Halo 3 Heroic Map Pack Review

Bungie has just released three new maps for it's hit game Halo 3. The map pack will set you back 800 Microsoft points or roughly 10 dollars. Should you buy it or wait until its free? Read on to find out.

The first map we will talk about is "Standoff." This map is the best map in the map pack and is extremely fun to play objective based game types on. If you play 4 player split screen you need this map. It's small-medium sized and is symmetrical which is what Halo . There is a base on each side of the map and a road going around the whole map. If you were a fan of beaver creek or you were disappointed that Halo 3 didn't have beaver creek then you must get this map.

An overview of standoff

The second map in the pack is called Foundry. This map is another small symmetrical map and a great map for split screen play although it is in no way limited to that as we found 16 player on live to be a blast. Foundry is a cqb map with narrow hallways and a few more open spaces. Foundry's hallways and barriers are made up of a bunch of new crates,boxes, and other various items (broken down trucks, spools, fences, fence boxes.) All of these items are now available to use in the forge. The man cannon and a giant soccer ball are also now available in the forge. We were able to make a really cool game inside of Foundry using the forge, it was a giant soccer match with open crates as goals and man cannons in the back of the goals for a kick off when you scored a point. We used gravity hammers to propel the ball. We also tried playing polo by having two people on a mongoose riding around swinging gravity hammers but we ended up flipping each others mongooses upside down over and over. This map has a lot to offer, it's a great map to mess around with in the forge and just an all around fun map for slayer and team slayer.

The third and final map is called Rat's nest. It is a medium sized map and it features a giant race track that loops the entire map. The track cuts across the middle of the track through the building which the track goes around. There is a rocket launcher located in the middle of the track and most games start out as a race to the rocket launcher so that you can rack up some kills against whatever sorry foe decides to hop on a vehicle again.

This is the middle of the track and on the right side is where the track cuts across the middle into the main building.

This is the inside of the main building.


Here we can see the amount of vehicles available to each team

All of the maps available in the Heroic Map Pack are very fun and are good additions to the current list of maps. If you play halo a lot, we have to recommend you buy the pack asap, it is well worth the 800 Microsoft points and we can guarantee you will have a good time with these new maps.