Today Bungie released the first screens of the first map in the upcoming Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack, due out this Spring. A general purpose map, Ghost Town is the ruins of a 24th century water processing plant built in a shallow ravine, and from the looks of these screens it is definitely my sort of map - plenty of places to hide while your teammates take care of business. Hit up Bungie for a tiny interview up with artists Vic DeLeon and Cameron Pinard and designer Lars Bakken about the inspirations behind this intriguing new map.
Ghost Town Revealed [Bungie.net]







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Looks really, really cool. The bright green is a nice contrast to the mostly dull set of maps already in Halo 3.
How many Ghost jokes can be made with a title like that? I mean we've a ghost buster hit movie, one of the vehicles in Halo is a Ghost, and Cortana is ghost-like when she randomly appears to Master Cheif.
Who you gonna call?
@Ghostyghost: Ghostyghost busters? :D
Looks fun, reminds me a little of turf for some reason.
First, nice that you added the colour to the borders by the name, now it is perfect, great work tech crew :)
Second, That mape looks good, but I swear that I have played something very, very similar before in terms of maps, oh yes, Far Cry multiplayer is it? Or hmm, like a bad case of deja vu, I swear I have played that map lol (It is something, from old xbox I think, maybe star wars battlefront... damn it.)
when does the first map pack become free?
Hm. More excited about COD4 maps. Hopefully they'll add some lush, green environments like these.
so i guess my bright pink spartan would stand out a bit there...
Sweet... but I still want some remakes. Where's my Beaver Creek?
Definitely promising. But red & blue don't exactly blend with all this nature. They should put some colored flowers in random places to spook you into thinking a dude's gonna snipe you. And then call you a 'fucking [racist/homophobic term] noob'.
keep them screens comin'!
@winston441984: that is the million dollar question
@Ghostyghost: GHOSTBUSTERS!!! :D
I bought the last map pack, wont be making that mistake again. No ranked games and nothing but basic mode types. Not worth while at all.
When everyone else gets them for free they may have a point again, but there is VERY little point in paying for the privilage of getting them early.
@Irenicus-the one and only:
What about de_aztec from counterstrike
hopefully itll be an awesome map
i mean dont get me wrong the maps in halo 3 are good an everything, but for some reason i find them lacking something that i liked about most of the maps in halo 2.... that being said wheres the foundation remake XD i like havin a tiny octagon map for quick games and a rediculous floor body count =P
Hey! there bringing santuary back sweet! I though that was a great map and this version looks pretty good.
I won't be purchasing the Legendary pack. There was no point in doing so with the Heroic pack; I bought it as soon as it came out and in the months since have played ONE, count it, ONE game on it. (Lone Wolves on Foundry, to be specific.) There's just no point to this if only a small percentage of players are actually buying it.
Hmm, reminds me of a cross between Rainbow Six's Kill House, Countersrike's Aztec, and various UT 2004 maps. Looks very cool.
Does this change the game to not suck?
@EdRoivas333: No it ain't that, the first screen that cover the article, I can see it in my head, me running around in first person shooting and stuff, jumping from pillar to pillar running across bridges and along the sides of the walls. This is going to bug me all night :P
Atm I think it was Far cry. Not sure though.
ha! It does remind me of a map in Far Cry.
I always thought Lockout was pretty awesome in Halo 2, and I didn't like Halo 2 that much at all.
*looks in Unreal Championship 2's direction*
I liked you, though. You little underdog, you.
Knowing a thing or two about water treatment and processing, I'll download it just to see how accurate the facility is. Should I worry that I'm a nerd about process operations and engineering?
@dude360: I knew it! lol Now I can sleep :)
This map looks the way I had hoped the actual game would look. Definitely the nicest looking map to date!
@Sloopydrew: I have to agree :)
I'm going to buy the Legendary Pack. I've been following the weekly updates and it seems that the new maps are right up my alley.
The Heroic Pack was pretty much a failure. Standoff seemed bland and brown and boring. Rat's Nest was too close quarters and convoluted for me to actually care, and Foundry was just for dicking around in Forge or using the custom game types. I guess it's nice, but meh.
But I do like me some jungle-style battle action yay.
I passed on Heroic.
Clausto-fragfest?, Sold!.
Prolly going to wait for them to be free. Bought the Heroic pack and enjoyed it, but haven't been playing enough recently to justify another buy.
@Ghostyghost: Finally have one:
I sure hope there are no ghosteses in this here video gaayme!
Obscure? Oh well.
I already paid all the money I'm going to for this game.
Yeah, I NEVER buy DLC but I caved for the Heroic map pack because I just HAD to have me some more Halo. Unfortunately, the maps kind of brought the suck. They weren't terrible but they weren't great either and there weren't a lot of full matches to be had. Fracturing the user base = bad idea.
Gah, similar to one of my ideas.
People steal my games and announce them durign GDC. It pisses me off.
Looks too much like COD4 for my liking, but it's kinda like the first level of halo 3(read: the environment looks like it's totally different) and seems interesting.
Leaked GoW2 screens? Reminds me of that temple-ish map for serious.
Can anybody say COD4?
Looks awesome, should be a shotgunner's paradise!
Question: Why is it that whenever there's a Halo 3 thread, there's a bunch of COD4 fanboys who feel the need to give a shout out to their favorite shooter. I play both, and the gameplay is very different...they're both outstanding games, and I don't understand the need to mention COD4 everytime I see something about Halo 3...so do us all a favor and keep your COD4 comments for COD4 posts.
Will so get the Legendary Map Pack when it comes out! This map is gorgeous! Can Bungie do no wrong?*
*haters need not reply. ;P
This town's coming like a ghost town.
So will this "Legendary Map Pack" be $50?
Looks nice, I like jungle-esc levels, looks like there will be a ton of hiding places.
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