• • Halo 3 is a 2007 video game developed by for the console. The third installment in the, the game concludes the begun in 2001's and continued in 2004's. The game 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. Halo 3 's story centers on the interstellar war between twenty-sixth century humanity and a collection of alien races known as the. The player assumes the role of the, a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier, as he battles the Covenant. The game features vehicles, weapons, and gameplay elements not present in previous titles of the series, as well as the addition of saved gameplay films, file sharing, and the Forge map editor—a utility which allows the player to perform modifications to multiplayer levels.