Batman: Arkham Origins

Batman: Arkham Origins is a single-player action game set several years before Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. You play as a young, unrefined Batman facing a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter, on the path to becoming the Dark Knight.

A Christmas Eve hunt

On Christmas Eve, eight of the deadliest assassins from the DC Comics Universe hunt Batman. The story also brings him face to face for the first time with many characters who will shape his future, including Black Mask, Penguin, Deathstroke, Bane, Deadshot, Anarky, Captain Gordon, The Joker, Copperhead and Firefly.

Explore Gotham City

The game features an expanded Gotham City, set years before the city’s transformation into Arkham City. You glide above or fight through its streets and districts, from impoverished neighborhoods to the penthouses of the wealthy, exploring dangerous locations and stopping crimes in progress. You can also track down Gotham’s most violent and dangerous criminals to earn unique upgrades.

Investigate crimes

An enhanced Detective Mode adds a Case File system for analyzing crime scenes. You use Batman’s cowl sensors and the Batcomputer to recreate crimes in real time and study detailed simulations of how they happened.

Combat and gadgets

The expanded FreeFlow Combat system brings new enemies, including the Armored Enforcer and Martial Artist, who require different approaches. You can use Batman’s signature gadgets as well as new tools such as the Remote Claw, which creates routes with tightropes or strings enemies up from vantage points, and the Concussion Detonator, which stuns and disorients groups of opponents in close combat.

The online services have been retired. The single-player campaign remains playable offline.