A figure of Noir Elizabeth from the Bioshock Infinite DLC? £210 (around $304/AU$428). Both Bioware and Irrational put their focus on premium merch, and it's actually quite cool - replica bottles of magic from Columbia, hand crafted larger statues like Tali and Mordin from Mass Effect. Now, I've mentioned Mass Effect and Bioshock, and not entirely at random - cue segue to the next point, that when merch appears, it's often crazy, crazy expensive. Bioshock Infinite's Songbird for instance looked quite cool as a pack-in deal, but is in the game so little that it doesn't serve as a souvenir in the same way that the Big Daddy did in the original game, or the actual characters could have done. More to the point, I never know before I play a game if I'm going to want its character on my shelves. Just saying.)Īssassin's Creed Syndicate for instance offers a Collector's Edition featuring a quite nicely made Jacob, but - well, to borrow the Star Wars meme, #wheresevie. (Let's not even pretend the reason was trying to keep plot information secret Rey's front and centre on the damn poster, and toys gave up all spoiler territory when they released the action figure of Inspector Gadget's Dr Claw with a face. Case in point, the current #wheresrey hashtag for Star Wars, thanks to Disney and friends apparently believing in their hearts that kids are more likely to want to be whiny, tantrum-throwing coal-scuttle wearer Kylo Ren than badass staff-swinging Jedi scavenger Rey Nametoberevealed. This kind of thing doesn't work for me either though, because quite often the character that the company will focus on isn't the one that I, or the audience, will actually go for. The Witcher 3 for instance has quite a nice statue of Geralt battling a Griffin, while Batman: Arkham Knight offered a statue of Batsy towering above a city with a hilariously shit "The Gotham Knight" plaque on the front, as if anyone buying a copy of a Batman game might need to be reminded who Batman is. More often companies only really bother with cool toys, figures and things for one purpose - something to pack into the Special Edition of a game. And this is a game that actually offers some merch, which is fairly rare.
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