Batman Arkham Collection (Standard Edition) (PS4)

I live in the US, so I followed the advice of other reviews and made an extra account on my PS4 living supposedly in Helsinki Finland to download the third game.It was super easy, took like ten minutes.That was a small price to pay for the fantastic deal of getting all three games for $20.It takes time to download all the update files and DLC for all three games, but even though my internet is slow (all I have is a hotspot from my phone) it only took me two days to get everything.I’ve always heard these games are amazing, but never actually played them myself. My son has me rewatching the Batman animated series (he adores the Joker) so I’m on a serious Batman kick and decided to get the games to play.I’m maybe a couple hours into the first one at the time of writing this and it definitely lives up to the hype. The combat system is fun and the upgrades make it expansive and interesting to devise different tactics without making it overly complicated.I typically don’t play games like this (I usually lean towards visual novels and RPGs) but I am super engaged by the gameplay. I love exploring the Asylum and trying to figure out the Riddler’s riddles. My husband’s never played the games either so he’s enjoying watching me and helping me with the riddles.It’s a little dark for my son to watch me play at times, I try to keep my finger over the home button during cutscenes (just in case) and send him out of the room when necessary (a hallucination Scarecrow induces, for one thing), but he’s only four. I would say over-all ages 12+ would be fine with the content, but that’s just my opinion as a 90’s kid who grew up with the darker themes of such shows as Batman TAS and Death Note.My son loves watching Batman beat up the bad guys and trying to replicate Joker’s laugh.The story is very entertaining and I am over the moon to hear Mark Hamill reprise his role as the Joker.If you’re here thinking about it, don’t. Just get it. It’s a great collection of excellent games from a time when creators really cared about the quality of the product they produced. It’s totally worth the money and effort required. Even if you aren’t normally into this kind of game, if you like games in general, you’ll almost certainly enjoy it regardless.

Kid loves the game

Buen juego

I love these games and they are so fun to play again. Glad it works on my ps5

Things to know:You get a physical disk of the first two games, the third is a download from the PS store.Lots of great additional codes, but keep in mind, about 4 of them so far will not download.If you are in the USA, the game code download will not work. You have to start a new user based in the UK to be able to download the 3rd game, so if you are wanting everything on one USA profile, that won't work. That is the reason I marked this down one star.

Neither the Title, nor the "About this item", nor the "Product information", nor the "Product Description" gives the fact that this product contains a code useable ONLY in the United Kingdom.This is in fact how I learned to know that PlayStation has such region-specific digital codes. Also, I had never purchased a PS game for use outside of North America. So, it's a couple of firsts for me. I had known that the physical discs would work, and I thoughtlessly assumed that it would be true for downloads as well.In order to indicate country-/region-specific PlayStation codes, Amazon should require a title/about this item/product information/product description with more than a misplaced "u" in "colour". This page's "About this item" was subtler than even that, going only with the British "utilise". Amazon should require at least half a dozen very obvious UK slang, colloquialisms, local phrases, argot, or other clues such as "guvnuh", "bruv", "cheerio", "u wot mate", "cor blimey", "grime", or "peaky blinder". The British-only product was shipped by the American seller apparently from a warehouse in America, so knowing about the company and its warehouse locations would not have provided a hint. There should be a very clear and bold *United Kingdom Exclusive* somewhere on the page, but there isn't.WARNING TO BUYERS: Amazon expects you to research every single PlayStation release, even if the release is many years old. They will not provide you the information that you need for your region. So, even if you are a casual parttime gamer like me, you must research beyond this website! In other words, every PlayStation release that includes a code may have this camouflaged boobytrap of foreign codes. You don't like AI? Neither do I! I don't read the "Rufus" chatbot posts as a rule. Also, I don't even read "human" reviews as a rule anymore because it has become so easy to fake them, especially by chatbots. That is the only place on this product page where the CRITICAL information about region-specific codes was held. The Amazon chatbot has simply collated the other deceived buyers' complaints. So, if you don't do your research off of this website, you may look forward to reading what no human bothered to write, rubbing salt in the wound, because saving your money from a boobytrap wasn't worth their time. On the contrary, it was worth their time to conceal the boobytrap from your eyes until after it had ensnared numerous buyers already. Amazon PROMPTLY censored my seller review, thereby helping to hide the boobytrap.Nobody hates gambling more than me, but before I knew it, I was dealt into a game that I didn't even know existed, call it PlayStation Region Code Roulette. Fool me once!

I played this before on PS3 so I basically knew where everything was but it was great to play it on my PS5. It's really fun, there are tons of things to look for in the game and challenges. If you like Batman I'd suggest getting it. It's a European copy. If you take the insert out of it and look you'll see European flags sadly the code won't work for the 3rd game if you live in the USA.

A+