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New Campaign New Hero New Tactics Much more than an expansion Halo 3: ODST allows players to explore dangerous new ground search the dark abandoned streets of New Mombasa for clues and fight back against the Covenant invasion from multiple perspectives. Dropping in as the rookie a new member of an elite squad of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST) sent into New Mombasa on a classified recon mission you ll be armed with specialized weaponry and upgraded technology including silenced weapons and a VISR enhanced vision mode. Separated from your squad you ll have to scour the city for clues in order to learn what happened to Buck Dare Dutch Mickey and Romeo. As you collect new clues you’ll experience the story from their perspectives fighting through the occupied city hours earlier. A New Way to Play: 4-Player Co-op Firefight Drop feet first into a new way to play Halo with the cooperative campaign mode Firefight. Form a squad of your friends over System Link or Xbox LIVE and put your skills to the ultimate test against the invading Covenant war machine for glory high scores and achievements. Do battle in multiple environments on foot or in vehicles and against increasingly difficult waves of Covenant attackers while Halo 3 s skull modifiers progressively activate to up the ante. After the Firefight relive and review every last kill you earned and see how your high scores and stats stack up against your friends and the community overall using Bungie.net s persistent online stats and Firefight leaderboards. 3 New Halo 3 Maps Three all-new maps make their debut for Halo 3 s traditional chart-topping multiplayer. Heretic Longshore and Citadel drop in alongside the original Halo 3 multiplayer maps all packed in and playable from one standalone disc. Twenty-four maps in all including the Heroic Legendary Cold Storage and Mythic Map Packs provide a peerless multiplayer experience near limitless content creation and customization via the Forge and Sandbox and a slew of new multiplayer achievements for Halo 3. New Challenges and Achievements For the first time Recon Armor for use in Halo 3 multiplayer will be made available to players who complete the Road to Recon challenge. Earn all seven of the Vidmasters a series of Xbox LIVE achievements that span Halo 3 s Campaign and Multiplayer and Halo 3: ODST and then visit your Bungie.net Service Record with a linked gamertag to enable your sweet new set of digital duds. If you already own Halo 3 you can get started now by collecting the Annual campaign achievement and the 7 on the 7th and Lightswitch multiplayer achievements in matchmaking. And if you ve already downloaded the Mythic Map Pack you can collect the hidden skulls on Assembly Orbital and Sandbox today. Community Features 4-Player co-op experience over Xbox LIVE or System Link screenshots saved films custom Halo 3 multiplayer map and game variants via the Forge…all of the award-winning features included in Halo 3 are packed into Halo 3: ODST with an extra 1 750 available achievement points piled on for good measure. And Halo 3: ODST introduces an all-new single player experience with new characters new weapons and technology and the frenetic cooperative experience Firefight an entirely unique way to play Halo. Bungie.net Integration What good is winning if you can t brag about it to your friends? Extend your gaming experience beyond the console with Bungie.net s expansive integration. All of your lifetime stats are aggregated into your online Service Record - every last kill every single medal and your entire collection of career post game carnage reports plus robust charts graphs and leaderboards allow you to instantly see how you stack up against the rest of your squad and the Halo 3: ODST community at large. Invitation to the Halo: Reach Beta As an added benefit of buying Halo 3: ODST players receive an invitation to participate in the Halo: Reach multiplayer