How to Change Skins in Batman: Arkham City

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Batman: Arkham City is an open world video game set in the Batman universe, featuring the titular main character Batman, as well as many of his enemies. Batman: Arkham City is praised by Batman fans and players for its immersion and open world gameplay. Among the fan-favorite characteristics of the Batman: Arkham City video game, are the skins, or suits, available for Batman, for Catwoman and for Robin. New players of Batman: Arkham City wonder how exactly to change the skins and suits of the game character.

In Batman: Arkham City, the player can change the skins of Batman through the main menu. Depending on the version, it may be necessary to finish the game first.

It is important to know that in the first commercially released versions of Batman: Arkham City, which are Batman: Arkham City (2011) and Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (2012), skins are only available after you finish the main story mode, unless you use cheat codes. If you finish the main story mode of Batman: Arkham City, skins will be available to be used in several game modes, as long as you have the adequate installed to the video game. In some subsequent versions of Batman: Arkham City, alternate skins are available before finishing the main story.

How to Change Skins in the Main Story

In order to change skins in Batman: Arkham City, you must go to the main menu of the video game, and choose either "New Game" or "Continue Story". Then, the video game will ask you which skin you want to choose for Batman. If you are playing Batman: Arkham City (2011) or Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (2012), after you finished the main story of Batman: Arkham City, you will be able to change skins and choose a specific skin for Batman in this game mode, as long as you have the adequate DLC installed. If you are playing a subsequent version of Batman: Arkham City, alternate skins, or suits, may already be available in your video game before you finish the main story.

The main story of Batman: Arkham City, after the main story has been finished, is one of the best game modes to use alternate skins for Batman, because this is a game mode that allows the player to freeroam in the open game world of Batman: Arkham City. With the added variation of the alternate costumes and Batsuits available, this game mode provides a very interesting open world gameplay with different skins.

How to Change Skins in New Game Plus

Just as it is with changing skins in the main story of Batman: Arkham City, in order to change skins for New Game Plus in Batman: Arkham City, go to the main menu, and choose "New Game Plus". Then, the video game will ask you which skin you want to choose for Batman. After you start the New Game Plus game mode of Batman: Arkham City, you will also be able to change again the skins of Batman by going to the main menu and loading your New Game Plus save game, when you will be asked by the game to choose a skin for Batman. If you are playing Batman: Arkham City (2011) or Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (2012), after you finished the main story Batman: Arkham City, you will be able to change skins and choose a specific skin for Batman in this game mode, as long as you have the adequate DLC installed. If you are playing a subsequent version of Batman: Arkham City, alternate skins may already be available in your video game before you finish the main story.

How to Change Skins in Harley Quinn's Revenge

Just as it is with changing skins in the main story of Batman: Arkham City, in order to change skins for Harley Quinn's Revenge, the player must go to the main menu, and choose "Harley Quinn's Revenge". In Batman: Arkham City (2011) and in Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition (2012), the first time you play Harley Quinn's Revenge, the game will not ask you to choose a specific skin. However, after you started Harley Quinn's Revenge in the video game, and thus created a new save, you can go to the main menu of Batman: Arkham City, choose "Harley Quinn's Revenge", and then the video game will ask you which skin you want to choose for Robin. If you are playing Batman: Arkham City (2011) or Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (2012), after you finished the main story Batman: Arkham City, you will be able to change skins, or suits, and choose a specific skin for Robin in this game mode, as long as you have the adequate DLC installed. If you are playing a subsequent version of Batman: Arkham City, alternate skins may already be available in your video game before you finish the main story.

How to Unlock Alternate Skins or Suits in Batman: Arkham City

There are multiple ways to change the skin in Batman: Arkham City, and they depend on which version of the video game you are playing. If you are playing Batman: Arkham City (2011) or Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (2012), you must have the adequate DLC installed and you must have finished the main story. In the 2012 version of the video game Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, alternate skins, or suits, in the game are unlocked after the player finished the main story of the game. This is also true for the original 2011 version of the video game Batman: Arkham City as long as the adequate DLC are installed to the game, which include the alternate skins of the video game. The only other way to unlock alternate skins in these versions of the game is by using a cheat code. Some subsequent versions of Batman: Arkham City include the possibility of choosing alternate skins without requiring the player to finish the main story first. In Batman: Arkham City (2011) and in Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (2012), the player will be able to choose skins, after the main story has been finished, for multiple game modes, such as "Continue Story", "New Game Plus" and "Harley Quinn's Revenge". In the specific case of "Harley Quinn's Revenge", the player will only be able to choose a skin for this game mode after a playthrough for this game mode has already been started.

The Availability of Alternate Skins of Batman: Arkham City

In Batman: Arkham City, alternate skins and costumes are available for the game characters after you finished the main story, as long as your version of the video game includes these alternate skins. In other words, your game must include some specific DLC in order to feature these alternate skins. The base version of the Batman: Arkham City video game does not feature alternate costumes and skins. These skins are available for the Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, which includes several DLC that present alternate skins, such as Catwoman Pack, Nightwing Bundle Pack, Robin Bundle Pack and Arkham City Skins Pack. Most Batman character skins are present in Arkham City Skins Pack, some Catwoman character skins are present in Catwoman Pack, some Robin character skins are present in Robin Bundle Pack, and one Nightwing character skin is present in Nightwing Bundle Pack. If you have those DLC installed in your Batman: Arkham City video game, then you will be able to change skins after you finish the main story of the game.

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