New Halo 3 Map Unveiled

[tbone4690]

UPDATED: New Halo 3 Map Unveiled
'Narrows': a massive bridge over the misty void. New gameplay images inside!
by Patrick Kolan, IGN AU

Australia, August 15, 2007 - IGN AU just came out of interviews with Lars Bakken (Multiplayer Designer) and Frank O'Connor (Writing Lead) at Bungie. Straight from Lars, here's the description of the newest map, 'Narrows':

"It's a Forerunner structure. It's embedded in this cliff wall and it's a bridge. Imagine the - if you're familiar with Halo 1 - imagine the bridge from Assault on the Control Room, expanded, and made for multiplayer, so it's got multiple levels and each side has kind of a dug in section, and it's mirrored so on one side of each of the bases there's actually a Man Cannon, and if both sides take it at the same time they'll actually meet in mid-air, which is pretty cool.

"There are multiple areas that you fight over; there are some power weapons in the centre of the map. I'll give you guys a heads-up right now - there's actually a rocket launcher on top and a shotgun on the lowest level dead centre of the map, so when you guys play it tonight you'll have a little extra edge on the competition…"

UPDATED: We have four more shots from Narrows - featuring actual gameplay, PLUS one new shot from the single player campaign!

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/813/813197p1.html

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Looking great.

[JMW BOYZ]

Looks like a very nice map!:D

[tbone4690]

It actually reminds me of the map in Halo 2 where you had to get across, they had this in Halo 1 as well. I guess some people wanted it as a multiplayer level.

[Steel Escaman]

this map looks awesome all i know is that once halo 3 comes on will make a halo 3 clan if anyone is interested but for now its rainbow

[seanyc123]

Wow! What a unique and epic map! Thanks for posting.

[t3h 0p3r4t0r]

sweet!!!!!

[oO DARKSAINT Oo]

Great, another map for me to fall off of. LoL

[SeSsIoNz 07]

Man i miss that podlaucnher alredy.

I tossed enough people with it.

[Phantom1977]

Looks interesting, reminds me of the bridges from Halo.

Also in the September issue of EGM, the show 4 other Multiplayer maps. So that makes 7 shown so far, and EGM says it looks like 10 to 11 maps will ship with the game.

The names of the EGM maps are, Epitaph, Last Resort, Guardian, and Sandtrap. Sandtrap looks and sounds cool, because the have a vehicle called an Elephant (looks like a Jawa Sandcrawler) for both teams.

[tbone4690]

If you read a bungie update from like two weeks ago I think, one of the guys talked about how they were using forge, and they stuck a bunch of energy cores in the elephant, and had the respawn time of the engergy cores set to almost instant, and they were driving the thing around, with explosions shooting out of it, lol. They haven't decided yet if they want to keep that option open yet. I would love to see it just for laughs though.

[Phantom1977]

Sounds like fun :D.

They mentioned a few things like that, in the September issue of EGM.

The first one is, when bungie first started playtesting the editor out (called Forge). To of them (didn't name them in the magazine) started playing Jenga; by stacking fusion coils and crates on top of each other, and more of each. Until someone screws up, then the whole thing blows up in your face.

The second one is called, Grab the Mongoose. One person drives around the map, the other Moniters (think 343 Guilty Spark) try to snag the atv out from underneath him.

The third one is called, Magic Carpet Ride. Pick up a crate with a teammate on it, and race around the map without spilling him.

[TRAVxxTAZ]

That map looks really big!

Why are there Brutes there if it is multiplayer?

[gebbie]

That map looks really big!

Why are there Brutes there if it is multiplayer?


for added fun? lol

[tbone4690]

for added fun? lol

I should clarify that, that one screen is from single player, sorry.

[TRAVxxTAZ]

I should clarify that, that one screen is from single player, sorry.


Alright,thanks

At first i was like OMG Brutes in Multiplayer!:eek: AHHHHHHH!
but im normal now:p