Dragon Age: Origins special edition offers Mass Effect 2 freebies

by JC Fletcher on Jul 15th 2009 6:00PM

The Dragon Age: Origins special edition, newly revealed on GameStop.com, includes a pile of stuff, both real and virtual. For your $74.99 (or $64.99, if you're PC-style), you'll receive a tin case (of course); a bonus DVD with a documentary, music, video, and wallpapers; a cloth map (which is a totally old-school bonus), in-game quests and characters, and even an exclusive in-game item in Mass Effect 2.

If you buy the thing from GameStop, you get even more in-game junk: a Feral Wolf Charm, that increases health regeneration, and a Memory Ring, which boosts experience accumulation. The best part of all these virtual goodies? They don't require head-shaped stands.

[Via Destructoid]

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Tags: bioware, dragon-age-origins, gamestop, Microsoft, special-edition, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (42)

I'm getting tired of in-game items being part of Special Editions.

Yeah, me too. But a cloth map is pretty great, regardless.

I agree that a cloth map is sweet. I just don't like when "Bonus" content, that you have to pay for and that you can miss out on if you decide to buy the game a year later, can change a game.

Yeah, I'm quite miffed that The Juggernaut is a pre-order bonus in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. I know it's just an extra character, but it's still irritating.

Do you know who I am? I'M THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH!

that's my favorite quote of all time.

SHUT THE FUCK UP, CHARLES!

i didnt mind special guns like in BFBC or even just ones that you can unlock anyway, but new characters and quests? If they mean new party members that's fucking awful, but i guess ill be buying it despite my qualms because i dont wanna miss out on one bit of mass effect or DAO

Git outta my hed!!

Or more probably: "Git outta mai hed!!!"

Juggernaut - The original Lolcat.
I can has pimp cane?

I'm glad you don't need to go to Gamestop to get the cloth map. That's all I care about, really.

And I wouldn't fret the in-game stuff, it'll be available somewhere for download somewhere about 4 and a half hours after the game comes out.

Unless you're planning on playing this particular game on a console, but that's just crazy talk. ;)

I hate Special Editions, they make me poor. Damn you psychology!

Hopefully it's not a shotgun.

I bet it's a dragon!

Giving an ingame item for Dragon Age along with it, ok.. I suppose so. But an item for a completely different game? That's just fucked up.

On the ps3 special edition on gamestop.com it says that the Mass Effect 2 in-game item comes with it. ME2 confirmed for ps3?

@The Dark Wang,

EA owns Bioware now. That means Mass Effect on everything with a screen.

The only thing is that Bioware actually makes quality games. People buying both games shouldn't be a surprize. I think only a few companies can do this and it's cool. Bioware is one of them. And of course Capcom who dominates my game collection.

Guaranteed in-game item: A huge stinking pile of Dragon Shit.

Epic.

Coming up at 10 only on Fox -
XcrementBox: Is a game console feeding your children shit?

...but coming up now, a pig that refuses to eat Jews?

Did anyone else notice that the image of the dragon's elbow and belly changes in all three pics?

Am I the only one who sees the idea of offering something special for ANOTHER game in this game's collector's edition as bit of a dick move?

Its like Activision saying "Hey, pre-order WotLK's Collector Edition (just an example), and get FROSTMOURNE Free!! For the Wolverine Game."

Yeah, in fact I'll go one better and say it's a REALLY dickish move.

In-game items for the game you're buying, ok I can deal with that, people that really love the game will pay for it. But forcing people that really love the game to buy something ELSE to get everything for the game they actually love? Lame.

I don't like the direction these "tie-ins" are headed. Let the game speak for itself instead of getting fans of another game buy it just so they can get a "freebie."

Just thought I would mention that in the Kotaku and Destructoid articles that the PS3 is also getting the CE. Just thought I would say that since the PS tag isn't one this post

Cause the title is about the Mass Effect 2 freebies, I guess.

Oh yeah, I guess that's why

Major dickmove, I bought the crap-ish iphone game, i dont need to buy another as a CE edition. Seriously not touching this, I think they should just give the same stuff different ways. IE a couple of games with it as a bonus in the standard edition to get people into their game rather than pissed off.

Dragon Age: Origins will be awesome, and so will ME2. Great combo, but rather expensive.

Regular edition for me. $15 for a cloth map and the same crap everyone else dumps in their "special" editions is a rip. Sorry, I don't think $15 is worth the convenience of having them rip the music out of the install file for me and some lame documentary of them walking around a development office with a handheld camera.

Call me when these guys get serious about "special" editions, like the stuff Working Designs did back in the day or even the Fallout 3 Lunch Box.

Wow, exactly what I was thinking. I really feel like Working Designs was the last company that knew what a Special/Collector's Edition should be.

In the end, the price difference between the standard and collector's edition is $15, so if you buy everything seperately the only thing you'll really miss out on is the cloth map -- lord knows the soundtrack and videos will be thrown all over the web on day one.

Sigh, I still don't know what platform to buy it on. The only one that will get my friends involved is the 360, but I want PC.

Oh well, either way, can't wait.

Damn that's a lot of swag. I too hate cross game tie-ins. The one of late that has me the most ticked is AC2. Something about having to by the PSP version to get in-game weapons for AC2.

I'll be buying this one just because that's a ton of crap. If it's anything like the Fable stuff though, no one will miss it.

I don't care for the extra XP ring. Kinda takes the fun out of leveling.

Test

This is great!

Just pre-ordered it! The XP-boosting Memory Ring sounds pretty cool, IMO.

Well I for one will be getting this. The XP boosting ring will be stupid and be useless very soon as you will run out of slots and will want to put on a better ring soon. Its the CLOTH MAP that has me excited. I will be getting this for the PC, but will be getting ME2 for XBOX so does that mean that I wont get the ME2 bonus??

i guess so.

what you should do is buy it for the XBOX 360 & just download the PC version.
best of both worlds : )

Just because you buy a game for one platform...doesnt mean you have the right to it across all platforms...yarr.

I'm a sucker for tin cases.

well I would want the original of DAO for two reasons, first multiplayer and player created content, second BioWare is a company that I have always supported and believe that they deserve every penny I spend on them.

So I want to buy this game for PS3, but I'm still going to pick up Mass Effect 2 on the 360. Do I not get the ME2 item just because I bought for the wrong system?

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