Bungie has unveiled more screens from two of the maps coming next spring in the Mythic Map Pack for Halo 3. Orbital and Assembly are shown below, the map pack will be out around the launch of Halo Wars. Visit Bungie's site for more pics.
Assembly
Orbital
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UPDATE 2: Well we finally have a bit of official confirmation. In Bungie's weekly update they unveiled the first set of new achievements that will go live when auto update 2 hits which will be "a bit closer to the Halo 3 one year anneversary." Bungie says these arent the only achievemets, but these are all they are talking about now.
* Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch (0 points) – Get to the rank of Lieutenant in any playlist in the new EXP progression system.
* Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 (0 points) – Enter into any ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month.
* Vidmaster Challenge: Annual (0 points) – After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts.
* Double Double (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get two Double Kills during any ranked or social match.
* Poor Yorick (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 Oddball melee kills during any ranked or social match.
* Came…From…Behind (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 assassinations during any ranked or social match.
* Defend This (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a flag melee kill during any ranked or social match.
* Flag Dropped (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 2 flag carrier kills during any ranked or social match.
* Road Rage (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 5 Warthog chaingun kills during any ranked or social match.
* Look Both Ways (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a Splatter Spree during any ranked or social match.
AddictGaming.com spotted something very interesting via Bungie at PAX. As you can see in the image the title screen still says Halo 3, but what is this "Mythic?" As AG noticed there are a few differences from the Halo 3 menu now;Full Story
Update: Courtesy of CrunchGear.com we have some gameplay footage of Assembly from PAX '08. Enjoy!
The latest installment in maps for Halo 3 was announced by Bungie today at PAX. Assembly is the map formerly known as "Purple Reign" and is a medium-sized covenant themed map. More to come when information is available.
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Recently, games magazine Edge awarded Bungie's extremely popular game, Halo 3, with the Edge Award for Interactive Innovation at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. Halo 3 managed to beat GTA IV, Portal, Rock Band, Super Mario Galaxy and Wii Sports for the award. Whether or not you agree with their decision is not the point.
The big news comes from what happened after Edge gave the award. In Bungie's appreciation, they released a new video which shows some features not supported in Halo 3 at this time. What could all this mean? We'll leave you with the video below to make your own speculation. Enjoy!
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With all the Fable 2 limited edition announcements today, there is a good chance people are excited. Well, here is another reason for you to plunk down an extra $20 on the limited edition. Master Chief-like armor will be another bonus.
Now you can put down Halo for a bit and play some Fable 2 without feeling guilty.
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UPDATE X2: The Bungie Day theme and gamerpictures have just hit the marketplace, you can see two of the gamerpictures at mygamercard.net (and the rest when people upload them).
UPDATE: If you want an early look at "Cold Storage" Bungie has just released a new Vidoc for download on the Marketplace or over at Bungie.net. Enjoy!
Well it is almost here again. No not the fourth of July, Bungie day. The day each year where we get to celebrate the Halo creators with free swag, and this year does not disappoint. Among the gamerpics and themes as usual for Bungie Day, Halo fans also get quite a nice surprise. The new map shown at MLG San Diego called "Cold Storage," a remake of Halo 1's "Chill Out," will be available absolutely free!
"Cold Storage will be available for free beginning on July 7, Bungie Day, on Xbox Live Marketplace.
Additionally, don’t forget to grab the one-day-only free gamerpics and theme on 7/7.
Beginning on July 7, there will be a 48-hour long seven-player FFA playlist in Halo 3’s Matchmaking where you can turn the calendar back to 2001 and control l Rockets, Invis and Snipe."
Courtesy of the day-early Bungie Weekly Update. Also the Legendary Map Pack will be dropped in price from 800 to 600 Microsoft points. So load up your copy of Halo 3 on Monday and chill out on "Cold Storage!"
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Bungie's Lukems and Shishka were on hand at MLG's latest event in San Diego to show support and give a special surprise. The Halo 3 map Cold Storage was unveiled as a successor to Halo 1's Chill Out. No information was given on a release date or any other maps pending completion. Check out the first screens of Cold Storage at MLGPro.com. Stay tuned to GPU for any pending announcements of the next Halo 3 map pack.
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Source: Bungie
Ghost Town
"Ghost Town is the fragmented ruins of a small 24th century water purification complex that geographically lies just North and West of the jungle foothills hydroelectric facility from the Sierra 117 mission. The well-protected facility built into a shallow ravine was once home to the Global Water Campaign, where the still somewhat-pure Kilimanjaro meltwater was transported via pipelines from the river and directed to this small outpost where it became further purified, and then transported via GWC trans-African pipelines along the Tsavo Highway for distribution throughout the entire continent."
Avalanche
"Avalanche is a lovingly crafted reimagination of Halo: Combat Evolved classic Sidewinder. It wouldn’t be wholly accurate to call it a “remake,” but elements of Avalanche are certainly culled from Sidewinder – it has the same familiar U-shape, multiple ways from base-to-base, and a whole sandbox full o’ vehicles to play with. But there are many, many changes too.
Avalanche is a large forerunner power station set on the front of a huge glacial shelf on an under construction Halo installation. The structure is pulling its power out of the densely compacted ice that constantly builds up behind the station before it falls into the ocean below."
Blackout
"As its name suggests, Blackout is a remake of the Halo 2 classic Lockout, a cold series of interconnected platforms and walkways. Where Avalanche was retuned, reworked and massaged into something both familiar and unfamiliar, Blackout is a remake in a pretty strict sense of the word.
It’s a UNSC research station set in the Arctic, and I am pretty sure that this is also where all of the R&D on military grade Otter Pop rations took place. Early on I thought it was going to be an oil derrick, but that changed over time. We have some cool racks of glacier core samples, Doppler radar and other pieces of research gear strewn about, which makes for a nice touch – and when you look up to see them make sure you notice the beautiful Aurora Borealis in the sky."
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UPDATE: Added a top-down view with weapon placements from Bungie's Weekly Update
No, not in terms of number of players, but in terms of a new map. Today Bungie Studios showed off the first of the new maps from the next pack due out later this spring.
Here is what Bungie had to say about the map:"Ghost Town is the fragmented ruins of a small 24th century water purification complex that geographically lies just North and West of the jungle foothills hydroelectric facility from the Sierra 117 mission. The well-protected facility built into a shallow ravine was once home to the Global Water Campaign, where the still somewhat-pure Kilimanjaro meltwater was transported via pipelines from the river and directed to this small outpost where it became further purified, and then transported via GWC trans-African pipelines along the Tsavo Highway for distribution throughout the entire continent."
Bungie also states that the map is great for one flag CTF, one bomb, free-for-all and slayer gametypes. No clues yet as to when to expect the next map pack. Stay tuned for more information.
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