The date was September 17th. It was almost exactly one week before the biggest release in video game history and everybody with a 360 was salivating uncontrollably with nothing but daydreams about Master Chief and how epic finishing the fight would be.

Then it hit. The fan.
Find out what after the jump.

A crappy quality video from a cell phone of the second biggest spoiler of all time took the internet by storm. Could it be? Somebody had actually gotten a hold of the biggest release in history and had the audacity to post a video a week early of the game ending that everybody had been looking forward to playing for years. It sure seemed that way, but unfortunately nobody had any way of proving whether it was legit.

Gamers were forced to make one of the most difficult decisions in their life: refrain from watching the most popular video in the history of the internet or give in to your cat-like curiosity and indulge in the glory that is the Halo 3 ending.

So what did you do? Did you look and spoil the ending of Halo 3 for yourself, or were you strong enough to resist temptation?

Man, Adam had it easy. All he had to do was resist a stupid apple.

That’s why spoiling the Halo 3 ending checks in at number 64 on Sarcastic Gamer’s top 100 Gaming moments of 2007!

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