Arkham Knight’s Tumbler DLC is Sadly What Its Season Pass Deserves

<p>Few Brits can claim to have left more of a mark on Batman in the past decade than that of Christopher Nolan&period; From 2005&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Batman Begins<&sol;em> to 2015&&num;8217&semi;s <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;fear-itself-batman-arkham-knight-review&sol;">Batman&colon; Arkham Knight<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s impossible not to see Nolan&&num;8217&semi;s brooding handiwork in everything Batman as the man who fearlessly moulded America&&num;8217&semi;s Caped Crusader into Hollywood&&num;8217&semi;s Dark Knight&period; In just ten of the 458 minutes it takes to watch Christian Bale rise&comma; fall&comma; and pick himself up out of a well&comma; you can zip through the visual highlights of Nolan&&num;8217&semi;s Dark Knight Trilogy without a single clown in sight minus the one that constructed Rocksteady Studios&&num;8217&semi; race tracks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;ve played last month&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;rocksteadys-1989-batmobile-bundle-just-a-cheap-thrill&sol;">1989 Batmobile tracks<&sol;a>&comma; then you pretty much know the formula for <em>Arkham Knight<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s Tumbler DLC pack&period; Putting you behind the wheel of <em>Batman Begins<&sol;em> and <em>The Dark Knight<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s monstrous black steed&comma; the pack sees you roar through two tracks themed after Nolan&&num;8217&semi;s classic trilogy&comma; each with a set number of laps&colon; one at the easiest or three at the hardest&period; At a few minutes a pop&comma; neither of them are long-term distractions despite their feeble attempts at pomp and circumstance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two tracks make a peculiar effort at replicating a mishmash of all three of Nolan&&num;8217&semi;s Batman flicks all in two&comma; the first adapting the rooftop police chase from <em>Batman Begins<&sol;em> and the second evoking the ruins of Gotham&&num;8217&semi;s city hall from <em>The Dark Knight Rises<&sol;em>&period; Somehow both share the incongruous addition of the Batcave running right through the Gotham freeway while GCPD helicopters take potshots at you&period; Without the thrill of pursuers&comma; the tracks seem devoid of any of the drama they&&num;8217&semi;re reenacting despite the war drums of Hans Zimmer&&num;8217&semi;s classic score beating in the distance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;Batman-Arkham-Knight-Tumbler-Tracks-BagoGames&period;png"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-92282 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;Batman-Arkham-Knight-Tumbler-Tracks-BagoGames&period;png" alt&equals;"Batman Arkham Knight Tumbler Tracks BagoGames" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"465" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They are&comma; however&comma; the most challenging of the four tracks Rocksteady&&num;8217&semi;s put out&period; Given the Tumbler&&num;8217&semi;s sheer girth&comma; maneuvering the beast around the rubble-laiden tracks is a painstaking chore and the tight corners you navigate feel deliberately trollish in design&period; Though the Tumbler&&num;8217&semi;s easily the fastest in car in Batman&&num;8217&semi;s garage&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s easily the most fickle&period; Driving it backwards while pressed up against a ravine was a bizarre experience I won&&num;8217&semi;t forget&period; Performing a jump in it is a blast&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a shame those last just under half-a-second&period; At least it handles downtown Gotham nicely enough&comma; minus a working tank mode&comma; ironically&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At face value&comma;<em> Arkham Knight<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s The Tumbler DLC is another notch in the utility belt of disappointments that&&num;8217&semi;s been the game&&num;8217&semi;s season pass thus far&period; Unless <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;trailer-shows-batman-arkham-knight-season-pass-update&sol;">this month&&num;8217&semi;s Nightwing DLC<&sol;a> is the sucker punch that Arkham Knight desperately needs&comma; this is the sad state of affairs that <em>Arkham Knight<&sol;em> deserves&period; Should Rocksteady have sought to remaster EA&&num;8217&semi;s original <em>Batman Begins<&sol;em> or make <em>The Dark Knight <&sol;em>tie-in game we never got&comma; that would&&num;8217&semi;ve been DLC to download&period; Instead&comma; we have another &dollar;2 time waster&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;