Battlefield 3 (SteelBook Edition)

A SteelBook with no frills and a whole lot of presence. The Battlefield 3 SteelBook Edition on PC is exactly what it sounds like: a Battlefield 3 themed steel case bundled alongside another edition of the game. No bonus maps, no dog tags, no artbook.

Just metal. And yet, for collectors who care about shelf display, that's more than enough. This particular edition was a pre-order exclusive through MediaMarkt in Sweden, which means the distribution was tiny.

We're talking a single retail chain in a single country. Most Battlefield collectors don't even know this version exists, and that scarcity is the entire point. PC SteelBooks from the early 2010s occupy a weird blind spot in the collecting world.

They weren't marketed heavily, they weren't produced in large numbers, and they tend to surface in European secondhand markets with little fanfare. If you're building a Battlefield collection or a SteelBook library, this Swedish exclusive is the kind of quiet rarity that separates a good collection from a serious one.