10 Pre-Order Bonuses That BROKE Their Video Games
3. Gran Turismo 5 - supercars unlocked from the start of the game
Racing games seem to be repeat offenders for offering pre-orders that break the game right up front.
Gran Turismo 5 offered several pre-order supercars that weren't available in-game. Depending on what retailer you ordered from, you could get access to an Audi R10, a Honda NSX, a Mazda 787B, a Mercedes SLS AMG, a Nissan GT-R GT500, and a McLaren F1. All of these cars were given unique 'Stealth' paint designed by an actual automotive design team and had special tuning and features not available on the same vanilla in-game cars.
If you took things a step further and ordered the Signature Edition of the game, you received all of the Stealth cars. If you took a step beyond THAT, and bought the Collector's Edition, you netted a garage full of even more supercars that had chrome highlight paint jobs - a Jaguar XJ13, a classic Shelby Cobra 427, a Lamborghini Murcielago, and so on.
A pre-order meant that players not only had some of the best cars in the game from the start, it also saved them hundreds of thousands of in-game credits that wouldn't have to be spent on these dream machines.