Heretic, Citadel and Longshore revealed

The final maps for Halo 3, Heretic, Citadel and Longshore, have been revealed earlier today. These are the three maps that will ship with Halo 3: ODST later on this year.

Heretic is a straight-up remake of Midship from Halo 2, and is by far the most visually appealing out of the three. This is a small arena style map with two bases. Good for 4v4 games, CTF and Slayer in particular were fun on this map if memory serves. Of course, this map being remade means that I can finally remake Death Trap. What is Death Trap you ask? Oh, you’ll see.

I have to say that Cidadel doesn’t particularly excite me right now. It literally looks like they’ve copy & pasted one of the rooms from the campaign level “The Covenant” here. It’s difficult to tell how this map will play, though I presume it’ll be a smaller map.

Finally we have Longshore. Bungie have stated that this is a Big Team map, and it kind of looks like Headlong from Halo 2 (Though I should mention that it’s certainly not a direct remake from what I can see in the above picture), which can only mean good things. Graphics on this map don’t excite me much though.

Click here for the official Bungie post, which includes links to high-res images of the maps.

As it stands, I give this a “Meh” considering that this is the last ever map pack for Halo 3, I feel sort of underwhelmed. What does everyone else think?

~ by pokeh on July 7, 2009.