As you may be aware, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will hit shelves at 12.01 am tomorrow morning. There are but two courses of action you can take in response. Firstly, you can overarm throw your monitor at the window in terror and rage, prostrate yourself beneath your desk and attempt to wait it out with the help of a jumbo-sized bag of Malteasers.
Secondly, you can embrace the fact that the Xbox-360-owning internet will talk about literally nothing else for the next 72 hours, and make your way to your friendly neighbourhood Tesco to participate in a midnight launch event. I hear they also sell food and drinks at these places. Should be pretty safe, then.
Tesco has partnered with events supremo Game Beast for the occasion, which explains the specially converted monster truck gaming rigs lurking in the vicinity, each armed with a 43" plasma screen, thudding sound systems and gaming chairs. They've also enlisted a bunch of websites to write about it. We're not among them. No, we aren't. I just decided to write about this because I like Tesco and Black Ops 2 so much. HONEST.
Those who visit any of Tesco's other top one hundred stores won't get any monster truck action, but will be able to win special goodies bags. Don't like queuing? Fear not - Tesco has promised to keep things interesting for all those standing in line, offering spot prizes, T-shirts and a number of other giveaways.
Our Black Ops 2 review is imminent - anything in particular you want to know?
8 comments so far...
GHOSTY05 on 12 Nov '12 said:
Well tesco have still not posted my order!
So i now cannot decide whether to go and pick it up tonight, however does anyone know how much it will be instore?
I am guessing they will be charging £44.99?
Can anyone confirm this?
Bezza89 on 12 Nov '12 said:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news ... -duty.html
Make sure to give us your opinions on it, fingers crossed they've succeeded in doing something new for the series so the rest of the games industry will copy something worth copying for a change.
GHOSTY05 on 12 Nov '12 said:
Sod it im going down tonight, they are doing some really good deals instore.
Buy the game and 2100 MS points and you get the game for £25.
However i will be buying the game for ps3 and getting 2100 MS points as everyone i know has PS3's
spaced73 on 12 Nov '12 said:
support your local game retailer,OXM are giving tesco a lot of press lately.
Bezza89 on 12 Nov '12 said:
I went into Game today, it's rare that I do but I wanted a quick deal, I had a browse and saw a lot of preowned stock with the shelves of new stuff (not necessarily brand new, just not preowned) only being the chart. I'll support game when they support the gaming industry.
GHOSTY05 on 12 Nov '12 said:
Exactamundo!
Game want £44.99 for the game and almost £18.00 for 2100 points! Total - approx £63.00
Or i go to tesco tonight and get the same for approx £43.00.
In this day and age price is everything, your buying the exact same product so why should i pay more?
Its a buyers world! gone are the days of paying rip-off prices for anything.
GHOSTY05 on 12 Nov '12 said:
Well i think i just bagged the deal of the decade.
Just ordered the following from tesco direct.
1 x BLACK OPS 2 FOR PS3
1 X BLACK OPS 2 FOR XBOX 360
2 X 2100 MICROSOFT POINTS
Total price is £75.00!!
I will probably sell both games and in the end i have paid about £5 for 4200 points, easy way to get points.
hazy33 on 13 Nov '12 said:
When he said 'your local game retailer' he didn't mean Game he meant your local independent games shop.