Halo 3 - now coming to Xbox One. MC Collection.

[vladtepess]

Incoming............ to the warehouses!

[tyler]

AleDiablo? Kerraig, is that you?

[LOL MODERTAOR LOL]

That's SO getting pirated. and

I did it for Halo 2 though, Frenchie-a-go-go! I just can't wait when it's Halo.

[Stroker Ace]

I'm revising my twelve day estimate down to six days, if that's the kind of chancers they have in the repro plants.

[Mr. Pickle]

Stroker, I concur.

[layten]

So, gold then. Time for a sweepstake.

I give it fourteen days until it's leaked to the interweb, max. Who's going higher or lower?

HayLOL!

From what I hear, lower... much lower.

[weightgain]

added baggino84 to my xb friends list so if he plays it......

[vladtepess]

More evidences, this time from my local Saturn ( Italian-German Hi-tech store)! Pictures taken with my phone!

holy cow it's real!

I could not have clearer images considering the clerks standing there. it's the Limited edition, I have not seen the Legendary nor the normal edition.

vlad

[Venice Cull]

Surely just giving boxes to shops is asking for trouble? - The game is released a month away. I expect YouTube vids of the whole game up within 24 hours, a blog reviews shortly thereafter.

Absolutely mental.

[Talk Show Host]

Man... This is actually happening...

[K]

Surely it's not in the shops already (as in, inside the shops, not on the shelves)? It's three weeks until it comes out. Games don't hit the stores that soon, do they?

As an aside, does anyone else remember the "'Halo 2' to be released two months early in a surprise launch" rumours from three years ago?

[Gommy]

I would have thought they wouldn't hit the shops so early, would seem like asking for trouble. But i'm guessing.

Unless they were promo pre-order boxes.

[Guest alisdair]

Surely just giving boxes to shops is asking for trouble?

If it's going to be such a huge launch, don't they have to get stock to the retailers in plenty of time?

I really hope it doesn't get released early, I'll have to turn off the internet for a month

[vladtepess]

I could not have one of those in my hands in order to feel the weight and if there is actually something inside, but I suppose they are quite weighty. My only concern is so many copies of the Limited in such a short time and so many days before the release date.

Maybe we are considering these boxes as real but could they be "promotional" items to highlight the incoming release of the game? but why are they wrapped in such translucent paper, as proper limited edition boxes?

I'm trying to read the writings on the boxes, it's Italian and not so clear, I'll give you an answer soon folks.

vlad

[Sloth]

If this goes up on the Newsgroups in the next few days I don't think I'll be able to resist modding my box.

Anyone know where the cheapest core is available?

[Stroker Ace]

Brand new Cores trade hands for £150 on Ebay at the right time of day.

[Uzi]

I have a dual layer blank disk in my hand awaiting its destiny before its true printed father arrives....

I bet it goes up by Monday. And I bet every person that plays it early gets banned on the official release day

[Venice Cull]

I've been thinking about this for several minutes now, and its deeply troubling me.

In fact, I'm going to go as far as to say that those AREN'T copies that are in shops - they are simply just promotional cases.

It is the ONLY explanation for it. MS would not be so MORONIC as to put copies of the game out into the retail channel now, this early, especially after the H2 fiasco.

I cannot accept this - and nobody can tell me any different. Do you hear me? Nobody can tell me any different - I simply refuse to accept that their are copies in shops now, and anyone who tries to tell me otherwise will be ignored.

[Mr. Pickle]

*looks for a tutorial on how to mod my xbox*

If this doesn't get leaked, then I'll be flabbermagasted. Why they're sending it out to shops after what happened with Halo 2, gawd only knows.

[Straps]

vlad, do you work in the store? Are they real copies? They can't be, surely. I mean, it went into print this week, so how on Earth would they have got copies to an 'Italian-German' (Swiss?) store already?

But yeah. Anyone know of a modding service?

[Silence]

It looks like the cases haven't got the plastic seal/strip thing on the sides, therefore I'd say they're promotional boxes.

[Rushy]

Promotional boxes. Far to early to be in the retail channels.

[MW_Jimmy]

Promotional boxes. I saw one in my local HMV last week.

[Mr.Crowley]

Promotional boxes with real promo copies in them!!

[MalevolentPanda]

Of course they are promotional boxes, fucking hell.

[Hackign]

I'm waiting till I have a HDTV before I play Halo 3. Now the question for me is whether I buy the game on release day or wait for the day I have a HDTV before I buy.

[Rev]

Promotional boxes. I saw one in my local HMV last week.

Ditto.

EDIT: I've also just realised I'm away on release day+weekend. Arse.

[Guest alisdair]

I'm waiting till I have a HDTV before I play Halo 3. Now the question for me is whether I buy the game on release day or wait for the day I have a HDTV before I buy.

You buy the game and an HDTV on release day. Obviously.

[Lorfarius]

I'm waiting till I have a HDTV before I play Halo 3. Now the question for me is whether I buy the game on release day or wait for the day I have a HDTV before I buy.

If your going to drop a few hundred quid on a HDTV surely you can stretch for another £40 for a game at the same time?

[MalevolentPanda]

Or maybe he doesn't have the money for the HDTV yet?

EDIT: I've also just realised I'm away on release day+weekend. Arse.

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