Also - if you've done a member's loyalty mission, they'll have an alternate costume option open up. Even if you haven't bought any "alt-costume" DLC, the basic game has this.
Interestingly enough, though the alt costumes individually don't seem all that different from the base outfits in many cases (with a couple of notable exceptions like Miranda's loyalty outfit being all black with yellow piping where her normal suit is mostly white) if you get all the loyalty missions and then have your team in the line-up window all in their loyalty costumes, the overall effect is that of a UNIT of people rather than that of a group of disparate mercs. It's one of the reasons I started changing my ME2 Sheps armor from the standard red stripe N7 colors to using the angled stripe alternate style about midway through their respective playthroughs. Blue with gold stripes for my Vanguard, Black with Gold for my soldier. It seems to fit in with the other squad members once I have their loyalty missions done.
There are only two alt/loyalty costumes I don't really like. One is Legion's. Having a white/chrome geth with a red eye just looks wrong to me. (But I can understand why they might've done that - if you take him in up against other geth (like, say, in the Overlord DLC) it really does help distinguish him so that you don't shoot at HIM.)
The other is Kasumi's. Her normal outfit colors make a lot of sense. Changing her costume from all black to largely crimson red??? Er... As a stealth based character in a (Mostly) realistic and believable universe, I have a slight problem with putting her in a "Yoohoo! Over here in the BRIGHT RED OH SHOOT ME NOW" outfit!
On the other hand, maybe she's just that damn good.
Interestingly enough, though the alt costumes individually don't seem all that different from the base outfits in many cases (with a couple of notable exceptions like Miranda's loyalty outfit being all black with yellow piping where her normal suit is mostly white) if you get all the loyalty missions and then have your team in the line-up window all in their loyalty costumes, the overall effect is that of a UNIT of people rather than that of a group of disparate mercs. It's one of the reasons I started changing my ME2 Sheps armor from the standard red stripe N7 colors to using the angled stripe alternate style about midway through their respective playthroughs. Blue with gold stripes for my Vanguard, Black with Gold for my soldier. It seems to fit in with the other squad members once I have their loyalty missions done.
There are only two alt/loyalty costumes I don't really like. One is Legion's. Having a white/chrome geth with a red eye just looks wrong to me. (But I can understand why they might've done that - if you take him in up against other geth (like, say, in the Overlord DLC) it really does help distinguish him so that you don't shoot at HIM.)
The other is Kasumi's. Her normal outfit colors make a lot of sense. Changing her costume from all black to largely crimson red??? Er... As a stealth based character in a (Mostly) realistic and believable universe, I have a slight problem with putting her in a "Yoohoo! Over here in the BRIGHT RED OH SHOOT ME NOW" outfit!
On the other hand, maybe she's just that damn good.