Microsoft and 343 Industries announced collector's and limited editions of Halo 5: Guardians a while back, but beyond the whopping $250-price tag on the collector's edition, no details were given as to what these two special editions of the game would include.
Now, thanks to an updated product listing on Xbox.com, we have some answers.
The limited and collector's editions will share much of the same content. Both editions will come with several physical goodies, and in the case of the collector's edition, a giant statue.
Each edition features a new (and as of yet unannounced) Halo: Fall of Reach animated series and a model of "the guardian" we've heard talk of in Halo 5. They also include a steelbook case, Spartan Locke's classified orders, dossiers on Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris, 14 requisition packs for the newly announced "Warzone" game type and a 14-day Xbox Live Gold trial.
If you're picking up the $250 collector's edition, you will be getting all of the above and that giant statue to boot. No pictures of the statue have made their way online yet, but we do have a description:
"The Master Chief and Spartan Locke appear as a team — but there's another story ... the statue splits and they separate, ready to face-off. Which scene tells the true story?"
And for what it's worth, here is what the box will (maybe) look like.
It sounds like the statue will play off the game's two-sided marketing campaign, which depicts two different versions of the events, one told from the Master Chief's perspective and the other from Spartan Locke's.
As for the other items included in the special edition, perhaps the most intriguing is the Halo: Fall of Reach animated series. We've seen the story of Reach told numerous times before in books, comics and even a game from Bungie, so it's interesting to see 343 Industries return to the tale once more.
The decision may lie in the fact that Chief's longtime squad, Blue Team, will play a major role in Halo 5. The group served together on Reach, so having an animated series elaborate on the shared history of the characters prior to the events of Halo 5 seems like the perfect way to get players who may not have read all the Halo expanded fiction up to speed.
Then again, the gamers buying the $100 and $250 versions of Halo 5 probably know their way around the Halo fiction. Just saying.
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