On May 15, 2007 the news was out, that Halo 3 was due to be released on September 25 in North America and on 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 to be the biggest media event of the year. He may just have been right too.

The full history of Halo 3 really has to start with the release of the first game in the series \’Halo: Combat Evolved\’. In November, 2001, when Halo was first released, game consoles were somewhat of a joke 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 all changed with Halo, in which players could fight aliens on foot and in vehicles, in order to complete objectives, while trying to unravel the secret of the Halo. Halo pioneered limiting the number of weapons a player could carry to two, which in turn, meant forcing the player to take strategic decisions.

People waited for the Halo 3 release with baited breath. They awaited the continuation of the one-person, shoot-em-up combat format that had been dominant in the previous two 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 history behind it, people were very excited 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 the first seven days. 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 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 with video games in the near future?

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