Funcom has announced an "Anarchy Online: Lost Eden" pre-order special where players will receive a virtual battle-mech. Orders must be placed before December 12th to get the virtual mech.

"In an offer not to be missed by any ‘Anarchy Online’ player, Funcom gives everyone who pre-orders an opportunity to control the ultimate mechanized death-dealing machines.* Designed and engineered exclusively for those who pre-order, players on the Rubi-Ka battlefields can now wage player-versus-player war with devastating new powers!

“Just like fine wine, some games mature, grow and improve through the years, and ‘Anarchy Online’ has proven itself to be exactly like that. It is now one of the deepest and most engaging MMOs available, and with ‘Lost Eden’ we’re expanding the experience for veteran players at the same time as we’re including all the previous expansions in the offer for new players. We’re confident ‘Anarchy Online’ will continue to excite people”, said Trond Arne Aas, CEO of Funcom.

The new expansion pack brings an awesome new range of features to ‘Anarchy Online’, created with love, attention to quality and with player feedback and wellbeing in mind. The expansion delivers content to all level ranges in the game, offering countless more hours of action to the citizens of Rubi-Ka. When purchasing ‘Anarchy Online – Lost Eden’ you will also automatically receive the two previous expansion packs, ‘Shadowlands’ and ‘Alien Invasion’, as well as the booster pack ‘Notum Wars’. This gives you the opportunity to explore years of great content!"

To pre-order, head over to the official site. Several new screenshots have been released along with this announcement. Here are five of them, you can find the rest in the game's gallery.