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GamerZines Game Of The Year Awards: Best Special Edition
We'd all love for our games to come in fancy packaging, but this year Steelbooks just haven't been enough. We run through 2009's top three special editions.
Written by David Scammell, 15 December 2009
WINNER - MODERN WARFARE 2: PRESTIGE EDITION
It may be extravagant and utterly unnecessary, but when it comes to special editions, nothing can beat the night-vision goggle offering of Modern Warfare 2's Prestige Edition. Coming complete with a fully-working pair of night-vision goggles, MW2's Prestige Edition proved to be a tech-freaks dream package. And, ignoring the stupidly low-cost, but individually numbered, accompanying Soap MacTavish head, the goggles were well built too, being a far cry from the cheap pieces of plastic tat we'd come to expect from other special editions.
That the Prestige Edition also came bundled with everything included in the middle-tier Hardened Edition, including a fancy art book and code to download the magnificent Call of Duty: Classic, ensured that it raised the bar for collector's edition packages.
Of course, there's always the argument that it may not be the best £120 we've ever spent, but the amount of fun provided by the NVGs and our midnight hedgehog-chasing adventures is enough to make any other special edition green with envy. Literally. Just a shame they don't work with the game, eh?
P3Zine Issue 58
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Because if you're going to do it, you might as well do it properly. The most expensive special edition of the year was, perhaps surprisingly, also the most useful. Furnishing budding DJs with the proper tools with which to mix it up, unlike the standard release, DJ Hero's Renegade Edition came complete with a hardshell carrying case that also doubled up as a DJ stand, which meant waving goodbye to the prospect of balancing decks on your knees or finding space on the coffee table.
That it also packed in an exclusive Jay-Z and Eminem 2-CD album meant that it was nigh-on essential for fans of the artists.
RUNNER UP - BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM
It may have been criticised for its tackiness (you didn't honestly expect a real metal Batarang, did you?) but Arkham Asylum's Collector's Edition at least offered up a relevant collectible for fans of the Caped Crusader. Those 14 inches of Batarang-shaped plastic took pride of place atop the sideboard of many a Batman fan, while the exclusive 48-page journal and exclusive DLC went some, if not all of the way towards justifying the high-price tag.
ALSO-RANS: Assassin's Creed II Black Edition, Dragon Age: Origins Collector's Edition, Forza Motorsport 3 Limited Edition, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Collector's Edition
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