Pre-Order Your Zune-Halo 3 Now

The Zune – Halo 3 special edition is available for pre-orders at Gamestop-Ebgames now. The players will be shipped on June 15^th, 2007. The special edition comes loaded with a collection of "Halo" content, including videos, soundtracks, trailers, ads and artwork. The game itself will only be available only on September 25^th, 2007.

If you are not convinced about this edition of the Zune, you can have a look at this video made by the Zuneinsider. He's unboxing the Zune-Halo 3 for you. The Zune's packaging for this special edition is really great. The artwork is amazing.

With those really cool special editions, a really think that Microsoft is reaching something Apple was never able to do with the iPod. Sure, they had special editions like the iPod-U2 version but Apple is too much self-centered on their own designs that they can't easily co-brand products like Microsoft can do.

Update: The guys from gearlive were lucky enough to put their hands on a copy of the Zune-Halo3. Here's their photo review of the new special edition Zune.

Here are more pictures of the Zune if you haven't seen them yet.

More details about the content bundled with the Zune-Halo 3 after the jump.

Music:

• Halo Original Soundtrack – Complete Album
• Halo 2 Original Soundtrack, Volume 1 – All tracks by Marty O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori
• Halo 2 Original Soundtrack, Volume 2 – Complete Album

Videos:

• Halo 3 "Starry Night" advertisement
• Halo 3 E3 2006 announcement trailer
• Halo 2 theatrical teaser trailer
• Three Halo 3 "making of" documentary videos
• A custom episode of Red vs. Blue – just for Zune!
• The first six episodes of Red vs. Blue Season 1

Artwork:

• Over 120 different images, including game concept art, storyboards, paintings, and conceptual marketing imagery

That sounds a lot more interesting than the content bundled with the regular Zune. But be careful not to erase the content before you save it on your computer though.