Beyond: Two Souls Special Edition

David Cage asked what would happen if a girl was tethered to a ghost her entire life, and somehow it worked. Beyond: Two Souls Special Edition for PlayStation 3 packages one of the PS3 era's most polarizing and visually stunning experiences with a stack of extras that reward the faithful. You get extensive behind-the-scenes video features, an additional 30-minute playable scene that expands the story, the original soundtrack, a dynamic PS3 theme, and a PSN avatar pack.

That additional scene isn't throwaway content. It's a half-hour of gameplay that fills in narrative gaps the main story left open. The behind-the-scenes features capture the motion capture wizardry that made Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe's performances feel genuinely cinematic at a time when that word was still aspirational for games.

The soundtrack stands on its own as a Lorne Balfe composition worth hearing outside the game. For PS3 collectors, this Special Edition represents a specific moment when Sony's first-party ecosystem was swinging for the fences with narrative-driven exclusives. Quantic Dream's output from this era, Heavy Rain through Beyond, defined what "interactive drama" meant on console.

The dynamic theme and avatar pack are era-specific digital bonuses that tie the whole package to the PS3 dashboard experience. This is a collector's snapshot of a studio at its most ambitious.