Over the last year,Halohas expanded on PC in a major way. Thanks toHalo: The Master Chief Collection, nearly every mainline game in theHaloseries is now available to play on PC, includingHalo 3. However, in addition to the campaigns and the multiplayer featured in each game,The Master Chief Collectionhas also been receiving new, exclusive content, including maps forHalo 3.
For some players, it might be hard to believe thatHalo 3is nearly fourteen years old, but some might find it harder to believe that the game has been receiving new content in the form of multiplayer maps. Last month,Halo 3received its first new multiplayer map in over twelve years in the form of Waterfall. This map was separately fromSeason 6 ofThe Master Chief Collection.
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The second new multiplayer map to release forHalo 3, known as Edge, can now be played via the beta testing program.Edge and Waterfall are the first new mapsHalo 3has received within the last twelve years and it will give older fans of the game something to look forward to. However, for some fans, these maps aren’t exactly new.
The Edge and Waterfall maps were originally featured onHalo Online, which has quite a complicated history. BeforeHalo: The Master Chief Collectionwas ported to PC,Halo Onlineserved as a way for players to play multiplayerHalovia PC. The game included original multiplayer maps and garnered a loyal player base during its short existence.
Halo Onlinewas taken down by Microsoft a year after its initial release, but thanks to a group of modders, the game was made available to play for a short time afterwards by way of a mod called ElDewrito.Microsoft later took legal actionagainst the ones that made the original ElDewrito mod. Since then, the maps that were featured onHalo Onlinehaven’t been available to play for some time.
The release of these maps for theMaster Chief Collectionwill likely please those who playedHalo Onlineback in the day. It will be interesting to see what else 343 Industries will do withThe Master Chief Collection. Given how much time and energy is being put intoHalo Infinite, it’s fairly amazing thatThe Master Chief Collectionis still receiving new content. With the Xbox Series X/S port ofThe Master Chief Collectionand the release of the new Edge map on the horizon, now is as good a time as any to be aHalofan.
Halo: The Master Chief Collectionis available now for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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