This march promises to be quite event­ful. I’ve just pre-ordered Bat­tle­field: Bad Com­pany II and God of War III from Amazon.co.uk. Best of all, Ama­zon is kind enough to pro­vide an in-game early AK-47 weapon unlock code for BC2. Accord­ing to a pre­view over at Ars Tech­nica you can beat the single-player game of BC2 in about eight hours or so. That’s O.K. because mul­ti­player ist the meat of the game. Appar­ently, you’ll also get a day-one map pack in the form of a one-time-use code included with the game. Just enter the code and you get two addi­tional maps. If you buy the game used, you’ll have to unlock the con­tent for US$ 15. Here’s a pre­view of things to come:

God of War III on the other hand is all about the single-player expe­ri­ence. Ama­zon bun­dles the game with a code to unlock a For­got­ten War­rior char­ac­ter skin, if you pre-order with them. GoW III ups the ante in terms of size by offer­ing areas up to fours times larger than those found in its pre­de­ces­sor. The pro­gram­mers and design­ers have included new instru­ments of death and ruth­less tech­niques for Kratos to learn. The third install­ment will con­clude the tril­ogy but there already are plans to cre­ate more games with Kratos. Here’s a trailer for your view­ing pleasure: