@Mr_Fuzzypaws: Yeah and the folks at the gamestop i go to made it sound like it was the best car in the game lol. I too played with it for a short while and saw that it royaly bit.

Jopan

@Bishmon:

haha and game crazy was advertising this as a preorder incentive. Ubisoft has really disappointed me with this one, simply because it seems like there was more effort put into the promotions and in game advertising than the actual fucking development of the game... because this game plays like absolute shit. i'll take RB6 vegas 1 any day

uppitycracker

@JKPierce: thanks for the heads up. appreciate it

jun581

Posts... Disappearing... Must... Stop talking... Like Shatner...

PapaBear434

@crapsh00t:

Or the Microwave gun.

Interesting side effect? At prolonged use or increased intensity, it can irritate the bowels and cause painful stomach cramps and involuntary explosive diarrhea. You can't tell me that wouldn't be funny as hell.

PapaBear434

You know what I liked as far as extra content? Hellgate: London had a promo that gave you a dye kit for your armor, which can be used for any armor you get ever, based on the color scheme of where you bought it. Go to Best Buy, and you get a cool dye kit that would turn your armor gold. I believe Circuit City was red, and EB turned it blue.

It looks pretty cool, without being intrusive or taking you out of the game. It looks like it belongs (it's still marred, slightly faded, and battle scared like everything else,) and it doesn't have any logo's on there to have annoying product placement.

THAT'S the way to do exclusive content, baby. Everything out in the game was messed up at launch, but that thing was pretty cool.

PapaBear434

It's the TAR21! What a load of bollocks, I already have that unlocked... I was hoping for a railgun or perhaps an emp emitter.

crapsh00t

@bruhkgb:
You're welcome. :)

-EDGE-

I really like the TAR21...

And if you want the free Comcast level, in the start menu go to "Extras", then "Comcast Gift" and enter "Comcast Faster". Bam, unlocked. :)

Poison

@DevonTheDude: Not true at all, unfortunately. Pre-ordering Army of Two from Gamestop / EBGames got you a special, unique code that unlocks two guns (not otherwise unlockable). Each of these codes only works once as you have to be connected to XBL (or PSN, I assume) as it checks the code against EA's DB. Unfortunately, I did not pre-order and, therefore, do not have the free guns. :(

Thanks EA, I look forward to you trying to sell these two guns down the road for only 800 MS Points a piece ([kotaku.com]).

Pheonix2og

@jun581: N'Gai had a post on his blog the other day, found here. It's mostly on the trend of developers overlooking the PS3 in favor of the 360, similar to what gaming sites have done.

JKPierce

@Crosswayboy: It's the wireless UPC/inventory scanner gun. ;-)

CaptainObvious

@Bishmon: If EA was to learn from this sort of misdirection and subtlety, watch out.

GameStop and EA kind of did this with Burnout Paradise. If you pre-ordered it from GameStop you got a code for the "exclusive" Steel Wheels car. Anyone can go on the net and find a code that will work. And the car is pretty much shit, I drove it just long enough to realize I hated it.

Mr_Fuzzypaws

@DevonTheDude: this isn't gamefaqs.

DigiMish

I got the game, unlocked the gun... And then hit the rank the gun would have been unlocked within half an hour anyway.

Eh, whatever. It's not like it cost me any extra.

PapaBear434

Army of Two had some exclusive codes to unlock guns developed by their forum members - a sniper grenade launcher and a powerful fully automatic SMG.
That was a one off code like Lost Odyssey and Battlefield.
The GOTY version of Call of Duty 3 also had an exclusive code to get the bonus maps.

chickenplucka

@JKPierce: what ignore ps3 things n'gai talked about?

jun581

Way to go Kotaku, 2 days after N4G.com posted the codes. Since when are exclusive codes, in any game, truely exclusive. Same applies to Burnout Paradise, the codes are on internet forums all over the web. A Cd/Dvd/Blu (extra disc) is the only way to have true exlcusive content.

