- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Halo 3 ODST is officially $60 (Blame Gates). But your actually paying less for more content.
Here's a list of the included content according to information released by Microsoft to the press today:
-Halo 3 ODST Campaign, which puts the player in control of different characters in New Mombasa during the events leading up to Halo 3.
-Halo 3 ODST "Firefight" mode, "a new cooperative multiplayer* mode where up to four players can assume the role of an ODST squad and fight together to take on increasingly challenging waves of enemies." Also: "As an ODST squad, you will face increasingly challenging waves of enemies together, striving to earn the highest scores possible, while various "Halo 3" "Skulls" are progressively activated." (It sounds to us like Gears of War 2's Horde mode.)
-Three new Halo 3 multiplayer maps on a standalone disc
-The more than 20 downloadable maps previously released for Halo 3 in the Legendary, Heroic and Mythic map packs.
-A key to the forthcoming multiplayer beta for the fall 2010 Bungie game Halo: Reach
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The campaign expansion was originally thought to be $30-40. Keeping that in mind, plus 3 new multiplayer maps, + $10. 20 other maps from previous Halo 3, + something. A new Firefight Mode, which is pretty cool and similar to GoW 2's Horde. The Product also includes a Beta invitation for Halo: Reach Multiplayer, which can be accessed from the Extras menu on the game disc. All of this adds up to about $60 +. So I think its reasonable. (Yeah, but I'm a douche. What do I know?)