Ready to pick up your pimped out gold weapons and return to the field for intense gunfights and buddy mercenary action? EA today announced the finalized release date for Army of Two: The 40th Day. The game is set to be released on January 12, 2010 in North America and January 8, 2010 in Europe. EA also described a new multiplayer mode, called “Extraction,” which pits a team of 4 against waves of enemies, a la Horde. Oh, and If you don’t have the time or cash to pre-order the game, you wont get to play it for a month. That’s right, the deal allows gamers who pre-order Army of Two: The 40th Day to play the new Extraction mode for an exclusive month before anybody else.
We’ve seen some pretty awesome pre-order deals before, but this one seems a bit like game mode hostage taking- “Give us the money or you won’t see Extraction for a month!” The thing that gets me is that regardless of if you’ve pre-ordered the game, you would still have bought the content. Therefore you, the rightly paying consumer, is being bamboozled out of the FULL CONTENT of the game ON-DISK for an entire month. What happened to the days where people who pre-ordered got EXTRAS with their games, instead of DEMOS of the game and other odd things like this? Pre-ordering should net you cool stuff like the Gears 2 Golden Lancer, or a Rock band 2 shirt, not the amazing ability to play the full game that you have already purchased!
Have you guys ever seen a ridiculous pre-order deal like this before? Let us know in the comments.
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