While exploring you'll work to track down Black Mask, the criminal mastermind who placed the bounty on Batman. You explore Old-Gotham along with the main city from the other games. After confronting Killer Croc, Batman quickly learns that there are eight assassins after Batman and the $50 million bounty on his head. When Batman intervenes he is confronted by Killer Croc, who has been hired as an assassin to take out Batman. It is Christmas Eve and there has been a jailbreak at Blackgate prison and the escaped inmates are causing mayhem in Gotham City. You explore Gotham, collect items, take on missions and fight bad guys.
It's the prequel game to the Batman: Arkham series, taking place about five years before the first game, in the early years of Batman's career as a crime-fighter.
Batman: Arkham Origins is an open-world adventure game.