Brink (Collector's Edition)

Three editions of Brink on Xbox 360, and the Collector's Edition went the most personal route of all. While the Special Edition loaded up on DLC and the SteelBook flexed its metal, the Brink Collector's Edition took a tactile, old-school approach with physical extras you could actually hold. The tattoo set included four transfer tattoos pulling from the game's resistance-versus-security aesthetic, the kind of pack-in that screams 2011 in the best way.

Then you got a postcard set, three cards total, featuring Brink's stylized artwork. It's a lean package by modern collector's edition standards, but that's part of its charm. " The tattoo transfers are almost certainly dried out if the package has been opened, which makes a sealed copy the only real way to preserve the full experience.

The postcards, meanwhile, hold up as display pieces or additions to a gaming ephemera collection. Brink's art direction deserved better than the game's rocky launch allowed, and these physical extras are some of the only tangible artifacts of that visual ambition. For completionists tracking down every Brink variant, this is the third piece of the puzzle.

For everyone else, it's a quirky 360-era CE that reminds us publishers used to get creative with small budgets.