Morrison said that his run had Batman do high-voltage international adventure a la James Bond because he felt that any other version was Batman going out at night and beating up poor people.
The Arkham games where you spend most of the time playing a jacked-up over-advantaged guy wearing million dollar suits and tech, beating up mooks dressed in rags really sells that across. They are fun games, technically well-done and aesthetically beautiful but if not for the twisty stories and the overall tragic characterization of Batman being self-destructive, driving away everyone around him, and ultimately losing at the end of AK, the games would definitely be full-on fascist.
That's valid. In response, one can argue that the game had to have a foreign Eastern European PMC do that rather than show NYPD on Osborn's payroll becoming excessive. So one can see that as a dodge. After all in the 2000 Activision Game, which had Spider-Man framed by Mysterio at the start you had an entire sequence where NYPD chases and hunts down Spider-Man across the city skyline, so in some respects it's less radical than earlier games.
And it's also not fair to call it "sensationalist media writers". It was the writers at Deadspin who made that criticism most eloquently:
https://deadspin.com/they-turned-spi...cks-1828944087
Deadspin was an online magazine that was colorful and irreverent and they often did challenging sports coverage and pop-culture stuff. In 2019 the entire staff up and resigned when their corporate owners told them to avoid politics. So it would be unfair to characterize them as 'sensationalized media' because they talked the talk back in 2018 (before the Floyd protests when copaganda wasn't mainstream) and walked the walk in 2019 (when they quit their jobs which probably didn't pay a great deal and was rent money they needed).