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1up wrote:Microsoft announced today that the first batch of new Halo 3 downloadable maps will be arriving on December 11 for 800 Microsoft points (about $10 dollars). Called the Heroic Map Pack, it features three new maps: Standoff, Rat's Nest, and Foundry. Standoff is described in the press release as a "symmetrical valley, with its entrenched bases and fields of boulders [making it] ideal for mid-sized objective and Slayer game types." Rat's Nest is "an indoor vehicle paradise," supposedly inspired by the campaign and suited for big team battles. And Foundry, perhaps most interestingly, is a map designed specifically for Forge manipulation; using the in-game map editing tools, "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." So get on that, game-developer wannabes. Now if you think $10 bucks is a bit steep for three new maps, rest assured that, as with Halo 2's downloadable content, they will eventually become free...if wait a while. All three maps will be free in spring 2008, "just prior to the next wave of all new 'Halo 3' multiplayer maps." Devious!

drinki wrote:i took back halo 3 becuase it was so boaring, now that i see these mps look tight as hell ill get it back again

Foundry was designed from the beginning to be a Forge level. There is an almost limitless amount of potential map designs that can be made by arranging objects in different configurations.