RSSWhen Did Halo 3 Come Out?
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On May 15, 2007 the information was out, that Halo 3 would be released on September 25 in North America and the 26th in Europe. Halo 3 was the third in a very popular series for the Xbox 360 called ‘Halo’. According to the vice president of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business, Halo 3′s publication was much more than only a video game release, it was the biggest media event of the year. He might just have been right as well.
The full history of Halo 3 actually has to begin with the publication of the first game in the series ‘Halo: Combat Evolved’. In November, 2001, when Halo was first released, game consoles were somewhat of a nonsense as one-person shoot-em-up games. Sure, some games existed, but there weren’t the popular following that the PC games in the genre had.
That was all changed in Halo, in which players could fight aliens on foot and in vehicles, in order to complete objectives, while trying to uncover the secret of the Halo. Halo was the first to limit the amount of weapons a player could carry to two, which in turn, meant forcing the player to take strategic decisions in order to complete his missions.
People waited for the publication of Halo 3 with baited breath. They awaited the continuation of the one-person, shoot-em-up combat format that had been prevalent in the two previous versions of Halo. Microsoft calls it the ‘Golden Triangle of Halo’, which consists of gun-type weapons, grenades and others. In actuality, this was nothing new to one-person, shoot-em-up games, as it had existed since the very first Doom and even the predecessor to that game, Wolfenstein.
So, with all of that previous history, people were full of excitement about the Halo 3 release date. How popular and welcome was the game? Well, before its release, 3.1 million copies were sold in advance orders and retailers were sure that that was insufficient.
The game took over $300 million gross in the United States in only its first week. Overall, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide and was the best-selling video game in the USA in 2007. Even the critics loved it, putting it the seventh highest in the list of Xbox 360 all-time great games.
The Halo 3 release date, like the release date of many wildly popular video games was almost like a national holiday like Christmas or Easter. It leaves us with the question of just what will happen in the realm of video games in the near future?
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