When Did Microsoft Release Halo 3?
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 wildly popular series for the Xbox 360 called ‘Halo’. According to the vice president of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business, Halo 3′s release was much more than only a video game release, it was the biggest entertainment event of the year. He might just have been right as well.
The full history of Halo 3 actually has to begin with the release of the first game in the series ‘Halo: Combat Evolved’. In November, 2001, when Halo was first released, game consoles were something of a nonsense as one-person shoot-em-up games. Sure, some games existed, but there weren’t the popular communities that 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 was the first to limit the amount of weapons a player could carry to two, which meant forcing the player to make strategic decisions.
People waited for the release of Halo 3 with baited breath. They awaited the continuation of the one-person, shoot-em-up combat format that had been dominant in the two previous parts 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 been around 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 over 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 thought that that was not enough.
The game grossed $300 million in the United States in just its first week. Overall it has sold over nine million copies worldwide and was the best-selling video game in the United States in 2007. Even the critics liked it, putting 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 like a holiday like Christmas or Easter. It beggars the question of what will happen in the realm of video games in the future?
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