when your friend gets a text from his mom saying “get home right now” and his house is 30 mins away

I was going to put the long version on the soundtrack but I figured folks would get bored. Thanks for doing this. Brings back lots of memories. Up late at night in the studio trying to figure out how to extend all the music and piecing it together while driving the Warthog or Mongoose every way I could. Good times.

RIP To the original Halo 3 servers Spartans never die they’re just missing in action

Halo 3 wasn't just a game, it was an experience.

Everyone talks about when the doom music kicks in but no one talks about when the halo music kicks in

When MCC on PC was announced and your friends who have been offline for 10 suddenly appear online

Can't tell how many times I replayed the last level of Halo 3. I can hear Cortana's voice at every beat. "Gun it, Chief! Floor it! Right into the hanger!" "Hang on!" "Chief!" "If we don't make it..." "We'll make it." "It's been an honor serving with you, John."

I remember back when I attended these massive gatherings for running miles, I was the guy that brought a party boom box that was strapped to my back, tucked into a backpack so that I could play encouraging music for others to run to. Near the end of each run when there was only a mile to go, I'd take a moment to stop, check my phone, select this song, and then get to hauling like my life depended on it! Those who recognized the chorus gave cheers of joy and joined in with the hard run to knock out that last mile in style. In short, it may not be as glorious as driving a warthog with the world breaking down around you and flood chasing you but damn if it isn't a close second!

Only bad thing about this theme is that it ends

My friend and I pulled an all nighter on a school night to finish this game coop Legendary. Stayed up all night, and into the morning, like 10 am. We were 3 hours late to school, and so tired, we both got detention for falling asleep in class. Worth.

My girlfriend never got to play this when she was younger - she got scared right out of the franchise when she played Halo 1 and the Flood was introduced. I convinced her to get the MCC on Steam and we've been making our way through all the games the last few months. When we got to this part of Halo 3, I faked a connection issue so she could start the level as host and therefore be playing as Chief while I would be the Arbiter. We get to the Warthog, and I grab the turret while telling her to drive, drive, drive! We actually got it on the first attempt and we were both ecstatic. I could have driven it easily as I've done it dozens of times over the years - but there was no way I was going to deprive her of one of the greatest experiences in gaming that is driving that mission the first time. EDIT: In true Halo 3 fashion, we made it through the game in one night and finished up at 4 in the morning! EDIT 2: My girlfriend is now my fiancé! We've already joked that when we leave the reception in our car that we're blasting this.

When DOOM kicks in, you can fight an army. When HALO kicks in..... you can fight an army WITH DA BOIZZZ

There's nothing more satisfying than getting slapped around on Legendary by the Flood and getting this last warthog run as a reward.

This last warthog run in Halo 3 was actually the happiest I've ever been in a game, I was literally smiling so hard my face cramped and my heart was pounding rapidly, it was so cheesy, you're literally driving full speed away from explosions, it's awesome in every way and I loved it, I loved how it kept on going and going, I thought it was going to go for like 1 minute but it went for 7-8 straight epic minutes, and then OH MY GOSH that final jump into the ship was mind blowingly awesome

"If we don't make it-" "We'll make it." "..." "It's been a pleasure serving with you, John."

You know the power of music when it still gives you chills after all these years...

Holy shit this is what I always wanted. Please never delete this.

F for all the gamers who know the true emotion and feeling of doing this while running LASO.....I still have PTSD.

Doom music- Onslaught & Rage Halo music- Valorous in the face of hopelessness Two different tones. Both Rock.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve played the games or not, everyone can agree this is a legendary song.

It will always be beautiful. You escape the first Halo after completing a warthog run through the exploding Pillar of Autumn Only fitting that Bungie sent the main trilogy off by making a new, even more intense run over an exploding Halo ring

The picture tho reminds me that Halo 3 Anniversary isn't happening ... yet

The piano at 4:45 is what makes this particular version of the Halo theme the warthog run, I get emotional just hearing it! Good times...

5:07 literally gives me goosebumps every time.

