Morning all.
So as you may or may not have heard, there's this game coming out at the end of the month; it's sort of a space soap opera thing with guns, and the first chapter of the trilogy did alright for itself a few years ago.
Anyway;
It has a Collector's Edition, with some special armour [http://www.analoghype.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Mass-Effect-2-Collectors-armor.jpg], a special weapon, a comic, an art book, a making-of DVD, and the Cerberus Network Membership card. More on the italics later. It's also meant to come in a tin case [http://www.analoghype.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Mass-effect-2-collectors-edition-box-art.jpg], but the UK version seems strangely void of that little addition.
The regular edition is the game disc in a box. The cover art [http://images.play.com/covers/10267221x.jpg] is somewhat crap but then, I don't much intend on looking at it for long.
Now, those italics;
This here Cerberus Network card was initially the main selling point of the Collector's Edition, for me at least. Recently, however, it's been revealed that all new copies of Mass Effect 2 will have this card.
Now, whilst nothing like the farce that is the Darksiders pre-order bonus clusterf*ck, it stands that I could still receive special armour and weapons from pre-ordering the regular editions; the coveted Terminus armour [http://www.gamestop.com/gs/images/bonus/ME2_bonusLG1.jpg] with the Blackstorm heavy weapon - a weapon with an effect unlike anything else in the game [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwKH-n8RHs]... orsome red thing that boosts conversation bonuses or something, I dunno the Inferno armour [http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/promos/Mass_Effect2_Inferno-Armor.jpg], with bonuses to negotiation and 'powers', so I assume biotics.
Of course, separate retail chains have their 'exclusives' so I would have to choose between the two.
Buuuuuuuuuut.
It's been suggested that this Terminus armour andthe other one whose name escapes me the Inferno armour will eventually become DLC... whereas the Collector's Edition armour will not.
However.
All three of these armours could potentially become useless during endgame, yet that weapon might remain quite the fancy dan.
Argh! WHAT DO?
Any ideas, fellow Escapist-type people? For comparison, the Collector's Edition is about £15 more than the regular. The price doesn't really factor into it but I'm not buying three copies of the game.
So as you may or may not have heard, there's this game coming out at the end of the month; it's sort of a space soap opera thing with guns, and the first chapter of the trilogy did alright for itself a few years ago.
Anyway;
It has a Collector's Edition, with some special armour [http://www.analoghype.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Mass-Effect-2-Collectors-armor.jpg], a special weapon, a comic, an art book, a making-of DVD, and the Cerberus Network Membership card. More on the italics later. It's also meant to come in a tin case [http://www.analoghype.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Mass-effect-2-collectors-edition-box-art.jpg], but the UK version seems strangely void of that little addition.
The regular edition is the game disc in a box. The cover art [http://images.play.com/covers/10267221x.jpg] is somewhat crap but then, I don't much intend on looking at it for long.
Now, those italics;
This here Cerberus Network card was initially the main selling point of the Collector's Edition, for me at least. Recently, however, it's been revealed that all new copies of Mass Effect 2 will have this card.
Now, whilst nothing like the farce that is the Darksiders pre-order bonus clusterf*ck, it stands that I could still receive special armour and weapons from pre-ordering the regular editions; the coveted Terminus armour [http://www.gamestop.com/gs/images/bonus/ME2_bonusLG1.jpg] with the Blackstorm heavy weapon - a weapon with an effect unlike anything else in the game [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwKH-n8RHs]... or
Of course, separate retail chains have their 'exclusives' so I would have to choose between the two.
Buuuuuuuuuut.
It's been suggested that this Terminus armour and
However.
All three of these armours could potentially become useless during endgame, yet that weapon might remain quite the fancy dan.
Argh! WHAT DO?
Any ideas, fellow Escapist-type people? For comparison, the Collector's Edition is about £15 more than the regular. The price doesn't really factor into it but I'm not buying three copies of the game.
