There is a veritable plethora of Batman games out there. They've been steadily making games featuring The Caped Crusader for over thirty years. The first Batman game was released only in Europe and was a simple 3D isometric game that featured Batman rescuing Robin by exಌploring the Batcave and searching for parts to repair the Batmobile. If you played it all those years ago, you'd be shocked to see that Batman would go on to be featured in a video game series that would find itself in the Guinness Book of World Records.

This series would be the Arkham Batman series that the vast🐠 major of gamers hold in r♔ather high regard.

The Batman of the Arkham video game series isn't the same Batman you might know from the comic series that's been in constant publication going all the way back to 1939. He's also not the same Batman you've seen depicted in the film series directed by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher. This isn't the Batman you know from highly regarded animated series like Batman: The Animated Series or Justice League Unlimited. This is not The Nolanverse Batman (though he alm🍃ost was). This Batman is not our current Batfleck.

The Arkham Batman lives in his own universe and has his own canon. This means there could be a number of things you don't know about this particular version of The Dark Knight. In addition to having their own canon, the Arkham Batman games have their own development stories separate from the shows and movies. Keep reaꦇding to see what you might not know about one of the more modern incarnations of ✱ The World's Greatest Detective.

15 💧 🍒 He's Not A Very Good Doctor

In Arkham Origins, Batman decides that he isn't just the World's Greatest Det﷽ective, but the World's ꦿGreatest Doctor as well. On two occasions, Batman uses his shock glove item as a defibrillator in cut scenes. There's only one problem. He's doing it wrong.

Defibrillation uses a shock to stop and restart a heart on a patient with an irregularity in their heart beat. You do not shock a🌺 flat-lined patient back to life. Batman uses his gloves on flat-lined individuals. The correct course of action wouldn't have required a fancy gadget at all. Batman simply could have just administered CPR.

Bats might want 🍌to ask Alfred for some tips the next time he needs patc♑hed up.

14 Arkham City Never Happened.ꦕ.. In the Comics ꧅

The Arkham games have kept most of the Batman mythos intact. The important parts anyway. He's still motivated by the death of his parents. He's still secretly billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. He has Alfred, the Bat Cave, the Batmobile. All the important things are there. The series started with Arkham Asylum, an infamous location in the Batman comics. While Arkham As🌌ylum h﷽as been ripped from the pages, Arkham City was not.

A similar idea was toyed with in the comic story "No Man's Land." Gotham is separated from the rest of the world and a turf war ensues. Arkham City was loosely based on this story, but never in the comics was an entire ar🅠ea of Gotham sectioned off to house inmates and let them otherwise live at their leisure.

13 ಞ Arkham Batman Is Tallerﷺ

Ah, the "height argument." It's been making folks in nerd culture look petulant and pathetic for quite some time. Nerd culture's attention to such a minute detail is the reason actor John Leguizamo crouched in his costume when playing The Clown/Violator in 1997's Spawn. If you'd believe it, many people had issue with Hug🌌h Jackman's casting as Wolverine because they said the actor was too tall.

It is stated in Arkham Origins that The Batman is 6'4" inches. According to DC canon, Batman stands at 6'2" inches. We hope that pointing out this height difference doesn't upset a🤪nyone!

12 He Cosplays As The Batmobile 🦩

Okay, okay. Batman isn't really cosplaying as his own car in Arkham Knight. What you may not know is the costume and Batmobile were designed for Arkham Knight in c𝓡onjunction with each other. that ❀they were designed to feel "visually and functionally compatible with one another."

Art🅠 director David Hego wanted to show the suit and car "came from the same family." Batman has a new car with upgraded technology and Hego saw Batman "doing all this crazy sh-- wi🍒th it" to make the technologies in the suit and car complimentary to each other.

11 He Has Super Powe♏rs

One thing that sets Batman apart from the company he keeps in the Justice League is the fact that he doesn't actually have any powers. This isn't to say that he's never had any. In the comic books, Batman has wielded one of the power rings of a Lantern. Even more recently in the comic pages he was infected with the Amazo Virus which gave him a number of actual bat-like abilities. Still, at the end of the day, Batman always returns to being a regular human. It's his thing...but not in the Arkham games.

