Uncharted 2 fans can pick up pricy art books

Do you love the Naughty Dog and Sony’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves to spend $65 on its art book? What about $129? Or maybe $300? Ballistic Publishing is releasing three separate editions of The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves in April, 2010, and those are the prices for each of them. Each book is 272 pages long and features art and designs Naughty Dog used when creating the PS3 game.

The $300 version of The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a limited folio edition with only 200 copies available. It’s bound in black suede leather, hand numbered, has a leather bound case, gold cover art and comes with a certificate of authenticity. As of 12:39pm CST on April 16, 2010, 112 copies were still available.

If you buy the $129 copy of The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, you get something a little less spectacular. It’s a brown suede leather-bound, hardcover special edition of the art book. It also isn’t a limited edition item with only a certain number of copies made.

I’m sure most people who are willing to spend money on this tome will be picking up the $65 version. It has the same 272 pages of content as the previous two versions, but is a soft cover book.

There’s also a special promotion available for The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves buyers. If you’re one of the first 300 people to order the $65 edition, you’ll get a 15 mnute concept art video walkthrough with art from Robh Ruppel and Andrew Kim. All $129 and $300 copies of the art book will include this video.

This is beyond ridiculous. For the price of the limited edition copy of The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, you could actually buy a PlayStation 3!

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