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Posted on: Sep 26, 2008
Halo 3: Finish the Fight...Again?
WORDS BY: Casey Lynch
For all the hub-bub surrounding Bungie’s long-awaited Title Update 2 to Halo 3, the scant changes included little more than a new playlist-specific EXP system and 10 new Achievements. So folks, the BR spread remains unchanged, damn it to hell.
Still, the Forerunner gods haven’t completely forsaken all you Se7enth Column faithful entirely; this week, Bungie let fly a new Halo-flavored and ridiculously cyptic video, “Keep It Clean”. For those of you who were still in the quad when the bell rang, you’re not too late for class just yet: the video is available on Bungie.net here or downloadable via Xbox LIVE for free.
At first glance, the video centers around what looks like ODST pods raining down over a recently shelled New Mombasa, with glimpses of intersections that look lifted straight from the Halo 2 multiplayer map, Turf. Among the gobbldigook, there’s mention of the Flood, warnings of dust and a momentary and near-microscopic mention of the date 1/6/09, giving us some hint as to when we might expect new Halo 3 content, content described on Xbox LIVE where you find this video download as, “High action and deep mystery await players in this new Halo 3 campaign experience. Prepare to Drop!”. The video closes with the words, “Halo 3”. Hmm…
Here’s our lighthearted outloud thinking: For starters, the phrase “Keep It Clean” has been popping up on the Bungie forums all year, in reference to someone/something called the Superintendent, who likes to say things like, “Pardon our Dust”. Secondly, the 10 new Achievements available currently are nestled among a list of 20 other unexplained Achievements, many of which refer to what appear to be 5 new multiplayer maps: the previously announced Assembly (formerly dubbed Purple Reign, which was unveiled publicly at PAX this year, video here, screens here, Citadel, Heretic, Longshore and Orbital, which together we surmise make up the Mythic Map pack.
Normally, a map pack wouldn’t be incredibly big news, but these have Achievements attached them, and a curious lot of them at that. Sure, there’s the basic ‘get a Killjoy or Bulltrue on any Mythic map’ Achieves, which is cool in and of itself, but then there are Skulls. Yeah, like Silver or Gold Skulls skulls. Perusing farther down the list, we find Achievements for finding Skulls, one on each of the Mythic maps. Skulls? On multiplayer maps?
That information, combined with the wording listed above mentioning a “new Halo 3 campaign experience”, has us convinced this is an expansion to the singleplayer campaign as well as a map pack, an expansion that could possibly veer away from telling John 117’s story. Among millions of other possibilities, it could perhaps offer co-op vignettes, perhaps involving ODST’s. Said vignettes could be played on themed levels that coincide with the Mythic maps. Or, MAYBE the one pod or whatever it is that we see in close up on the video could in fact be the chunk of driftship we last saw the Chief in. Or something like that.
Now, back to the Achievements: three of the 10 currently available aforementioned Achievements, called Vidmaster Challenges, offer no gamerscore for unlocking them: Annual, 7 on 7 and Lightswitch. News (that has since been removed) broke last week via Bungie Community Manager Brian Jarrard in Bungie’s weekly update that explained that there will be a reward for those who unlock said Vidmaster Achievements that supercede gamerscore. Paraphrasing Jarrard, he said something to the effect of “there’s more to life than gamerscore.” As if.
Anyways, here’s our hunch. Come 1/6/2009, if you’ve unlocked all three of the Vidmaster Achievements, you’ll somehow get access to either the Mythic map pack, the new “Keep It Clean” content or both. Or nothing. Pffft.
One last tidbit. You can get the number 117 by taking the “1” from January in the date above, and putting it in front of the sum of adding 6, 2 and 9. OK, now we’re officially Halo weirdos.
What do you guys think? New maps? New content? And what kind of shenanigans could Bungie be planning with 5 new Skulls? And seriously, who’s the Superintendent and what the hell are we supposed to keep clean? We have our theories, let’s hear yours.
Sound off, Spartans!
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Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:02
Posted by inter4522
I think this is the best of the best. The 3rd version is definitely the best. I love to play this game all the time.
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Wed, 01/14/2009 - 15:15
Posted by XxXAssassinXxX
IDK
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 19:25
Posted by Mr Slippy IV
So, do you think that the Mythic maps are campaign or multiplayer?
Mon, 10/06/2008 - 17:32
Posted by skanlakers
I know that they'll probably try to cash in and make more money, but they really need to just keep it a trilogy and leave it at the end of Halo 3. I just wish they had not ended with such a cliffhanger.
Sun, 10/05/2008 - 13:34
Posted by Edward Kilpatrick
well apparently its not about the chief but actually ODST's or helljumpers!
Thu, 10/02/2008 - 16:00
Posted by .Dan OXM
BUNGIE IS SO AWSOME
Tue, 09/30/2008 - 13:42
Posted by BlitzGear
I'm hoping that it takes of right with Master Chief.I don't think that they're going to use Fred and the gang because it's just not their style.If you watch the vid closely you can see the Superintendent saying something about Chief's coordinates.
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 16:08
Posted by HIITMEN187
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Mon, 09/29/2008 - 11:59
Posted by PlayerHaterz12
I honestly think that they should do an update to the single player with some added on multiplayer stuff as in maps,weapons,armor, and more. But I would like to see is like a Halo 3.5 or even Halo 4 with this update. Like a game download where it jumps u in where you left off in Halo 3 and player through a downloaded game like feature. That would be awesome, ive been all into gears of war getting ready for #2, but Im wanting to pick up Halo 3, esp now!
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 10:11
Posted by JasonPWhite
At the end of OPERATION: FIRST STRIKE, Fred, Linda and Will returned to Earth. This was on or around October 20, 2552 - when the High Prophet of Regret initiated a slipspace jump within the city of New Mombasa to go to the Delta Halo, taking In Amber Clad (and the Master Chief) along with it. The Battle of Onyx describes how Fred, Linda and Will defended Earth for two weeks shortly after this incident. Their missions took place in the Antarctic and Cuba. After the last operation in Cuba, Lord Hood commanded them to travel to Onyx to aid Dr. Halsey.
So here we have it: this is a campaign experience for Halo 3 where you play as Fred, Linda or Will cleaning up the New Mombasa mess, as well as other missions in Antarctic and Cuba.
I can't wait!
Sun, 09/28/2008 - 19:54
Posted by justjonny
I bet they are releasing a pc version like they did for gears of war.
Sat, 09/27/2008 - 14:11
Posted by volcane2004
what if the flood is in those odst pods?
Sat, 09/27/2008 - 12:24
Posted by blindside80
Free? Ha! Bungie will milk this for all it's worth.
Sat, 09/27/2008 - 11:48
Posted by cheeto
im really hoping its free stuff to download. cause im at skool and dont have live yet, so i wont be able to see wat this stuff is till i get home. please bungie be nice and make it free.
Fri, 09/26/2008 - 19:03
Posted by desolator live
I'm guessing it's some more single-player/co-op content since they do hint at a "new halo 3 campaign experience"
Fri, 09/26/2008 - 16:57
Posted by bahama mama
I was hoping for a next gen Marathon!
Oh well *sigh*
Fri, 09/26/2008 - 15:42
Posted by Eviltattoo
I also think it's an expansion of the single-player campaign, but about what, I don't know.
It'll be interesting anyways.