DevonTheDude

TAR21, boooring. I already had that gun.

chenry

@Bishmon:

I got the normal edition for the 360 at Best Buy and it has the code for the assault rifle on a sticker outside of the box. It's definitely not exclusive to the LE.

OGHowie

this just reminds me how useless, and annoying store promotions are to gamers. Buy the game at our store and get this map, NO! buy the game at this store and get this map!

Everything's still going to be uploaded on the web the next day.

DigiMish

@Mr.SithNinja: some things like the lost odyssey extras do have unique codes that are only good once. Those are the things worth preordering for. Battlefield has a code like that too, you redeem it on live to get the extra gun or whatever it is.

Grumps

Just by the title, a whole lot of New Yorkers got excited... then disappointed.

dadeisvenm

aaw! so old school! sequence button combos? what's next? 100up?

DLNO-001

Thanks Edge.

bruhkgb

Watch out. Ol' Jack Thompson will turn this around and say that Best Buy is giving away free guns with every purchase of a "murder trainer" software...

What a dick...

Eltigro

@Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": You win the internets. Report to Best Buy for your prize, and for an extra $10, you'll get a code to unlock your very own Best Buy price gun.

SaintWaldo

Free Gun PS3 Version: (Hold R1) down,down,up,up,square,circle,square,circle,triangle,up,up,triangle.

Should get you the TAR. Yeah, thats right EDGEY loves ya ;)

-EDGE-

Would be better if it was a pricing gun. Take that, terrorist! You've been marked down 98 cents!

Torgen thinks AAA means “Costs $60”

@Xeros606:

Oh, no, Ubisoft wasn't giving this away. This was labeled as an exclusive to the limited edition version of the game at Best Buy. My buddy that bought the game, who doesn't read blogs or anything (and is therefore representative of 90+% of all consumers), wasn't going to spend the extra money on the limited edition until he saw it came with an "exclusive" assault rifle. Ubisoft essentially managed to get an extra $10 from him for a code.

If EA was to learn from this sort of misdirection and subtlety, watch out.

Bishmon

wounder if it would work with the ps3 if you just fallowed the same combo on that controller.

Dakito

Also, just in case you didn't google for it, the Comcast unlock is "Comcast faster".

baberg

Already had it unlocked, crap gun on auto and still poor even on semi.

Crome

Is it just me or are these gimmics stupid. The Comcast Map, the Best Buy gun, the Gamestop "exclusive" droid in Lego Starwars, why bother doing these kind of crappy promotions with "secrect, exclusive, unlockable codes that are on the net in 5min after realese?

It's not like it a real exclusive to any retailer. to me it is just dumb.

Mr.SithNinja

@JKPierce: This is on PS3 too. The code is very similar, but I forget it off the top of my head.

njhardcoreguy

Is this one of those ignore PS3 things that N'Gai talked about?

JKPierce

@Mr.SithNinja: Well, someone was going to give it away at some point...

Spoony Bard

It's the "TAR" which was known as the MTAR 21 in R6V1. This isn't a special unlockable gun. You end up unlocking it after you gain enough exp in the game anyways. It just gives it to you early.

AnTi PRO

better than EAs "guns"...

steliosco

hmm, ubi gives you a free virtual gun, and ea sells you virtual guns...

Xeros606

Oh, and you can also unlock the 'Streets' multiplayer map by going into the 'Extras' section in the main menu and signing up for a free Ubi.com account.

Bishmon

catapult? Paintball gun?

GMC

DAMN YOU KOTAKU!!! You had to go and give everyone else the gun code and completly ruin any atvantage that I had by having it! The fact that it is a shitty gun that I will never use is beside the point. You just took away the one thing that made me special....

Mr.SithNinja

TAR21 assault rifle.

Bishmon

How do I unlock the giatn Ace Combat ads?

Oh, wait, that's already been done.

schizogony

Neat! What gun is it? Anyone?

Crosswayboy