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- "Finish the fight."
- — Halo 3 tagline.
Halo 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie Studios and published by Microsoft. It is the sequel to Halo 2 and concludes the original Halo trilogy. Halo 3 was released on September 25, 2007 in Australia, Brazil, India, New Zealand, North America, and Singapore; September 26, 2007 in Europe; and September 27, 2007 in Japan all exclusively for the Xbox 360.
The game is rated "M" for Mature for blood, gore, violence, and mild language by the ESRB. Europe's PEGI rating system gave the game a "16+" rating, and it is rated "15" by the BBFC for the UK release. The OFLC rated it "M" for the Australia and New Zealand release, although the New Zealand Classification Office later changed the rating to "R16" on December 1, 2017. Japan's CERO rating system gave this game a "D" rating.
Upon its release, Halo 3 grossed US$300 million in its first week. More than one million people played Halo 3 on Xbox Live in the first twenty hours. As of January 3, 2008, Halo 3 had sold 8.1 million copies, and was the best-selling video game of 2007 in the United States. Overall, the game was very well-received by critics, with the Forge and multiplayer offerings singled out as strong features. By March 2009 more than one billion online matches had been played. A total of over 14.5+ million copies were sold.
Along with Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary and Halo 4, Halo 3 was released on the Xbox One as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection on November 11, 2014. While initially advertised for a release date of July 14, 2020, the game was released on July 13 for PC platforms.[1][2][Note 1]