Halo 3 - Xbox 360 (original) (raw)

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Master Chief's fight may be finished, but yours has just begun. Read Review

The epic saga continues with Halo 3, the hugely anticipated third chapter in the highly successful and critically acclaimed Halo franchise. Master Chief returns to finish the fight, bringing the epic conflict between the Covenant, the Flood, and the entire human race to a dramatic, pulse-pounding climax.

Taking full advantage of the power of Xbox 360, Halo 3 expands on everything that has made the Halo franchise great, adding a wealth of graphical, technical and gameplay advancements, as well as offering a whole new level of online gameplay.

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Latest Articles for Halo 3

Peter Jackson Confirms His Halo Projects are Cancelled

X360 News | Jul 24, 2009

In an interview with Joystiq Peter Jackson confirms that his Halo project is, "no longer happening." Jackson claims that in the process of moving the Halo property to 343 Industries, and due to his severed ties with the now-defunct "Halo" movie, his interactive project fell through the cracks.

"It sort of collapsed when the movie didn't end up happening," Peter explains. He also states that the "Halo" movie wasn't canceled because of its demanding budget, but because of internal politics between Fox and Universal. Read More »

Next Time on the Master Chief Show...

X360 News | May 13, 2009

Today Bungie released new details on its upcoming Render-to-Video service. Bungie will be running an open Beta for it, but only for players who are paid Bungie Pro subscribers as of yesterday. Early Pro members who have let their subscriptions go can be part of it, though, if they choose to re-up their service.

So what exactly does Render-to-Video do? It takes those fancy Halo 3 videos you make in the game and converts them into video files that will play on any computer, without having to use Halo 3 as a render factory. Read More »

10 Billion Halo 3 Kills Achieved

X360 News | Apr 14, 2009

Since Halo 3 launched on the Xbox 360 (which was 565 days ago) there have apparently been 10 billion Covenant kills in the game's campaign mode. Yes, 10 billion. A post on Bungie.net by urk tells us that this amazing milestone was reached and breached over the past weekend.

A comedy list of factoids pertaining to that gargantuan figure reads as follows: Read More »

Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Goes Live

X360 News | Apr 9, 2009

At 3:05 a.m. PST Xbox Live's Major Nelson was apparently still awake, as a post to his XBL gaming blog indicated that Bungie's Mythic map pack for Halo 3 was at last available. Costing Halo 3 addicts 800 Microsoft Points (yes, that 10 bucks) the pack is possibly the last piece of DLC we'll see for Halo 3.

"'The long-awaited Mythic Map Pack drops into Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Investigate Orbital's abandoned hallways - before it was evacuated, the Quito Space Tether was heralded as the "Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium.'" Read More »

Halo 3 Ends with ODST

X360 News | Mar 27, 2009

Earlier this week news circulated the Internet which suggested that Halo 3 developer Bungie would continue to support the game with new content for a few more years. Today, Eurogamer challenges this rumor and claims to have gotten word from Bungie that in fact there are "no plans" to continue work on content for the game after Halo 3: ODST has wrapped. Read More »

Editions

Also known as: Halo III

Halo 3 (X360)

Release Region: United States
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Publisher: Microsoft

ESRB M for Mature Blood and Gore, Mild Language, Violence

Halo 3 (X360)

Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Publisher: Microsoft

Halo 3 (X360)

Release Region: Japan
Release Date: Unreleased
Publisher: Microsoft

Halo 3 (X360)

Release Region: Australia
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Publisher: Microsoft

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Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer - Versus: 16
Online Multiplayer - Cooperative: 4

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