When comparing Star Sector vs Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Slant community recommends Batman: Arkham Asylum for most people. In the question“What are the best low-spec PC games?” Batman: Arkham Asylum is ranked 65th while Star Sector is ranked 99th. 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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fully simulated economy.
Different planets can have excesses or shortages of certain goods, can be affected by "missing" trade convoys, pirate or terrorist attacks and orbital bombardments - and you can make a profit of all of those things!
Pro Many different approaches to make money.
This game offers many career choices - bounty hunting, inter-faction military actions, trading (while taking advantage of recessions, unrests and the black market), smuggling, colonisation, etc.
Pro Very moddable
The modding community has found many unique ways to make this game more refreshing, even in the hundreth playthrough. Customize your experience to your liking with mods.
Pro Regular updates
The small development team keeps working hard - even years after release - to bring out regular updates that add exciting content.
Pro A wide variety of ships and weapons.
This game offers many different spaceships of all shapes and sizes and even more weapons and mods you can put on them, making a deadly efficient killing machine tailored to you.
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 Strange responses to what different factions dont like.
Pirates and space-terrorists are understandable. You are profitable, or go against our ideology? We try to kill you. But why are major (even friendly!) factions sending "expeditions" to your colonies to disrupt a specific industry just because they don't like your market share in a specific product? Why does that not count as a declaration of war, and why is the player suffering a reputation loss with them when they fail?
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.