31 Facts About Halo 3

Halo 3 is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie for the Xbox 360 console.

Halo 3 grossed US$170million in its first day of release, and $300million its first week.

Halo 3 is frequently listed as one of the greatest video games of all time.

Halo 3 was re-released as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection for the Xbox One in November 2014 and for Microsoft Windows in July 2020.

Halo 3 is a shooter game where players primarily experience gameplay from a first-person perspective.

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Gameplay focuses on the "Golden Triangle of Halo 3": players utilize weapons, grenades, and melee attacks, which are available to a player in most situations.

Halo 3 introduces support weapons, cumbersome two-handed weapons that slow the player when carried, but offer greatly increased firepower in return.

Halo 3 contains non-gameplay additions, such as Forge, a map-editing tool.

Halo 3 offers a form of file sharing, where items such as saved films, screenshots, and custom variants can all be uploaded to Bungie's official website.

Halo 3 is set in a science fiction setting during the years 2552 and 2553.

In Halo 3: Combat Evolved, whilst fleeing the Covenant, the UNSC ship Pillar of Autumn stumbled upon one of these ringworlds, Installation 04.

Chief, Arbiter and Guilty Spark discover that the Ark is constructing another Halo 3 to replace the one that the Chief previously destroyed.

Halo 3 2 was a critical and commercial success, but its development had taken a toll on Bungie.

Lingering dissatisfaction with Bungie's acquisition by Microsoft in 2000 and a desire for more favorable profit-sharing on Halo 3 led to an agreement where Bungie would become an independent studio after shipping a set number of new Halo games.

Halo 3 2 had popularized online multiplayer matchmaking and social features like player parties and voice chat.

Halo 3 uses normal, bump, and parallax mapping to give surfaces more detail without dramatically increasing the number of polygons.

Halo 3 uses two frame buffers instead of the usual single buffer, allowing Bungie to preserve as much of dynamic range as possible for the game's lighting without adversely affecting the frame rate.

Halo 3 has been enhanced for Xbox One X, rendering at 1920p upscaled to 2160p in HDR at a solid 30fps.

Halo 3 is the first game in the series to feature custom soundtracks, allowing players to replace in-game music with their own choices.

Voice actors returning to reprise their roles in Halo 3 include Jen Taylor as Cortana, David Scully as Sergeant Johnson and the Elites, Keith David as the Arbiter, Tim Dadabo as 343 Guilty Spark, Ron Perlman as Lord Hood, Robert Davi as Rtas 'Vadum, and Steve Downes as the voice of Master Chief.

Videos of the ending of Halo 3, obtained from the leaked copy, were captured and posted on video sharing sites.

Some Limited Edition versions of Halo 3 were found to have a defect in the hub that kept the discs in place, which could lead to scratched discs.

Halo 3 was made a free download for Xbox Live Gold subscribers through the "Games with Gold" program in October 2013.

Halo 3 was re-released again as part of the Windows version of The Master Chief Collection in 2020.

The performance beat the previous record setter—Halo 3 2—which earned $125million within 24 hours of its launch.

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Pro-Gs Wesley Yin-Poole assured readers that Halo 3 lived up to the enormous hype surrounding it, writing that the game was "everything we hoped it would be, and much, much, more".

Reviewers including Eurogamers Rob Fahey, GamesRadars Charlie Barrett, and GameSpots Jeff Gerstmann felt that the underlying formula of previous Halo 3 games was unchanged, but that this was not a detriment.

Halo 3 was nominated for seven awards from the Spike TV Awards, of which it won "Best Multiplayer Game" and "Most Addictive Video Game Fueled by Dew".

Halo 3 took the Calvin Award for "Best Videogame" as selected by Box Office Prophets.

Halo 3 took the award for Xbox 360 Game of the Year 2007 from GameTrailers, and was voted by fans as Game of the Year on G-Phoria.

Halo 3 won the Edge Award For Interactive Innovation in August 2008.