So Infinity Ward has announced that the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition comes with the game, a bunch of junk, and a pair of night vision goggles. Stateside, the RRP is already set at a pretty formidable US$149, and with import duties slapped on top of that, the local price is going to be nothing short of cataclysmic. <\/p>\n
Of course, we’re talking about night vision goggles here, so the more sensible-minded of you have already stopped reading and started preordering, but if you’re needing some indubitably authoritative justification for blowing your future kids’ university fund on a video game collectible, here it is.<\/p>\n
5. Accessorising, baby<\/strong><\/p>\n Anyone who knows anything about haute couture wouldn’t dream of spending anything less than the down payment on an impoverished third world nation when it comes to a shiny new pair of sunnies. And these aren’t your regular outrageously overpriced designer shades either – you can wear these dogs at night while you’re cruising for terrorists hot babes on your roof the French Riviera. <\/p>\n That’s double your money’s worth right there, and if you’re particularly eloquent, you might just be able to convince people you’re one of those Twilight vampires that are all the rage these days. You’ll be bleeding to death on the very cutting edge of fashion. Bleeding is kinda fashionable too. <\/p>\n 4. They’re super practical<\/strong><\/p>\n So here’s the hypothetical scenario. You’re sitting at your PC or Xbox or whatever, on the business end of a two-day megamarathon of XP farming with a G36 in Headquarters. The last of your Skittles rolls off your leg, and into that dank crawlspace between your gaming stuff and the wall.<\/p>\n That place covered in cobwebs and Niknaks dust and ancient brooding malevolence where the voices come from late at night. Well, angels may fear to tread this realm, but not you and your Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition night vision goggles. That errant Skittle won’t be howling in the spaces between worlds for long. And not just because everybody else is dressed as a grotty pirate either. Walking into any party with a pair of night vision goggles strapped to your face is going to immediately command the awe, lust, and envy of every single person there. Nothing says sexy and sophisticated like spec ops gear, even if it’s got Niknaks dust on the thermal photocathode calibrator. Everything looks better through green and black scanlines, including the rest of your life.<\/p>\n 1. You can pretend you’re Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs She can’t find that wretched girl in the basement, oh no. There’s nothing like vicarious experience, and when that’s a transsexual sociopath with a somewhat egregious flair for amateur lepidoptery and sewing, so much the better.<\/p>\n And they said video games were a waste of time.<\/p>\n
3. You will autowin any fancy dress contest<\/strong><\/p>\n
2. Everything looks like an Oddworld game on a monochrome monitor<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Let’s admit it – all the preceding reasons are just so much prevaricating fluff. The only reason anyone really wants – or needs – a set of night vision goggles is to snoop around in your home mouthbreathing and stalking an unsuspecting (and mostly entirely invisible) Agent Starling.<\/p>\n