Veritas7Ax Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 (edited) At first I thought this was an early April Fool's joke or something, but apparently it isn't. The hype for one of the year's hottest video games, Mass Effect 3 (out March 6, on PS3, Xbox 360 and PCs, ages 17-up) is reaching new stratospheric heights. In case you don't know, a playable demo has already hit Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. But next week, a select intrepid few will have the opportunity to play the full game before it hits stores. Publisher Electronic Arts will be launching copies of the game into space using weather balloons that will be released in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Berlin, London and Paris. Each game has a GPS tracking device onboard and fans can track their return to the Earth on masseffect.com to find a copy and play it a week or more before the game hits stores. (Might not be a bad idea to follow @MassEffect, either.) In other Mass Effect news, a new trailer for the game will be shown during AMC's TV series The Walking Dead Sunday at 9 p.m./ 8 p.m. CT. 'Mass Effect 3' becomes true space oddity So there you have it. The game will be falling on top of your house if you're lucky, or in a landfill near your town if you're not lucky. If you're really unlucky (through no fault of your own), there may be a few states, countries, or even oceans between you and these games turned meteorites. It's one of the weirdest, but most awesome promotions I've seen. Sadly, I bet most of them will be 360 copies. Edited February 17, 2012 by Veritas7Ax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornagandarub Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 This is actually pretty cool, but then considering you can track the games and where they land, there could be some huge fucking fights at the landing zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrfalcon09 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 (edited) Wow. Just wow. That's some stunt, if it's true. I can only imagine the number of people that will be swarming to coordinates looking for their copy. Picture this: x 10^5 Edited February 17, 2012 by Gyrfalcon09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritas7Ax Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 (edited) One of the San Francisco copies has landed... in a tree. People are trying to get it down with all manner of tools. Saw this coming. Mass Effect 2 - Facebook Also, here are the launch/landing dates for the other copies for the other major cities. Again, unfortunately, not many are included. http://masseffect.com/space/ Edited February 24, 2012 by Veritas7Ax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrfalcon09 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Looks like the one launched in Vegas this morning is going to land in someone's back yard in Kingman That's quite a spread, 3 US cities, London and Berline Well, at least they included a couple in Europe, is more than I was expecting anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olsen77 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 At least it didn't end up in a 150 foot tall tree today. There was a risk of it landing in the Grand Canyon though. That would have been interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dz06lt Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 (edited) i live in cental PA so there is a very slim chance that some of todays launch "may" come this way if the wind is right Edited February 26, 2012 by dz06lt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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