Nov 19
Mark your calendars: Halo 3 DLC coming Dec. 11th
In less than two months, the new Halo 3 Heroic Map Pack will be available on Xbox Live for 800 points. Included in the pack are three new maps — Standoff, Rat’s Nest and Foundry (all of which are detailed below) — that, for cheapskates like me, will become available for free sometime next spring.
Check out the full press release after the jump.
Halo® 3 players will be able to enjoy three all new multiplayer maps on December 11 as part of the Heroic Map Pack, the first in a series of downloadable content from Bungie Studios to come via Xbox LIVE®.
Master Chief is excited about the first Halo 3 downloadable content.
Master Chief is excited about the first Halo 3 downloadable content.
Available for 800 Microsoft Points exclusively on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, each map presents a totally different play style.
* The symmetrical valley of Standoff, with its entrenched bases and fields of boulders is ideal for mid-sized objective and Slayer game types.
* The vast, labyrinthine passages of the Rat’s Nest bring something completely new to the multiplayer experience: an indoor vehicle paradise. Strongly influenced by the Campaign mode, this map is ideal for big team battles.
* Foundry is the ultimate Forge map. Players can edit every single object in this voluminous industrial warehouse, placing stairways, walls, bridges, and tunnels to create an entirely new play space and build almost any kind of map imaginable.All three maps will become available for free download via Xbox LIVE Marketplace in Spring 2008, just prior to the next wave of new Halo 3 multiplayer maps.
We’ll have more information on the Heroic Map Pack, including how to get the pack for those who haven’t downloaded content before, as the release date nears.
What’s your take thus far on the three new maps? I, for one, am very excited, as the original twelve or so maps released with Halo 3 in September got pretty old for me very quickly.
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awesome but really not worth the 800 points. I’ll wait till their free, or get my brother to pay for it for Christmas
Sweet, I can’t wait. What caught my eye though is that they will be available for free “Spring 2008, just prior to the next wave of new Halo 3 multiplayer maps.”
They’re already planning exactly when maps will be out after this.
You omitted the best part - the pictures:
Whether I get these right away depends entirely on how many other people on my Friends List have them. I don’t want to be left out of any sweet custom games.
YES!