There's more – new gadgets, new-to-the-series allies, and the constant threat of the Arkham Knight's militarised forces, who come at you in tanks and armoured cars.
A heavily armed, militarised police force fired teargas and rubber bullets to force hundreds of protesters out of the centre of a small Missouri town on Wednesday, as a crackdown on demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old intensified.
And Ferguson – a mostly black town under curfew in which the entire political power structure is white, with a militarised police force that killed a black child – was under occupation.
The hawks are led by the prime minister, Ljubco Georgievski, backed by the interior minister, who controls the heavily militarised police force.
"His [Bratton's] demands for a more militarised police force that would use counterterrorism tactics against protesters are deeply misguided and frankly offensive," Gonzalez said in a statement.
Final charges against a police officer who shot dead a seven-year-old girl in Detroit were dismissed on Friday, leaving a family bereft and raising serious concern over an increasingly militarised police force.
Instead they evolved from the initial televised nightly clashes between angry residents and a militarised police force into a different kind of confrontation that has come to divide the city even more than Brown's killing.
It's hardly surprising, of course, that those who used a militarised police force to break the country's most powerful union, such as Lord Tebbit, should blame the miners' leader Arthur Scargill and brand the strike a "war on democracy".
Reason magazine's Ed Krayewski builds on this theme of a militarised police force as the spear-point of an intrusive government, causing more harm than good: "What's happening in Ferguson certainly looks like a counter-insurgency," he writes.
The bromides concocted to justify an increasingly militarised police force.
