News > Halo 3 details revealed by Bungie
November 15, 2006
Content taken from Destructoid:
Today is the five year anniversary of Halo: Combat Evolved, and Bungie has delivered some awesome news to celebrate. First of all, a Halo 3 TV commercial will be shown worldwide on Monday Night Football on Dec. 4, showcasing some CG for the fans as well as new music by Marty O’Donnell. After the commercial has aired on television it will then be available on Xbox Live Marketplace in full 720p for our pleasure. And to tide us over until Dec. 4, Bungie has also released the kickass Halo 3 screenshot seen above for us Halo" fans, or Halo Nation" as they like to call us.
The news doesn't end there though, they also announced new multiplayer maps for Halo 2, but mentioned this about those maps:
There are a ton of details we simply can’t reveal right now but we can confirm that this content will be coming out sometime next Spring and it will cost something to download. We can also confirm that this new content is only going to be available on Xbox 360 and that you’ll need a hard drive to download them (which is also required to play Halo 2 on 360 anyways).
Bungie has announced a public beta for Halo 3 coming next spring. They even confirmed that Halo fans "will have an opportunity to play Halo 3 multiplayer over Xbox Live BEFORE the final game is available."
They're promising more Halo Wars and Halo movie details as well, but they're keeping those secrets for a later date. For the short term details, here's what they had to say:
In the short term, we have the upcoming release of Halo 2 for Windows Vista which should be landing on a PC near you sometime early in 2007. In addition to delivering Halo 2 in stunning hi-res glory with online optimizations and a custom map editor, it’s also the only way to get precious Live achievements.Well that's definitely a ton of updates for 5 A.M. I was already pumped for Halo 3, but this only makes me more eager. You can hit view story for the entire unabridged Bungie press release. What do you guys think we'll see on Dec. 4 in the Halo 3 TV commercial?
