In maart nieuwe maps Reach
Door Milan Busink op 14 Februari 2011, Nieuws - Bron: 1upMicrosoft heeft de tweede DLC voor Bungie's kaskraker Halo: Reach aangekondigd. In maart kunnen we weer knallen in het universum van Halo.
Het gerucht van de afgelopen dagen werd vandaag officieel bevestigd door Microsoft. We kunnen 'ergens in maart' weer aan de slag met Six, de zesde soldaat van het Noble Team. Condemned en Highland zijn normale levels en Unearthed is een Firefight-map. Een definitieve datum is nog niet naar buiten gebracht. De drie nieuwe levels zitten gebundeld in het 'Defiant Map Pack' en kosten je 800
. Ook is er 150 extra gamerscore te verdienen met bijbehorende achievements. Interessant is dat Bungie helemaal niet wordt genoemd in de aankondiging en ook in de trailer is er geen spoor van Bungie te vinden. Bungie heeft echt niets meer te maken met de serie en Certain Affinity neemt het stokje over. Zij brengen vanaf nu nieuwe DLC uit voor Halo. Certain Affinity bracht eerder al DLC uit voor Halo 2 en ook Discovery en Stadium, tweel levels uit de Call of Duty: Black Ops-DLC, komt van deze studio. De ervaring hebben ze zeker.
Bekijk hieronder de trailer en lees de level-informatie.
Condemned: Condemned takes place aboard Orbital Station Gamma, a massive space station high in orbit above the planet Reach. Prior to the Covenant?s overwhelming invasion, Orbital Station Gamma provided long range communications for UNSC fleets and a vital lifeline between Reach and Earth. During the Battle of Reach, the station suffered terrible punishment at the hands of the Covenant but a few fortified sections remain intact, fully pressurized, and ready for combat. Condemned supports 6-12 players in a variety of action-packed game types, including Team Slayer, Team Objective and Free for All.
Highlands: Highlands takes place on the top-secret Military Wilderness Training Preserve on Reach. The Preserve is a large, wooded area where Spartan super-soldiers trained long before the war with the Covenant began. During the Battle of Reach, the Preserve was the site of key battles between the alien invaders and a group of Spartans who used their familiarity with these UNSC training grounds to significant tactical advantage...but not everyone who enters these woods makes it out alive. Highlands expands the fight with massive-scale engagements for 8-16 players in Big Team Battle, Team Slayer and Team Objective.
Unearthed: Unearthed takes the battle for Reach to a large Titanium mine and refinery located in the Viery civilian sector of the planet. This particular mine was built to take advantage of the exposed titanium inside a massive meteor crater. The titanium produced here is used in much of the UNSC hardware, from the chassis of the Warthog to the meters-thick armor plating of capital ships like the UNSC Pillar of Autumn. While this facility was quickly abandoned when the Covenant arrived on Reach, it still has significant tactical (and economic) value and it won?t be long before both humans and Covenant return to battle for control. Unearthed allows up to 4 players to launch a counterassault against the Covenant in Firefight and Firefight modes such as Generator Defense.
