The Bat Family is challenged as Gotham comes under siege amidst a gang war. The groups that wish to stop this are on opposing sides at times.There is some very good conflict on a social level for various Bat Family characters. OVERALL GRADE: B to B plus.

it is my personal opinion that the batman books deserve better writers, scripters and artists than this arc was given to use. disgustingly disappointing.

Tim does the right thing! He puts his Robin suit back on, even though he has to break his word to his father to do it. There is awesome lack of emotional conversation with Batman about it: "You're Back." "I am... for now." And he explains it to his father when he has to, by choice, before his father finds out on his own. Also Stephanie gets tortured horribly by Black Mask. Leslie's clinic is overrun because of the horrible gang wars, but Jack and Donna volunteer to help out. Yay! Tim's dad and s...

The sheer amount of characters in this story makes it worth reading. Heroes and villains I've never seen in a story together are battling right there on the pages. Great stuff. Can't wait to read the next. :)

This act didn't pack as much punch as the first one imho.But still a very good read..And on to act 3 of course ;)

Act two of the War Games event starts right where Act One ends continuing with the aftermath of a gang shoot out at Tim Drake’s high school. Tim decides to down the Robin costume while Gotham is in need. Spoiler continues to try to fix her giant mistake but gets caught and tortured. The Batfamily continues its grind of trying to clean up the city’s gang warfare. This volume takes some major steps backwards. The story became jumpy and hard to follow at parts. There are too many gangs and gang lea...

The way this current Gotham City gang war is evolving seems too eerily familiar to Batman. That's because when Stephanie Brown was given her packing orders to vacate the Batcave as the new Robin, she stole a war game scenario from the Dark Knight's Bat-Computer. The fallen sidekick hoped that if she could bring the gangs of Gotham under control, she'd win favor with the Caped Crusader and be given a chance to be Robin again. However, there was one little factor that Stephanie wasn't counting o

War Games is a major storyline comic book story arc published by DC Comics that ran in its Batman family of titles. The plot revolves around a gang war involving all the major criminal groups in Gotham. It starts with one of Batman's most ambitious contingency plans for a possible outbreak of uncontrollable gang violence.Batman: War Games, Act Two: Tides collects: Detective Comics #798, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #183, Nightwing #97, Batman: Gotham Knights #57, Robin #130, Batgirl #56, C...

Act 2 of 3 of the War Games story spread over all of the Bat-Titles in 8 issues. So far, so good. Looking forward to the conclusion.

After a decent start the story picks up in Act 2 and becomes much more interesting, it’s not as action orientated as Act 1 but the writing improves as the threads come together.

Quite simply one of the best street-level Batman stories I've ever read. It doesn't reach the Snyder's best--"Night of the Owls," "Death of the Family," "Endgame"--or Loeb and Lee's Hush, but it places Batman up against a problem where he's scrambling just to stay even with the problem. I'm two thirds of the way through and I've no idea how he'll fix this one, and that's a good thing.

I'm really glad that I picked up Act 2 despite not really being impressed by Act 1. While not perfect by any means, there was a lot of solid work on Batman that didn't revolve solely around Batman kicking people in the face (though, to be fair, there is still a lot of that). I became interested in picking up this series after reading Glenn Weldon criticize it for being the most flagrant example of the "master strategist" interpretation of Batman. That is, the writers who took his history of dete...

This was okay, but your fairly standard Batman tale. Didn’t realise it was part of a series until after I started reading it, and maybe reading earlier entries in the series would have helped. Well illustrated, but the story felt a bit done before.

I love me some Batman and this middle volume is no exception. However, I must say that sometimes, Batman is infuriating and could do a bit better in the "Team Player" department. I would've normally rated this three stars, but the story gets one extra star for the way it ends alone. :)

This is one exciting, action filled awesome graphic novel. Gotham city is in total chaos as rival gangs have created a war zone within Gotham. It is up to Batman and his associates to bring order into chaos.They should really make at least an animated movie for this series.

I'D LOVE TO LEAVE A PROPER REVIEW BUT I HAVE THE THIRD AND FINAL VOLUME IN THE SERIES AND THIS THING IS SO INTENSE I DON'T HAVE TIME SO I GOTTA GO READ KAY BYE.

Spoiler is an absolute badass as usual and Batman is an idiot. Really that’s all I have to say. Ok… spoiler might not be making the best choices but she’s still a badass.

This book is long, but I feel like nothing happens in it. (view spoiler)[I guess Spoiler gets tortured and Orpheus dies, but I didn't really know who he was anyway. Batman learns who is behind the plans for the Gotham gang war: himself. Or, more accurately, his sidekick Spoiler using one of his templates. (hide spoiler)] This book suffers from middle-volume syndrome; most of this seems like set-up for the final third volume.

I read all three volumes of this hulk in one day, which attests to it being a quick read, but mostly to it being a compelling read. I was up until 2:00 AM blowing through the third volume, where the mystery antagonist being outed and becoming visibly active kicks the story up that last notch, especially since he/she is a totally different kind of quirky villain in that darkly understated way. It’s slow to start and has a poor sense of the city really being in chaos since the story is told almost...

It's hard to review stuff like this without giving away key plot points that make the story is great as it is. There are moments here where I thought 'oh crap, didn't see that coming!' and I don't know if it's because I'm not as immersed in this era of Batman or if it really was an 'oh crap, didn't see that coming!' moment for others who read it as well.I'm not so versed when it comes to Orpheus or Onyx and I didn't even really remember there was ever another Batgirl besides Barbara Gordon so th...