Overview of the American Collectible Edition (Video + Images)!
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My new black wings

Many have seen the lot AION Collectors Edition in domestic online stores like http://plati.ru priced at around $70. It contains many bonuses, but unfortunately, only digital ones. Abroad, for the same price, you can purchase a full boxed collector's edition that, in addition to digital bonuses, contains a lot of interesting items!

What’s inside? First - in text:

  • Figurine of Aiva, the winged Daev. Height of 6.5 inches.

  • Exclusive in-game items:

  • Black Cloud Wings (black wings, 40 extra seconds of flight)

  • Black Cloud Earring (Earring, provides a bonus to Hitpoints and Manapoints)

  • Exclusive title - "Pioneer of Aion" - Critical Hit +3 / Attack +1 / Parry +8

  • The ability to paint one of the in-game items

  • Two exclusive emotions (see the video at the bottom of the post!)

  • Official soundtrack on CD

  • Two double-sided, color posters (A2 format)

  • Color quick-start guide

  • Game on two DVDs

  • Manual

  • 30 days of gameplay

  • Code for exclusive wings in Guild Wars

For those with internet access, I recommend watching the Unboxing of the North American Collector's Edition (of course, in HQ quality on YouTube!):

For those without internet access, I made an exclusive cut of the most interesting clips from the video with my comments! To avoid loading the post - under the spoiler!

The box is large...

...But quite thin.

It opens from the top. Here’s how the contents are packed:

A regular DVD box at first glance. On the back side - a list of tracks from the music disc.

Inside - three discs on one mount!

Two with the game....

And one with the soundtrack.

The manual (in the American edition black and white, in the European edition - color). With pictures!

The quick-start guide - for those too lazy to think about which mouse button to click. It contains the activation code for the wings for Guild Wars and an ad for City of Heroes.

The figurine is assemble-able, and wings and the axe are separate. Beautiful!

But that’s not all! The black paper with the cut-out Aion logo comes off...

...and underneath lie two double-sided posters:

The differences between the American and European collector's editions are minimal: in the European edition, the art on the posters is grouped differently (one poster has two maps, the other has two arts), the soundtrack disc lies in a separate cardboard sleeve, and the manual is in color. In the video and screenshots, I remind you, the American edition is shown.

Now about what wasn’t shown in the video. Or was shown, but deserves a better view. I’m talking about the figurine, which you can’t appreciate in YouTube quality. Here’s how it looks:

The black wings:

The earring:

Exclusive item coloring:

For those who forgot what these items provide - read above in the content listing!

1\. The Tower of Eternity - 永遠の塔 4:02

2. The Wings of Knight - 戦士の翼 (Origa Ver.) 2:54

3. A Fairy of The Peace - 精霊らの歌 4:30

4. Kingdom of Light - 天上の宮殿 4:30

5. Song of Moonlight - 月光の歌 3:24

6. Solid State Battle - 激戦 3:06

7. Death Waltz - 死のワルツ 2:44

8. Magma & Beast - 燃える大地 3:14

9. Blue Forest - 森の明け方 3:13

10. Forgotten Sorrow - 見えない悲しみ (Eng.Ver.) 4:02

11. Step to The Next World - 新世界での跳躍 3:20

12. Darkness in Your Heart - 光る闇 3:28

13. Voices from The Ruins - 荒野の声 4:35

14. Attack The Unsion - 連合軍の反撃 2:17

15. Arabesque - アラベスク 2:12

16. Dream of The Shepherd - 羊飼いの夢 2:59

17. Red Land - 赤い大地 3:40

18. Dark's Innocence - 闇と純粋 3:30

19. Raging Strings - 猛烈な涙 3:23

20. Flying Dragon - 竜の非常 3:20

21. Heaven's Gate - 異界の戦場 3:21

22. Forgotten Sorrow - 見えない悲しみ (Kor.Ver) 4:03

And here are the videos of the exclusive emotions:

Hip-Hop Mania:

And Seductive Disco

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What can be said? The collector’s editions from NCSoft have always been pleasant and beautiful. However, the only one released in Russia - Lineage 2 - costs a nightmare 3899 rubles with roughly the same content as this. It’s reached absurdity - in the central 1C store in Moscow, there are about ten of these collector’s editions! And judging by the situation, they will likely remain there for a long time...

So I wish Innova not only to release this collector’s edition in Russia (if you remember, in an interview they said that there will be a collector's edition for the Russian version, but did not specify which one), but also to lower the price to at least two thousand. Then a detailed review from me will surely appear on these pages!

AQuaRity, specially for GAMER.ru!