Microsoft has let it be recognize that a multiplayer genus Beta translation of its coming game Halo 3 will be released on May 16 , 2007 — but it ’s only coming to the Xbox 360 .
Halo 3 is the latest installment of the enormously popular first - person shooter enfranchisement create by Microsoft ’s Bungie Studios . It tells of humanity ’s on-going war against an alien race known as The Covenant , and features a character known only as Master Chief , a cybernetically enhanced human warrior that players act as within the plot .
Bungie start up life as a Mac game developer and created darling franchises like Myth , a series of squad - based strategy game , and the Marathon serial publication of natural action games . Bungie was acquired by Microsoft in the late nineties after it had debuted an former development version of Halo on stagecoach at Macworld Expo and publicize it as coming soon to Mac and Windows .
Ultimately , Bungie produce Halo 2 , again as an Xbox scoop , and it establish to be an endure hit — in fact , one of the best - betray games in the history of the cabinet . In February , 2006 , Microsoft announced plans to bring Halo 2 to Windows Vista . No Mac plan have been announced , and it looks like the Halo franchise wo n’t be returning to the Mac any time soon .
With Halo ’s authority as an Xbox form of address , it ’s perhaps little wonder that the game will debut as an Xbox 360 exclusive . Players who have purchased a written matter of the game “ Crackdown ” with a Halo 3 genus Beta label affix to the box , or players who have taken part in Microsoft ’s “ Rule of Three ” promotion , will be allowed to download the beta reading through Microsoft ’s Xbox Live Robert William Service commence May 16 at 1PM GMT . The beta test is scheduled to run through June 7th .
Players who take part in the beta will be capable to explore three multiplayer maps , entitled Snowbound , High Ground and Valhalla . They ’ll also be able-bodied to mess around with new vehicle and weapons in the game , include the Spartan Laser and Mongoose all - terrain fomite .
More detail about the forthcoming genus Beta and a “ Vidoc ” talk about the genus Beta and the game ’s evolution are available from theBungie.net Web site .
