Halo 2 Map Pack invades!
written by: James Cooper on 7/6/2005 11:07:36 PM
Grab your friends and polish up your survival skills...you’re
gonna need them. Microsoft Game Studios announced today that the Halo
2® Multiplayer Map Pack is now available in stores across North America
for a suggested retail price of $19.99 (U.S.). The Halo 2 Multiplayer
Map Pack is the first true expansion pack for a console game, featuring
nine new innovative and intense multiplayer maps that will add hours of
fresh, adrenalin-pumping Halo 2 combat. The Map Pack also includes an
auto update that improves multiplayer experiences by implementing
cheating countermeasures and tweaks to the weapons to further balance
Halo 2’s arsenal. The retail Map Pack also includes all prior Live
updates to save gamers time and to ensure the best possible multiplayer
experience for offline players as well.
Gamers who buy the package will also get special content that no true
Halo 2 fan will want to miss: an animated bonus feature that showcases
unseen side events during the Old Mombasa mission of Halo 2, and a
behind-the-scenes documentary that takes gamers inside Bungie Studios,
where they’ll see interviews with designers and get insight into what
inspired the new maps.
The maps breathe new life into Halo 2’s award-winning gameplay, and
they encompass a variety of environments that will appeal to every type
of multiplayer gamer. Set in a Forerunner environment on Delta Halo,
Containment is a massive, icy outdoor area suitable for vehicle combat
and large team-objective games. Warlock, a small- to midsized indoor
arena set in ancient Forerunner ruins, offers ample opportunities for a
variety of game types. Located in the streets of Old Mombasa near the
wreckage of a downed Covenant Scarab, Turf is a midsize urban combat
environment with narrow streets, dark alleyways and heavily defended
buildings. Sanctuary is a medium-sized symmetrical environment in the
sunlit remains of an ancient Forerunner temple. Gemini is a smaller map
set high in space above the lights of High Charity. Relic is a
medium-sized map set on a beach littered with wreckage from a dropship.
Featuring narrow passageways and a constantly moving conveyor belt,
Elongation provides a challenging environment ideal for a variety of
game types. Terminal is a large map that is great for team-objective
games, and it is filled with hazards including an active monorail that
players can move across. Backwash is set within the valley of a large
swamp covered with a thick mist. Rainfall and sound effects help evoke
the feel of a highly organic eco-system.
Halo 2 is one of the highest-rated and top-selling video games of all
time, with more than 6.8 million copies sold worldwide since November
2004.
