes, such as ranged takedowns, cutting ropes, diverting enemies' attention, blasting through doors, traversing longer distances and hacking.
Cons
Con Height
If you played the other Call of Duty games, then you would know that this game always feels like it's always crouching. It is really annoying with your character feeling like they are 4 feet tall all the time.
Con Dead multiplayer
The multiplayer has almost no players, many gamemodes are completely dead and only traditional ones, like free-for-all and team deathmatch have a few players.
Con Fish AI
Fish AI was claimed pre-release as part of the new engine, something that is not even new tech in the slightest and has been around in games for over 20 years. Of course to no ones surprise, post release the fish do not behave in the manner that was claimed. Once this was found out when the game released the studio then claimed it was "just a joke".
Con The competitive multiplayer isn't great
The map design and gameplay is some of the worst that Call of Duty has ever seen. There are better Call of Duty games to play if you want to play competitively.
Con Dark atmosphere
You won't realize how many shades of black exist until you've played an Arkham game. It's always dark outside, so to people who like daylight and colors in their games, this might get a bit dull after a while.