“Play Batman: Arkham Asylum after sequels City and Knight and it's striking how quiet it is. The latter two games in Rocksteady's trio of Batman adventures are some of the most relentlessly chatty video games ever made. As you explore Gotham, in both walled prison and regular city form, the voices of goons on the street are a ceaseless, irritating presence. Once I realised they sounded exactly like Prison Mike from The Office, I just couldn't take them seriously. "Yeah, I fought da Batman once. He broken my arm in t'ree places."