15 Video Games That Squandered Their Potential

These games fell way short of doing what they could and should have been capable of.

Posted By | On 10th, Apr. 2023

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GOTHAM KNIGHTS

Gotham Knights

Much of the criticisms leveled at Marvel’s Avengers can be directed at Gotham Knights as well. Let’s put aside the fact that, for whatever reason, WB Games thought it would be a good idea to make a game in the Batman universe that didn’t have Batman- they should have at least made the characters it did have fun to play as, right? Bullet sponge enemies and shoehorned RPG mechanics combined with a bland open world to turn Gotham Knights into a rote, formulaic, uninspiring game that didn’t even come close to tapping into its setting’s potential.


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