After some difficulties getting out of the gate, the newest DLC for Epic's hit Xbox 360 exclusive is out in the wild and ready to play. Microsoft's also announced that it'll be rolling our free Gears 3 content on Thanksgiving, too. (That's American Thanksgiving, not the Canadian variant.) The Versus Booster Map Pack will deliver three of the maps from Horde Command—Azura, Rustlung and Blood Drive—along with the Swamp and Clocktower environments from Gears 1 available for more multiplayer combat. So, you're getting the maps from the paid DLC for free three weeks later, but with none of the other features from Horde Command. Of course, if you pony up for the Gears of War Season Pass, you're getting all this stuff anyway.
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