Mythic Map Pack

The Mythic Map Pack will be the 3rd map pack released by Bungie for Halo 3, not counting Cold Storage.

Summary
The Mythic Map Pack was confirmed to include Assembly, Orbital, and Sandbox, and may include Heretic, Longshore, and Citadel.

Title Update 2, released on Sept. 23rd, 2008, gave information about Mythic through the form of new achievements. Numerous achievements have been listed involving the Mythic Map Pack, also showing the names for the maps.

The Mythic Map Pack, including Assembly, Orbital and Sandbox, is set to be released with Halo Wars Limited Collector's Edition on March 3, 2009 for American regions, and February 26 for Asia. Shortly after Halo Wars releases, Bungie plans to release the Map Pack as downloadable content. It is unknown what the date for European release will be.

Maps
Assembly, Sandbox and Orbital are maps that have been confirmed by Bungie. Assembly, Orbital, and Sandbox will be released with the Limited Collector's Edition of Halo Wars on March 3.

Assembly
Assembly was originally planned to be in the Heroic Map Pack, then the Legendary Map Pack, but was replaced due to the fear that it wouldn't be finished on time. It is suspected that the map is set in a Covenant Scarab Factory. Some say it is similar to the Halo 2 map, Midship. It is said to be fit for mid-sized Slayer and Team Slayer battles, and also supports objective gametypes, other gameplay details are indefinite.

Orbital
Orbital is set on the Quito Space Tether, a UNSC space elevator. It will be the first map in Halo 3 (campaign or multiplayer) to be set in outer space. Orbital is described as having two main corridors overlapping each other and having some interesting switches that grant access to certain areas of the map. An image of Orbital was released on Bungie.net in late December.

Sandbox
Sandbox has not been officially revealed yet and concrete information about this map is scarce. It was first referred to by the New Halo 3 Achievements and later officially revealed in a Bungie Blog post when it was announced to be released in the Halo Wars Limited Edition along with Assembly and Orbital. Despite the lack of official info, Sandbox is suspected to be a forge-heavy map larger and more detailed than Foundry.

Trivia

 * These Multiplayer maps will be the first multiplayer maps that have hidden skulls.
 * Assembly was the first known map in the Mythic Map Pack.
 * The Mythic Map Pack is the first Halo 3 DLC Map Pack that is available for players who do not have access to Xbox Live.
 * If you aquire each of the skulls on the Mythic Map pack, you will unlock a Vidmaster Achievment.
 * Bungie released new screenshots of Assembly and Orbital in a recent Weekly Update.

Related Pages

 * Heroic Map Pack
 * Legendary Map Pack