In the Arkham games we see a Batman that can punch a criminal thirty feet into the air, jump into the air, and stay suspended in mid-air if he continually 🃏punches and kicks the criminal.

Maybe thꦚis isn't a superpower. May🧔be this is just game physics. A guy can dream though.

10 Bats andꦇ Babs Both Love Shakespeare

In the 1966 Batman series starring Adam West, Batman and Robin would use a bust of Shakespeare with a flip-top head revealing a secret button to gain access to the Bat Cave. An additional key-code entry system or bio-metric sys🧸tem probably would have provided a little more security than a simple button, but who are we to tell Batman how to do his job?

In Arkham Knight, Barbara Gordon has a secret clock tower base where she operates as Oracle. Gaining access to 𝓰this base requires the same exact "hidden button in a Shakespeare bust" sys🃏tem that Batman uses in the series from the '60s. Perhaps Bats gave Babs the idea?

Note to self: When 💯visiting Gotham, check every Shakespeare bust you find.

9 ꧒ He Sounds Familiar 🔯

The Arkham games are incredibly popular and it would be foolish to say the only people playing the games are hardcore Batman fans. I'm always surprised when I come across someone who▨ doesn't know this little bit of information.

Many of the voice actors in the Arkham series are the very same voice actors that worked on the legendary Batman: The Animated Series from Fox. In Arkham Asylum, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, and Arleen Sorkin returned as the voices for Batman, Joker, and Harley Quinn respectively. Arleen would be replaced by Tara Strong in later games, while Conroy and Hamill would only be excluded from Arkham Origins.

8 He's Supp♒osed To Be Dead? 🅠

SPOILER ALERT! If you have not played and finished Arkham Knight you might want to skip the next item on th☂e list.

Due to a screw up on Amazon.com, a picture of the collectors edition showed a Batman statue with the words "In memory of the Gotham Knight" and was taken down shortly after. This might indicate that the series was originally planned to conclude with the death of The Capꩲed Crusader.

If you have beaꦚten the game and received all three instances of the ending, then you will know that Batman is very much alive at the end. Unfortunately he has had to make his identity known to the public and afterwards he tells Alfred to initiate the "Knightfall Protocol."

This could be a♍ reference to the Knightfall story-line from the comics. In the arc, Bruce Wayne is badly injured by Bane and a man named John Paul Valley (Azreal) takes up the Mantle of the Bat.

Perhaps Wꦰayne will fake his🐲 death so a new face can don the cowl in a spin-off series?

7 ﷽ 🍷 He Grew To Be Very Mature

Arkham Knight is not only the first game in the Arkham series to receive the "Rated M for Mature" rating from the ESRB, but it also holds the distinction of being the first Batman game ever to receive the "Rated M for Mature" rating. It seems odd that a game about a superher🔥o that refuses to kill would carry a mature rating, but it's actually a pretty fair assessment.

Due to Scarecrow's role in the game, there are some pretty intense and frightening scenes. There are a lot of provocative outfit𒆙s donned by characters like Harley Quinn. There is a fetish shop in town. There is some smoking (The Pen🥃guin's cigar) and the main storyline involves exposing the city to a hallucinogen (drug use). Of course the game also has some pretty intense violence and firearm usage.

6 🍒 He's A Record Breaker

We can assume that Batman has broken a few records within the pages of his various comiꦫc series, but would you believe he has also b♒roken a record here in the real world?

In 2009, Arkham Asylum was added to the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest rated superhero video game of all time. The ga꧃me received a wor🗹ldwide review average of 91.67.

Even Gaz Deaves was excited about the game's inclusion in the book stating, “We are so pleased to be awarding Batman: Arkham Asylum a Guinness World Record. It is a fantastic new g🀅ame and due to the reaction of gaming experts we believe it has a well deserved place in the Guinness World Recor😼ds book.”