Turtle Beach release limited edition Modern Warfare 3 headsets

Headset specialists Turtle Beach have released a  limited edition Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 range in time for the launch of the game on November 8th, 2011.

Four versions are available, and they were developed with presets designed specifically by the audio teams at Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer games, so that they’re optimised for the Modern Warfare 3 experience.

The Turtle Beach Call of Duty MW3 Ear Force Delta features programmable presents, Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound, Bluetooth wireless technology, customised presets and voice prompts, 50mm speakers and more. It costs $299.95. It’s for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

The Turtle Beach Call of Duty MW3 Ear Force Bravo is $179.99 and features presents, a rechargeable battery, 50mm speakers It works across Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Mac.

The Turtle Beach Call of Duty MW3 Ear Force Charlie comes in at $129.95 and was designed for the PC, although it’s also Xbox 360 compatible. You get Dolby 5.1 surround sound, including 8 premium speakers, 4 for each ear.

The Turtle Beach Call of Duty MW3 Ear Force Foxtrot is for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and comes in at just $99.95. You still get an amplifier to boost the audio, but in this case you get stereo sound, 40mm speakers, and variable bass boost and stereo expander.

You can order the headsets now and get used to them before MW3 arrives from retailers including Amazon.

 

And if you haven’t pre-ordered Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 yet, there’s still time left. Choose from Amazon, Game, Play, Tesco, or Sainsbury’s. The only real saving we’ve spotted is that the Hardened Edition appears to be cheapest at Tesco at the moment for £75, £4 cheaper than most other stores.

Battlefield 3: Pre-Order Bonuses and Limited Edition Details

It’s not long now until the October 28th launch of Battlefield 3, and apparently fans have already pre-ordered ten times more copies of the game than they did for the launch of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, so it’s looking to be a pretty darn big launch. In addition to winning over 50 awards even before launch, developers DICE and publishers Electronic Arts have announced a number of bonus items and extras you can get by carefully choosing which version you fancy buying, and pre-ordering once you’ve decided.

So what’s the difference if you go for the Limited Edition? The Battlefield 3 Limited Edition includes the Back to Karkland DLC expansion pack, which includes four maps from Battlefield 2, including Strike at Karland, Gulf of Oman and the Sharqi Peninsula. If you d go for the standard edition and want to download the map pack seperately, it’ll cost you a fairly heft £11.99, so you may as well go limited from the start!

Battlefield 3 Pre-Order bonuses:

If you commit to a Battlefield 3 pre-order now, then various retailers are offering bonuses for your custom. And the split between the retailers is:

Physical Warfare Pack: Available in the UK from Game.

You’ll get three exclusive weapon bonuses unlocked for a limited time in-game, before they later become available to all players. The three goodies you’ll get access to straight away are: The Type 88 Light Machine Gun with Bipod, the SKS Sniper Rifle Flash Suppressor, and Flechette Ammo for the DAO-12 Semi-Automatic Shotgun, and the DAO itself will also be unlocked for you, giving you a healthy headstart with increased stealth from the flash suppressor, and the hefty stopping power of the armour-piercing flechette rounds. So if killing is your business, then you should probably consider pre-ordering from Game right away.

SPECACT Kit – available from Amazon UK:

You’ll be able to expand your look with a set of eight unique multiplayer skins, with one for each class in Battlefield 3, because as we all know, looking good is second only to getting the kills! So if you fancy being ‘on trend’ this season, get your pre-order in at Amazon.

 

Dog Tag Pack – available from Play.com:

The role of dog tags in Battlefield is your in-game signature, which get displayed when you make a kill or claim an opponent’s dog tags by sneaking up on them and stabbing. So you’ll be able to select one of five new and unique dog tags to stand out whether you’re the one claiming the kills, or being stabbded in the back. Quite a classy way to show off the fact you’ve pre-ordered from Play.com.