Marty o Donnell always made the music in halo full of emotion.

This moment... Man..... Life was good.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. As long as the memories remain, the fight never ends. And remember above everything : Spartans never die, they're just missing in action

I can't believe 16 years have passed by. Best game I ever preordered. I was to young for H2 on launch.

I remember playing the last mission on this game when I was 6 or so and I felt my heart beating as I was driving to get onto the FuD. Good days... I didn't really understand the story but I still had a blast playing the campaign.

Amazing how this whole run is on a under construction version of the silent cartographer level from CE

This appeared in my recommended the day after the servers went down. On this say I shed a tear. Farewell, Halo 3

“Come over” “I can’t, I’m outside the Milky Way galaxy” “My parents aren’t home”

I can hardly describe the emotions this song brings up... I'm crying both joyfully and in flustered agony. These games gave me and my best friend the most awesome time spent together.

Both Michael Salvatori and Marty O' Donnel have the necessary knowledge to create music that gives both nostalgia and a huge self-esteem boost.

DO NOT PLAY THIS MUSIC WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY! I REPEAT, DO NOT PLAY THIS MUSIC WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY!

I can always hear the echo of the warthog whenever I listen to this. Engrained into my mind

The Gravemind, prophet of truth, and four brutes disliked this

It's been 15 years since H3 released, and the music still gives me chills to this day. Truly amazing and awe inspiring music.

Halo 3 is without a doubt one of the best campaigns ever. Perfect balance of action gameplay and story telling with fantastic missions.

the 2000’s and early were the golden age of video games I swear to god.

When I was in college, a girl I was friends with found out I'd never played Halo before. When she finished hanging her mouth open, she straightened up and declared, "Okay, here's what's happening. Do whatever you have to do this afternoon, and be at my dorm room directly after dinner. We are playing through the campaign in one shot. I've got mountain dew and chips and two controllers. This is non negotiable." Of course I said yes. We stayed up all night and knocked that whole campaign out, and when we reached the end, I was driving. Got to hear this song a few times as I kept falling through the holes in the floor in that one part. Awesome track, brings back great memories. Edit: Fun fact - in a year plus, no one else has read this story before you and no other conversation happened in the comments, so go ahead and leave a comment like "bro I hope you married her". It'll show how smart and thoughtful you are.

I still remember my friend calling me 10 mins before he has to be at work on his final attendance strike from walmart I said give me a minute to get dressed and head to your house, I pull up with this gem blaring at max volume pull into his work on the 7:45 mark as the song begins to end, one of the best and hilarious memories I have of this song

No matter how many times I beat this game, I ALWAYS get goosebumps during the Warthog run. Like goddamn, that whole sequence is perfectly executed.

Its 2007 you've been on a 6 year journey with your bud from school playing from CE to 3 on a small tv, the run starts, this is where boys become men 'floor it go go go spartan!'

To those who have disliked The weight of your heresy shall stay your feet and you shall be left behind on our great journey to glorious salvation.

This brings back memories. The Pillar of Autumn blowing up, the destruction of halo, 15 minutes to escape I know that’s not the only time it played, but this song always reminds me of that

I was 23 when the first Halo came out and this song still gets me hyped up. And when Halo 2 came out I was in line at 12am at the mall to get my copy. There was like 300 people there that night. I was even standing next to a airman that got his fellow airmen to cover for him in the hangar he worked in at Robins Airforce Base. He said when nothing was going on they played Halo in their break room. Goodtimes and memories

My final exam is due in an hour and a half and I have this playing in the background on repeat along with 40mg of adderall and maybe 600mg of caffeine in my system, I'm not sure if my heart is going to explode before I get it submitted but damn we're gonna try.

This was a hard one for me on a personal level. I got the game on a Saturday, played it with my cousin that Sunday and he was sadly killed in a wreck that Monday. Playing this part knowing at the time this was the end, and remembering all the times we had playing Halo, was indeed bittersweet.

