Arkham City's Animated Series Batman skin is exclusive for GameStop PowerUp Rewards members

by Mike Schramm on Sep 19th 2011 8:20PM

That stylish Animated Series Batman skin (complete with the white triangles for eyes) is now officially, and apparently only available as an exclusive from GameStop, according to information on the company's store. Players who have a PowerUp Rewards membership (that card and Game Informer subscription GameStop's employees are always trying to sell you) will get access to the skin, a replica from the classic 1990s Batman: The Animated Series.

Of course, Kevin Conroy, who voices the Bat in the games, started his tenure as the World's Greatest Detective in the series, so putting his voice and this costume together again will be a nice homecoming for fans. There was also a rumor going around that the same skin would be a GAME exclusive overseas, but that company is apparently offering Robin as a playable character, a bonus already revealed for Best Buy in the US. In other words, pick your pre-orders carefully out there, people.

[Thanks, Alan!]

Source: GameStop

Tags: batman, Batman-Arkham-Asylum-2, Batman-Arkham-City, batman-tas, batman-the-animated-series, game-informer, gamestop, kevin-conroy, microsoft, pc, playstation, powerup-rewards, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (60)

Just wait a couple of months and all of the DLC will be on PSN and XBLA.

@FinalFantasyXIIIsucks

It took a little over a year for the stuff from AA to turn up in the online stores.

@FinalFantasyXIIIsucks
And will be 4.99 each

@FinalFantasyXIIIsucks

You mean I shouldn't buy it from Best Buy, Gamestop, Amazon, and from some shady character from a forum based in the UK??

lol so now you also need powerup. xD

@Knives Chau
It's like that old creepy guy who offers people candy on the street.
Sure you don't trust him, and by the way he's always shifting and shaking, he probably has a disease or two, plus he always tell you some BS about some "new cool thing", and he has probably already sucked on that candy a fair bit, but it's either take the sucked on disease ridden old candy, or walk away thinking to yourself, "I feel bad for the moron who went for that".

>Gamestop
Uh..yeah nope disregard this thread

@ChainSmoker Thread? This here is an article.

@yab Shut up with your noise.. It's a thread hommie ;]

@ChainSmoker according to the fact that you got downvoted into oblivion, and he got upvoted, looks like the general consensus is that it's an article.

Hopefully there's a chance that we'll see all these pre-order bonuses as DLC later on down the line. Bonuses aren't so bad when there's just one or two, but this game seems to have a different one for every store, and most of them are good.

Really though, the ideal scenario would've been just having these things in the game as unlockable bonuses. Whatever happened to that system? I liked that system a lot!

@DMY

Maybe they'll have a GOTY edition?

@DMY They couldn't charge you later or use them as bait if you could just unlock them through regular gameplay..

@DMY

Same with Gears3, each store has a different skin. /cry - Will probably show up in the Season Pass though.

@DMY what happened to the system is the foolish need for games to have dlc. xbox owners wouldn't buy the games if there was no dlc. then ps3 owners started crying like idiot babies about not having any dlc stuff not realizing that we have frickin bluray disc and that stuff would already be on the disc. companies saw that there were more idiots with ps3s than they thought so now we get charged extra for stuff that even if they doubled the game data for 360 game disc and added all of the dlc we'd still have plenty of unused room on the bluray disc. heres two different source articles.
http://techland.time.com/2011/03/30/new-disc-format-for-xbox-360-adds-1-gb-still-no-match-for-blu-ray/ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-1gb-360-disc-upgrade

I'm sure it will all become payable DLC down the line, but there is always that very, very slim chance. I kept waiting for the pre-order costumes that were retailer specific for Enslaved to come out as DLC, and they never did. And those costumes were more than eye-candy, since they changed up stats and what-not when worn.

BUT, I'm like 99% sure we'll be able to just pay for everything later for Batman.

Right right, now to sign up for our PowerUp Rewards membership, all you have to put your email here (We promise to only give it out to third party sites we trust!) your phone number here (We'll only call you every time a new game comes out asking if you want to pre order it!), get entered into a lottery of 500 where the person who wins doesn't get their copy opened and played in the backroom, -and 50% of your soul- (but that doesn't really matter) I mean free batman skin dude!

@Andrew12h
how does best buy do things? im wondering if i should go to them to preorder/ sell used games. normally i just trade my games with friends but sometimes i just sell em.

