Is it sacrilegious to say that Assassin's Creed: Revelations is a bit better of a game than Batman: Arkham City?

Yes.

Yes.

That it may be, but the Assassin's creed story line is much more in-depth, and the controls are smoother, and more intuitive.
Nothing against B:AC, Still a close second in my fav games of 2011.

It's easy to get them mixed up. I went from Assassin's Creed 2 to Arkham City a little while ago and kept forgetting that as Batman, I had a grappling hook and couldn't stab people.

I like Assassin's Creed, but Batman FTW. Revelations is only as smooth as it is because quite a few clunky elements were tweaked. Arkham City is the second game of a series that magnified it's scope on an exponential level. I am more impressed with what Arkham City has done than Assassin's Creed finally giving us a game that comes close to delivering on the promise the first one offered.

Can't say I agree with that. I think there would have been a very similar progression if Arkham Asylum was released several years earlier. Kinda like saying Halo was a better game than Doom. I think the first Assassin's Creed was made very well for it's time.

OK.... first.. Halo will ALWAYS be better than Doom. The Doom they released on the current gens was not that good.

Second.... I think even if you go back to Brotherhood my original statement still holds up.

Third.... We all know what it should be like to be Batman and this game does that... Assassin's Creed has gotten better with allowing me to be the most bad-ass Assassin, it has not gotten as close as Arkham has making me feel like I am the character.

I love both series' a ton, storywise the AC series is better, but gameplaywise the Arkham series is better...