Ah this hits so deep, i was 6 when i first played this legendary game. Halo 3 was my first out of all the games. I can remember all the emotions of excitement and badassery i felt finishing the campaign. I was a kid then so i never really understood the gravity of the ending and all it meant till Christmas 8 years later. My aunt got me mcc and i played all the campaigns start to finish. And when i finished this long heart aching drive through what turned out to be the replacement ring from the one we destroyed in 1, i cried like a lil bitch through it all. I felt all the memories, the ones who died, the ones who lived and all the things this game gave me. Halo gave me light when my life was nothing but darkness for years. So finishing this fight gave me peace and almost fulfillment for my life. Thank you bungie, for giving a lil kid, the courage to finish the fight

Every time I hear this song it takes me back to when my childhood friend and I played coop on this mission for the first time. Yesterday I got to be a groomsman to same friend for his wedding and we played this mission again while we waited for the wedding to start. Something’s never change and I’m here for it

I was maybe 10/11 when I first played halo 2, my uncle showed me the game back on the XBOX, and we'd try and beat the game on legendary co-op all nighters, but when Halo 3 came out I was 13 years old and we played all night on legendary (like old times) but when we got to this part and the music turned up I felt shivers of nostalgia hitting me in the face, this game and it's music were my entire childhood... I'm 25 now and I still get shivers and tear up some, this game franchise holds a place in my heart and memories, knowing that Halo Infinite is coming... This old Spartan will be picking up his assault rifle again when the game releases. See you out on the battlefield.

For me, no game will ever come close to the epicness of HALO 3's Warthog Run, hell, to the entirety of HALO 3 Campaign. I'm not saying that H3 is the best game ever or what, but goddamn, it's the only game I played where I stayed all night finishing the campaign despite knowing I still have class the next day, and that is saying something.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is just incredible! Halo is probably the only thing in my life that can bring back at least for a moment this feeling of life and the moment. When I listen to this music, I seem to remember why I live, why I was born. She inspires and most importantly! This will last for many many days! It's like an energy drink! I really feel like I have to do something really great. Since people on planet Earth have created a game like Halo! I believe that this is the best connector game, with each of the Halo fans I would be ready to chat incessantly day and night until our time on this planet is over! Friends, everyone who feels it there, I am immensely glad to be with you on the same globe! Be strong, like John 117. Forward and only forward!

If the world ever ends, and I'm in my car when it happens, I'm playing this song. No cap

I still maintain that Halo 3 might actually be the greatest videogame of all time, thanks in no small part to its perfect score the entire way through the game.

Being so young I never really appreciated just how beautiful this game was

There is no better feeling than going off a huge ramp on the warthog as halo explodes all around you whilst the triumphant part of this theme kicks in. Absolutely unforgettable

1:43 always gives me chills

When you’re on the way home and you have to shit.

This is honestly the perfect ending to any videogame.

This Halo 3 theme blows the Halo TV Series theme blow out of the water.

Good luck Marty in your run for Congress!

Lets put this on in a driving lesson.

15 years....time really does fly

Don't Turn it up too high, you might vibe to death

Legitimately just woke up almost late for school and I usually play music to help wake me up so I clicked on this half asleep not realizing what it was and was ready in two minutes then my sister legit said “I don’t think we’ll make it” so I finally got to say “we’ll make it,” 10/10 moment best morning for school ever

if you played that last mission and weren’t entertained you did it wrong because that shit had you feeling powerful but extremely stressed

I’m really thankful to one of my friends for introducing me to Halo. He would talk about it all the time in elementary school and some weekends I would go to his house and we would play Halo 3 and CE. On his birthday Halo 3: ODST came out and we all sat by the tv watching as another friend played. I remember Reach coming out and we played it together as well. We hardly ever talk much now but I’m thankful that I got to share some magical moments with a friend who introduced me to a franchise that I still love today.

