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RUMOR: 'Halo 3: Recon' To Headline Major Downloadable Games

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Along with the GTAIV update next year, Halo 3: Recon could be one of the first games out of Microsoft that will be sold in retail and online at the same time. Half-Life 2 Episode 3 may also make its way to Xbox Live Marketplace.
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Published: 386 days 21 hours ago | Rumors | Xbox 360
 
 

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big shadow - 386 days 22 hours ago
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interesting if true
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rogimusprime - 386 days 12 hours ago
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1.1 - Yeah, it is.
I know another company that tried that...successfully. Starts with an "S" and ends with an "ONY".

I like my XBOX and all, but I'll buy the disc thank you very much. With the crappy proprietary hard drives that are outrageously priced, at least I'll be able to make some dough off selling it used.
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ry-guy - 386 days 22 hours ago
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This sounds like someone listened to hiphopgamer's show and just echoed their rumours.

Cripes.
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2.1 Maxned | 386 days 21 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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ry-guy - 386 days 19 hours ago
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Let us not forget that Bungie has said in their own podcast that this is a retail disk purchase and will NOT be downloaded.
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I Call 9MM - 386 days 20 hours ago
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Wouldn't be a bad idea to get this onto Live as a downloadable piece. I like downloads and all, no lines to wade through for hot new releases, and they probably let you download and pre-load your console a day or two before you can play it (like some steam games), but for the 360 we need cheaper, competitively price and higher capacity alternatives to the current hard drive offerings. Either a) price reduce the 120 gig model down to under a hundred dollars (CDN) and introduce a higher density version too a respectable price (320 gig 5400 RPM drives are around 130 bucks CDN right now, give or take), b) introduce a cradle adapter to the 360 that will allow us to exchange and connect any 2.5 inch drive to the 360 and finally c) let us plug in a USB HDD for storage.

It all comes down to what Microsoft thinks will make more money: sales of accessories (we all know that is a 360 problem), sale of the content itself and allow the consumer to choose the storage medium, or some combination of both (which they seem to be banking on now).
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Dragunov - 386 days 20 hours ago
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Nickel and Dime FTW!! Microsoft will rape the arcade owners if this is true, but they need to compete with the downloads of PSN
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jack who - 386 days 20 hours ago
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arcade owners can go on xbox.com and get 2 game+20gb hdd for 10$

whos getting rape now?
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Imallvol7 - 386 days 20 hours ago
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well this sucks . . . my 20gig cant even handle a few demos
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ry-guy - 386 days 19 hours ago
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Perhaps you should take three steps back and examine the Xbox's portfolio this holiday season:

Fable 2, Fallout 3, and Mirror's Edge is just beginning of the "not shooters" genre. I know they're not Microsoft exclusive but they do add variety to the console.
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markbob - 386 days 19 hours ago
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7 - bungie said no
If you listen to the last podcast Halo 3: Recon is only going to come out on disk. They have no plans to put it out on xbox live
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PattyWacker - 386 days 19 hours ago
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Halo three can get on its knees and suck my Chimera.
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Deadman64 - 386 days 19 hours ago
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maybe you should get underneath halo 3 cus it has been sh!tting on everything else since it came out
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baum - 386 days 17 hours ago
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"maybe you should get underneath halo 3 cus it has been sh!tting on everything else since it came out"

Yeah, because everyone knows how metacritic (the average of corporate sponsored websites) AND sales determine the quality of a game, and not your own preferences. I guess we all have to bow to the almighty Halo franchise even if we don't like it because well... we HAVE to like it because meta, sales and fanboys said so!
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imdaboss - 386 days 19 hours ago
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dont have a 360 its till a rip off they charge yall so much for the hard drive
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etownone - 386 days 19 hours ago
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sounds like 09 is going to be interesting.
so far:
games available on Xbox Live
- Fallout 3 DLC
- GTA4 DLC
- Halo Recon
- and maybe Half-Life 2 episode 3

exclusives:
- Halo Wars
- Splinter Cell
- Alan Wake
- and maybe Killer Instinct
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cLiCK_sLiCK9 - 386 days 17 hours ago
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Confirmed!
2009 year of the DLC.
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TheDesperado - 386 days 15 hours ago
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10.2 - FALSE
In order:
Not a game
Not a game
Not a game
Not for 360 exclusively, not coming next year

Exclusive game
Not exclusive
Not exclusive
Not real
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ry-guy - 386 days 9 hours ago
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So what is GTA San Andreas?

Alan Wake is not exclusive? Holy cow. Please take your fanboyism and go somewhere else.

I'd Halo 3 Recon is not a game? So what is it? A calculator program? Or is it a new version of QuickBooks to help you budget in these hard times?
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LONEWOLF231 - 386 days 7 hours ago
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TheDesperado

Sorry man but Alan Wake belongs to MS they bought the rights a LONG time ago.
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rockbottom3076 - 386 days 18 hours ago
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11 - Not impressed right now.
There trying to play cath up and do the things they said were not important to gaming or needed. Downloadable games? They were the ones saying the 360 would never need a hard drive so arcade owners wouldn't get screwed. DLC for fallout both systems, GTA DLC no ones interested, Halo Recon sounds interesting probably will be screwed up like Halo, Half-Life IMO overrated. Now to the exclusives Halo Wars if done well good be a hit. Splinter Cell The last one got away from what made it great(plus didn't they scrape this game to start over?), Alan Wake will see if its worth it. Killer Instinct to big of a maybe. I think people need to relize if you think your going to download a game on release it will take a while not to mention probably screw up the online network. XBL and PSN have both had there issues with this.
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iggypop123 - 386 days 17 hours ago
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rumors . meh. unless halo adds sprint im never touching that game again
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TheDesperado - 386 days 15 hours ago
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13 - LOL@ people thinking DLC or expansions = games
No. GTA4 DLC/mission pack is NOT a game
No. Fallout 3 new city pack is NOT a game
No. Halo 3 expansion pack is NOT a game.

Burnout Paradise exclusively online on PSN is a game.
Wipeout HD is.
Warhawk is.
Gran Turismo Prologue is.

Sony leading the way, Microsoft sucking on dirt.
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markbob - 385 days 23 hours ago
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Halo 3: Recon is not an expansion and not coming out on live, its only going to be a disk. They, bungie, stated that in their last podcast

you dont even play as the chief, you are set in the same time as halo 2 but its not an expansion of Halo 3 storyline it just uses the Halo 3 engine.

I do agree that DLC is not a game
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LONEWOLF231 - 386 days 7 hours ago
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hahahahaha Looks like FlipFLOPgamer was wrong.
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