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PlayStation 2 News by Robert Purchese

13 February, 2007

London's Oxford Street HMV is hosting another game launch on 23rd February, and this time it's Final Fantasy XII, the next instalment in the immensely-popular JRPG series, which is being celebrated.

The event will run between 12pm and 2pm, and gift wristbands will be given out as early as 9am.

If you snag one of these bands and are one of the first 100 to purchase the game, you'll receive a Moogle soft toy and a CD of five tracks selected by composer Hitoshi Sakimoto.

If you're one of the next 200 people and have a wristband, then you'll also get the limited edition CD, specially put together for the launch event.

All attendees will also have a chance to win a trip to Japan, by entering a free competition.

But it wouldn't be a game launch without a fancy-dress competition, so Square Enix talent spotters will be dishing out freebies to those with the best outfit on the day. What will you dress up as, Eurogamer readers?

And what's more, are you excited about FFXII? We gave it the highest mark imaginable (yes, 28) and couldn't recommend it more, although this probably counts as doing that. You can find our review elsewhere on the site.

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Agent_Llama
13/02/07 @ 13:41
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First.

WHY couldn't this have been this week? WHY not in the evening? I'll be at bloody work!
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dog2_99
13/02/07 @ 13:42
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why would you dress up?
agparrot
13/02/07 @ 13:43
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...only if you order a PSP at the same time?
Fyzzu
13/02/07 @ 13:50
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It's probably a mark of my addiction to this series that I sniggered at anyone who went to the Burning Crusade launch event, but were I in London on the FFXII release date, then I would BE THERE. FIRST.

Bugger.
Blerk
13/02/07 @ 13:52
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Oh man. Now I want a cuddly Moogle. :-(
Dizzy
13/02/07 @ 13:54
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HMV seems to have gotten a taste for launches like this. Don't think they realise how much of an exception WoW really is.
ZuluHero
13/02/07 @ 13:54
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me too - guess i'll be down there dressed as yuna then...

;)
prettyboytim
13/02/07 @ 13:58
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Heh. HMV Oxford Street is about 200s yard from where I work. I might pop in at lunchtime for a laugh.
Royal Fool
13/02/07 @ 14:04
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If you snag one of these bands and are one of the first 100 to purchase the game, you'll receive a Moogle soft toy and a CD of five tracks selected by composer Hitoshi Sakimoto.

If you're one of the next 200 people and have a wristband, then you'll also get the limited edition CD, specially put together for the launch event.

Wait, you're rewarded an extra limited edition CD if you're not among the first 100? Something looks wrong here.
Hunam
13/02/07 @ 14:04
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These events are no longer special, more run of the mill.

I dare someone to turn up and buy Halo instead.
Bertie [staff]
13/02/07 @ 14:06
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You will also get a cd, as well as the first hundred people. Same cd, you just don't get a toy. Apologies for le confusion.
Hog-lumps
13/02/07 @ 14:07
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Why is it always the london peeps who get the freebies?! :(
Killerbee
13/02/07 @ 14:08
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Why oh why oh why do they have to do these things in chuffing London?
Bertie [staff]
13/02/07 @ 14:11
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London is the central hub of the world!
trevd72
13/02/07 @ 14:14
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@Hog-lumps cos its such a shit hole that pity is taken on them.
Walshicus
13/02/07 @ 14:17
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Are YOU an angst-ridden teenage nipponophile with the poor fortune to appreciate hacknied cliché ridden storytelling? Are YOU willing to make an idiot of yourself by dressing up as a half-metre Taru or mincing lady-boy swordfighter? Then HMV's Final Fantasy Twelve launch party is for YOU!
JediMasterMalik
13/02/07 @ 14:19
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@prettyboytim - surely you would be perfect for this cosplay malarkey, should go well with the Vaan role. :P

Edit - I want a moogle :(
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Darren
13/02/07 @ 14:25
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I'm very interested in FFXII as it doesn't have the annoying random-battles-every-10-seconds of the old games. I loved the stories and characters of the old games but found the gameplay mechanics a bit clunky and dated so this new one sounds very promising and I'll certainly be picking it up when I buy my PS3 (I've no PS2 you see!).
JediMasterMalik
13/02/07 @ 14:29
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Sorry Kato, I live in the North. Way to far to go. Maybe there'll be some on eBay though :(
JediMasterMalik
13/02/07 @ 14:37
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:s...

... :D
Tiiti
13/02/07 @ 14:39
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copy paste with a name change from WoW to FFXII?
Hog-lumps
13/02/07 @ 14:41
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JediMasterMalik = pimp??
Vin
13/02/07 @ 14:42
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If I walk by and catch ANY of you slashheads dressed like fuckin' Aries, I'm gonna slap you into the next gen.
Hog-lumps
13/02/07 @ 14:46
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\hides pink dress
Laserbream
13/02/07 @ 14:59
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Wristbands? So much for my plan to come dressed as an amputee :(
Machiavel
13/02/07 @ 15:16
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I think I'll go as the Metaphysical Concept of Dignity.

/looks down

Make it Cait Sith then...
Feanor
13/02/07 @ 15:30
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"Oh man. Now I want a cuddly Moogle. :-("

I bought one as a Xmas gift, and it's a little small but very cute.

http://www.gkworld.com/product/GKW14614
dolphan
13/02/07 @ 15:34
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It's been 5 years since the last proper FF being released in Europe, which is as long as between VII and X - worth a little pomp and circumstance.
SBfistfun
13/02/07 @ 15:41
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Every person in the first 100 deserves to be chinned.

Find something better to do with your time you nerds!
Bertie [staff]
13/02/07 @ 15:49
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You don't have to dress up to get a wristband, you just have to be in the first 300 people, as far as I can tell. I bet dressing-up will help though. Wait, I mean, you MUST dress up or you won't be able to buy the game.

The more outrageous the better, remember that!
ManicDrunkMonk
13/02/07 @ 16:01
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lol @ laserbream

Best line in a long time!
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Mageme
13/02/07 @ 16:18
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Damn, I should've kept the wristband from the MGS: Snake Eater HMV launch. There go my extortionate ebay dreams...

Hold on.. is that the moogle being given away? Bleurg, ugly... not worth queuing up. Thought it was a white moogle of ye olde FF days. Back to work.
Steroyd
13/02/07 @ 16:24
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Cosplay is back in Britain.
CitizenGeek
13/02/07 @ 16:49
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It's finally coming out! Hurrah! I have been waiting for ti game since I became an FF whore with FFX. I'm still holding out for a Special Edition, but knowning Square Enix they'll just let America have it 5months earler than us and with a better cover and with the choice of an awesome Special Edition with all kinds of goodies. I mean, what has Europe done to Square Enix? Final Fantasy ois arguably more popular here than in the US, right?
Scimarad
13/02/07 @ 17:13
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Firstly: Cuddly Moogles FTUW

Secondly: Hitoshi Sakimoto is God

Thirdly: Could they also have included a CD of Fran talking?
tiddles
23/02/07 @ 13:51
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Happening right now...

Who is appearing from Square Enix, then?
mrhand
25/02/07 @ 15:06
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There's some pictures from the launch on the theaveragegamer.com

http://www.theaveragegamer.com/2007/02/2...
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