We all know Helldivers will eventually come to Xbox we just dont know when i REALLY hope when we finally get ODST support that they get Xbox only ODST Suits imagin calling an SoS this song starts playing and a level 50 Diver Vet in full ODST gear comes out saying over the open mic "Dont worry lads ... Reinforcements are here" i think this would be one of the greatest videogame crossovers

God, the slow build up, with music referencing how far you've come in the series ramping up as the run continues. Truly a master piece of music for a master piece of a game.

Seeing this image is just enough to make me hope....... one day.

I can say that Halo 3 is the only game I beat first night. I still remember yelling at my brother to drive as we sped down the road as the buildings fell around us. The nostalgia is massive.

its so hard to explain but if you missed this and all the nostaliga we get from it, you simply missed it. genuinely unparralled time for gaming and what games used to be like. this was a monumental moment in gaming.

This will be the music for Martin's first campaign ad for Congress.

Even in death, your sergeant guides you home

Me and my brother used to mimic the sound track while racing towards the end in co-op when Halo 3 first came out. Fun times.

I always loved this part because my friend, who often likes to lead the way, would always let me drive the Warthog. On account of him sucking at it, and me being awesome. He carried us through a Legendary campaign, but THIS part right at the end? All my driving.

one of the best missions that ever existed.

5:07 this part 😩

Gives me memories of playing this with my friend on coop for the first time playing all of ce, reach, odst, 3, and 4 a few years back and at 2 am playing this was the best night of gaming I've had in a long while

Halo 3 was my first halo game and I started playing it at my sister's when i was like 10 and when this song and mission came along, I was so into it!!! As soon as the music kicked in I was full speed crashing into the flood as they passed. The exposions around me and the falling land peices really put into the mood. Being a 10 year old, seeing this was THE BEST thing I had ever witnessed. Sadly I still dont have a halo 3 copy of my own lol!

Makes me cry. So many hours spent on this game. So many friends made. Endless enjoyment and memories.

For those times when you left your wallet at the register at the gas station ., after getting gas and snacks on vacation and realize you are 30 miles away and you've got to drive back

This is the song I had playing in my head when I rushed my mom to the ER last July, it helps that my car's green like a warthog lol except much brighter She made it ok btw

The Piano in my eyes symbolizes the ring falling apart with the 3 armies fighting at once. With the harp adding that otherworldly aspect of the conflict.

Honestly my favorite part starts at 8:04 I love the sad yet beautiful moment you know the job is truly finished.

There will never be a greater rush of emotion you get from a game like this final warthog run after growing up playing every halo game with your friends from school and watching the end of an era unfold right In front of your eyes with every bit of the map blowing up behind you. I just remember beating it on legendary and getting misty eyed cause it was so perfect.

This song turned Boys into men, and Men into Legends, and Legends Into Spartans!

When I was younger, me and my older sister played all the way through the campaign. I got to drive the warthog in the last section and it was such a thrilling moment that I'll never forget. Halo is at it's best with friends or family.

bring me back to this time

I always loved this compilation. Kudos to you, friend, for uploading the HQ version! :)

The only way this final run could have been ANY better is if Johnson somehow showed up on a Brute Chopper, scarred and beaten, racing to the ship with you going “Come on Chief! What, you didn’t think I was really dead, didja?! Not in your lifetime, soldier! Now c’mon! Floor it!”

My cousins and I still jam out to this when we play racing games. Makes our heart race a little more. The old days when toxicity was at an all time low...

You all can hear it. You can hear that warthog, you can hear your boy on the turret screaming. Legendary.

7:02 OUR favourite part

Well it's a tragedy to see Xbox 360 servers shutting down but Halos multiplayer it's self remains good as a memory

Hard to believe this banger came out 15 years ago today

I never got to play the Halo franchise back in the day. Just found that the MCC was available on Steam for 10 bucks during the Black Friday sales, so I thought 'why not?' I was on the edge of my seat during this mission, the adrenaline rush was insane. Simply put, I felt like a kid again. Hope more people enjoy this classic in the future!

One of the many times my heart ran with excitement when playing a game. A legendary moment that will go down in the gaming history books as one of the grandest finishes to a game of all time.