Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta – May 16
What are the majority of Xbox 360 owners looking forward to? No, not a date with Jessica Biel but rather the Halo 3 Beta. It’s coming! Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today confirmed the multiplayer beta of “Halo 3″ will debut to audiences worldwide via Xbox Live on May 16 at 5 a.m. PDT and run through June 6 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Coming exclusively to the Xbox 360 console this fall, “Halo 3″ is the highly anticipated third chapter in the groundbreaking “Halo” trilogy from legendary developers Bungie.
The multiplayer beta for “Halo 3″ will give anxious Xbox 360 gamers their first opportunity to get their hands on the new levels, weapons, vehicles and game types, as well as a chance to provide valuable data that Bungie will use in continued development. Starting May 16, gamers who secured their admission to the multiplayer beta either through the “Rule of Three” promotion or by purchasing a specially marked copy of “Crackdown” for Xbox 360 will be able to don their Spartan armor, download the beta on Xbox Live, and jump online using their Xbox Live Gold account (must have hard drive as well) to battle other gamers from around the world.
There are three maps included in the beta. Snowbound, High Ground and Valhalla, which represent a mixture of large- and medium-scale combat environments and are brand new to “Halo 3″. Each map will test gamers’ mettle as they are placed behind the controls of new vehicles such as the agile Mongoose all-terrain vehicle, and armed with deadly weapons such as the new and improved Assault Rifle, the ferocious Brute Spiker, the devastating Spartan Laser and the treacherous new Spike Grenades. This is just a taste of what gamers will experience later this fall when “Halo 3″ goes on sale.
April 10th, 2007 at 7:49 am
excellent!
April 10th, 2007 at 7:50 am
wooohooo! come on beta! but hey is that true you need a hard drive? i have one but my bro doesn’t.
April 10th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Great News……Can’t wait to see what Bungie has in store for us
April 10th, 2007 at 8:45 am
They’re letting us play much longer than I expected, I’m very pleased with the news…I’m waiting on this viddoc to download! Anyone no why there is two versions but one of them is only slightly smaller than the other? :S
April 10th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Heck yeah! I hope the water phyisics are working for the Beta, because I really really want to see the water Frankie’s been praising. But whatever makes it is going to rock my world. That vidoc was awesome… Assault Rifle, Bubble shields, replays… what more can a gamer ask for?
April 10th, 2007 at 9:18 am
a personalized invite to the beta that’s what Ante….i’m shipping your signed copy of Crackdown right now.
April 10th, 2007 at 9:30 am
So I just finished downloading the and watching the VidDoc, it was a nice glimpse at things to come, I’m liking that bridge MP level already! I thought Bungie said the shield grenade wasn’t actually in the game though!? And now there’s a trip mine and video recording and playback!!! Is there going to be a special Halo 3 controller with enough buttons for all of this?
April 10th, 2007 at 9:45 am
i can’t watch the vid until i get home.
April 10th, 2007 at 10:16 am
[quote comment="28382"]i can’t watch the vid until i get home.[/quote]
I’m home studying for final exams; how I can study the complicated interactions of enzymes and substrates and watch H3 Vidocs at the same time…ok ok I was slacking a little with my studying!
April 10th, 2007 at 10:20 am
[quote comment="28376"]a personalized invite to the beta that’s what Ante….i’m shipping your signed copy of Crackdown right now.[/quote]
You’re awesome, Deac
April 10th, 2007 at 10:32 am
[quote comment="28353"]wooohooo! come on beta! but hey is that true you need a hard drive? i have one but my bro doesn’t.[/quote]
The beta will definitely require a hard drive and an invitation to the beta.
April 10th, 2007 at 10:39 am
well i’d watch it but my stupid computer won’t download it for some reason.
April 10th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Deacon use a download manager and copy this link into it to download it direct not stream
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/4/4/6442052e-096f-42b0-b8eb-1cdc2f3cb038/H3_vidoc_3_MP_bnet_360p.mov
April 10th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
this is going to be INSANE! just watched it. but please don’t forget about the single player fan like myself Bungie! multiplayer is great but i really want to be captivated with the story again like i was with Combat Evolved.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
[...] videos. I don’t care about the leaks actually as the official beta is set to release in less than 2 weeks. I hope they understand though that I’m still very much concerned about the Multiplayphobia [...]
May 14th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
do u have 2 have the cd CRAKDOWN to pay the downloaded beta