Halo 3's 3rd Map Pack Details Forthcoming?
If there is one franchise that's destined to remain in gamer's hearts for the next few years it definitely is the Halo series. While Bungie is already hard at work on the next highly classified project they are still serving out multitudes of multiplayer content to keep the Halo 3/Call of Duty 4 rivalry alive. Though not actual details have been announced as to the nature of the inevitable 3rd map pack, in traditional Bungie fashion, they have teased about upcoming levels with codenames and vague details about the content's of each.
While this is speculation at best it seems that Bungie's set to announce the third set of maps soon. There are two previously announced maps that did not make it into either the Legendary or Heroic map packs known as Moonbase Alpha and Purple Reign. Moonbase Alpha is described by Bungie as an original level set on a UNSC space platform orbiting Earth that is reminiscent of popular Halo 2 map Elongation. Purple Reign, by contrast, is said to be a Covenant-based map involving two bases and the remains of a Covenant scarab. Last Friday Bungie released a teaser piece at the end of their weekly update entitled "The Smuggler."
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This pretty much points to the possibility of this third map occurring in a Flood-infected area somewhere on the Delta Halo from Halo 2. Current speculation among elite fans place the map as being either a remake of classic Halo CE map Rat Race or Containment, a map from Halo 2 that was released as downloadable content. Either way, I look forward to this new title in the (hopefully) near future.
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