Starcraft II Collector’s Edition announced

Brian Ambrozy 8 Apr, 2010 at 1:41pm ET Article published in Gaming

Custom USB memory stick

In the world of AAA video game titles, rabid fans often shell out big bucks for coveted Collector’s Editions, which often contain many pack-in extras and bonus content. Blizzard today announced the pack-ins for their game that is sure to be a massive commercial success, Starcraft II.

The extras include an exclusive art book, flash drive, soundtrack, behind-the-scenes DVD, and more. According to the press release:

• The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a 176-page book featuring artwork from the game
• An exclusive 2GB USB flash drive replica of Jim Raynor’s dog tag, which comes preloaded with the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War® expansion set
• A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, cinematics with director’s commentary, and more
• The official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty soundtrack CD, containing 14 epic tracks from the game along with exclusive bonus tracks
• StarCraft comic book issue #0, a prequel to the comic series
• A World of Warcraft® mini Thor in-game pet that can be applied to all World of Warcraft characters on a single Battle.net account
• Exclusive Battle.net downloadable content, including special portraits for your Battle.net profile, decals to customize your units in-game, and a visually unique version of the terran Thor unit

The collector’s edition commands a $40 premium over the $59.99 suggested retail price. While no release date has been announced yet, Blizzard claims the news will be revealed “in the coming weeks.”

Comments

1. 
   8 Apr 2010 ~ 2:19pm Winfrey Hopefully Blizzard includes a hot fix in the Starcraft and Broodwar install so that the graphics are not all messed up. Maybe take a step further than Command and Conquer: the first decade, did.
   
   Also, pretty please with sugar on top make the in-game cinematics available without having to play through the game.
   
   Pretty cool package of stuff, though quite expensive. This could be a good birthday + Christmas gift.
2. 
   8 Apr 2010 ~ 4:15pm shwaip Jebus rice I might buy one and hold onto it...
   
   http://completed.catalog.ebay.com/World-Warcraft-Collectors-Edition-PC-Games-2004-/56264853?PDPX&_trksid=p4295.c0.m283&_pcatid=2&_htch=1&_rdc=1&_pcategid=139973&_tab=2&_fln=1&_fifpts=1&_dmpt=Video_Games_Games&LH_Complete=1&guest=1
3. 
   8 Apr 2010 ~ 4:19pm coldalarm I'm quite interested in this, but for the price it seems a bit... I'm not sure. It seems very expensive.
   I think this is one CE I'll probably pass on due to the price; I'm not an overly huge RTS fan, I have the original SC games anyway, and the standard edition will be expensive enough as it is.
4. 
   8 Apr 2010 ~ 5:08pm pigflipper Sigh. Blizzard is going to once again force me to part with a larger than expected sum of my money.
5. 
   9 Apr 2010 ~ 12:51pm Jon-Snow

   Winfrey wrote:

   Hopefully Blizzard includes a hot fix in the Starcraft and Broodwar install so that the graphics are not all messed up. Maybe take a step further than Command and Conquer: the first decade, did.
   
   Also, pretty please with sugar on top make the in-game cinematics available without having to play through the game.
   
   Pretty cool package of stuff, though quite expensive. This could be a good birthday + Christmas gift.

   
   
   just register your games on battlenet and you can download a working windows 7 version of starcraft and broodwar