An example of what you are talking about overlord20, when fighting a group of thugs, you can be engaged with one thug throwing multiple attacks and have another thug get with-in range of you. You can disengage the thug you are fighting to counter the one that is getting too close, evade him, throw a critical attack with a couple upgrades and all in the same chain, you can finish the original thug you were fighting.
I love how there are multiple variations of the thugs also. There are thugs with fire arms, thugs with melee weapons, thugs with non-lethal weapons and thugs with just fists. You really need to use different tactics with each type. When they are in a group together, you need to seriously plan out our attacks and use a bit of strategy to be successful.
One thing that I think is hilarious about this game is Batman, even though he is fairly tough and has the advantage in most situations, you can't help but to notice how HARDCORE he is getting abused. Through the whole game you are told that "Bats will lose and J-Man will win..." all the time. You can't hep but to think that from the start of the game Bats has already lost. You are baited through the whole game by a string. You are a puppet. It's hilarious....
