Previously, we reported about last week’s MLG San Diego unveiling of the remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s popular “Chill Out” map for Halo 3.

Well, Bungie has graced us with two screenshots of “Cold Storage” with MUCH better quality. One’s above, but the full resolution photos are after the jump.
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So who remembers Chill Out? One of the all-time greatest hits for Halo gamers from the ol’ Halo:Combat Evolved days. Well good news for Chill Out fans is, the cool level is getting a makeover and will be coming to Halo 3 soon.

Bungie debuted “Cold Storage” at Major League Gaming in San Diego over the weekend, to quite the wild applause from the peanut gallery, which watched the first match on the new map.
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Adventurous map makers and modders will now have a some new toys to play with thanks to Halo 3’s Forge creation tool, park of the Legendary Map Pack shipping April 15th. On top of the new scaffolding and shipping containers that you can use to vanquish your enemies, the thing that should get you really excited is the new suite of visual filters. In this week’s Bungie update, Bungie reveals the latest Forge improvements, including some wild and fresh filters that will give your map a “juicy”, “gloomy”, “old timey”, “Nova”, or “Colorblind” look. So with all these filters, how did they forget the rose colored glasses filter?

Hit up Bungie for the full story.

Bungie Weekly Update: 4/04/08 [Bungie.net]