Holy confusing pre-order B.S. Batman!
Matt Hawkins For those picking up Arkham City today, here’s a handy rundown of all the things you’ll be missing out since you aren’t ordering 19 copies from different people and don’t live in Europe.
First off, here’s all the different costumes that will be in the game…
As for how one gets their hands on such content, well…
- The animated series version is available to those that pre-order from GameStop, which is the fifth one in for those who never saw the cartoon (which is a shame, since it kicks ass). There’s also a special map, Joker’s Carnival Challenge.
- Best Buy customers get two bonus maps, Black Mask Hideout and Freight Train Escape, plus an entire playable character: Robin. He’s a re-skinned version of the upcoming Nightwing DLC (not sure if those who would rather have him will have to play the extra $10):
- Those who pre-order though Amazon get some limited edition comic book. Yay. Plus a $10 promo credit, which is not bad if you just want to play the base game and not worry about extra costumes and junk like that.
- Wal-Mart customers get a $10 credit as well, plus a free copy of the first game, Arkham Asylum, which might be the best deal thus far.
- Meanwhile Newegg customers get a lousy t-shirt.
- Thankfully, getting the Batman Beyond outfit (the very first one in the top image) requires no pre-ordering. You just have to pick up a can of NOS.
- And the Dark Knight Returns skin (that chunky/grizzled looking bats, second one in) is included with the Collector’s Edition, which also includes the Iceberg Lounge map, plus a collectable art book, trading cards, a movie, a music CD, and a statue.
… Basically, and to recap, one of the additional skins is available if you just get a sports drink, and another if you were going to spend the $1000 on the collector’s edition. What a mess, huh?
At least we don’t have it so bad in Europe. Giant Bomb has a rundown of how to acquire DLC depending on what country you live in. Too bad we don’t have as many game store chains in America, hence why there’s no outlets to handle the Earth One and 70s version outfits.
But that’s when you buy the game brand new; for those who purchase it used with discover content that’s actually missing! Specifically…
Whereas other games have been requiring an additional $10 from broke ass gamers, to get access to everything in multiplayer modes, this is the first instance in which a component from a single player experience is being restricted.
Quite the precedent, since the excuse for the extra $10 has always been “but it costs money to maintain our online servers”, which to be honest is not the biggest load of b.s. in the world. So yeah, this could legitimately be considered crossing the line in certain regards.
Yet, out of nowhere, Gamestop is here to save the day? If you buy a copy used from them (and it’s the place where all cheap ass gamers go to shop), they’ll print you out a code for Catwoman at check out, according to sources at Kotaku. Gee, thanks?
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