Video Gaming News - July 2005
Redmond, WA (July 1, 2005) - Microsoft today announced that the
Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack is now shipping.
From Microsoft:
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.
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