Left 4 Dead Survival Pack dated

By Tom Bramwell Published 24 March, 2009

Gears 2 and Halo 3 packs dated/priced.

Microsoft has officially confirmed release dates for the Xbox 360 Left 4 Dead Survival Pack (21st April), Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack (9th April) and Gears of War 2 Snowblind Map Pack (31st March), even though we knew at least one of those already. The L4D pack is also due out for PC, presumably around the same time.

The Snowblind Map Pack follows a patch that introduces new Achievements and a new experience system and should be out today according to statements last week. The pack itself consists of four winter-themed maps. Check out the original announcement for more details. It will cost 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) as predicted.

That's also how much you will pay for the Mythic Map Pack, which consists of three new maps - Assembly, Orbital and the Forge-heavy Sandbox - and which is already available to people who bought Halo Wars as part of Microsoft's attempts to get people to shift genre late last month.

The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack, meanwhile, will be free, and introduces a new game moe called Survival, whilst also enabling Versus mode for the Dead Air and Death Toll campaigns. Survival involves trying to survive for as long as possible against a horde of zombies - a bit like, er, Horde, or other siege games.

We'll have reviews of at least one of the above around the time of release.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • bad09 #1 3 years ago

    Great just great! I ween myself off the crack of L4D with the support and love of my family, SF4 and Gears of Evil 5. Now they give a stronger crack? Bastards the lot of 'em , might as well hang outside school yards at valve.

    Might look at Halo, I picked it up again cheap a while back but not touched it since.

    Broken Resident of War 2 (sorry I'm getting confused!) went back to 2nd hand land....

  • hiddenranbir #2 3 years ago

    lol "game moe"

  • Prime #3 3 years ago

    If Valve can release L4D DLC for free on the 360 where the hell are my TF2 updates??

  • Dizzy #4 3 years ago

    Looks like I will be playing L4D and Halo 3 a lot next few months.

  • roz123 #5 3 years ago

    If Valve can release L4D DLC for free on the 360 where the hell are my TF2 updates??

    I think they are going to do a couple more class updates and then release a huge patch with all the new weapons, maps and achievments. Dunno when though.

  • StooMonster #6 3 years ago

    L4D awesome. But when are we going to see an official shopping mall level? Surely it's a zombie prerequisite?

  • RedSparrows #7 3 years ago

    mythic maps are good.

    Orbital > Sandbox > Assembly

    But Sandbox has soooo much potential...

  • Yossarian #8 3 years ago

    You're crazy, Assembly is the best of the three.

  • Dabs #9 3 years ago

    Moe game, moe problems.

  • Rich72 #10 3 years ago

    not managed to find a game on anything but sandbox yet. have they released some alternative maps for sandbox in matchmaking. either had TS above ground on the standard map or grifball in the (empty) underground

  • sneetch #11 3 years ago

    @roz123
    If Valve can release L4D DLC for free on the 360 where the hell are my TF2 updates??

    I think they are going to do a couple more class updates and then release a huge patch with all the new weapons, maps and achievments. Dunno when though.

    When they're done. :p

    The memory shortage seems to be the biggest problem.

    [link url=http://www.teamfortress. com/
    ]http://www.teamfortress. com/
    [/link]

    The XBox 360 update is still being worked on. If you're wondering what's taking so long, since the content is "done" on the PC already, it's mostly been around fitting it all onto the XBox. The original version of TF2 in the Orange Box was very close to the XBox's memory limit, and all the additional TF2 content we've produced has pushed well beyond it. We've found a couple of nifty ways to get back a bunch of that memory, but it's turned out to be a lot of work, and that's what most of our time is being spent on. In the meantime, we're going to get a code update out to address the server cheating that's going on.