April 9th 2009 7:38 am PT

Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack

Content: Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions
Dash Text: [ESRB: M (Mature) BLOOD AND GORE,MILD LANGUAGE,VIOLENCE] The long-awaited Mythic Map Pack drops into Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Investigate Orbital’s abandoned hallways – before it was evacuated, the Quito Space Tether was heralded as the “Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium.” Witness Assembly, where Scarab hulls loom overhead, being decontaminated in preparation for the city-sized Lekgolo colonies that will breathe life into the massive metal husks. An excavation site surrounded by deadly Forerunner defenses, the mysteries of Sandbox are hidden high above, deep below, and right before your eyes. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.

Add the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack to your download queue

   

Game Add-on, Marketplace By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

permalink: http://majornelson.com/2009/04/09/halo-3-mythic-map-pack/

  • Blo0dliner

    Finally :)
    Just purchased it! Great maps!

  • Runway 360

    Major, the “add to your queue” link took me to the U.S. marketplace page though your nice links have usually led to the appropriate marketplace for respective user who click on them.

    Just FYI ;)

  • JaggedCrane

    Majors links usually lead to the UK marketplace for me =/

  • JohnnyricoMC

    okay, I’ll warn all my buddies who didn’t buy halo wars LE :)

  • wardenam

    About time :-)
    Been waiting for this one, i just hope they keep the mythic map only hopper for a while so i can get used to them.

  • TeakLocket

    awesome map pack

  • Sneeches

    ugh…another 10$, jesus I just bought the snowblind maps. There’s too much all at once.

  • Raz 360

    Surely the Legendary Map Pack should now be free (just like what happened to heroic maps when legendary came out)….Im waiting….

  • Bennyishere

    Don’t have the points right now, but will buy it eventually.

  • Etherphoria

    to Raz 360

    Bungie said the Legendary Map Pack would never be free

  • Anonymous

    wow, already got em. :P

  • Warrengonline

    [OFF TOPIC, but related to Halo Universe]
    With the Spartan (female) in Dead or Alive 4, are we going to see her (or him) in ANY other fighting game such as Tekken 6? I liked that game/genre cross-over and have been wanting to ask that for quite some time now.

  • oue

    Ah now I see why no “LIVE Activity for week of March 30″ waiting till next week Major ;) Still I wish you could post (2) weeks of March 30 and April week. Thanks!

  • Veive257

    Too bad my ace gunner is having a baby today :(

  • Quicksilver4648

    Buying now, these maps are great. Ready for the Sandtrap action.

  • moocow21

    So when are the Legendary maps going to be free? :|

  • Fileman44

    As I understand it the Legendary maps will never be free. Will these mythic maps be the same way? I know I’m buying them but basically none of my friends are. If they don’t become free then I will never get to play them with anyone I know.

  • moocow21

    The biggest problem I have with the Halo 3 maps not being free, is that some of the regular playlists (like social big team battle, the only game mode I’ve ever enjoyed in Halo 2/3) actually REQUIRE premium DLC. So basically I have to pay extra to unlock gamemodes that USED to be available to me at launch if I want to keep playing.. :( (Please don’t start with the $10 isn’t a lot of money argument, I know it isn’t, but its a matter of principle that I don’t pay for maps)

  • Louie

    These are great maps.

    Well worth the 800 points.

  • CryptoElite

    I hate how Bungie makes us pay for these maps if we want to continue to play online rounds. I always thought the Legendary pack would be free. What a ripoff, I can’t even play the game properly anymore.

  • xTheTruth72x

    I just quit playing Halo online. COD4 is better (imo) when it comes to a personal preference for realism. AND I can still play with my friends and enjoy ALL the game modes without the Variety map pack (I miss SWAT). I still love the Halo campaigns, but the $10 for the maps every time is just stupid and I refuse. All of my friends are with me on this (no joke). No one has paid for nor will pay for Halo maps. Bungie – You screwed up on this. MS – Quit being a tool!

  • Blue Thunder28

    all these maps are awesome!

  • hyghwayman

    Very cool addition to a awesome game! Thanks Bungie

  • JohnnyricoMC

    @cryptoElite: there are playlists that only need the free DLC, don’t be such a penny-squeezer, legendary was deal of the week just a couple of weeks ago.
    plus do you have any clue just how frustrating it was to owners of the legendary map pack that the content they paid for was basically unused on ranked?

    Don’t forget MS can pull the plug on online service for any XBL game at any time they feel fit to do so.

    Get a darn job if you find 10$ a lot, 10$ is about one hour of work, the maps Bungie made were whole months of work, do the friggin’ math.

  • CryptoElite

    I can’t play the FFA modes that was my main playlist. I assumed the Legendary pack would be free at some time. I never played a whole lot of Halo 3 online as it is.

    I think they should make it so if you don’t have the DLC you can at least still play any mode you want. The only reason they lock out people who don’t pony up the cash is they know most people will pay.

    MS could block games if they wanted to, but people would drop their Live subscriptions if they blocked a popular game like Halo. It doesn’t cost MS THAT much to run all the P2P matchmaking.

    Regular $10 fees, on top of the Live subscription fees, ON TOP of $60 for the game are a lot just to continue playing what I was able to play before.

    For what it’s worth, a LOT of other developers do a LOT more work and sometimes even give that content away for free. Halo is popular so Bungie and MS know they can milk the community.

  • Rune 70

    Paying for new maps for an FPS that should be free? Right…

    *Visits FPS Banana*
    *Goes back and plays various Valve titles*

  • Computerdude103

    Microsoft is punishing the fans by not making the legendary maps free… those of us who bought them a year ago when they came out cannot enjoy them in many of the mathcmaking playlists, beause bungie cannot require users to have them in all the playlists until everybody has them downloaded. and everybody isn’;t gonna have them downloaded till they are free. so basically I can’t even play the maps I paid for (without playing a playlist that i don’t want to play). thanks microsoft.

  • Viper7751

    Bungie really outdid themselves with this one, lotta nostalgia going on. You won’t regret downloading it.

  • Viper7751

    I agree with the comments on Legendary though. I think blackout is coming to MLG soon, I was surprised when I heard it wasn’t already in it, cmon it’s a classic!

  • S4miboi

    Sucks to be one of the people who paid over $100 for a code on ebay

  • Raz 360

    Thanks for all the input on the legendary map pack situation…i didnt know bungie said they’d ‘never’ be free? Really is a shame if they wont be cos Im certainly not gonna pay for them at this stage of the games life cycle. Id always worked under the assumption they’d be free once mythic came out.

    As this thread is about mythic Ill just say they are really good maps (got mine when I bought Halo Wars LCE).

    I know this has been stated before but seriously…when u buy a game its like £39.99 *UK price* and it includes say 10-15 online maps average. THEN they bring out map packs which cost 800 points (around £7). So working on the assumption its 15 maps, 39.99/15 is £2.66 per map. 3 maps should cost £7.98. All well and good HOWEVER we’re not factoring in the campaign you get with games in the original 39.99 price… so basically what Im saying is, i don’t know how they come up with the numbers to charge for the maps? If they were say £1.50 each then I could maybe understand, and @ 400-500 points Id probably have bought the legendary maps when they first came out.

    Before everyone says “its just $10″ or whatever, they should know I did buy the heroic maps, and got mythic in halo wars lce, i just got fed up with having to buy 3 overpriced maps when legendary came out, and will never buy them at 800 or 600 “deal of the week” prices

  • SteelCity Beast

    long-awaited :) NOT HIGHLY ANTICIPATED (from the podcast) ;)

  • II W4RLORD II

    Thanks!

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