14 DAY TRIAL // Halo: Reach, Microsoft's most recent entry in its extremely popular franchise, will be on the receiving end of a brand new add-on, in the form of the Defiant Map Pack downloadable content.
Halo: Reach was one of the biggest Xbox 360 exclusives of last year, and impressed quite a lot of people with its touching story and top notch multiplayer.
The title already received one piece of new content, in the form of the Noble Map pack, and now Microsoft teamed up with Certain Affinity, who previously worked on the Halo 2 maps and the Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike DLC, to release a new add-on for the first-person shooter.
Three new multiplayer maps are included in the Defiant DLC, as well as new achievements worth 150 Gamerscore points.
Check out the official details on each map below.
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 metres-thick armour 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.
Halo: Reach's new Defiant Map Pack is set to be launched this March on Xbox Live for 800 MS Points.
Until then, check out the screenshots and a video of the three new maps below.
