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PSA: Halo: Reach Noble Map Pack now available
INCOMING MESSAGE ORIGIN: OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE CLASS: SSSS | ORIG MSG IDENT: 19738244 | DISTR: LIMITED / CODE-WORD RESTRICTED SUBJ: ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING PROGRAM (NOBLE MAP PACK) Message to all Spartan III operatives: Environmental training program classified "Noble Map Pack" is now available for download and evaluation. Program contains three new environments: Breakpoint, Tempest, Anchor 9 (see: visual archive). 800 Microsoft Points ($10) required for program access. New honorary distinctions (classification: "Achievements") will be awarded to the most dedicated personnel. Access to program may be obtained at this node. MESSAGE ENDS
Bungie offers a trio of video tours of Halo: Reach's Noble Map Pack
We got a brief demonstration last week of the three new Halo: Reach battlefields present in the Noble Map Pack -- however, don't you want a tour from the sage minds who created said arenas? Well, then, look no further than the three Bungie video tours posted just after the jump.
Spend 3 minutes with Halo: Reach's Noble Map Pack
Did the trailer for the Noble Map Pack fail to sate your still-watering palette? Did you need a more extensive taste of the new Halo: Reach multiplayer arenas before their release next Tuesday? S'cool, we gotcha -- IGN has posted a video tour of the new maps, which we've embedded past the break.
Pre-order Halo: Reach Noble Maps at GameStop for flaming helmet, inconvenience
If you pre-order the Halo: Reach Noble Map Pack from GameStop, you'll receive a Flaming Mark V Spartan Helmet for your Xbox Live Avatar. Yay, free stuff -- but that's beside the point. The point is that GameStop is taking pre-orders on downloadable content. Isn't the reason for pre-ordering to secure a copy in case the store runs out of stock? Not ... really a problem for DLC. It would seem that GameStop's strategy for dealing with a scarcity-free market is to hope nobody notices the lack of scarcity. The best part: This offer is available in-store, but doesn't appear on GameStop's website. So you have to go to GameStop to pre-order the DLC, and then go to GameStop again so you can get the code to download your map pack from Xbox Live. Unless you're a Power-Up Rewards member, in which case you only have to visit a GameStop once, and then the code is available to you online. That's ... more convenient. %Gallery-105054% [Thanks, Matt]
Things explode in Halo: Reach Noble Map Pack trailer
Just in case you were worried, the Halo: Reach Noble Map Pack isn't above good, old-fashioned 'splosions. If you need more than our word to convince you, we suggest you check out this new trailer. It's positively loaded with kablooeys, kablams and kapows. Also stabbing. And bludgeoning. %Gallery-105054%
Halo: Reach Noble Map Pack coming Nov. 30
True story: Just yesterday we were saying, "Huh, not as many people seem to be talking about Halo: Reach lately." Then, this morning we wake up to find that Bungie will be stoking the flames on November 30 with the downloadable Noble Map Pack. Get out of our heads, creeps! Ten bucks gets you access to three new environments. The first is Tempest (pictured), an abandoned shoreline facility featuring two symmetrical bases for 8 – 16 player fights. Anchor 9, an orbital dry-dock controlled by the UNSC, is a more intimate 2-8 player affair. Finally, there's Breakpoint, a series of frozen, modular archaeological labs for 8-16 players fracases. Oh, and there are 250 more Achievement points to be had, which we know is all you really care about. Monster. If that's still not enough new Halo, Bungie's challenging fans to make some of their own with the "Forgetacular Map Design Contest," the full details of which are right here. We'd love to participate, but we'll be too busy making foil hats to protect our precious thought waves. %Gallery-105054%
