Starcraft 2 Collector’s Edition Small Consolation For Your Lost Life

Fans of Starcraft – many of whom poured hundreds of hours into battling South Korean teenagers in the real-time strategy game – might look at this collector’s edition of Starcraft 2 with a mixture of excitement and trepidation.

After all, though the $100 set includes some pretty nifty stuff, it might also mean that, for some, it’s time to once more kiss daylight goodbye.

But assuming that you have either grown as a person since the first game – or that you’re a true fan and are willing to sink more of your life into Blizzard’s admittedly brilliant stuff, let’s take a look at what comes in the collector’s edition of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty:

• The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a 176-page book featuring artwork from the game
• An exclusive 2GB USB flash drive replica of Jim Raynor’s dog tag, which comes preloaded with the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War^® expansion set
• A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, cinematics with director’s commentary, and more
• The official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty soundtrack CD, containing 14 epic tracks from the game along with exclusive bonus tracks
• StarCraft comic book issue #0, a prequel to the comic series
• A World of Warcraft^® mini Thor in-game pet that can be applied to all World of Warcraft characters on a single Battle.net account
• Exclusive Battle.net downloadable content, including special portraits for your Battle.net profile, decals to customize your units in-game, and a visually unique version of the terran Thor unit

Alas, no word on a release date yet, but Blizzard’s press release states that it will be announced in the coming weeks.