Batman: Arkham Origins

Asylum revolutionized 3rd person action games in my humble opinion; City managed the near-impossible that was to improve upon the perfection that was the Asylum-gameplay but at a pretty hefty cost to the (baffling) narrative especially for a pseudo-open world game, I mean... wtf...? Origins has very pleasantly surprised with an actually interesting overarching story with really good writing at times. Impressively good, especially for an Arkham-series game. Unfortunately, the gameplay has seen very little improvement. Oh well. It didnt blow my mind, but I had solid fun with it afterall.
Also the new VAs were impressive, and thats high praise.