Pumping Irony

Courtesy of Achievement Junkie’s feed in my Google Reader, I see Bioware have announced the contents of the Collector’s Edition of their upcoming RPG for the Xbox 360, Mass Effect.

• Fiction Book: Galactic Codex: Essentials
• Mass Effect Art Book: A Future Imagined
• 2nd DVD with exclusive videos about Mass Effect (Art of Mass Effect, Interactive Storytelling of Mass Effect)

I’m all for behind-the-scenes DVD’s, after all I loved the LOTRO and Halo 2 ones. I’m guessing Halo 3 has them too, but it might be awhile before I get around to that. I would have liked a soundtrack though, but I’ll still likely pick up the CE anyway, it’s only $10 more than the normal game.

I have an unfortunate sneaking suspicion that the “fiction book” mentioned will simply be a pamphlet or booklet containing most of the content already found at the Mass Effect: Galactic Codex section of the game’s website. Not that I expected anyone to have time to write another full novel like Mass Effect: Revelation but still…