Gotham Knights: Revealing 28 Superhero Suits (and How They Were Made) First

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Gotham Knights will include a lot of superhero suits for your characters to wear – and we have the designs for 28 of them to show you. From suits inspired by classic cartoons, to a set designed by a bona fide comic book legend, developer WB Games Montréal has drawn from DC’s rich history, but created some truly new ideas for how Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing and Red Hood could look in their take on the Batman universe.

As part of this month's IGN First, we spoke to the game's creators about the unusual way they were designed, how they’ll work in game, how they can be customized, and more.

First, it’s important to realize that Gotham Knights makes a distinction between suitstyles (suits that come with cosmetic and stat changes) and transmogs (suits that are purely cosmetic, and applied like skins). We’re showing off six sets of suitstyles and one transmog set in the gallery above. There will be 11 different suitstyle sets in Gotham Knights at launch, making up 44 individual suits in total (not including transmogs). WB has reiterated that there will be no microtransactions in the game, although the 'Beyond' and 'KnightWatch' sets are currently tied to the Deluxe and Collector's Editions of the game.

Key to the philosophy around all of these sets is that while elements of their look can be customized, you can’t mix and match pieces between different suits.

"Player expression for us is very important," explains creative director Patrick Redding, "but we wanted to make sure that we could harness that in a way that allowed for a degree of clarity and unity to the look of all of these different suits and suitstyles."

"We wanted the liberty to make suitstyles that were different from one another enough that they all had their own