Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Collector's Edition

This is the collector's edition that doubled as an actual tactical loadout. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Collector's Edition for PlayStation 4 arrived in 2015 with enough gear to make you feel like you were enlisting for real. The headline piece is a military-style operator backpack with a padded laptop pocket and seven Velcro-attached operator badges, which somehow manages to be both genuinely useful and deeply nerdy at the same time.

You also get a CTU operators flat-brim snapback hat, a compass carabiner with a built-in bottle opener, and the Art of the Siege Tactical Guide, an exclusive 120-page book breaking down the game's operators and strategies. The collector's edition Steelbook and Season Pass DLC round out the package. Siege went on to become one of the longest-running competitive shooters in gaming history, evolving from a rocky launch into a legitimate esport.

That makes this Collector's Edition a time capsule from before anyone knew what Rainbow Six Siege would become. The backpack and carabiner have real-world utility, which is rare for collector's edition extras that usually just sit behind glass. This is PS4-era collecting with actual substance, not just a statue and a tin box.

If you believed in Siege from day one, this is the proof.