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Saints Row IV (The Super Dangerous WAD WAD Edition)

XBOX 360
Also available on:PCPLAYSTATION 3
Saints Row IV (The Super Dangerous WAD WAD Edition)
Deep Silver8/23/2013Europe

" The Saints Row IV Super Dangerous WAD WAD Edition on Xbox 360 was listed at one million dollars, making it perhaps the most expensive video game product ever offered. This wasn't a joke, or maybe it was, but it was a real listing. The contents read like a fever dream: a full-size replica Dubstep Gun, a Lamborghini Gallardo, a trip to space with Virgin Galactic, plastic surgery of the buyer's choice, a week at the Burj Al Arab's top royal suite, spy training, a hostage rescue experience, a Toyota Prius with a year of insurance, a personal shopper, and seven nights at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington DC.

Oh, and the game was in there too. Whether anyone actually purchased it remains one of gaming's great unsolved mysteries. As a collector's item, the WAD WAD Edition exists more as legend than artifact, a marketing stunt so perfectly calibrated to Saints Row's brand of gleeful excess that it became its own piece of gaming history.

You can't put a Lamborghini on a shelf, but the story of this edition's existence belongs in every collector's mental archive. It's the ultimate proof that Saints Row understood something fundamental: go big enough and the spectacle becomes the collectible.