Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 N.V.G Edition

They put actual night vision goggles in the box. Not toy goggles, not a plastic replica, real functioning night vision goggles. G Edition on Playstation 3 ships in an oversized cardboard box containing a set of night vision goggles in their own dedicated black box, a sculpted bust of Soap McTavish designed to hold the goggles when displayed, and a "not for resale" copy of the standard game.

This was Activision at peak confidence, dropping the biggest shooter of 2009 with a collector's edition that cost more than most peripherals and delivered something no other game had ever attempted. The Soap McTavish bust doubles as a display stand, giving you a ready-made shelf piece that looks like it belongs in a military surplus store crossed with a gaming museum. UK exclusive availability with no single-retailer lockdown means copies circulated more freely than the US Prestige Edition, but that was over fifteen years ago and sealed units have been thinning out steadily since.

Modern Warfare 2 represents the absolute zenith of the Call of Duty cultural moment, when midnight launches had lines around the block and this franchise was the undisputed king of gaming. G Edition is the physical embodiment of that era's excess. Nothing about it is subtle, and that's entirely the point.

You either have the goggles on your shelf or you don't.