Sandtrap

"A UNSC battle cruiser looms menacingly over Sandtrap's sprawling sand dunes. Shrine is the largest map ever to appear in a Halo game, so Bungie put a key emphasis on vehicle-on-vehicle combat. Shrine has few ties to older Halo 2 maps, but its massive size recalls Relic."

- www.1up.com on Shrine

Shrine is a multiplayer map featured in Halo 3.

Introduction
Shrine is a vast desert with rolling sand dunes, the largest multiplayer map in the Halo franchise. It features odd Forerunner buildings and is encircled with Automatic Turrets to prevent players from venturing beyond its boundaries. It has a heavy emphasis on vehicular combat. In the skies "ominously hovers" the behemoth of a UNSC Battle Cruiser - an artificial sky.

History
It was first announced in the June 2007 issue of Gamepro. It may also be the "large map" Bungie sparsely talked about in one of their updates. This was not one of three maps featured in the public Halo 3 Beta.

Weapons

 * MA5C Assault Rifle
 * Brute Shot
 * Rocket Launcher
 * Spartan Laser
 * Missile Pod
 * AIE-486H Heavy Machinegun (Assumed)

Vehicles

 * Brute Chopper
 * Warthog
 * Ghost
 * UNSC Battle Cruiser (non-drivable, background scenery)
 * Phantom (Not drivable, seen crashed in new video at bungie.net)
 * Banshee (seen in the new video about the Brute Chopper at bungie.net)
 * Albatross (Not drivable, seen crashed in new video at bungie.net)

Strategies

 * Bungie accelerated the respawn timer for vehicles. Take advantage of that.
 * Avoid fighting on foot through this large level.
 * If stuck try heading for one of the Forerunner structures.
 * Make sure you have plenty of grenades and explosive weapons.
 * GamePro has stated that Shrine "...has few ties to older Halo 2 maps, but it's massive size recalls Relic".
 * At E3, a map was shown on video. It was said by viewers to be called "Sand Trap", to have "sand dunes" and be called "... the largest map ever to be in Halo". This means that the viewers made a mistake and it is Shrine, or Shrine will be renamed Sand Trap for the final game.