‘Batman: Arkham Origins’ Season Pass Details Announced

Posted on September 27, 2013

With Batman: Arkham Origins just around the corner, it was kind of a shock to hear about a season pass for the title. Traditionally, the format of the Arkham games didn’t lend themselves to enough DLC to warrant a season pass. When you finally read what you get for this $20 price tag and is also claimed to be a $30 value, it really doesn’t feel worth investing another 50% of the game’s original price for this extra content.

New Millennium Skins Pack (five Batman skins and one Robin skin)
Infinite Earths Skins Pack (five Batman skins and one Robin skin)
Gotham by Gaslight Batman (only available in the Season Pass)
Brightest Day Batman (only available in the Season Pass)
Initiation – Play as Bruce Wayne in his final test
An unrevealed story expansion

While not a fan of it, I get the attraction for developers to include extra story missions as DLC since it encourages players to not sell back their disc to Gamestop for a mere $12 so the story expansion and even the Initiation make sense to me as DLC. That said, without the knowledge of how long the expansion is, I can’t see this being worth more than $10 to $15 at most for the combo in total. Unless we are talking about The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion’s Shivering Isles expansion, there isn’t much in the way of a single piece of DLC worth more than $20.

So that leaves the skins. Having fallen victim to a alcohol blur of XBox Live spending on Injustice, I have seen the appeal of skins and then the quick fall in their allure. Only a few years ago, skins were something you would play through a game in order to unlock or enter a secret code to get. Now they are transactions. Considering I will spend the majority of the game looking at the back of a black cowl, changing the logo on Batman’s or Robin’s chests doesn’t seem that appealing to my wallet. Individually if these 6 skin packs even go for $5 each, it doesn’t sell me on it. Plus, I’ll throw it out there, White Lantern Batman looks stupid. (Sorry Geoff Johns)

Batman: Arkham Origins is due out for the XBox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Wii U on October 25th.

John Carle

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