My thoughts on the Halo: Reach Limited Edition

With all the Limited/Legendary/Banana/Special UFO Happy Editions that comes out these days, there are precious few of them that appeals to me. The few special Editions I got are special to me because I love the game. And in most of those instances the thing I love most about the games are the story. I got the Lunchbox edition of Fallout 3, being a major fan of the first two games. I got the Black Edition of AssCreed 2, because I loved the story the first game started. And I got the Halo 3 Helmet Edition because I loved the story in the.... no wait, Halo games have had precious little story in the games themselves. But the books on the other hand, are some of my favourite sci-fi books ever, only beaten by Hitchhikers Guide and most of Asimov's stories. The back story of Halo is actually very good, you just have very little of it in the games. This actually makes perfect sense though, but that is not what I am going to write about here, I am writing about the Limited Edition of Halo: Reach. 
 
I never bought ODST because of limited money to use on games. I want it, I just don't want it that much. It was the same with Reach really, seeing how I already knew how that was going to end. Then I saw what the Limited Edition was to contain. The book. Dr. Halsey's Journal. First of all, it looks cool. Second of all, it was to contain a lot of background info. I just had to have it. So I bought it, and I got a lot more than I thought I would get. 
 
The book in itself is brilliant. A few pages are even sloppily ripped out, making it seem like the real deal. All the information in it are either stuff I already knew from the books, or non-important things that are still fun to read. But then there are also a lot of other extras in this book. A map of Reach, a photo of NOBLE Team, an Elite and something big in space (most likely High Charity) the psych-files or something of three NOBLE members, some news printings etc. Three of the things you get are especially fancy though. Like the plastic ID-tag for Dr. Halsey herself, or the weird test result chips for John-117. 
 
To put it shortly, the Limited Edition is awesome. If you are a fan of the story. If you are mostly a fan of the shooting, or the MP, then I don't think this version is for you. I love it though. And the game itself is also loads of fun. Not even halfway yet (bought it two days ago, the same day I got Dead Rising 2 in the mail), but it is without doubt the best Halo game there is. Seeing how you can unlock things for use in SP with the armor pieces and such by playing MP, I might just do that this time around. 
 
What do you think of the Limited Edition? Was there things in the book you found especially awesome? Have you found out secrets to unlock by using a barcode scanner on the ID-tag? Or do you disagree completely?