First print — 206 part code

The part number on the back of the case ends 206. That is the tell, and on this title it is the whole ordering: 206, then 207, 208 and 209 on the prints that followed.

Check two things, in this order.

1. The System Link line on the back. Copies with the 206 code are reported to carry a printing error giving the System Link player count as "2-24". The game supports 18 players, which is what makes 24 wrong, and the later prints are reported to read correctly. If that line really is on the box, it is a far better tell than the part code: it is large, it is in the feature text, and you can read it across a shop counter, where a part number needs the case in your hand and good light.

This is recorded as reported rather than confirmed. The wording has not been read off a copy here, and nobody has established whether every 206 copy carries it.

2. The paper correction notice. Several complete copies with this code are described as including a factory-issued notice from Activision explaining the printing error. An insert is weak evidence on its own — inserts get lost and get added — but a 206 box with its notice is a stronger package than either alone.

Supporting: UPC 047875837492, standard green Xbox 360 keep case.

The print order comes from the part code sequence reported by the owner of the copies, and the graded market agrees that 206 is the first print — PSA and WATA listings label it "1st Print" outright.

Rarity is Unknown deliberately. No population survey exists for this title, and it was printed in enormous numbers, so the honest answer is that nobody has counted the prints separately. Listings calling 206 "rare" are sellers describing their own lots.

Still wanted: a photograph of the back showing both the part number and the System Link line, and a photograph of the correction notice. Either would move this from reported to confirmed.

Source: Part codes reported by a collector holding the copies, cross-checked against graded auction listings — Brandon Green (his own copies, October 2026).