GAME outs Dragon Age special edition

By Robert Purchese Published 13 October, 2009

Elaborate CGI launch trailer released.

GAME will be the only place to sell the Collector's Edition of Dragon Age: Origins in the UK.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions cost £54.99, while the PC SKU is £44.99. Both have a fiver off at the moment.

Extras include a typical bonus DVD with typical making-of, soundtrack, game-video, art and tips footage.

More exciting are four special in-game items: Bergen's Honour, an end-game helmet with +2 armour, +25 physical resistance and +6 attack; Final Reason, a mid-level staff with a bonus to fire damage and spellpower; Grimoire of the Frozen Wastes, a usable book that adds +3 to all stats when read; and Memory Band, a ring that adds one skill point and +1 to experience earned. The latter can be stacked up to three or four times on one hand.

The Collector's Edition also offers the Blood Dragon Armour and Stone Prisoner launch DLC that we told you about last week.

The deal is announced as BioWare releases an impressive CGI launch trailer for Dragon Age: Origins, which arrives in full on 6th November.

Head over to Eurogamer TV to watch the stirring cinematic in HD.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Darren #1 2 years ago

    I've got Dragon Age Online for the PC on pre-order for £25 at GAME and I see no reason to pay almost double that for a bunch of unnecessary extras when the game already comes with 20 GB (reputedly) of content. Some of the DLC is free anyway so I can't see where this £20+ of "extra value" is myself.

  • stevetuck #2 2 years ago

    £5 off omg what a bargain i must buy atleast 5!

  • r4z0rbl4d3 #3 2 years ago

    @Darren: I'm with you on this. I usually like getting Limited/Special editions of games but there is very little in this pack that makes up for the price.

  • SilentTristero #4 2 years ago

    Hasn't this been known for a while?

    Specifically, it has been known that the GAME 'Collectors Edition' is unbelievably poor in comparison to the US/European Collectors Edition, and worse in every conceivable way - yet still costs the same.

    I clicked on the news story with some hope that Game had unveiled a new, better collectors edition.

  • danathjo #5 2 years ago

    I thought they were still including smoked sausage in the SE...no buy!

  • berelain #6 2 years ago

    Isn't this collectors edition identical (content-wise) to the Digital Deluxe edition which is available for £40 as a digital download direct from EA?

    If so, is this a rare case of a digital product being (for now, at least) cheaper than its retail equivalent? o.O

  • the_dudefather #7 2 years ago

    'Plastic Collectors Box'

    sold.

  • 3ergling #8 2 years ago

    So, no steelbook then? Damn, it's not worth it without steelbook.

  • SilentTristero #9 2 years ago

    Digital Deluxe features an extra piece of DLC; Wardens Keep, so in theory you get more from that version. Can't remember what items you get, but all these pre-order books, boots, helms and rings are rather annoying anyway.

    Like hundreds of others, I cancelled my Game CE order. Incredibly disappointed, maybe EG can look into why the UK is the sole country in the world to be cursed with this CE (Although I understand 1 or 2 others may not have one available too), because EA aren't answering anyones emails with anything particularly relevant.

  • mkreku #10 2 years ago

    I remember when an ordinary computer game would include a cloth map, a small ceramic ankh, a book-thick manual and a bundle of tarot cards. Now even the expensive "Collector's Edition" contains less than that and the ordinary computer game is lucky to even have a thin manual printed on actual paper. Sigh.

  • Hantheman #11 2 years ago

    I miss the old cardbvoard boxes. Like Baldur's gate, with its fold out CD sleeve which never held the CDs in place. Ahhh nostalgia. So illogical.

  • ZuluHero #12 2 years ago

    I still dont know which platfrom (PC or 360) to get it on :(

  • beastmaster #13 2 years ago

    Best one ever was Shadow Of the Beast 2 T-Shirt. i had it for years. It then got thrown out :-(

  • Pac #14 2 years ago

    @ZuluHero

    Same here. Don't know which to get PC, 360, or PS3.

    Any word yet on the controls, graphical differences etc?

    Tempted to go for the PC as it's cheaper but every time I get a game for my PC something goes wrong even though it's got an OK spec.

  • Inigo #15 2 years ago

    I really wanted the cloth map, i don't understand why they would not include it in the uk edition. I love these things, I've still got my Ultima IV coin.

    I heard that it will be coming to steam in a couple of weeks so its worth holding off.

  • WinterSnowblind #16 2 years ago

    I've posted about this a couple of times in the forums, but again, this is just a complete rip off, it's basically an extra £15 for a making of DVD. The in-game items aren't really as good as the one from Play, the Dragon armour comes with all versions of the game and the extra quest can be bought much cheaper seperatly.

    Considering how much better the US/European one is, this is just sad, I don't see why anybody would buy it.

  • Gastrian #17 2 years ago

    Eurogamer may want to change this. The memory ring is a pre-order bonus for all versions and both the SE and CE get the Blood Dragon Armour and Stone Prisoner DLC. And if anything you only get 2 additonal pieces of equipment as there are five retailers who offer an additional piece of gear with pre-orders.

    Pre-Order GAME CE gets 4 pieces of equipment and two DLC
    Pre-Order SE gets two pieces of equipment and two DLC

  • TedMoseby #18 2 years ago

    For anyone that wants to try out the character generator for the game, Bioware have released it as a standalone download for the PC as of today: -

    [link url=http://daforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topi c=698275&forum=135
    ]http://da forums.bioware.com/viewtopic.ht...[/link]

  • Kostabi #19 2 years ago

    It would have been nice if Eurogamer had outed this as EA pissing on UK customers instead of just running a free ad for Game.

  • WinterSnowblind #20 2 years ago

    The ingame content here are only a few items that make the game easier. I generally agree, but it's not like you're really missing out on anything here. And the DLC quest it comes with can be bought seperatly. (again, for much better value than this "collectors" edition.)

  • ilmaestro #21 2 years ago

    Superb editorial work here from EG towers, I'll look in for my next excerpt from GAME's weekly newsletter tomorrow, shall I?
    Edited by 1 at 13/10/09 @ 21:43

  • immateriaux #22 2 years ago

    Game.

    Well that sucks.

    If I want the Collectors edition I have to go to a store where there will be twenty or so empty boxes of the game on the shelves, I get to pick one, take it to the spotty guy at the counter talking to three other spotty fuckers all discussing how many raspberries they managed to stuff up their arses the night before, who will look at me like I've just intruded on the best conversation ever, who will then disappear out back for ten minutes before eventually telling me "No we're sold out of that", toss the empty box on the counter and go back to the raspberry conversation with a dismissive sniff in my direction.

    Game are the worst store ever, would rather wait for the thing to arrive from the states than go shop there.

    Now, Eurogamer:
    "The Collector's Edition also offers the Blood Dragon Armour and Stone Prisoner launch DLC that we told you about last week."

    ... you told us "last week" that the DLC content here was free to ANY version of the game, not just the Collectors edition. What are you saying now?