Played for maybe around 6-7 hours yesterday, solo as I could not find anyone to play with through matchmaking.
As a huge fan of the Arkham games and thus Rocksteady, I was expecting much more, even with the lackluster previews.
My biggest issue is the mission structure. Everything is just going somewhere, fighting a few waves of enemies, and then getting random loot. The world is empty and dead, there is no reason to explore. Storytelling is OK, but basically relies entirely on cut scenes and voice lines. Compared to Arkham Knight and the way it presented the story, this is only steps back, none forward.
Also the fact that the 4 characters play almost identically in terms of combat - shooting very familiar guns of various types - seems like an incredibly poor idea from the very start to me. To go from arguably one of the best melee combat ever put into a game to "let's just give everyone guns"... why? I don't understand. If you want to make a
shooter looter, then why pick a universe/characters that are completely at odds with that game type.
I understand that they were not going for a new Arkham "adventure" game here, they were going for "Crackdown in Arkham universe" or whatever. Problem is that I've played better games that do the exact same things they are doing here. This game is many, many years late. Not only has this whole thing been done better by several games, but the whole always online aspect is frowned upon by many. And if forcing things online produces crap like this, then it should be frowned upon. This is coming from someone who would LOVE a co-op Arkham Knight style game, and that's what I was hoping for, but here we are...
One more point of complaint: If you are going to have your main characters communicating mainly via quips and jokes, make sure they are good enough to at least not be annoying. Man, some of the one-liners are just annoyingly bad.
110 euros down the drain because I figured I owe Rocksteady that much faith after my favorite gaming trilogy. This sure killed that goodwill fast.
edit: Tried on PS5. Performance ranged from a fine, locked 60, to running around what I'd estimate as low 40's in the biggest fights, which was annoying.