 

So what would we recommend? Well, the Limited Edition appears to be the sole version available for pre-order at the moment, and given the fact that so many people are going to have access to the extra maps, and the hefty price to download them later, it seems like a bit of a no-brainer to pick them up at launch.

As for pre-order bonuses – despite the fact that limiting game content by pre-order retailer makes us slightly uneasy as gamers, the time-exclusive option and the fact that it will give us a gameplay advantage means that we’re choosing the Physical Warfare bonus from Game over the other two. After all, nothing looks better than a high kill/death ratio, and people aren’t as likely to notice your custom skin or dog tag as much as the fact you’re taking them out with high-powered flechette rounds. Plus it’s a moral duty to encourage the use of time-limited content which is then opened up to every gamer, regardless of retailer, rather than permanent exclusives most of us will never get the chance to access. So we’re pre-ordering the Limited Edition via Game, but which version is tempting you?

Have you pre-ordered Battlefield 3 or Modern Warfare 3?

It’s not that long until both Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 are released, and we’d like to know if you’ve made the decision to pre-order either of the big FPS launches this autumn? Or are you planning to buy them, but waiting to pick them up in store?

So here’s a handy poll to vote on:

And if you haven’t already pre-ordered them, but might be tempted, here are the links you can use to find the best deals from whichever retailers you prefer:

Battlefield 3:

• Amazon (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 Limited Editions)
• Game (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 Limited Editions)
• Play.com (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 Limited Editions with exclusive 5 dogtag design downloads).
• Gamestop (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 Limited Editions)

 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

• Amazon (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360)
• Game (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360)
• Play.com (PC, PS3, and Xbox 360)
• Gamestop (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360)

Found a better deal somewhere else? Post it below in the comments or on our forums to help other gamers out… And if you’re tempted by some of the doubtless dubious MW3 and Battlefield 3 spam offers which will only happen more and more in the build-up to both games, then please don’t fall for them. Buy from a reputable online retailer and make sure you’re not risking your cash and chance to play the game…

Halo: Reach demo out now on Xbox Live…

No, you haven’t travelled back in time 8 months to when the full game of Halo: Reach was released in September 2010. Microsoft have copied the Modern Warfare 2 approach of putting out a demo way after the actual release of a game to rekindle interest and target those players who weren’t guaranteed release date buyers.

So you can now enjoy one mission from halfway through the single-player campaign, the Powerhouse multiplayer map, and one co-op Firefight scenario by downloading the demo, which coincides with a price cut on the digital download of the full game at £39 until May 30th, 2011. The trail is exclusive to Xbox Live Gold Members, and you can select it for download via the Xbox website.

By way of comparison

• Amazon has Halo: Reach for £28.25, and oddly the limited collectors edition for £27.84 – both brand new.
• Play.com has the Limited Collectors edition for £24.99, but the standard edition for £49.99
• Game has the standard for £24.99 and and Limited Edition for the same price.
• And Gamestop comes in at $59.99 for the standard edition. $79.99 for the limited edition version.

 

Limited edition, 8 disc Medal of Honor Sountrack Collection

Fans of the music of the Medal of Honor series can celebrate the release of a limited edition, eight disc collection of original scores from the series, which runs to a total of ten hours of music from composers Michael Giacchino, Christopher Lennertz and Ramin Djawadai.

The collection includes a 40-page booklet with complete track information and an introudction by Steven Speilberg who originally signed up Michael Giacchino for the first Medal of Honor game. Giacchino stayed with the series for the first four titles, before Christopher Lennertz took on musical duties for Medal of Honor European Assault and Pacific Assault. When the series was rebooted with the most recent title, Ramin Djawadi created the soundtrack.

Discs 1-6 house the scores from MEDAL OF HONOR, MOH UNDERGROUND, MOH FRONTLINE, MOH ALLIED ASSAULT, MOH PACIFIC ASSAULT, MOH EUROPEAN ASSAULT, MOH RISING SUN and MOH AIRBORNE.

