Ultimate Metal Gear Solid HD Collection Offers Entire Series

A special edition of the upcoming Metal Gear Solid HD Collection will go on sale in limited numbers, offering PS3 owners the entire Tactical Espionage Action series in a fetching steelbook case.

The catch? Only 4,000 copies of this Metal Gear Solid: Ultimate HD Collection are being made available worldwide - and the only way to get it is via online retailer Zavvi for the princely sum of £69.85.

For that price, you get the vanilla Metal Gear Solid HD Collection - high-definition versions of Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - as well as Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and a DLC code for the first Metal Gear Solid game on PSN. Oh, and you also get five art cards.

Since posting the item on its website, Zavvi appears to be having something of a server hiccup. Whether it's just crushing demand for the box set or the retailer scrambling to undo something it shouldn't have said, we're hoping it will be back soon. Because everyone at SPOnG wants to pre-order it, already.