Although you shouldn't, you probably will get it. Just stay offline with it OK?

Sep 21, 2007 10:33 GMT  ·  By

Surprised? Don't be. Several retailers have broken the street date of Halo 3 and it was only a matter of time before a full copy of the game found its way into the hands of pirates, as CVG themselves reckon. The news is definitely one of the hottest, if not the hottest this week, yet Xbox 360 gamers and Halo fans should really, really take a minute to think about the consequences of playing an illegal copy of Halo 3, especially online.

First things first - as the upper mentioned source reports... "The full and final Halo 3 disc has been uploaded to the Internet by piracy groups a week before the game's release next Wednesday. This is hardly surprising since, earlier this week, the game's street date was broken when numerous copies were sold by major UK retailer, Argos..."

Now, while the great majority of gamers (and even non gamers) have probably closed this page already trying to find and download Halo 3, if only just for the single player experience, some of you smart fellows out there know the story connected to this particular date:12/31/9999 and will stand still, waiting for Halo 3 to officially launch just a few more days from now. Remeber we don't encourage anyone to play illegal copies of any game.

Why would you, anyway. Do you know how much energy is drained from your body through stress? You have no idea. Knowing that you could get caught doing something illegal keeps your pulse high all the time, stressing out every possible organ in your body and especially the heart. Do you want to die younger? Good, then wait for Halo 3 to launch. Officially!

Chances are that at this game's level of anticipation some of you out there will just burn yourselves the game copy just for the sake of it, without even owning an Xbox 360.