Disc 7 contains the score to MEDAL OF HONOR (2010) with unreleased bonus material. And Disc 8 features never-before-released BONUS tracks from MOH AIRBORNE, MOH RISING SUN and MOH EUROPEAN ASSAULT.

TRACK LISTING:
DISC 1: MEDAL OF HONOR
MUSIC BY MICHAEL GIACCHINO
1. Medal Of Honor (4:10)
2. Locating Enemy Positions (4:12)
3. Taking Out The Railgun (3:52)
4. Attack On Fort Schmerzen (3:57)
5. The Radar Train (3:35)
6. Rescuing The G3 Officer (4:09)
7. Panzer Attack (4:17)
8. Rjuken Sabotage (4:08)
9. The U-Boat (4:43)
10. Merker’s Salt Mine (4:09)
11. Approaching Colditz Castle (3:22)
12. Securing The Codebook (3:37)
13. Nordhausen (3:18)
14. Stopping The V2 (4:14)
15. The Jet Aircraft Facility (3:29)
16. The Road To Berlin (3:07)
17. Medal Of Honor (Alternate Version) (3:03)
18. The Road To Berlin (Radio Broadcast) (4:05)
RUNNING TIME: 69:27

DISC 2: MEDAL OF HONOR UNDERGROUND
MUSIC BY MICHAEL GIACCHINO
1. “May 10TH, 1940 (Main Theme)”(4:28)
2. The Streets Of Paris (3:50)
3. Amongst The Dead (3:17)
4. Fleeing The Catacombs(3:09)
5. Panzer Blockade(3:20)
6. The Road To Tobruk (3:24)
7. Escape From Casablanca(3:20)
8. Passage To Iraklion(3:40)
9. Labyrinth Of The Minotaur(3:15)
10. Ascent To The Castle (3:25)
11. Last Rites (3:34)
12. The Battle Of Monte Cassino (3:16)
13. The Motorcycle Chase(4:18)
14. Returning To Paris (3:25)
15. Beneath The City(3:09)
16. Each Night He Comes Home To Me (3:53)
17. “May 10th,1940(Alternate Version)” (4:20)
18. Er Lasst Mich Niemals Allein (OSS Radio Broadcast) (4:32)
RUNNING TIME:65:35

DISC 3: MEDAL OF HONOR FRONTLINE
MUSIC BY MICHAEL GIACCHINO
1. Operation Market Garden/Storm In The Port (5:33)
2. Border Town (3:36)
3. U-4902 (4:44)
4. Shipyards Of Lorient/Needle In A Haystack (3:14)
5. After The Drop (5:38)
6. Kleveburg (3:32)
7. Manor House Rally (3:48)
8. The Halftrack Chase/Several Bridges Too Far (3:40)
9. Nijmegen Bridge (3:22)
10. The Rowhouses (4:40)
11. Arnhem/Rolling Thunder (5:51)
12. Emmerich Station (3:02)
13. Thuringer Wald Express (2:52)
14. Sturmgeist’s Armored Train/The Hornet’s Nest (3:55)
15. Approaching The Tarmac (3:48)
16. Clipping Their Wings (3:27)
17. Escaping Gotha (7:16)
18. The Songless Nightingale (2:42)
RUNNING TIME: 74:40

