10 Pre-Order Bonuses That BROKE Their Video Games
5. Left 4 Dead 2 - an exclusive melee weapon
In the world of Left 4 Dead 2, and its ravenous undead, it would be reasonable to assume that a baseball bat would seem to be a pretty mundane item.
You would, however, be wrong.
Players who pre-ordered L4D2 were provided access to a unique melee weapon, the baseball bat, which was a new design with its own characteristics and not just a reskin of the existing cricket bat. Players could get their hands on the baseball bat in one of the starting saferooms, long before you would normally find a weapon of its nature. It was a surprisingly effective melee weapon, able to kill most low-level Infected in one or two hits.
Even better was the fact that if ANYONE on your team had this bat, all players would have access to it from the get-go, giving everyone in your group a boost and totally changing the nature and difficulty of the early game.
Ideally, you had a friend with extra cash who was willing to pre-order while you still get to reap the benefits of his or her largesse.