@Andrew12h None of that happens, paranoia man

@Andrew12h wow that wasnt even funny, being a db troll is one thing but dont try and insert your comedy bit unless its actually good

@Knives Chau
A lot better, better used game prices (Black Ops used is $55 at Gamestop [$50 if you're a paid Power-up Rewards member], $40 at best Buy), they give more money for trade ins (especially with their offers of 40%-50% extra for preorders), and the pre-order bonuses are starting to beat Gamestop (Best Buy gives you Robin, the Red Robin skin, and the Black Mask Hideout and the the Freight Train Escape challenge maps. Gamestop has the Joker Carnival challenge map, and I guess for being a powered up member, you get a skin for a character you already have).

Oh, and Best Buy doesn't "gut" games....never buy gifts from Gamestop.

@Nolan North
I buy new from Amazon with release date delivery. It's cheaper, they have pre-order bonuses (either DLC or Amazon credit), and I don't have to stand in line for an hour to pick up a game I've already paid for.

@ytilanigiroon
Best Buy doesn't let you pay for the full game until you pick it up, you can only put $5 down. So sounds like someone is making up experiences. Also, Batman gives a $10 credit on Amazon (and a comic book). Batman at Best Buy gives you a $20 credit (if you do their preorder 5 deal), Robin, 2 challenge maps, and a skin. Plus they give out swag at midnight launches.

@ytilanigiroon
Also, Batman is the same price, tax is dependent on where you live.

Good, because it's ugly and I never watched that cartoon.

@Assmar
You should be careful with those words. Criticizing Batman the animated series is considered blasphemy in some circles.

I agree though, that skin is ugly and I love that cartoon. Besides, the trend is for it to become DLC at least 6 months after.

@Assmar Too bad then, you missed out on one of the greatest animated shows of all time. If you grew up in the 90s you couldn't have missed it (to its movie Mask of the Phantasm, which is also awesome).

If you're just trolling well then.....nevermind.

@Assmar

Prepare to be downvoted into oblivion.

The Batman animated series was one of the best series ever. It was closer to the original movie without the camp than any other series has been. It also launched the Batman career of the voice actor who has played him in every animated series since.

Altho the model up there is slightly off from the cartoon version, and the eyes are slightly too large (they go down too far.)

Batman: The Animated Series is one of the best cartoons ever.

@Kyle4
I grew up in the 90s and I did not like this show at all.

@Assmar Then you have no soul or childhood.

@Assmar
I don't understand how you could not like Batman TAS, unless of course you don't like Batman at all.

Like others have said, it's one of the greatest cartoons of all time. In my opinion, it's the definitive Batman.

@Assmar
I didn't either. My parents were really good to me and let me watch shows way beyond my age like The Day Today and Red Dwarf. I didn't understand any of it but I still laughed and loved every minute of it.

I found it very hard to go back and watch kids cartoons, with some exceptions.
Rocko's Modern Life, Samurai Pizza Cats, Inspector Gadget, Johnny Bravo. They were truly great.

Not really a huge fan of companies doing this, but it'll inevitably be released as DLC down the line. I'm more enthused about the Robin and Dark Knight Returns skins.

Playing with that skin will totally ruin the dark atmosphere of the game. It'd be like having Bob the Builder playing Alex in Clockwork Orange.

You probably never watched Batman: The Animated Series...

i just want the blue/grey 70's batman comics skin. it's been announced as some company's exclusive DLC in UK, but not yet for North America. does anybody know where they have all of them listed, or should i just look at the official game website?

Here's what I don't understand, how does this work? If you bought the game and also have a Powerpoint, you'll get the code for it in your account or what?

@Hi iTs SlayeR

I don't think having a presentation will help you get this at all. ;)

I was feeling down about getting this game at a much later date. But now waiting for a GOTY version with all this plus any DLC plus a lower price doesn't seem that bad.

Wow.So for once my PowerUp rewards actually gives me some kind of benefit.

Animated Series skin is nice, but I would rather have the classic gray and bright blue skin. Don't remember who gets it and I'm too lazy to google it. Time to watch Thor!!!

@xxMayDay31xx

Toys R Us does.

As I do love Batman the Animated Series.....this is just kinda, meh.

If you could turn the whole game into the visual style of the cartoon....that would be cool. But if Batman is the only one who looks like the cartoon while Two Face, Joker, Catwoman..etc all still look like the new game version, it just kinda ruins it, imo.

@King Under Shhhhhhh! Don't give them any ideas! That'll probably become DLC in the future if you don't shut up! D:

Cool, but still not enough to make me give GameStop my money.

There just needs to be a The Animated Series mode that changes ALL the skins to TAS. I'd definitely drop extra on that.

Batman TAS is one of the finest examples of television programming EVER.

Wonder if I can get all the skins without preordering at 6 different places on my PC.

Mod it Up!

@xiLeShadow

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