Pete_LeGrant June 18, 2009 Xbox 360 95 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

Microsoft says:

Listen up rookies! “Halo 3: ODST” drops on September 22, but will you
and your team have what it takes to survive the Covenant onslaught in
the new cooperative multiplayer mode, Firefight? Firefight will put you
to the test as you and your friends assume the role of an ODST squad
and fight together to take on increasingly challenging waves of
enemies. It’s where new “Halo” heroes will be born, and an opportunity
to step into the boots of a legend. If you pre-order “Halo 3: ODST” at
participating retailers, you will receive a token to unlock grizzled
UNSC hero Sgt. Johnson as a playable character in Firefight.

Fan
favourite and “Halo” series stalwart Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson is a
tough-as-nails career Marine who has been in more life or death battles
than you’ve had hot meals. He’s survived more infectious Flood
outbreaks, greased more Covenant bad guys, and earned more medals than
any other twenty soldiers. And now you get to walk a mile in his shoes.

New campaign
Developed
exclusively for Xbox 360 by acclaimed developer Bungie, “Halo 3: ODST”
is a new game in the “Halo” saga that lets people experience events
leading up to the epic story told in “Halo 3” through the eyes of an
ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper), as they search for clues leading to
the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the
Covenant’s invasion of New Mombasa.

New cooperative multiplayer experience
In
addition to a brand new campaign, “Halo 3: ODST” introduces a new
cooperative multiplayer mode called Firefight which allows “Halo” fans
to experience co-operative gaming in a whole new way: they will be
fighting as members of an ODST squad against waves of increasingly
challenging enemies across a variety of battlefields. This experience
is made even more intense with the integration of “Halo 3’s” “skulls,”
which progressively activate as time goes on to alter the gameplay and
up the challenge. Players will battle through wave after wave in search
of high scores, Achievements and bragging rights.

The complete “Halo 3” competitive multiplayer collection
“Halo
3: ODST” also includes a second standalone disc with three new “Halo 3”
multiplayer maps, all original “Halo 3” maps, as well as the
“Legendary,” “Heroic,” and “Mythic” Map packs for a total of 24 maps.

Ensure your place in the “Halo: Reach” beta
Purchasing
“Halo 3: ODST” will ensure “Halo” fans get access to the “Halo: Reach”
multiplayer beta when the beta goes live in the future. Announced at E3
2009, “Halo: Reach” is the prequel to the blockbuster “Halo” trilogy
and is scheduled for release in fall of 2010.