Xbox 360 Fanboy

i wait...so freaking long for a match in Halo3. 3-5 mins sometimes. CoD4? seconds.

New maps actually cost 7.50 but I do hope that they come out with a map editor. When you think about it though the maps are actually pretty cheap. 3 maps is less than a large popcorn and drink at the movies. Furthermore that stuff won't last as long as the maps will. Finally I'd like to point out that items that normally cost 7.50 usaully didn't take long to make while new maps require 100+ man hours.

Blake, nice try, but we've all spent $10 before and don't need a think-of-it-as-cheaper-than sales pitch.

The next map pack will be the 3rd chance to spend $10 on Halo 3 maps, which is $30 for those (like me) who started with Heroic map pack. If you play Halo 3 occasionally, $10 can be too much, especially with lots of other things to spend $10 on, like Moving Pictures DLC and Geometry Wars 2, to name just two.

$7.50? its 800 ms points. Thats $12.50 here in canada. 12.50x x3 + tax = $40+. $40+ for 9 new maps is quite alot of money. 100s of man hours? who cares? They could of used those hundreds of man hours designing a map editor instead, and we would have 1000+ maps for FREE, not 9 maps for $9.

Look at farcry, and upcoming farcry 2. They got a kick ass editor, and while yes, 95% of maps will be garbage, they also have a rating system, so people can find, play, and download the professionaly built maps for FREE. Because people like me enjoy spending 100s of hours designing maps and letting others play on them for free.

Theres just no reason to charge for extra mpas ever, in ANY game. I wish more developers would take the farcry route and inclue map makers in their games.

$10 wouldn't be so bad, if everyone purchased them... I loved the Heroic and Legendary packs, they were some of the best in the game (Foundry should have been free though). But since no one had them, it was pretty much $10 down the hole.

Would be nice if they incorporated a way to only play with people who had them, like COD 4 does with the veteran map pack. At least they will be good fun in Forge / Custom games with friends, even if I have to wait six months for them to half-ass them into matchmaking playlists I'll still get this one.

Well then you're missing out on a really great game, even if COD is a smidgen better.

Yeah I find it funny that it's "in no way affiliated with Midship" yet in last weeks Bungie Update they specifically stated (in addition to the above:) It's medium size, about the same size as Midship. It's symmetrical, it's purple, it's covenant themed.....

We'll see, I just hope that there's a true moshpit in this one too (their levels with a defined pit are more fun hill games in my opinion.)

hmm... I am 28, and I own almost 90 XBLA games. But then again, I look at the fun for the value, not what section its in, nor the stereotype I can make up to justify and fit my preferences.

Anyways, I will be buying it, same as the rest, and anything else that appears on Marketplace that is fun, and worth the money :)

They are, they have 3 seperate projects going on, so ones Halo related while the others aren't.