How to...write a game review in 2014

Batman: Arkham City is the 2nd installment of the Arkham franchise developed by Rocksteady so if you've played the first one then get ready to once again dive back into the role of Bruce Wayne; a rich, white, heterosexual male that feels the need to violently express his dominance over poc and the mentally ill. From the very beginning of the game you're through into a world that was clearly designed to uphold the male power fantasy; you have Batman with his big, suit stretching muscles going up against roided up thugs of various racially and presumably cultural backgrounds, scantily clad women who only exist to give the white, male gamers something to objectify inbetween exerting dominance and cold, emotionless male characters that do nothing but further reinforce the notion that having emotions is for women.
I tried to look past all that as I continued to play the game but these problems were just the tip of the iceberg. Catwoman is playable in this game but only if you get the DLC for it, why isn't she main focus in a Batman game? If you're gonna include her then you should make her bit part of the main story and not some b-story to give the player a different perspective and approach to playing the game. I couldn't help but feel this was just another way for our society to limit the growth of women in gaming, not only is Catwoman not the star of the game but at one point of the game she has to make a decision and if she chooses to live for herself the game ends in a game over; almost as if it's saying that between personal satisfaction or the well being of a cis male that a woman will only make the right decision if it benefits the male.I find this to be completely deplorable, Catwoman should be able to take her ill gotten gains and leave the man she loves to die, she doesn't owe Batman anything other than her life since earlier in the game he saved her from Two Face and the Joker...but who is he to decide that her life shouldn't be ended by madmen? That's for her and her alone to decide. Batman is just this vehicle of entitlement and destruction and that is consistent through every facet of the game. He has to save Gotham because no one else will, he has to maintain the order in a city that was converted into a prison, he has to stop Dr. Strange from bombing the city and killing thousands of people including political prisons...he can't help himself but to play the white savior. Batman also can't help himself from beating up everyone that looks different from him, he never once tries  to reason with them or understand them, just beats them and treats them like criminals...this isn't surprising though seeing as he is a vehicle for white oppression to flourish. With all the money he has he could have easily used it to build a place to help them or at the very least use his wealth to upgrade the security and treatment at Arkham but he rather have the city walled off so he can use it as his own perverse playground.

Beating on those who refuse to conform to society's level of acceptable attire and aesthetics

There's a plot down there somewhere but its buried under all the overt displays of misogyny and power fantasies. I hear that Rocksteady is coming out with another Arkham game, maybe they will rectify the mistakes they made because this series as real potential to be a vehicle of social change in how we view our criminally insane and homicidal individuals, not to mention expand the role of women in gaming. Here's hoping that the 3rd time is the charm.