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Gotham Knights has the biggest open world version of Gotham City in a video game to date. In Arkham Knight players got to experience Gotham in a true open world setting for the first time, Gotham Knights version of the city dwarfs Arkham Knight quite significantly.

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Split into 5 distinct boroughs, Gotham City in Gotham Knights is a character in its own right. From the beginning of the game the whole city is available to explore and there are no locked areas often found in other open world games.

Travel Methods

bat cycle

Traveling around in Gotham is done via one of a few ways. The bat cycle is the most used and is introduced early on in the game, similar to the tank-like batmobile of Arkham Knight, the bat cycle has customizable colors and model via DLC and in-game unlocks.

Next up the second most used method of traversal when players are a bit closer to their objective is the bat grapple. Again similar to Arkham games, the bay grapple will take the player from ground level to sitting among the gargoyles in a few seconds. This method of traveling around can be combined with the third method to make skipping above the lamp posts and rooftops much quicker.

Thirdly, players can unlock Heroic Travel. This varies for each character and can be unlocked upon completion of the Knighthood challenges for each of the four playable characters. For Dick/Nightwing a Fortnite-like glider named the flying trapeze is given and acts just like a Fortnite glider. Jason Todd/Red Hood has a mystical leap ability stemming from his Lazarus pit resurrection, this mysterious new power allows Jason to bound across thin air using magic.

Barbara/Batgirl receives a cape upgrade, allowing her to glide like Batman across Gotham, while Tim/Robin receives teleporting tech from the justice leak to move around distances above ground. All together the bat cycle, grapple and heroic travel make moving across Gotham quick and easy, but the city is massive and even with these moves, traveling can take quite a while.

Fox

fox

From the offset fast travel is available, but only to return to the Belfry. Players will need to use heroic travel to begin with after it is unlocked. Luckily Lucius Fox has a solution, after finishing a few patrols, players will receive an email asking them to go and meet with Fox. He will be shown as an icon on the map and upon reaching his location he will tell players about the drone network around the city. Completing these drone missions will enable fast travel across Gotham.

Drones

drone

These drones will appear as circular icons with two downward arrows on them, and once in the area, players will need to scan the 2 or 3 drones requested to unlock that area for fast travel. Once all drone scans have been completed, fast travel will be unlocked across each area of Gotham making traveling during patrol much easier than before.

Gotham Knights is available on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC.