[Harvey Specter]

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/ga/buzz/feature/vg21/codgoggles_300.jpg


The practice of making extravagant "Collector's Editions" of video games is as old as gaming itself, but it looks like Activision is about to kick it up a notch.

When the anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is released on November 10, its $150 Prestige Edition will include what's surely the most extravagant bundled bonus ever -- a fully-functioning pair of night-vision goggles.

An Activision community manager made the announcement in a Youtube video, where he unboxes and shows off the goggles, which carry the game's branding. The Prestige Edition also includes a head-shaped display stand for the goggles, an art book, and fancy limited-edition packaging.

Modern Warfare 2's night-vision specs will join a proud tradition of crazy video game pack-ins, including Halo 3's infamous cat helmet, The Sims 3's plumbob-shaped USB drive, and Fallout 3's oversized watch and bobble-head doll, which was featured in the game, too.

It'll retail at $150, and considering that even basic night vision goggles easily run over $100 on their own, it actually sounds like a pretty good deal. All the same, as far as we can determine, it's the most expensive retail video game bundle in history, discounting games that came with their own custom controllers.

So if you're keen to play Modern Warfare 2 (as the follow-up to easily the best game of '07, you should be) and you're keen to spy on your neighbors, you'd better get saving.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/modern-warfare-2-prestige-edition-packs-eye-opening-bonus-costs-150/1334432

[boatcaptain]

wuuuu neat marketing skills!!

[asian_XL]

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[azzurro32]

wow this kicks ass. i hope they are decent night vision goggles and not some crappy ones you can buy for your nephew at toys r us

[murd0c]

Hmmmm the quality can't be good, they prob copyed the lens's from those infomercials
You see that you can buy sunglass's the can turn the night to day bla bla bla

[SlySi]

Still really cool....

[hotjoint]

cool

[Shogun]

It'll be more cool if they could integrate it with the game

[Vancouver240sx]

I'm in! Sign me up for a pair..

[asahai69]

That games gona be sick.

[twitchyzero]

It'll be more cool if they could integrate it with the game

you'll probably go blind 20 min into the game...

[CorneringArtist]

Yeah, one flashbang and you're even more screwed with them on.

[SolidPenguin]

Its the same technology in night vision in video cameras. Theres a small camera and infrared LEDs around the camera. You see up to about 30 feet basically, with this set up.

Definately not the same technology as high end night vision

[billboa]

WAT A NEW CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ITS LIKE THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[invader]

damn u guys need to check ign more often

[billboa]

damn u guys need to check ign more often
nigga i dont even know wat Ign is

[Noir]

Nice. Perferct for your average camping trip.

[rsx]

This would go well with my Zombie survival kit.

[Vansterdam]

awesome

[?NR]

sweetness.

...now if there is a way to amplify ther mediocre technology on it.. hmm..

[ajax]

whoaa cod4's been out since 07? im still playing it

[SlowRider]

DAM...i wish they would have packed in a REPLICA AK-47 would have been wayyyyy better .

[TheKingdom2000]

nigga i dont even know wat Ign is

this shit made me lol

[hal0g0dv2]

150 bucks dam

[tiger_handheld]

does this mean, the next next release will have a full functioning 1/16 size m16?

[winson604]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSS12iY1X0

I'm not going to lie, I'm getting it lol. Add this to the GOW Gun collection.

[StylinRed]

whys that cockboy advertising the Xbox version

[EX-R]

are we gonna get it here for sure? the pre orders are out already for the states but not here.

[hal0g0dv2]

whys that cockboy advertising the Xbox version

better system, better live

[StylinRed]

better system?! pssssh only if you're a north american jack a ninny ;)


but what teed me off though is i want to know if the PS3 will be getting a steelbook too

[hal0g0dv2]

better system?! pssssh only if you're a north american jack a ninny ;)


but what teed me off though is i want to know if the PS3 will be getting a steelbook too

of course they want out moneys

[StylinRed]

^^^ ah cool, just pre-ordered the steelbook


i'm betting the goggles are no better than these "Eye Clops" on Amazon, a kids toy that lets you see up to 50ft in darkness


http://www.amazon.com/EyeClops-Vision-Infrared-Stealth-Goggles/dp/B00153F5QA/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1247965759&sr=8-12

http://gopaultech.com/files/2008/12/eyeclops-night-vision.jpg

[winson604]

^^
Probably about the same as that toy. This goggle uses the same technology as night vision on a camera and if anybody is dumb enough to think it uses the same tech as real NVG then they must be real dumb.

[124Y]

Wow... technology advances so quickly. I remember when I was little, I played Oregon Trail.

[StylinRed]

how awesome would oregon trail have been with NVG's?!! ;)

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

they're not real NVG, they're like the toys, or the "night mode" on most vid cam corders.

basically it shoots this invisible flash "light" that only the goggle can see, so u cant really see that far out into the darkness.

real NVG goggles amplify the lights in the surrounding area, they work differently, and are, lets just say 10 billion times more effective. real NVG are like... WHOA BUDDY I CAN SEE LIKE IT's DAY LIGHT BUT ITS COMPLETE DARKNESS.

the toys are just like "oh i can see the object infront of me like im shining a flashlight at it, but only i can see it through the goggles".

[ajax]

Now all I need is one of these:
http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00716/Katana.gif
But only if it's autographed by this guy:
http://www.idolstalker.com/files/2008/01/randy-jackson.jpg