Modern Warfare 2’s Prestige Edition Unboxed, Played With

This morning a seemingly inconspicuous package arrived at our doorstep. I had my silent hopes that within lay the ability to see in the dark and also play a fun video game. It turns out I was right.

Here it is, untouched in its natural beauty:


The actual game hides out in the back of the box, looking through a plastic window:


This bad boy is securely restrained by tons of those little annoying, impossible-to-cut twist-ties:


A plastic, hollow replica of Soap's head. Ya know, for putting the goggles on:


Here he is with the new toy strapped snugly to his face:


And of course, no un-boxing is complete without our very own Jeff Cork, proudly displaying the NVGs. The Solid Snake facial hair is a nice touch:


The goggles themselves require 5 AA batteries, so make sure you have some extra handy. It would be a shame to throw all the batteries from your controllers into these only to drain them and thus be rendered unable to play Modern Warfare 2. You're gonna wanna play that game, as it turns out it's pretty good.

I turned the lights out in the bathroom and wandered around like Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs for awhile. These things really work. It's a surprisingly fun novelty turning them on and off to remind yourself you are actually navigating pitch blackness. I'm not sure what the draw distance would be on something like these, so likely I'll need to run through the night like a crazy person to know for sure. I'm not pretending to be any NVG-guru, but these are definitely fun and functional.

In the meantime, I really need to play some more Modern Warfare 2. Any of you making time to tinker with these things in between MW2 marathons?