Halo 3 is coming out on September ,25

26th May 2007

Microsoft Corporation has announced the date of release of the game Halo 3, at the American shops the novelty will appear at September 25. Microsoft hopes that the release of long-awaited sequel of the game series will increase sales of the playstation Xbox 360, for which Halo 3 was designed. Halo 3 was developed by the creators of the original game from Bungie Studios. The game ends the narration of the hero adventures of the previous games â€“ Master Chief, who returning to the Earth, finds it occupied by covenants (the union of several alien races). The first part of Halo emerged in 2001 together with Xbox and helped the console to be established at the market. Many gamers purchased Xbox only owing to Halo, because the impressive clips from the game process showing the most beautiful, for those times, picture, have appeared on the network well before the release of the game and managed to draw attention to the project of large number of video game fans. Halo 2 had appeared on sale in November 2004 and only on the first day brought to its creators 125 million dollars. Besides, at the wave of the popularity of Halo 2 Microsoft managed to attract the attention of gamers to a new online service Xbox Live. Halo 3 will be on sales in Europe on September 26, and the release date of the game in Japan is not known yet. According to the head of Microsoft Game Studios Shane Kim, pre-orders on Halo 3 quite a number of players has made, which gives the hopes for the success of the game. The cost of the game is $ 60, and for $ 70 and $ 130 you can buy special collection sets Halo 3. Meanwhile, today a public beta-test of the game starts, which will last three weeks, reports Reuters.