Crackdown

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A specially marked copy of Crackdown with an invitation to play the Halo 3 Beta.

Crackdown is an M rated third-person action game in which the player, as a genetically-enhanced, superpowered police officer, is tasked with bringing down three powerful criminal organizations (Los Muertos, the Volk and the Shai-Gen Corporation) and restoring peace to Pacific City. It was released on February 20, 2007 for the Xbox 360.^[1]

[edit] Halo 3 Beta

Main article: Halo 3 Beta

Gamers with specially-marked copies of Crackdown were given invitations to download the Halo 3 Beta from May 16th, 2007 through June 6, 2007. Despite plans for this to be only selected copies, all copies of "Crackdown" up until the end of the Beta were marked copies. However, a bug delayed gamers who were to be playing the Beta through "Crackdown" (as opposed to the Rule of Three, and didn't allow them to download the Halo 3 Beta for 14-18 hours until an Auto-Update for Crackdown was released later that day that fixed the Beta download problems. Due to the download errors, the Halo 3 Beta was extended to last until June 10, four more days than originally planned.