MS Confirms Halo 3 Beta Via Crackdown
January 4th, 2007 by Rajiv Ashrafi in News
Microsoft has officially confirmed that special marked copies of Crackdown will include invitations to join the Halo 3 multiplayer beta. Slated for release next month, purchasers of the game will be able to use the disc as a key to download the beta from Xbox Live Marketplace and join the beta, which is scheduled to surface in spring 2007.
The company also announced another way of getting in: from 12.01am EST on February 1 until 11.59pm on February 3, those who play at least three hours of Halo 2 multiplayer daily over Xbox Live and then be one of the first 13,333 to register at the Halo 3 website will receive a beta invitation. To be eligible, participants have to be at least 17 years of age, own an Xbox 360 and passionately love the Halo series (the last one was made up, but it’s just as important).
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January 4th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Forget the Halo tie-in this game is going to be awesome … I just love how the lead hero is a cool smart powerful Black man. Much like the leads of my mod for UT2K7 … this will hopefully get the video game industry thinking in more positive terms when it comes to black male characters and get more black youths into the math and science backgrounds they need in order to pursue careers within the gaming and hi-tech industries. Plus the game itself looks like it is going to be all kinds of fun so Woot! Bring on that demo and then the game please.
January 4th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
I was actaully one of the first to notice the racial profiling in BF2, posted it on forums and got little attention, most replies were “it’s just a coincidence”… Could be, but I doubt it.
January 5th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Does everything to some people have to do with colour…why don’t people just choose the colour of a computer character if it really makes any difference at all.
January 5th, 2007 at 12:49 am
i’m not talking about battelfield btw, since according to you guys the unpopular classes are black. could be a coinicidence but if you say nay, i guess ill take your word on it.
January 5th, 2007 at 1:11 am
No, it’s not the “unpopular” classes, but more the “working classes”, while the “smart” clases are white, Engineer, Medic, Spec-Op. If you get my point, but you’d have to have played BF2 for a while to get it fully.
January 5th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Yes monir when you are a black American living in a racist society and you also consistently see racial stereotypes permeating the one place they really shouldn’t … namely video games … then unfortunately for all of us everything does come down to color. As evidenced by my friends on this site making a point of BF2’s stereotypical nature and the fact that in all the CoD games I have played there has not been one black person in them and I know damn well black soldiers helped to make a huge difference in WWII though you would never know it by that series.
January 5th, 2007 at 2:32 am
well there obviously weren’t any black nazi’s, and in ww2 i don’t think black people and white people were in the same companies, at the end of the first call of duty they showed a picture of the company the player was playing, forgot name, may fox comapny, and they’re all white. so really does it matter in all cases, it is just a game and its not as if the game developers are poking fun at black people or are all developers white people? no japanese, asian, mexicans.
January 5th, 2007 at 3:08 am
There are blacks in CoD3, in Gears, in GRAW and a lot of other games. It may not have been the norm 10 years ago, but it is today, it’s simply more realistic since there are people of all colors in real life, there should be likewise in games.
Oh, and why are there no white people in GTA San Andreas
January 5th, 2007 at 3:39 am
I didn’t see the black soldiers in CoD3 … guess I need to look even harder … which is part of the problem … maybe they show up in the latter missions? As for GTA SA who knows and who even cares … I don’t bother with games like that and white people should feel glad they aren’t in crap like that.
GRAW was cool about having brothers in it which is another reason I really enjoy that game and will never trade it in.
Monir I don’t know why you want to keep your head in the sand about the issue but that is your choice. As I said before being a black man in America I have NO choice but to confront issues of race and prejudice every day of my existence. Those other races you mentioned are just not being treated anywhere nearly as poorly worldwide as black people and people of African Descent whether you want to admit it or not.
But before this gets out of hand I get upset I am just going to stop now. I said what I wanted and I am sure most people understood my point.
January 5th, 2007 at 3:44 am
i guess some people are sensitive to certain things, and this is yours, might as well respect it even though it makes no difference to me what-so-ever.
January 5th, 2007 at 4:36 am
We should make all in game characters green so we can avoid stupid PC correct convos like this… jeezuz.
January 5th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Anuban, the very first soldier you meet in CoD3, the “instructor” telling you how to use various weapons etc. Actually you don’t even have to look, you can hear that he’s black the way he talks (further stereotyping, I know
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January 5th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I don’t remember the first soldier being black but I will take a look again … is that all though because I didn’t recall anyone that is part of my company being black or running into any other black soldiers … anyway thanks for the tip. I am playing the 360 version btw.