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Pre-order Grand Theft Auto:Chinatown from GameStop get in-game cash 'upgrade' photo

GameStop, best known for its tireless pimping of pre-orders and used game sales, has revealed an "exclusive" Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown "upgrade" for those willing to plop five dollars down towards a reservation. 

Brace yourselves -- pre-order customers will receive $10,000 in cash from the game's start. Really? This is they best they could do? Not even an oversized t-shirt or an ugly keychain? Come on guys, you can do better than that!

It's unclear on how you'll get that $10,000 in cold, hard, and fake cash from the start of the Nintendo DS game. It's likely it'll be in the form of a code which will leak to the Internet two weeks before the game launches. I bet GameStop's rethinking that whole "oversized shirt" pre-order deal they were considering ...

 








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garison's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/17/2008 10:37
garison
O cool.
Genius's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/17/2008 11:30
Genius
No thanks.
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/17/2008 12:35
atastysammich
Bogus. I made my first $20K in Vice City Stories the old-fashioned way: snapping necks and fleeing the scene on my bicycle. And that's just how I'll do it in Chinatown Wars (if they'll even let me do either of those).
cryocide's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/17/2008 12:42
cryocide
This trend toward retailer-specific preorder bonus content is bull.
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/17/2008 13:12
BluDesign
Who wants to bet on how soon there'll be an action replay cheat after launch that bypasses this cheat?
Johnny Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/17/2008 15:10
Johnny Justice
One of the cool things about GTA is starting off broke and working your way up.
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