Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack

The Mythic Map pack was released 3 days ago, and contained 3 new maps, Orbital, assembly, and sandbox. All three are pretty large maps to play on, but are pretty good for team matches. (Which is what you can currently play on xbox live right now anyway.) Right now you can only play Team Mythic playlist on xbox live, which is pretty fun.

As you may already know, the new Mythic maps cost 800 microsoft points, and 1000 microsoft points costs $12.50. So, for one playlist, it doesn't seem like much of a bargain.

Many people have already bought the maps, however. Mostly to get achievements, try out the maps, and try forging on the new maps. Sandbox is actually really fun to forge on, as you have 3 levels of the map to use for anything. Along with a s**t of scenery items to place, and a nice budget, you can do a lot more than forging on Foundry. For example, you can make maps that you die when hitting the "ground" or boundary, and you can make maps that stay indoors in the basement. Or even use the main course with the basement together, seperated by a large tunnel.



Of course, not everyone likes forging, or cares for it anyway, but the maps are pretty fun. Sandbox is a fun objective type map when playing on the playlist, but not as fun for slayer matches in my opinion. Orbital is a large, but fun map to play on for different types of matches. And assembly is pretty cool too, just not as great as the other two for me.

The skull and easy achievements are pretty much 'gimme' gamer score, and are probably there to lure more people into buying the new maps. Some of them are a challenge, but they give you something to do.

At the moment, 800 microsoft points seems like a little much, but I'm not sure what they are planning to do with the playlists and the mytic maps. If you are interested in forging, sandbox is a very good place to forge(as it was intended to be forged on). The map pack is good, but could probably wait a little until there are actually playlists for it besides only team mythic.