BATMAN - The Telltale Series - Season One Reviews

BATMAN - The Telltale Series - Season One is ranked in the 44th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Dec 14, 2016

Batman: The Telltale Series squanders its potential with a messy story obsessed with retreading older Batman tales.

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4 / 5.0
Dec 29, 2016

Perhaps Batman: The Telltale Series’ greatest flaw is inconsistency; playing each episode separately can make some of the weaknesses of the lesser episodes, like technical issues and poor pacing, more apparent in a way that most other Telltale series do not suffer from.

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Aug 3, 2016

Batman: The Telltale Series brings its story-writing prowess to Gotham and takes billionaire Bruce Wayne out of the Dark Knight's shadow.

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7 / 10
Nov 24, 2017

If you're a fan of Batman and don't mind the style of Telltale's episodic point-and-click games this title is worth checking out. Despite its underwhelming technical performance and watered-down visuals, it's a gritty and violent story that captures Gotham City in a similar way to other modern stories about Batman. Else, if you're not really a fan of Bruce Wayne and his after hour activities, maybe hold out until another episodic Telltale game based on a different series is released.

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6 / 10.0
Dec 14, 2016

An interesting new environment for the storytelling of Batman with the classic Telltale's style but the result is too bad.

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7 / 10
Dec 19, 2016

Batman: The Telltale Series starts strongly, recreating and altering the Batman mythos in new and inventive ways, but can’t keep it up and fades towards the end of its run. It perhaps isn’t Telltale at their best, but still a series worth checking out for fans of their work and of Batman.

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8 / 10.0
Dec 19, 2016

It was not easy to come up with something new and interesting in the Gotham City's universe, but Telltale Games nailed it with this Batman series thanks to a thrilling and well-written storyline.

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Nov 14, 2017

Fans should definitely check this game out, though the Nintendo Switch version does lack a lot of the polish seen on other platforms. But if you want to take your Batman experience on the go then this is your best choice.

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6.5 / 10.0
Dec 28, 2016

Telltale's take on the Dark Knight gives players the choice to make Batman a merciful champion or a brutal seeker of vengeance. But why?

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Dave Aubrey
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Nov 26, 2017

Not bad by any means, but the seriously plodding pace for the first few episodes kills much of the excitement in Batman - The Telltale Series. Though the game really picks up for a great crescendo in the latter two episodes.

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Ken McKown
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Dec 22, 2016

In the end Batman feels like a rough start, and if I wasn’t such a fan of the characters, I am not sure I would come back for more. However, being such a huge fan I find myself wanting to see where it goes, warts and all, which is something Telltale seriously needs to address.

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Oct 31, 2016

The best video game version of the Caped Crusader to come along in some time, Batman: The Telltale Series delivers the action and characterizations that you'd expect from a property based on the Dark Knight Detective.

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Dec 21, 2016

Telltale Games's take on the Dark Knight is a much-needed step forward in terms of placing gamers in Batman’s boots.

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7.5 / 10.0
Dec 18, 2016

City of Light is a good season-finale, which concludes all narrative lines of the previous episodes and introduces a new way to look at Bruce Wayne as a character.

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7 / 10.0
Jan 8, 2018

Overall, the game features a decent amount of content but not for the price. For $39.99, I would expect to get more content than what is here. As a big Batman fan, I enjoyed the story but after we've had the chance to play as Batman in other games, it feels like a step back to go the full story-driven route. However, if you enjoy more of an emphasis on story in games, you might have fun with Batman: The Telltale Series–I would just wait for a sale first.

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70 / 100
Dec 14, 2016

A stellar interpretation of Bruce Wayne and Gotham can’t hide that Batman is one of Telltale’s biggest technical messes yet

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8 / 10.0
Dec 26, 2016

Telling one of the most interesting Batman stories in any medium, Batman: The Telltale Series is a really cool take on Batman with some great fight scenes and fun investigations. It just really needs some technical polish.

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7 / 10.0
Dec 26, 2016

Though I do have to knock it quite a bit for failing on the presentation, as that is a rather large part of a game like this, the story that Batman: The Telltale Series has to tell is strong enough to carry it through the technical hiccups. Telltale clearly understood Batman as a beloved character and then used that to turn it on its head and fan or not, this is worth a look.

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Dec 28, 2016

Batman: The TellTale Series Season 01 is a great view into the world of TellTale's Batman. Complete with beautiful worlds, deep characters, and fun twists that'll have you guess what you did, and didn't do, from start to finish. If you're up for a deep look at the man under the cowl, this is one Batman adventure you'll want to do.

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Dec 17, 2016

Like Game of Thrones, Telltale's Batman tries to escape the constraints of its well-established universe but ends up falling into the same patterns and railroading the player through a story devoid of...

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