The “Break it Down” Blog

Major Nelson announced today that due to the popularity of the Black Friday deals on Live they are going to have additional deals for weekly for the moth of December.

First up is the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack. Originally priced at 600 points, it will go on sale tomorrow for 400 points for Gold Members in ALL Xbox LIVE regions. That is a savings of 33% (200 points.)
The special pricing will be available after 0900 PT for one week.

Here are some details around the program:
The special deal pricing is available for Gold Members only
Deal of week is a program for all Xbox LIVE regions.
I’ll announce a new deal on Monday, which will go on sale the following day for one week.

The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack contains:

Avalanche

The spiritual successor to Halo: Combat Evolved’s large snowy vehicular map Sidewinder, Avalanche is the Halo Trilogy’s current largest multiplayer map ever made. All Human vehicles on this map are snow-camouflaged, and two vehicles, the Hornet and the Scorpion tank, are now available on this map in Matchmaking. However, the Hornet was “toned down” for Matchmaking, the result being the lack of the homing rockets and weaker machine guns.

Blackout

The remake of one of the most popular and beloved Halo 2 maps, Lockout, Blackout was designed with a human theme layout unlike its predecessor Lockout, which had a Forerunner theme instead. The map also had spawn point changes.

Ghost Town

An entirely new map as announced by Bungie, Ghost Town bears a slight resemblance to the Halo 2 map, Turf. The map also may remind some players of a map of another popular FPS game, Counterstrike, due to its human-themed layout.