Halo 3 Planet

[tag]Halo[/tag] 3 is getting three brand new maps come December 11th according to Xbox.com (Spring 08 for those not wanting to buy the maps).  Not sure how they were able to spill the details about the new downloadable maps before Bungie, but we’re excited that they are coming so soon!

Available for 800 Microsoft Points exclusively on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, each map presents a totally different play style.

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

All three maps will become available for free download via Xbox LIVE Marketplace in Spring 2008, just prior to the next wave of new Halo 3 multiplayer maps.

Foundry sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun!  We may need to have another Forge contest soon!

One of the defining characteristics of the Halo Trilogy has been the incredible [tag]soundtrack[/tag] that accompanied the beautiful gameplay.  Both Halo 1 & 2 had done a fine job with the music, but [tag]Halo 3[/tag] truly brought with it one of the best soundtracks the video game industry has quite possibly ever seen.

Today, Bungie gives us a taste of the full Halo 3 Original Soundtrack. It should be familiar to all of us who have already played the game, but it might still be able to send shivers up your spine if you’re a true Halo fan!

There is a lot of great content on their preview site, and certainly worth a look for musicians out there.  Bungie has even gone so far as to provide the original handwritten score ([tag]Sheet music[/tag]) for Halo 3’s E3 appearance.  Also on the site are some nifty photos, videos, and of course a preview of the songs available.

[tag]CPL[/tag] (Cyberathlete Professional League) is hosting a Halo 3 tournament of grand proportions this December (much larger than the Halo 50k some of you may recall).  We’re talking about a total of over $1,000,000 in cash prizes!

The $1 Million Dollar Halo 3 Tournament is being held on the 18th-22nd of December (participants are being advised to arrive on the 17th, and leave on the 23rd) in Dallas Texas this year.  The game setup is a 4 man “Free for All”, so no team action.  The first place prize is $250,000!

The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) released more details today on the $1,000,000 “Halo 3″ [tag]Xbox[/tag] 360 competition, to be hosted at the Extreme Winter Championships taking place Tuesday, December 18 to Saturday, December 22, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Dallas, Texas.

The “Halo 3″ Xbox 360 competition, which is a production of X Factor [tag]Tournament[/tag], will use a four-player Free For All (FFA) format and will be open to gamers of all ages. “[tag]Halo 3[/tag]″ has been rated “Mature” by the ESRB, and therefore competition participants under the age of 17 need signed parental consents.

It’s great to see some competition with prizes (although this seems a bit early considering the game came out just recently), and we’re hoping to see some team tournaments in the future.

Thanks for the tip Smelly Bob.

At least a few of our members predicted this would happen, but it wasn’t until today that we could confirm it (thanks for the heads up HaloHero). Bungie has started to give away sets of armor that are typically only usable by the Bungie Team. Starting today, they’ve given out two Recon Armor Sets.

Oh, folks are begging us for the Recon Armor perm, and we’re giving it out to a couple of community members today as a special treat:

ZB Shogun for suffering the most humiliating traffic accident ever:

Rubber Bullet

and…

Skyllus vBi for shooting himself in the head with his own Sniper Rifle.

Oh teh Noes

These videos have been floating around the internet for about a week, so you may have already seen these somewhat hilarious suicides. Bungie will continue to give out the Recon (and possible other armor permutations) to players who stick out in the future. They just ask that you don’t message them about it.

This seems like a really great way of promoting their video and screenshot feature in [tag]Halo[/tag] 3’s Theater mode. People are just dieing to get their hands on this armor.

Heh…heh…

Some [tag]Halo[/tag] fans found a really strange glitch in Forge recently.  Fogfun13 from our Forums shares with us that players are able to play as the Monitor on at least one map (Narrows) with weapons.   You can fly around the map, picking up weapons (and shooting them).

It seems like a pretty serious bug, and does require quite a bit of work simply to activate the glitch.  The steps have been posted on Bungie.net, along with some screenshots of the glitch in action.

So far, its only been confirmed on narrows. Here’s how to do it. First, you need to enter forge w/ someone who has laggy connection. Then, you must killn yourself by doing the following. Delete everything in the map including the respawn points. Put one respawn point anywhere and put all but one fusion coil around it. have someone hold the fusion coil, and when they drop it, shoot it. this will cause the neverending explosion thingy. we recomend you add crates too(they seem to help the explosion. now, this will sorta overload the map. YOU KILL YOURSELF IN THE EXPLOSION. other wise it wont work. While the respawn timer is on, the person with the laggy connection must leave game. this should birng up a black screen. If everything is done correctly, when you respawn, you shouldn’t seen your weapon, andshould be able to fly. you can pick up weapons, but you cant see them. when ppl look at you they see the monitor. Holding guns. this works for all weapons even the flame. we have not tried the missle pod or machine gun yet though.

we will try more maps, other weapons, and put up some videos asap.

credit goes to:
Fogfun11 (me)
joewilkill
IXI Daiki IXI
JOLL OLLY MAN
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