CALL OF DUTY 4 : MODERN WARFARE (Official Discussion)

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Σύμφωνα με ανακοίνωση του community manager της Infinity Ward Robert Bowling μέσα από το blog του,
Οι νέοι χάρτες του COD 4 θα είναι προς διάθεση την πρώτη ευδομάδα του απριλίου για το ΧΒΟΧ360 και 20 μέρες μετά για το PS3 ...

Infinity Ward has
revealed that its Xbox Live-topping shooter Call of Duty 4 is
attracting "between 1.2 and 1.3 million users every day" just on
Microsoft's service - with PS3 numbers "monstrously huge".Speaking
to Eurogamer in London last week during the unveiling of the new
downloadable maps for the game, producer Mark Rubin revealed that
Infinity Ward had been hitting these figures "consistently for the past
two-to-three months, Monday through Sunday. It's crazy."He
added: "That's just 360. There's even more on the other platforms [PS3
and PC], but we just don't have the same numbering system. Overall,
even without the other consoles, we are beating the competition. PS3
numbers are monstrously huge. No other game has come close, either
online current, or total unique users in a day."

The
hugely popular contemporary update to the studio's previously
WWII-focused war franchise has been fighting with Bungie's Halo 3 for
the top spot on the Xbox Live rankings since its release, but has
pulled clear in recent months. Speaking on the rivalry, Rubin commented:"We've
created a lot of heartache for a lot of companies who go up against it.
I think Halo's website says they get something around 845,000 to a
million [per day]."Call of Duty is understood to have sold over
7 million units so far. While Rubin refused to confirm the percentage
of online users, he admitted it had exceeded expectations: "I
don't have an exact number for you, but it turns out to be a startling
number of people. For a lot this is there first time playing a
multiplayer game on console or PC. We're getting really high numbers."The Variety Map Pack for Call of Duty 4 is due for release in April. You can read the full interview with Rubin here.

www.eurogamer.net

Of course you're still playing. Everyone is. Since its release last November, Call of Duty 4 has soared into a position of dominance in the online FPS space, even outperforming Bungie's Halo 3 on Xbox Live.
So the release of the first major new content update due next month is, it's fair to say, already amongst the most desirable downloadable offerings we'll see on any platform in 2008. At least until the entire back catalogue of Steps appears in SingStore.
Last Friday, Activision and Infinity Ward held an event in central London to show off the new Variety Map Pack for the very first time, not just to spoiled press brats, but also a few of you lucky lot, too.
Eurogamer TV will be showing you the sights and sounds of Camp COD very soon; in the meantime, we caught up with Infinity Ward producer Mark Rubin, who told us all about the new maps, and all about how much his game is pwning Halo 3.

Eurogamer: Can you talk us through the new downloadable content - what are we getting for our money?

Say hello to Creek, one of four new maps in the Variety Map Pack.


Mark Rubin: It's four maps in the Variety Map Pack. It all really developed out of community feedback - we paid attention to what people were asking for and tried to include as much of that as possible. So we have four maps that are not only uniquely different from each other, but are actually in some way different from any of the maps we have in the game. We're trying to introduce some new gameplay elements that weren't necessarily there before.

The first map is Creek. This map, which is definitely different, is this big, open environment, with lush forest-type areas and creek beds. What it lends is for a much larger engagement range for players - snipers will obviously have a field day on this one. At the same time we've done something really unique with this map. We've varied up the terrain elevation so much that you have some really dynamic looking as well as playing elements when you're running around. The height changes are significant and something a lot of games have stayed away from. We didn't just do a flat map with a bunch of trees and say, here's your open field map.

The second map, Broadcast, was again based on community feedback. When we shipped and people were playing the single-player, we got a lot of requests for the TV station that's in the Charlie Don't Surf level. We thought that was quite funny, as it's just a big room but everyone wants a multiplayer version of that. It was a big challenge - you can't just make a multiplayer level out of a big room. That one took a lot of work. We wanted to maintain the TV station feel, but added a whole lot of new geometry around the rooms, and it's really become one of the most fun maps to play for me. It is great CQB gameplay but on a larger scale.

The third map is Killhouse, and this came about from feedback on smaller maps. It's basically a split-screen map - it fits on all the playlists, but is definitely a much smaller environment. Its art design is based on the training level with the board walls and enemy pop-up targets. It's a really fast, fun extreme map.

The last one is one of the best-looking maps we've ever done. It's a remake of Carentan that was in Call of Duty 1 and 2. I was incredibly impressed with this one - if you're doing a remake then you have to do something new with it. What we did was send our artist out to Chinatown in San Francisco and have them photograph everything. Everything is brand new, and I think they've created this amazingly visually intense level. It's so full of stuff - you walk in to every little room and it looks like people live there. I think they really went above and beyond.

The good thing about all of these maps is they're playable across all of the playlists - they're split-screen, system link, Live, they fit in everywhere.

Infinity Ward has revealed that the Variety Map Pack for Call of Duty 4 on PS3 will be available worldwide this Thursday

It's a week earlier than expected, and sees the double experience weekend move foward to begin this Friday.

The Variety Map Pack will cost USD 9.99 (GBP 5 - assuming it isn't altered for our region), which is a little cheaper than the Xbox 360 version at 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60).

Inside the bundle are four maps: Broadcast, Killhouse, Creek and Chinatown. We liked the latter two when we got to grips with it recently.

Pop over Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack review on Xbox 360 for more information.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=133989

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