In the std edition you get...

1 - a disc
2 - a piece of paper with the serial number on it.

That's it.

It doesn't have anything at all over the digital version unless you like collecting games boxes.

What is the difference in price between the Collector's Ed and the standard?

I've not joined in the general hullabaloo about the various merits and demerits of CoD, because despite everything, I've waited ten years for it to arrive and it HAS to succeed, it's not as if there are loads of other WW II sims waiting in the background.


So with that said I have to confess that I am very disappointed with the Collectors Edition, not angry sad, just disappointed sad.

When it arrived it looked a pretty impressive box, I opened it up, it was nicely presented, the game, a ring bound manual, pilots notes and a cellophane wrapped map. On closer inspection however.

The worst offender, and the one thing that says everything I need to know, the map is utterly atrocious. I joked elsewhere that I was getting the version with the tea towel, well I was joking, Ubi wasn't. It's material would put a Hessian sandbag to shame, talk about rough. It isn't really edged so will (is) fraying. The printing though really takes the biscuit, bearing in mind it's very rough cloth, a tea towel would look distinctly regal in comparison, it's indistinct, blurred, names are badly positioned, it's even missing parts of names because the printing is so awful. To sum up, a complete waste of time, Ubi really just shouldn't have even bothered. A shiny paper map, with good printing and useful information would have been so much better, at least I might have been able to use it for some purpose other than wiping my bottom (don't you just love the rough stuff, takes me back to when I was errrrr, that enough Edit)

I can't comment on the ring bound manual, with the exception of a quick flick I haven't had a good look yet, but the Spitfire pilots notes, good grief. Again another example of poor shoddy lack of attention to detail production. I'll give them that it looks good at first glance BUT the profile on the front is not a Spit Mk 1 or 2 or even Vb, one of the pages has been printed twice, various spelling mistakes (granted they may have been in the original doc) and that's just to start. It just has all the signs of a really CHEAP job, I mean why oh why didn't they just have somebody from the flight sim/Il2 community proof read it, was it really that difficult ?????

So to sum up: The map is cheap and nasty (it gives cheap and nasty a bad name)

Poor quality control, proof reading and technical understanding of the subject material.

As might have been described at the time as a "Rather poor show, old boy"

Think Johnny Cash's 'Burning ring of fire'...

Personally I thought it was all great and well worth the extra £15/20 over other editions.

I ordered my CE from Amazon.de initially for 69€, later the price dropped to 66€, and last week I got a refund of 8.50€ because apparently the price got changed again, so in the end paid ~57.50€ for the CE. For that price I'm quite content with what I got.

Really? For a "map" that's not very legible and fraying right from the start? Is the manual just that good that it makes up for the other short comings? I was thinking of buying this version, if it ever appears on our shores but after reading this thread I'm doubting I will.

Just to mention, the box features a later war camouflage scheme of grey and green with later war roundels, not BoB at all so for thats sloppy to start with !

It left me dubious over the contents from just seeing that ! Claims of a Spitfire Mk1 pilots notes when there are none existing also made me wary. Also why a cloth map at all, cloth maps were escape maps, a later war thing (goes with the box cover though !), BoB pilots used paper maps that folded away into a brown card outer cover.