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After two chartbusting efforts on Xbox, the enigmatic, genetically enhanced Spartan soldier known as Master Chief makes his highly anticipated Xbox 360 debut in Halo 3. The sci-fi shooter picks up where Halo 2 abruptly left off: The Covenant is continuing its plans to activate the Halo super-weapon and obliterate the galaxy; Earth is in utter disarray with only a few remnants of its armies intact; and the Flood grows stronger and more aggressive with each passing day. Your mission, as Master Chief, is to repel the Flood's advances, save Earth, and stop the Covenant -- no matter what the cost.
Halo 3 offers a solo campaign, cooperative play, and multiplayer action via Xbox Live, system link, or split-screen display. The cinematic storyline introduces new characters, weapons, and mission objectives, with the enemy AI offering distinct fighting styles, tactics, and even personalities, all while trying to rip your armored space suit into pieces. Familiar weapons such as the Needler have been upgraded and are joined with all-new armaments, including massive support weapons (such as a missile pod or turret) that switch the default perspective to a third-person view, chargeable lasers, and a gun that shoots out metal spikes. Players can also protect themselves with bubble shields, reach high places with portable gravity lifts, disrupt motion tracking with radar jammers, and more.
Vehicles are also a big part of the action, with redesigned favorites and new class types entering the fray, such as the speedy but fragile Mongoose. The matchmaking service introduced in Halo 2 will once again bring similarly skilled Xbox Live players together, albeit with more customization options and a new streamlined interface. Players can still enter multiple lobbies, veto certain maps or game types, and so forth, but now they can instantly form parties with people they've just met for future matches, watch videos of completed games to learn techniques of the top Halo players, view detailed stats and rankings updated in real time, and squelch certain voices from being broadcast to their headsets.
~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide
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max
from tokyo
cool
this game is cool is was like the first one to try it out and it is so awsome
halo jr
from miami
no not awsome the best ever pwnage!
this game is the best of the best thats out so far and will untill halo 4. which they will make.
a mysterious stranger
from Macon, GA
freakin awesome
again, freakin awesome
the most uberest game out there
Joystick/Gamepad
Shooter
First-Person Shooter
Features Dolby Digital Sound
Xbox Live Downloadable Content
Xbox Live Online Play
Xbox Live Leaderboards
Date of Release: 09/25/2007
Developer:
Bungie Software
Publisher:
Microsoft Game Studios
Controls:
- Joystick/Gamepad
- Shooter
- First-Person Shooter
Included Items:
- 36-Page Instruction Manual
- Poster
- Xbox Gold Trial Membership Card
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