Black Ops 2 PC and Lego Lord of the Rings 360 disc mix-ups

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Demo discs and Mass Effect 2 greet some buyers

If you bought Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for PC or Lego Lord of the Rings for Xbox 360, you might want to check your discs real quick. Users have reported some truly bizarre mix-ups for both games which left them with either demo versions or the wrong game entirely.

In a more surreal switcheroo, GameSpot has compiled user complaints that some retail packages for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for PC have all the discs properly labeled--but the second one is actually for Mass Effect 2. Yes, some copies of Activision's next big shooter apparently contain install discs for Electronic Arts' 2010 space opera (a bit more sci-fi than we'd bargained for), leaving users unable to install either.

Those who prefer zombies over husks can still punch the activation code into Steam and download Black Ops 2, which should give them plenty of time to marvel at how this could possibly happen (and how many heads will roll at the distribution center as a result of Activision and EA's reckoning).

Update: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has confirmed that it will be recalling a small number of Lego The Lord of the Rings games that were released on the Xbox 360 to Walmart, Target and Toys 'R' Us in the US with a disc labeling error. These discs include the full game but were incorrectly labeled as demo discs.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan
Former GamesRadar+ News Writer

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar+.