Halo 3
Halo 3 is a shooter game where players primarily experience gameplay from a first-person perspective. Much of the gameplay takes place on foot, but also includes segments focused on vehicular combat. The…
Halo 3 is a shooter developed by Bungie, released 25 September 2007 on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Halo 3 is
Halo 3 is a shooter game developed by Bungie and released in 2007. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Halo 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After the events of the comic tie-in Halo: Uprising, the Master Chief crashes in eastern Africa, where he is found by Johnson and the Arbiter. The Chief, Johnson, and company fight Covenant in the jungle and arrive at a UNSC outpost. Here, Keyes and Lord Hood plan a final effort to stop the Covenant leader, the High Prophet of Truth, from activating a Forerunner artifact uncovered outside the ruins of the city of New Mombasa. The Chief clears anti-air Covenant defenses so Hood can lead the last of Earth's ships against the Prophet, but Truth activates the buried artifact, creating a slipspace portal which he and his followers enter. A Flood-infested ship crash-lands nearby; Elite forces…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, sandbox, science fiction and warfare. It supports multiplayer for up to 16 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Halo series
Halo 3 is the 13th of 55 entries we hold in the Halo series. The next entry was Halo 3: Heroic Map Pack in 2007. Its critic score of 91 is 10 points above the series average of 81. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Halo 3 holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 27 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 858 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i7-975 | AMD A12-9800 APU, 2 GB RAM and GeForce GTS 450 | Radeon R7 Graphics. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 55GB.
What it launched against
Halo 3 launched on 25 September 2007, within three weeks of Portal, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode Two and The Orange Box. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Portal, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, The Orange Box.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Halo 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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Dlc
Quick answers
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