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"A UNSC battle cruiser looms menacingly over Shrine's sprawling sand dunes. Shrine is the largest map ever to appear in a Halo game(exept the Halo PC map Infinity, so Bungie put a key emphasis on vehicle-on-vehicle combat."

— www.1up.com on Shrine

Sandtrap is a multiplayer map featured in Halo 3.

Introduction

Sandtrap is a vast desert with rolling sand dunes, the second largest multiplayer map in the Halo franchise, the biggest map Infinity. It features odd Forerunner buildings and is encircled with Automatic Turrets to prevent players from venturing beyond its boundaries. The September 07 EGM stated that this was the site of a Brute excavation and the UNSC came along and removed them.^[1] It has a heavy emphasis on vehicular combat. Every vehicle in the game is on this map. For Example, the bases are the recently confirmed UNSC Elephant. In the skies "ominously hovers" the behemoth of a UNSC Battle Cruiser - an artificial sky. Also, from speculation, you can see what looks to be two towers just like the one on Relic. There is a tower that appears to be the level Epitaph, considering Epitaph is in a desert this makes sense.

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 the three maps featured in the public Halo 3 Beta. This map was originally named Shrine, but was confirmed to have been renamed to Sandtrap in the July 13, 2007 Bungie Weekly Update.

Spawns

Weapons

MA5C Assault Rifle
Brute Shot
Rocket Launcher
Spartan Laser
Missile Pod
AIE-486H Heavy Machinegun (on the elephant)
Gravity Hammer
SRS99D-S2 AM Sniper Rifle
Battle Rifle

Vehicles

Brute Chopper
Warthog
Ghost
UNSC Battle Cruiser (non-drivable, background scenery)
Phantom (Not drivable, seen crashed in video at bungie.net)
Banshee
Albatross (Not drivable, seen crashed in video at bungie.net)
Elephant
Brute Prowler
Mongoose
Scorpion
Wraith
Hornet

Strategies & Miscellaneous

Bungie accelerated the respawn timer for vehicles to 15 seconds. 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" — in contrast to having been called "Shrine" before that point — and was labelled "... the largest map ever to be in Halo." The new name of Sand Trap was confirmed in the July 12 Bungie podcast.

Images

Shrine.jpg
UNSC Battle Cruiser 1.jpg
Elephantwr8.jpg
M808 Scorpion on Sandtrap.PNG
H3 MP Sandtrap.jpg
Http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/thumb/4/4a/Mediaghghgg.jpg/600px-Mediaghghgg.jpg

References

^ Electronic Gaming Monthly September 2007 page 70

Gamepro Magazine, July 2007 edition

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 ==Introduction==
-Sandtrap 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 Turret]]s to prevent players from venturing beyond its boundaries. The September 07 ''[[EGM]]'' stated that this was the site of a [[Brute]] excavation and the [[UNSC]] came along and removed them.<ref>Electronic Gaming Monthly September 2007 page 70</ref> It has a heavy emphasis on vehicular combat. Every vehicle in the game is on this map. For Example, the bases are the recently confirmed [[UNSC Elephant]]. In the skies "ominously hovers" the behemoth of a [[UNSC Battle Cruiser]] - an artificial sky.  Also, from speculation, you can see what looks to be two towers just like the one on Relic. There is a tower that appears to be the level Epitaph, considering Epitaph is in a desert this makes sense.
+Sandtrap is a vast desert with rolling sand dunes, the second largest multiplayer map in the ''Halo'' franchise, the biggest map [[Infinity]]. It features odd Forerunner buildings and is encircled with [[Automatic Turret]]s to prevent players from venturing beyond its boundaries. The September 07 ''[[EGM]]'' stated that this was the site of a [[Brute]] excavation and the [[UNSC]] came along and removed them.<ref>Electronic Gaming Monthly September 2007 page 70</ref> It has a heavy emphasis on vehicular combat. Every vehicle in the game is on this map. For Example, the bases are the recently confirmed [[UNSC Elephant]]. In the skies "ominously hovers" the behemoth of a [[UNSC Battle Cruiser]] - an artificial sky.  Also, from speculation, you can see what looks to be two towers just like the one on Relic. There is a tower that appears to be the level Epitaph, considering Epitaph is in a desert this makes sense.
 ==History==