Halo 3 Free Trial

The completion of Halo 3 was fervently awaited, as the game was the third in the original trilogy of the Halo videos. Therefore, the Halo 3 free download was one of the most downloaded game demos in the history of the Xbox 360. But what many people don’t realize is that the Halo 3 trial download helped make another game ie Crackdown.

What does the Halo 3 trial download have to do with another video game? Well, it has a great deal to do with the distribution and promotional effort for a game that was originally meant for playing on the Xbox system. Microsoft had become worried that Crackdown would not sell a lot.

And so they employed a marketing gimmick, the one of bundling Crackdown with an access code to the Halo 3 trial download. And it worked a treat because Crackdown sold 1.5 million copies within the first half year of its release. Those aren’t Halo 3 figures, which sold 8.1 million units in slightly over a year, but for a lesser well-known game that’s absolutely fantastic.

Microsoft had resorted to the Halo 3 trial download tactic because of poor opinions about the game from the game testers. They found the nonlinear nature of the game off-putting, often leaving them asking themselves what they were supposed to be doing next.

As a result of this, the powers that be knew that something had to be done or the game would be a dud. It may appear shady practice at first to try to push sales of a game that’s expected to be unpopular, but in retrospect people like the game and it was a good thing that they were able to get the chance to play it.

In Crackdown, and that includes the one bundled with the Halo 3 free download, people play as an agent who is assigned to beat the kingpins, or leaders, of different gangs. To do this they make use of various superhuman powers such as super strength and super agility. In order to obtain these powers, players have to build up experience by beating enemies who then release experience orbs. The clever part of the system was that the kind of orbs released depended on the manner in which the agent killed the enemy. For instance, a firearms orb appears if the enemy was killed with a gun.

So, while at first sight this game bundled with the Halo 3 trail download appears to be nothing but a veiled marketing gimmick, in reality it exposed gamers to an exciting gameplay world.

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