We like large, vehicle-heavy maps, so Avalanche is our favourite. Still, at over two pounds each, these maps had better be good, and after throwing the Legendary maps onto the rotation for several hours, our first impression was that Bungie has done it again - here you have three maps which span a huge range of Halo gameplay possibilities, but each of which is intelligently executed, beautifully crafted and polished to a stunning shine.

Avalanche is more of a homage to classic Halo multiplayer map Sidewinder than an actual remake - a similar environment and layout, but radically different to play. For that price, you get three new maps, one of which is totally new, with the other two being updates of maps from earlier Halos.īefore you zoom down to the comments thread to complain about rip-offs, though, it's worth noting that while one of those updated maps - Blackout, an upgrade of Halo 2 map Lockout - really is just a case of shiny new textures and a few map design tweaks, the other map is a far more serious overhaul.

Not least because it's busy pumping out new maps, starting with the Heroic Map Pack a few months ago and continuing with today's subject, the Legendary Map Pack.įirst things first, the Legendary Map Pack costs 800 Microsoft Points, which means GBP 6.80 or EUR 9.60. That said, there are still hundreds of thousands playing Halo 3 online every day, so we can't imagine Bungie crying into its diamond-encrusted coffee mugs. We'd also have been wrong, because Halo 3's been eclipsed in the online stakes by Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4.

If you'd said six months ago that Halo 3 would not be the most popular game on Xbox Live in mid-2008, we actually wouldn't have scoffed at you - largely because 'scoffing', as far as we're aware, is something only done by characters in Enid Blyton novels - but we'd certainly have expressed utter disbelief.

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