jcap writes:
The Custom Map Team's makeover of Halo's singleplayer campaign has been released for Halo Custom Edition after months of anxiously waiting for its completion. With all new content, campaign has a completely new feel to it. Full details on the mod are in the continuation of this story.
For those of you who haven’t been following the Halo CE community news, over the past few months, the
Custom Map Team (CMT) has been on a mission which no one had gone on before - redesigning Halo’s campaign maps for Halo Custom Edition. Since it was started, every single map has had the addition of new textures, shaders, environments, weapons, vehicles, animations, sounds, and a redesigned HUD. And because it’s the Custom Map Team, everything is 100% user created content.
Weapons such as the upgraded Halo 3-like Assault Rifle, an Anti-Aircraft Rocket Launcher, a new silenced Sniper Rifle, a silenced SMG, and a Battle Rifle with a Grenade Launcher, in addition to every original weapon overhauled. New vehicles such as four new Pelicans, two new Warthogs, a drivable Wraith, and an Apparition have been added. A new, custom biped (Master Chief) has also shown its face in the mod. These are just a few changes/additions, so for a full overview you can either take a look at the final mod pics which can be seen in
this post, or you can watch it all in action in the seven minute release trailer, which has its link below.
The mod officially made its public release on June 25, 2006. Even with it mirrored on two servers, they were quickly taken down at 3:00AM EST due to roughly 250 people attempting to download at once.
To view the official CMT release trailer,
click here.
All of the maps can be downloaded either individually or as one big map pack
here.
To play the maps, you can use the
CMT UI as your main menu, designed specifically for these maps with the original Halo Xbox shaders.
Custom intro videos can be retrieved from right
here.
For first-time installers, or if you need help installing, follow the
CMT’s Maps Installations for Dummies guide.