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Crackdown and Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta

Don't miss this chance to participate in the Halo® 3 multiplayer beta program coming this spring through Xbox LIVE® Marketplace. Purchase the game Crackdown™ , which hits store shelves in the U.S. on February 20, and score your multiplayer beta invitation.

Take home Crackdown and score a multiplayer beta invite.

The Halo 3 multiplayer beta, which is a pre-release version of the multiplayer experience of Halo 3, is scheduled for availability in spring 2007 exclusively on Xbox 360™. The beta also represents an opportunity to participate in the testing and refinement of the multiplayer gameplay of Halo 3, the most anticipated game of 2007. Through the resulting feedback, Bungie Studios will be able to further hone the end result of Halo 3.

When the Halo 3 multiplayer beta surfaces in spring 2007, owners of Crackdown with access to an Xbox 360 Pro console or an Xbox 360 Core console with hard drive and a valid Xbox LIVE Gold subscription simply need to load their copy of Crackdown into Xbox 360 and use the disc as a key to download the beta from Xbox LIVE Marketplace and join the battle in Halo 3 multiplayer. Crackdown is available in the U.S. February 20, Asian territories on February 22, and European markets on February 23.

Crackdown
From Realtime Worlds, Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with a rich and immersive 3-D playground. Level up your Agent's strength, agility, firearms, explosives, and driving skills while scaling the fully vertical world of Crackdown. This M-rated game incorporates revolutionary co-op gameplay throughout the entire free-form campaign. Creating a volatile cocktail of judicial oppression, clean up the streets of a truly interactive world when Crackdown hits store shelves at an estimated retail price of $59.99.

Bungie Studios
Bungie Studios was founded in 1991 with two goals: to develop games that combine brilliant technology, beautiful art, intelligent stories and deep gameplay, and then sell enough of those games to achieve its real goal of total world domination. Over the past 10 years it has produced games such as the Marathon Trilogy and the first two Myth games, hailed as classics by critics and gamers around the world. Bungie's Halo franchise is an international award-winning action title that has grown into a global entertainment phenomenon, selling more than 14.7 million units worldwide, logging over 800 million hours of multiplayer action on Xbox LIVE and spawning action figures, books, a graphic novel, apparel, an upcoming film adaptation and more. Bungie is currently at work on Halo 3, which represents the third chapter in this Halo trilogy and is slated for release in 2007. More information on Bungie can be found at http://www.bungie.net.

Realtime Worlds
Realtime Worlds' key staff has a tremendous history of creating some of the world's most innovative and best-selling video games, including the global hit franchises Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto. The development team was hand-picked by David Jones, founder of DMA Design Inc. and the designer and creator of more than 15 hit titles including Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto.