Reminder: New Halo 3 maps available now

by Justin McElroy on Dec 11th 2007 12:45PM

We know that with the slew of new games being released, it's easy to forget about a little indie title called Halo 3 that came out in late September. But don't you miss those first days? Don't you miss that feeling you got when you first ripped open the plastic, greedily snatching the disc within and sliding it into your 360, praying all the while that the rings would not choose this day to visit you?

Now, you can reclaim a bit of that old wonder with the new, 800-point Heroic Map Pack, which is now available on Xbox Live. For $10, you can get three new maps (Foundry, Standoff and Rat's Nest) and remind yourself why even old, old, old men can recognize Halo 3's greatness.

Halo 3 - Heroic Map Pack

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i have to go and buy points today so GAY

Right. Totally homosexual to go buy points.

Can these maps be used on COD4?

LOL its getting that desperate eh?

We'll let your puncuation and spelling fou paux pass, but you get no love for not having a sarcasm detector. In all seriousness though, most of the people on my 80+ long friends list have already stopped playing Halo 3 for COD4 or have gone back to Gears.

In the pre-game lobby on COD4 I always like to ask "Wheres the sword on this map?" Everybody busts out laughing!

Bloo,

"most of the people on my 80+ long friends list have already stopped playing Halo 3 for COD4 or have gone back to Gears."

Same here, but i only have about 30 peeps on my list.
I popped good ole' Gears in this past Sat morning and had some good times.

"In all seriousness though, most of the people on my 80+ long friends list have already stopped playing Halo 3 for COD4 or have gone back to Gears."

Really....Gears? Why?

i think COD4 has the best set-up for a long life of multiplayer with a bunch with continuous unlockables. i stopped playing H3 for COD4 and have only gone back to it to play rocket race a few times.

But you can only go through prestige mode so many times until you get bored, so i think in the long run, people will be playing Halo 3 soon enough, especially with these new maps.

"Really....Gears? Why?"

Well, I have been playing online MP since the original Duke Nukem and even with the glitches, host advantage, and horrible party system - In my opinion Gears is the best multiplayer I have ever played.

I love cod4 but I really have a problem with the maps. It seems like there is always an enemy spawning behind you.

Bloo, that's "faux pas," and the term is reserved specifically for SOCIAL mistakes, which frankly nothing on the internet could possibly count as. Don't lecture others on how to spell if you can't yourself, hm?

On second thought, your own "correction" could be considered a faux pas. Hm, irony.

@onetrueping, my mispelling of faux pas was a conscious one - sorry you didn't see the irony. And this message board is quite social. Now go back to playing WoW and eating your cheetos.

Because deliberate misspellings are so easy to spot, hm? It was still a stupid thing to say. Now, go take your rage out elsewhere instead of joining the crowd that keeps the Joystiq comments so low-quality.

No, yours was a stupid thing to say. Now, go take your rage out elsewhere instead of joining the crowd that keeps the Joystiq comments so low-quality.

See what I did there?

Oh, look at that. You've "won" the conversation. Congratulations, your prize is basking in the glory that is people bowing in awe at your verbal sparring abilities.

Seriously onetrueping, you should turn off WoW every now and then and interact with real people.

Because obviously anyone who plays World of Warcraft isn't a real person, and thus interacting with them is far less sociable than shooting people online with a vocabulary consisting largely of words with only four letters.

I'd compare your classing of other people as "second-class citizens" for playing a game you don't personally like to a few certain organizations, but I'm holding out hope that invoking Godwin's Law won't be necessary to make you stop posting. At any rate, I'm definitely through here... brick walls rarely have anything interesting to say.

They charged people ten bucks for 3 maps? And one is a big empty box?!

I totally agree.
I'm going to buy them, and I would have had no qualms had there been 3 complete maps. Even though I imagine Foundry will be cool to play with... you pretty much ARE paying for one "incomplete" map that I for one will rarely use.

IMO, 4 maps for $10 makes more sense to me, especially if one of them is Foundry-like. The other two look like fun though.

But they even said that one of the maps is just a half a level from the game. So really it is just that one map that looked like a days work. I don't know. Count me out.

Delgado-
Foundry is a 'complete map', there is a default setting that is ready to go and playable. It doesn't ship as a blank slate, but has the added benefit of being able to be used as a blank slate. Just so you and others are aware!

no maps for me,got rrod 3 days ago :(

LIES!! All LIES!! lol jk

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They look sweet! Payday is manana so Ill get them after work and checkem out.

I'd buy them for $5 and not a penny more. $10 is just too greedy.

These will be free in time for Spring break '08, right?

As an aside- my friend and I totally ride mongooses on Sandtrap yelling, "Wooooooooooo! Spring Break!"

(On private chat, of course.)

I don't know how we could forget about them, we get a reminder every day with some kind of info about this map pack. I love the game news and the willingness to share info, but let it go, man! once is enough.

Here's why I don't think these maps are worth the money.

1. Bungie said the maps won't show up if anyone in a matchmaking game hasn't bought them.

2. If, by chance, everyone in your game has bought them, then it is still randomized, and there is just as much a chance you'll get an old map as a new one.

Based on those odds, I don't feel I'll get my money's worth of playtime in the maps.

I know there will be a playlist just for the new maps, but just because I have new maps, I don't want them to be my exclusive maps.

For me, it's just as well to wait for them to be free.

oh please, how hard is it to change playlists?
like 3 button presses?
Your either the laziest person alive or you just love making up excuses.

THESE MAPS ARE GREAT!
EVERYONE GET THEM!...

....once they are free. ;)

Oh boy how craptastic.

Reminder: New Halo 3 maps overpriced

That picture is frikkin awesome!

Well onetrueping, I'm glad your done. It was getting tiring responding to someone who tries so hard to appear intelligent. Valiant effort chap, good day.

Yea, a McDonalds meal is the same price as these maps, what would I rather do, stay in and cook food and get three maps to play and offer me hours of entertainment, or go out for one fast food meal.

The price is not a big deal to a shit load of people. Just compare it with other crap you would buy in your life.

omg y arent my comments appearing?!

oops i didnt think it was gonna work.

i dont know if i should wait or buy. i have gold untill next december.

Do I buy these maps 2 and a bit maps, or do I spend my points on Fahrenheit after I finish Psychonauts? Decisions, decisions...

Time to buy and download them :)

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