Halo: Reach Editions Officially Announced

Like Halo 3 before it, Halo: Reach will launch this fall in three various editions.

Halo: Reach Standard Edition - $69.99
- Contains the game disc and the manual.

Halo: Reach Limited Edition - $89.99
- Collector's case of an ONI black box.
- Exclusive in-game Elite armour for Multiplayer
- An artifact bag containing Dr. Halsey's personal journal as well as other classified documents (I find this one amusing as Dr. Halsey was not the kind of person to keep a traditional pen and paper journal).

Halo: Reach Legendary Edition - $149.99
- All items from the Halo: Reach Limited Edition
- Noble Team statue created by McFarlane Toys.
- UNSC custom packaging.
- A flaming Spartan helmet in Multiplayer.

You can read Bungie's official announced here (which lists the US pricing), and Xbox Canada's official announcement here.

I'll be picking up the Halo: Reach Limited Edition. Like the Halo 3: Legendary Edition, $149.99, the cost of two retail games, is a lot to ask for any collector's edition, especially considering the Noble Team Statue is the only other item of real worth in that collection.

I personally think an additional $20.00 is a little steep for the Halo: Reach Limited Edition, however I realized that the standard edition will likely come in those new, flimsy, "environmentally sound" cases that everyone hates, so I guess you're also footing the bill for a quality case. That is assuming Microsoft Game Studios learned it's lesson from last time.