The Halo 3 Beta has ended, the countdown begins

Posted Jun 13, 2007 at 9:08AM by QJ Staff Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: beta key, beta test, Microsoft, Microsoft Game Studios, Shane Kim
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With the end of the Halo 3 Beta, a lot of players have reportedly gone into withdrawal. There have been reports of players screaming for their assault rifles in the middle of the night. If you find yourself experiencing the same symptoms, worry not and look to the future, the end of the Beta is the beginning of the countdown to the full version of the game.

The Halo 3 Beta posted some amazing figures in the short (arguably very short) time that it was available. There were a total of 820,000 unique participants who logged in a whopping 12 million hours of online gameplay. To give you guys an idea of how much time that is, it's roughly the equivalent of 1,400 years of continuous play by one person. Another thing of note is the amount of saved game footage from the beta which was said to be at 580,000 films, that's about 2.7 terabytes of data.

Obviously both Microsoft and Bungie are happy with the results of this trial run. The corporate vice-president of Microsoft Game Studios Shane Kim gave a few words on the numbers posted and the support the community gave to the Beta test.

The participation in the Halo 3 beta was staggering. Witnessing such a great reaction to a small portion of the game has been inspiring. ItÂ’s a testament to the fervor and anticipation that surrounds Halo 3. WeÂ’re confident that on Sept. 25 Halo 3 will drive an unprecedented wave of new gamers to the Xbox 360 platform and Xbox LIVE.


The beta is behind us now, and the Halo community mourns its loss...ok, enough mourning. We eagerly await the full release of the game. We wantsss it, our precioussss... Be sure to keep checking back here for more updates on Halo 3.

 
 
 

Comments

by - 2007-06-13 11:12:04
Please

It wasn't that good. I don't see why people would be going through withdrawal. This is not alot more then just a polished H2. Bungie has alot of work on their plate to really make this game worthwhile come Sept. I'm not sure if the name alone will help sell this title.
by darkgeekrocker - 2007-06-13 12:21:44
the name

will make it sell....sad isnt it? like mario, megaman, and pokemon...they sell even if it sucks...now if halo would bring in new things (3rd person option, diving jump, down on grond...mabye camouflage and a vew mini shooting games,ect) then i would differ it from "just a shooter"
by - 2007-06-13 12:53:46
Yeah the beta was only fun for like

2 days and after that I just played gears of war which was 100x better so is warhawk beta.
by Mdubz - 2007-06-14 02:27:44
lol

I'm still playing beta. I love it.
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by - 2007-06-14 23:01:06
Wow

Rofl, are you serious? Third person option? That'd be stupid and completely useless. Camouflage? You can already change the color of your character (and there are a lot of colors in Halo 3) and pick up invisibility in-game, what the hell would little patches and stripes of wood and leaf colors do? Dive jumping? Please. If you want all that crap go play boring games like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon, they both have all the things you mentioned, cept Rainbow has no third person option. The only one of those suggestions that could be decent is a prone option, and even that doesn't really fit with Halo. And I don't even know what a mini shooting game is. Christ sometimes I think Bungie does some stupid sh*t (like some of the stuff with Halo 2, dual wielding equals fail), then I see the suggestions people like you make and needless to say I realize I am very glad Bungie makes Halo.

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