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New Halo Anniversary Screens And Trailer Show Off Classic Headlong Map

343 Industries has announced its bringing back a Halo 2 fan favorite map for its upcoming Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition, complete with updated visuals. The Headlong map is now titled Breakneck.

The announcement came today at the Tokyo Game Show. Here's the skinny direct from Microsoft :

Headlong – Section 21 once looked out onto the New Mombasa Orbital Elevator with pride and optimism. Now, with much of the city eviscerated by the Covenant’s brutal assault, the skyline remains only a shattered ghost of what it once was. Headlong provides a large, skyscraper-hemmed construction site with numerous vantage points for clever snipers as well as a large central basin for excellent vehicle combat. (8 - 16 players)

343 also demoed “Pillar of Autumn,” the first Halo campaign level, which has been translated to Anniversary Edition with better graphics and sound. It also dropped a few new tidbits about some of the improvements and fixes that have been made to the old gameplay experience, including “balancing armor abilities like Armor Lock and Active Camo,” and the addition of the iconic Magnum Pistol from the first Halo.

The open beta for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition beings on October 4. You can sign up here. The game itself launches on November 15.

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  • No link to sign up for the beta?
  • I want to buy this game, but I want to know if I should expect as many people to play this as Reach. I don't want to move over to this if the fan base is going to be small. (Seems unlikely that it will be small)
  • I can haz link for beta GI?

  • This is easily the best looking HD remake ever
  • I cannot even begin to explain how happy these screenshots make me. They must have updated his character model since E3 because Chief truly looks like he did 10 years ago now with the curved helmet and everything.

    This fall season is making it really hard to determine my most anticipated title. How can I with Rage, BF3, Skyrim, and this all coming so soon?

  • The countless memories running through my mind as I watch this. Halo fans can comprehend the mayhem we will deliver & endure while owning & getting owned on this map again.

  • Soooo...this game debuts with the reach engine with halo CE and reach multiplayer load outs? Probably should have been the game released instead of reach

  • As much as I can't wait to replay it in HD, I'm dreading that stupid Library level.
  • where is the link?!?!?!?

  • Mod
    The exclusion of theater mode from campaign makes me a sad panda.
  • I absolutely cannot wait!!!

  • One of my more favorite maps to mess around in Halo 2 when I thought I was going to make a machinima. :3

  • This is going to be so epic!

  • Awesome! It's always neat to see the return of some of the original maps, and it even has some touches from ODST as well.

    And yeah, where's the link again?

  • This looks awesome.

  • Loved that map, glad to see they're bringing it back with a little tlc. Also pretty interested to see what Red vs Blue does with the game.
  • cool trailer, still not getting the game though.
  • i want this game because im a halo fan but it's to much *** coming out on the 15 of november....you got SR3,AC:R,MVC:3,and now this.

  • I am so excited for this game....
  • HEADLONG!? any halo 2 map wins with me!

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