DISC 4: MEDAL OF HONOR ALLIED ASSAULT
MUSIC BY MICHAEL GIACCHINO
1. Main Theme (4:04)
2. North Africa (3:19)
3. Schmerzen (3:37)
4. Sniper Town (3:21)
5. Tiger Tank (3:25)
RUNNING TIME 17:46
MEDAL OF HONOR PACIFIC ASSAULT
MUSIC BY CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ
6. Main Theme (2:07)
7. Opening (1:44)
8. Dear Dad (1:06)
9. Boot Camp (1:13)
10. No Fear (0:39)
11. Pearl Harbot Ending (1:18)
12. Battlegrounds (1:30)
13. Tarawa (1:02)
14. Rein (0:38)
15. To Guadalcanal (0:48)
16. Reunion (1:10)
17. 3 Week Wonder (0:55)
18. The Jungle (0:26)
19. On Patrol (0:44)
RUNNING TIME: 15:20
MEDAL OF HONOR EUROPEAN ASSAULT
MUSIC BY CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ
20. Dogs Of War – Main Title (2:59)
21. Operation Chariot (3:16)
22. Casualties Of War (1:40)
23. Redball Express (3:17)
24. To Stalingrad (3:16)
25. Clearing Tobruk (2:06)
26. North Africa (5:22)
27. The Desert Rats (2:18)
28. “Russia, 1942 (2:17)
29. Battle Of The Bulge (4:16)
30. One Man Can Make A Difference (2:09)
RUNNING TIME: 32:56
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 66:02

DISC 5: MEDAL OF HONOR RISING SUN
MUSIC BY CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ
1. Main Titles* (3:15)
2. Taiko Brigade (1:18)
3. PT Attack (1:08)
4. Deep In Guadalcanal (1:45)
5. Stalking The Caves (2:40)
6. We’re Hit (1:12)
7. Engine Trouble (2:03)
8. Requiem For The California (1:37)
9. Saving Pearl Harbor (2:05)
10. Singapore Docks (2:05)
11. Passing The Nevada (1:08)
12. Burma (3:08)
13. Elephant Battle (1:13)
14. March On The Temple (2:10)
15. A Prisoner’s Eulogy (2:05)
16. Nazi Disguise/Shima’s Speech* (2:04)
17. Natives Are Restless (1:50)
18. Carrier Deck (1:15)
19. Tanaka’s Death/The Hanger (3:36)
20. Tank March (1:23)
21. Philippines/Zero Attack (1:46)
22. Courtyard Strike (1:12)
23. Yamashita’s Gold (2:54)
24. Incoming!/Aftermath (1:38)
25. Jungle Swarm (3:49)
26. They Got Donnie (1:04)
27. Shell Shock (2:21)
28. The Sewers (1:31)
29. Shima Escapes (0:55)
30. Take Off/Finale (1:52)
31. Hymn To Brothers Lost* (2:57)
RUNNING TIME: 60:59

• - Contains Themes From Previous Medal Of Honor? Releases.

DISC 6: MEDAL OF HONOR AIRBORNE
MUSIC BY MICHAEL GIACCHINO
1. Medal Of Honor Airborne (Main Theme) (3:49)
2. Operation Husky (3:28)
3. Back Alleys (2:24)
4. In The Trenches (2:36)
5. Restoration Temple(2:48)
6. Gunfight In The Ruins (5:25)
7. Operation Neptune (2:35)
8. Following The Demolition Wires (1:07)
9. Room By Room (2:25)
10. Unblocking Utah (2:44)
11. Operation Varsity (3:40)
12. Sniper Showdown(3:18)
13. Das Flakturn (2:38)
14. Destroying The Fuel Reserves (2:31)
15. Dropping Into Nijmegen (3:01)
16. Wreckage Of Nijmegen (7:05)
17. Defusing The Charges (2:38)
18. Taking Out The Sighting Tower (2:32)
19. Paestum Landing (2:51)
20. Medal Of Honor Airborne (End Credits) (4:17)
RUNNING TIME: 63:52

