The teams at Epic Games and Microsoft Studios are celebrating Thanksgiving with a gift for ?Gears of War 3? fans ? the Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol ?Versus Booster Map Pack,? available for free this Thursday (Nov. 24) on Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

Presented by Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol, Paramount Pictures? action-packed spy adventure in theaters Dec. 21, the ?Versus Booster Map Pack? will feature five new maps available in social matchmaking playlists ? two brand new maps, Bullet Marsh and Clocktower, as well as Azura, Rustlung and Blood Drive from the ?Horde Command Pack.?

The teams at Paramount Pictures and Epic Games have created a new ?Impossible Mission? for ?Gears of War 3? owners to tackle. Players who watch the Mission: Impossible trailer and then complete the ?Gears of War 3? campaign on Insane Difficulty by Dec. 25, 2011 either in single or multiplayer mode will unlock the exclusive Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol Weapon Skin Pack. The ?Impossible Mission? 5-pack includes a ?Ghost Protocol? Lancer, Hammerburst, Retro Lancer, Gnasher Shotgun and Sawed-off Shotgun. All players who register and attempt to complete the campaign on Insane Difficulty will have a chance to win prizes, but only those who accomplish ?Impossible Mission? by the deadline will receive the exclusive weapons pack. Those who have already completed the campaign on Insane will automatically receive the weapon skin pack on Dec. 31.

Starting Nov. 24, gamers who visit the Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol experience on Xbox LIVE can enter to win ?Gears of War 3? and Mission: Impossible prizing. The grand prize is an ultimate home theater package including a Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol custom Xbox 360 slim with Kinect, 50? HDTV, 5.1 digital HD home theater system, and the Mission: Impossible complete DVD series. To enter, gamers can either watch the movie trailer on Xbox Live, text ?Ghost Protocol? to 72579, or download the free Mission: Impossible Gamer Pic & Theme pack. Each activity will gain gamers one extra entry into the sweepstakes. Full details and restrictions will be available in Official Rules presented in the Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol experience.

About Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol
This holiday season, two-time Academy Award®-winner Brad Bird directs, with producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams, the action-packed spy adventure Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates ?Ghost Protocol.? Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency?s name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on this mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know.

Tom Cruise returns in the starring role as Ethan Hunt and is joined by an international cast that includes Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Josh Holloway, Anil Kapoor and Léa Seydoux. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is directed by Brad Bird, in his live action film debut, and written by Josh Appelbaum & André Nemec. Cruise, who produces the Mission: Impossible films, is joined by producers J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk. The film will be co-financed by Skydance Productions. Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Paul Schwake and Dana Goldberg are the executive producers.