Rocksteady has officially announced the collector’s edition of Batman Arkham City, which will include:

• Custom Batman statue produced by Kotobukiya
• Collectible art book
• Early access to the Iceberg Lounge Challenge Map and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns skin
• Batman: Arkham City album from WaterTower Music including original songs by hit artists, available via digital redemption
• Bonus DC Universe animated original movie, Batman: Gotham Knight (this is the same content that was a prequel for The Dark Knight)

It’s all yours for $100.

I never buy collector’s editions of videogames–ever–but I was prepared to make an exception for Batman Arkham City. Given the awesomeness of the first game’s collector’s edition, which included a replica batarang among other cool things, I figured we were in for something great. In a (now removed) Facebook poll of what users wanted to see in a collector’s edition, a replica utility belt was the winner.

Instead we get a statue. With the rare exception, I hate statues.

But what else do we get? Early access to a few bits of DCL we can get later anyway. An album of original music by “hit artists”–apparently not a soundtrack of the game’s score, which I’d rather have? A copy of Gotham Knight, which I already own and didn’t really like much anyway? That last one particularly annoys me.

The only appealing part of this set–to me anyway–is the art book, which I figure I can buy on eBay for a fraction of the price of the set if I really want it. So it looks like it’s a standard copy of the game for me. I almost can’t believe Rocksteady managed to disappoint me this much. If they’d included the art book, the DLC, a soundtrack of the game’s score, and a trade paperback of the Batman Arkham City comic currently being published by DC–even skipping the statue–I might have ordered it. As it is, I hardly need that statue cluttering up my apartment.

Compare this to the Uncharted 3 collector’s edition, which for the same price includes a functional Traveling Chest replica which stores all of the other aspects to our Collector’s Edition, such as the exclusive Steelbook case, a full size replica of Drake’s belt buckle from UNCHARTED 3, a full size replica of Drake’s necklace which includes Sir Francis Drake’s ring, and exclusive statue of Nathan Drake from Sideshow Collectibles. OK, yeah, the statue is annoying, but the other stuff is awesome.