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Well, lovely, except that a traipse around Manchester on sunday afternoon revealed precisely zero shops selling it, and Amazon, Play, Gameplay et al all had leadtimes of several weeks on getting hold of it. Fortunately, a friend up in Bradford has found a copy and is sending it to me, but it does seem utterly stupid that a game that can only be played online can, in fact, only be played if you buy a copy of it in a shop.

(compare and contrast with Half Life 2, which is a single-player game that can only be played if you’ve got an internet connection; the genius of games developers never ceases to amaze me)

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