DISC 7: MEDAL OF HONOR(2010)
MUSIC BY RAMIN DJAWADI
1. From Here (3:51)
2. Watch Your Corners (3:23)
3. Heroes Aboard (5:10)
4. Streets Of Gardez (3:56)
5. The Time Is Upon Us (2:02)
6. Hunter-Killer (2:22)
7. Falling Away (2:48)
8. Taking The Field (2:28)
9. High Ground (2:28)
10. Thirty Seconds Out (1:57)
11. The Summit(2:47)
12. Paint Em Up (2:33)
13. Enemy Down (2:50)
14. All Rounds Expended (3:10)
15. Send In The Rangers (3:22)
16. Tariq’s Plea (4:09)
17. Wfo (2:38)
18. Final Extraction (3:43)
19. H-Hour (2:14)
20. Wiyar (2:08)
RUNNING TIME: 59:59
BONUS TRACKS
21. Aftermath (2:28)
22. Fire (1:56)
23. Go Loud (1:05)
24. Hindu Kush Remix (1:22)
25. Last Peel (2:17)
26. Mobilize The QRF (2:27)
27. Soar (2:05)
28. Time To Move (2:17)
29. Tower Siege (2:38)
RUNNING TIME: 18:35
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 78:34

DISC 8: BONUS DISC:
MEDAL OF HONOR RISING SUN – BONUS MUSIC
1. Chase (1:09)
2. Ambush (2:05)
3. Counter Attack (1:11)
4. Nearing The River (2:03)
5. The Speech/Get Ready (1:46)
6. Take Cover (1:37)
7. Taking The Field (1:37)
8. The Riverbed (1:17)
9. Storming The Bunker (1:13)
10. Hotel Battle (1:06)
11. They’re After Us (1:09)
12. Taiko Brigade (Alt) (1:12)
RUNNING TIME: 17:25
MEDAL OF HONOR EUROPEAN ASSAULT – BONUS MUSIC
13. Invasion Beaches (2:07)
14. Expel The Germans (2:12)
15. Territorial Gain (1:56)
16. Adabold Brectch (2:02)
17. Mutual Nemesis (2:11)
18. Into The Camps (4:05)
19. Secure Defend (2:10)
20. Flight Over Stalingrad (2:17)
21. The First Mission (1:15)
22. Captured Commandos (4:01)
23. Follow Holt (2:06)
24. Finish The Job (1:08)
25. Ambushed (0:29)
26. Clear A Path (2:10)
27. Continued Alarm (2:07)
28. Dogs Of War (New) (2:58)
29. Fall Back (0:28)
30. Fight With Honor (2:12)
31. Here They Come (0:31)
32. Holt’s Targets (1:15)
33. Hurtgen Forest (2:13)
RUNNING TIME: 41:53
MEDAL OF HONOR AIRBORNE – BONUS MUSIC
34. Call To Action Pt 1(0:39)
35. Call To Action Pt 2(0:38)
36. E3 Video (1:13)
37. Mission Complete V1 (0:21)
38. Mission Complete V2 (0:21)
39. Objectives (0:30)
40. The Drop – Intense (0:32)
41. The Drop – Safe (0:35)
42. Varsity Suspense (Long) (1:15)
43. Discovery 2 (0:18)
44. Final Objective (0:34)
45. Allies Win (0:32)
46. Axis Wins (0:35)
RUNNING TIME: 8:03
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 67:21

Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel limited edition details

Duke Nukem Forever will be released on May 3rd, 2011, and we’ve now got details of the Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel edition which comes out on the same day. If you go for the special edition, then you’ll get a copy of the game with exclusive Balls of Steel cover art, plus the following:

• Collectible bust of the greatest alien ass-kicker of all-time
• Numbered, limited-edition certificate of authenticity
• 100-page hardcover book: The History, Legacy & Legend: Duke Nukem Forever Art from the Vault
  Duke Nukem Forever postcard series
• Duke Nukem Forever radioactive emblem sticker
• Duke Nukem Forever collectable comic book
• Duke Nukem Forever foldable paper craft
• Duke Nukem Forever poker chips
• Duke Nukem Forever mini-card deck
• Duke Nukem Forever radioactive emblem dice

The standard version of Duke Nukem Forever is available to pre-order now from retailers including Amazon (PC,Xbox 360 and PS3), Game, Gamestop,and Play.com.

Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel edition is available to pre-order now from Gamestop with a listed price of $99.99 for Xbox 360 and PS3, and $89.99 for PC.