Nope, go pre-order BF3 lol, JK in the long run I don't believe it will be worth it considering it doesn't really make a difference or improvement on your gameplay.
But Hardened with give you free elite which will give you access to 30 maps. So yes get hardened or buy the reg and pay for elite. and bf3 sucks all you do is snipe and do good.
i would buy it but gamestop is soldout of the harden so im thinking of buying the $400.00 mw3 plus the mw3 system and controllers n the 320gb hard drive and i get mw3 game