All of Halo's Preorder Bonuses: Are They Worth It?

In this video, we take a look at everything included in the pre order releases of Halo titles, and judge whether or not the preemptive purchase is worth a gamble on the quality of the resultant experience.

Enjoy.

[OnyxLeviathan]

A few have pointed out how this video mostly goes over limited versions of the games on release, which is true. However, since a lot of these limited editions were in such low number as to be bought out by release night, I've decided to keep them described as preorder bonuses. As such, I will leave them as described.

[MrDaDukee]

I had been working all summer to earn up to a 360, with halo 3 as my ultimate goal.
Then the day came and I called ahead to the GAME store, asking if they had everything in and asked my mom to give me a ride.
But it had been a mistake in their store lists and they didn't have any standard editions in of halo. Clerk took pity on me and went "well we do have a legendary edition we just aren't getting sold... how about we write it off as a standard ed?"
So I got legendary edition for half price roughly, still have in proudly in my shelf.

[Grayday]

Your dad let you skip school to play the game?! Lucky…

[Nacalal]

Man I remember walking home from class one day to see my parents had bought me the collectors edition for halo 2, that was the highlight of the year.
I had never seen a game come in a metal case before, stick sticks with me how cool it was at the time.
I also remember having the legendary edition for reach, it was the coolest thing opening it and finding all those bits of lore and stuff.

[deth_boi]

I have the Halo 2 limited collectors edition. Got it for around 7 bucks lol. It’s in good shape. This thing isn’t expensive in general, so if you want a collectors edition, this is a good one for its price.

[Tinkuwu]

When I was a teenager, my parents were really stingy about me playing mature rated games. They thought video game violence lead to real violence. I would still play Halo CE, 2, and 3 at my friend's house though and I remember the day he called me and told me I should come over as soon as I could, which he revealed that he had gotten Halo 3 the first day it was out. Fun times.

[christopherdean]

You’re forgetting that there was also a preorder for ODST where it came with an ODST controller 🤙🏻

[Anxess]

When I was 12 I wanted the recon helmet pre-order bonus but didn't actually pre order it, and asked the game stop employee if I could get it (almost 8 months after release) we went to the back and took a recon code AND a flaming helmet code from a legendary edition and gave it to me for free, that guy made my childhood amazing and I never took off those flames and that recon helmet, to this day I still have them on

[Connor]

Reach's Halsey journal was incredible and Halo Wars Genesis included with the collectors edition was also great. Halseys journal though isn't even like just good, it's necessary.

[mr_wnderful]

The only thing I regret is not being old enough to have understood the value of pre-ordering the limited/legendary editions for Halo back then. Then again I was only a few years old when Halo: CE and Halo 2 came out. I didn’t actually start pre-ordering until Halo Reach.

[whataboutvietnam]

I’m still waiting on my halo 4 preorder skins. I’m sure GameStop will get them to me any day now… any day…

[MetalVII]

I’m getting Infinite bundled in with my Series X when the pre orders ship, I’m still looking out for a legendary edition of the game though.

[kawaiihaki]

the only one i had was reach's pre order, that was AWESOME, i still love looking at that thing, the journal it came with is such a good read if you're into the lore. wow i never saw halo 4s i want that really bad i loved halo regardless of the changes

[ace]

I remember getting the halo reach legendary edition and picking up the crate it all came, it’s probably one of my favorite high school gaming memories, I love the halo franchise and am so excited it’s coming back 🥲

[-Cheif]

I remember in middle school there was a halo encyclopedia book in the library, everyone always fought over trying to take it out cause it was never so difficult to find it available lol

[coreymckee]

Halo reaches collectors edition is handsdown the best and coolest one there. Its the only one I have. I literally got it for 10$ from a local pawnshop near me who just wanted to get rid of it. (Unfortunately minus the statue of Noble team..) Not knowing just how special and cool it was, I got it. And now its the coolest halo merch I have. Nothing beats a replica of Halseys journal. Plus all those files etc are just the cherry on top.👌👌

I also got my hands on the steelbook for Infinite at my local Bestbuy in Canada.🤩

[ReveredDead]

We got to keep midnight releases alive guys. Seriously nothing is more fun than bullshiting around with people anxiously waiting for the doors to open at midnight and get the new game. I went to Halo 3 and Reach midnight releases and there was something about being up late, no school that day and getting home at 1 am to slap the new disk into your Xbox 360 and play the campaign then multiplayer till sun came up and all day. It was glorious.

[Clone]

Reach also had another pre-order bonus that not many know about. There was a chest plate (albeit an unremarkable one) that was a GameStop pre-order exclusive (UA Multi-Threat Mjolnir Mark V (B) Armor).

[Lordviridian]

Man I never realized I had the limited collectors edition of halo 2

[LateNightHalo]

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