Heroic Map Pack for Halo 3

It comes as no surprise that Bungie will keep supporting Halo 3 through downloadable content. The company, and Microsoft, has announced that a “Heroic” multiplayer map pack will be released to gamers on December 11. And yes, it will cost money.

The map pack will offer three maps that will cost 800 Microsoft points in total. Here’s the deal:

Standoff’s symmetrical valley, with its entrenched bases and fields of boulders is ideal for mid-sized objective and Slayer game types, while Rat’s Nest’s vast, labyrinthine passages bring something new to the “Halo” multiplayer experience: an indoor vehicle paradise, strongly influenced by the Campaign mode, ideal for big team battles. Finally, Foundry is the ultimate Forge map - players can edit every single object in this voluminous industrial warehouse, place stairways, walls, bridges and tunnels to create an entirely new play space and build almost any kind of map they can think of.

For the patient, the maps will become available for free download via Xbox Live in Spring 2008, just prior to more new multiplayer maps.