Ultimate Songbird Edition - Worth every penny or unnecessary price gouging?

The Ultimate Songbird Edition will come in a huge carton, which is at the factory are not welded. This includes:
1. The Game
2. DLCs:
- Equipment Pack:
- Bull Rush
- Extra! Extra!
- Betrayer
3. The Songbird
4. Key Chain
5. Handy-Man figure
6. artbook
7. Lithography
8. Soundtrack

1. Game
The game is compared to the carton after all welded and therefore newly reported as absolute. The standard version Loading obtained without any special features: DVD case with the known cover. If you look inside the envelope, but you realize that a turning Cover with a different motif is present.
The game comes on 3 discs. The so-called. Manual "includes 9 sites. These sites are at least 9 very well designed and printed in color. Laughter I had on one of the last pages A complete guide you can download on ....". Well, so here too the trend is clearly to the digital content. Whether you really need a guide to explore the game, was once an open question. Nevertheless, I think it is common practice that at least one printed full (!) Should be accompanied by instructions.

2. DLCs
The Equipment Pack offers three exclusive bonuses equipment with which you can start the game and start right away. These provide both very good, practical and useful "bonuses to keep opponents at bay
- Bull Rush - Melee attacks from the barrel have the chance niederzu- an opponent
stretch
- Extra! Extra! -. Audio recordings for more Silver Eagles "in-game money to buy
of equipment -> money you can not get enough of in order to
etc. to buy stronger shootas
- Betrayer - Killing a player controlled by the enemy leads to a fire explosion,
the damaged everything within. A really great DLC, the new types of war
guide allows ".
Xbox 360 players will also receive free Booker and Elizabeth outfits for her
Avatar. PS3 and PC owners for BioShock Infinite Themes.

3. Songbird
The highlight of this version is of course - as the name suggests, the edition - the Songbird who worked massively, is well painted and has high quality.
This is located in a separate package within the Ultimate Songbird Edition, which is designed in retro-look "and to match the demands of the game (elements of steampunk).
The Songbird perched "quasi triumphantly on a ruined marble" statue of George Washington probably (?), Which he rammed into his claws. The Songbird per se is not an animal, but a Steampunk bird that looks really awesome.
This part of the edition is in my opinion worth every penny and some of the skin critiques definitely go back out.

4. Key Chain
The killer crows Keychain comes in a small cardboard packaging in which it is well bedded. The design is really successful, looks good and makes her something. The material used is hard plastic. The short chain and the ring are of course made of metal, probably brass.
For me, at least she is in a special supplement in keychain collector versions always the question: Who uses such a thing? If you want to use something like this, especially when the pendants are beautifully designed, at best, high quality? If you want to expose them to the everyday stresses and dangers "and possibly even risking damage and / or loss or destruction? I contend there's always something even with me, so I have, for example, the Anno 1701 Plank Keychain never used, because he gave me was it just too bad. I think it will just go to the killer crows Keychain which rather than find a suitable place in the showcase on a key chain.

5. Handyman figurine
The titling Handyman character "is probably the biggest joke you are considering has expected you before opening the cartons -. Probably something bigger and better quality, so you will be to open the cardboard box in which - especially in view of its size the figure is preserved, bitterly disappointed.
Emerges a dark blue character who is about as big as my sake middle finger. We know figures of this magnitude, eg from a variety of games such as Warhammer, or the like. Perhaps there is in any sense something to do with the Handyman? I do not know, to date me is something unknown.
The figure is cast in plastic and qualitatively better described as modest. Details are just given the small size and the casting difficult not to recognize up to you.
For me, this figure is rather useless and is likely to be shipped back in a box.

6. artbook
The trend of minimizing (by which I mean the digitization, for example, minimization of the physical means Extras) unfortunately is also more and more often at the Artbooks continued. I want to remember only briefly so grandiose Artbooks such as those of Skyrim, Diablo 3, Starcraft II.
So given the large box I go cheerfully to the Unpacking the artbook ... and discover ... a artbook in DVD Case Size - great thing. Abruptly makes disillusionment, the content amounts to about 30 pages. What's really irritating that one for an Ultimate Edition löhnt much money "and not yet again receive a sound, proper and complete artbook, but only a portion of the actual art book, which can be again sold separately.
Since the good processing can no longer save unfortunately. Which brings me good processing when the content is rather modest? Nevertheless, this course should be mentioned:
The art book "is bound in hardcover. The book cover is leash-like (feels fabric similar to), the insides are printed on high-quality paper in high gloss. The good quality of the book cover and the pages may be because the publisher of art books, which in itself has made the publishing of comics a name.

7. Lithography
Well, from a lithograph, which is advertised as great, I said to myself honestly hoped for more than just reinforced paper / thin cardboard in postcard-sized high-gloss finish. The motif Light the Way "with the devil, holding a lamp, the way lights and is carried by a man, although E. looks nice, would m. But even in this state have been dispensed with. If the lithography larger, you could talk about it, so what to do. The postcard is so well back migrate into the box ...
Why this Teufelskuss is, has not yet opened up to me.

8. Soundtrack
The soundtrack is - unfortunately with the trend - only available as a download. An enclosed flyer contains the code and the download instructions. For me always arises with download codes to question how long they are valid, for example, if I lost my backup and / or my burned CD would be defective and the soundtrack want to re-download, this is then again possible? How many times is it possible? That I regard always something ambiguous. In a directly presented on Disc Soundtrack has nevertheless been at the factory a physical specimen and not worry must make about whether one approach is once again on the soundtrack. The additional cost of a CD would certainly have been manageable, considering also what I gelöhnt for Edition ...
The soundtrack itself is very well done and gives a super harmonious atmosphere that fits perfectly with the setting of Bioshock.

CONCLUSION:
In the end, as always, the question arises: Is the version worth the money? I am more divided. The Songbird as the most striking and eponymous feature of this edition is worth every penny to me, makes her a lot and is very well made.
The other content on the other hand act partly really cheap, careless and listless thought out and processed. As an example, only the really useless Handyman figure, the soundtrack, which is available only as a download, the lithography, "etc. refer the artbook. One might also mitanführen rightly, that you do not repeatedly receive proper instructions, but mainly pointing out that you can download this full well located.
I have now spent 129.95 + Rated 18 shipping for this version and reflective course, if it was worth it. In my view, the Songbird worth every penny, the balance in the face of this horrendous price rather not. Considering the many savings "(digital soundtrack, artbook Artbookauszug place proper etc.) a price of 90-100 would have been more appropriate.

The game deserves 5 stars, the contents of the Songbird Edition I can give a whole but only 3-4 star in good faith. This makes all in all 4 stars.