Halo 3 Release Date

On May 15, 2007 the news was out for Halo 3 – the Halo 3 release date would be September 25 in North America and the 26th in Europe. Halo 3 marked the third in a wildly popular series for the Xbox 360 called the Halo series. According to the vice president of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business Halo 3’s release was more than just a video game release it was the biggest entertainment event of the year. He may have been right.

The history of Halo 3 and the Halo 3 release date really starts with the release of the first game in the series Halo: Combat Evolved. In November of 2001 when Halo was first released game consoles were somewhat of a joke for first-person shooter games. Sure some existed, but they didn’t have the popular communities the PC games in the genre had. That all changed with Halo – in which players could battle aliens on foot and in vehicles, completing objectives, while trying to uncover the secret of the Halo. Halo pioneered limiting the number of weapons of player could carry to 2, which meant forcing strategic decisions.

People who waited for the Halo 3 release date awaited the continuation of a first-person shooter combat format that had been prevalent in all the versions of Halo. Microsoft calls it the Golden triangle of Halo– which consists of gun type weapons, grenades, and melee. In reality this was nothing new to first-person shooter games as it had existed since the very first, Doom, and even the precursor to that game, Wolfenstein.

So with all of that history behind it, people were very excited over the Halo 3 release date. How popular and anticipated was the game? Before its release 3.1 million copies were in stores, and retailers still thought that wasn’t enough. The game grossed $300 million in the United States in only its first week. . Overall it has sold over 8.1 million copies worldwide, and was the best-selling videogame in the United States in 2007. Even the critics loved it, ranking it the seventh highest in the all-time list of Xbox 360 games.

The Halo 3 release date, like the release date of many wildly popular video games, was almost a holiday like Christmas, or Thanksgiving. It leaves us with the question – what might happen with video game releases in the future?

Frag Carefully,
Michael

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