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Halo 3 celebrates Cinco de Mayo with double XP

by Justin McElroy on May 2nd 2008 1:45PM

Everyone knows that Cinco de Mayo celebrates when Mexican Spartan forces destroyed a batch of French Covenant troops in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. So it seems only fitting that the bravery and sacrifice of those armored soldiers be honored with a Halo 3 Double XP weekend (which has already kicked off) and a new playlist for Fiesta (which spawns players with random weapons) called "Cinco de Mayo."

Two words of warning before you begin jamming cervezas and the right trigger: 1. Everyone can get double XP but you need the Heroic and Legendary map packs to play in "Cinco de Mayo." 2. The party only lasts until Tuesday, with the fiesta becomes a siesta.

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Tags: bungie, double-xp-weekend, halo, halo-3, halo3, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (52)

People still play Halo 3?

Yes a lot of people do, Mr. I hate all things popular.

hai2u

Yes, millions of them everyday.

This requires the new map pack. Fuck that, Im not paying for that shit. Bungie is trying to get us all to buy it, motherfuckers.

my god! a company is trying to get customers to buy its product! Whoddathunkit?

Not gonna help...

In before the lifeless trolls that get their jollies coming into Halo threads and tell everyone how much they dislike it since no one will listen to anything they say in real life.

Appears the retards act fast, and I was too slow.

Watch Out

Our Slow Children are Fast

funny fact about cinco de mayo, they got their ass handed to them the day after.

So?

eres un pedejo hijo de puta de mierda!
apuesto que mi perro es mas inteligente que tu

le haces preguntas a tu perro? el idiota eres tu despues.

oh didnt think i was spanish eh?

MAS PUTO = Riggs

vaya, imagino que tan inteligente eres para suponer que la manera de medir la inteligencia de los canes es haciendoles prenguntas
suopngo eres gallego, no por nada tiene fama de pendejos
T_T;

eres un pedejo hijo de puta de mierda! x2

pd
your spell sucks!

¿Que?

¿Vaya no sabes historia verdad?

Si no me equivoco Ignacio_Zaragoza ganó pero despúes murio de una enfermedad el año siguiente.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_de_mayo

look at my comment below morons.

You sir are the moron.

Please GTFo of my internets retard.

Seriously, I'm starting to think there are more spanish speakers than english speakers in the US...

..Y yo soy uno de ellos!

@Sam

Ay! Un naco!

No lo desia de mala manera, no tienes que insultarme.

Era broma.

+ internets to joystiq for not taking the misconception of cinco de mayo being mexico's independence day.

@ riggs:

and they ended up winning everything back not long after and executing maximilian :D

the REAL fact is the day isnt even a celebration about that war :D

And jesus wasn't born in december, big whoop.

BLASPHEMY!!!

Shmil just blew my mind!!!!!!!!!! Everything I believed was a lie.

For all of you who doesn't know crap about history riggs is basically saying the equivalent to "the South won the U.S civil war".

Seriously we have wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_de_mayo

Lurk Moar,U newf@g.

@ mr.ESC: you call me an idiot yet your "knowledge" is based off wikipedia? lol @ you.

No I read book.The link was for you to read because I can't hand you a book can I?

Asshole.

Just go to your local library you retard.

Damn these trolls

I'm aware of the missing "S"

History channel,newspapers,journals,internet,books there are alot of things that prove that you indded riggs are an ignorant.

Go troll somewhere else.

lol @ u talking to yourself now. pathetic, and while your on wikipedia, do a search on "troll" you fucking moron.

I WILL play this game eventually... I swear by all that's holy I will... but I'm an agnostic, so what do I swear by? In swearing did I just choice a side? Damnit....

Swear by Ludwig or Justin, or your mother, or father, or brother, or sister. You could be a real fanboy and swear by your console.

REPUBLICAN SPACE RANGERS dun dun dunnnnnn

hey, buddy. i haven't seen you in a while. i think the last time i saw you, you were dogging on memphis as a duke fan. i would just like to take this moment of time to say "in your face"

that is all.

How about they stop all the dillydallying and give me Halo 3 on Windows XP

How about you stop dillydallying and just get a 360 and play it now?

Because everything else that i was interested on that system is already on the PC. The 360 doesn't appeal to me anymore.

I know its off topic, but I was still getting double xp in COD4 last night on the the new map pack. I thought it was only supposed to last the weekend.....not that I'm complaining.

@ riggs:

wrong again my friend. cinco de mayo is about the battle of puebla; a misconception here and there doesn't change the real background of the holiday, nor does it mean many don't recognize it for what it really is. ;D oh and btw you need to work on your spanish grammar lol

It's hilarious, Microsoft/Bungie/Halo3 all trying SO HARD to try to get the #1 spot in top game played, and to beat out Call Of Duty 4.
Months they haven't had #1, they had 2 new map packs, several contests, a "legendary championship" or whatever, the US ARMY thing, now Double XP. hhahahahah it's hilarious.

Didn't COD4 have a double XP weekend during their map pack launch? ZOMG! Tehy is teh despa8!

Err, if it was your game wouldn't you try hard to get it to #1 too?

I think for Cinco De Mayo, I will replay RE4

+1 for you, good sir!

Err bueno supongo,digo si odio a los Españoles y me desagradan bastante pero no se que tiene eso que ver con lo otro.

Pime Taradox.

Halo 3 if it wasn't because the crosshair is painfully slow and most of the time is hard to see what the hell is going on yeah I guess I would play it.

Meanwhile I'm still enjoying TF2.

TF2 Free weekend FTW.Goldrush is awesome.

i don't know what's happening to me. i haven't played my 360 in months and months. i've been upgrading my computer and playing pc games instead. my steam ID is D3ADPOOL if you want to add me

Mine is Mr.ESC,lol.

I'm going to upgrade my PC before buying the Pc version of TF2.It looks awful in my Workstation.

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