There will not be a Special Edition for Rockstar and Team Bondi's upcoming sleuth game, L.A. Noire.
For reasons no one can really understand, the game will only be released in a standard edition, with pre-orders from GameStop receiving a special content bundle that will be made available as a purchasable DLC after the game's release.
Speaking on Twitter, Rockstar had the following message to share:
There won't be any special edition release of L.A. Noire, just the preorder bonus content with certain retailers as announced here: http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/14011/presenting-preorder-exclusive-unlockable-bonus-content-when-you-.html Also as mentioned, all that content will be made available as DLC after the game comes out.
The announcement will surely come as a disappointment to fans of Rockstar's games.