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COD4 Chinatown Preview (Gametrailers)
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that is just sick
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yeah i wish they would say an exact date for the release of these new map packs rather than "spring"
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I'm ready.
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We will have to buy these on xbl? Like Halo?
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from what i have read, it will be available in the xbox marketplace. no price has been confirmed...
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ftwhere is the pack for ps3 ... f my life
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YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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hope the same maps release for ps3. they better not be overpriced either if u ask me it should be a free download
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yo, I saw them run through the level on G4 last night. That level will be dope!!!
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more than likely it will be 10$/800 ms points
Call of Duty 4 DLC Map Pack Hands-On
If you're tired of Middle Eastern villages and Russian forests, take heart: Infinity Ward has some shiny new battlefields on the way soon.
By Brad Shoemaker, GameSpot Posted Mar 12, 2008 5:39 pm PT
Last year was exceptionally strong for first-person shooters. Yet despite being one of the latest genre releases in the year, Call of Duty 4 towered over itscompetition. There are so many shooters released these days that it's hard to stick with an online community for more than a few weeks, but even monthslater, we're still obsessively playing COD4's addictive online mode with no end in sight. So we counted ourselves among the incredibly fortunate whenwe headed down to developer Infinity Ward's Southern California offices recently to check out the game's first downloadable map pack, which is cominglater this spring.
Broadcast is taken from and expanded upon the Iraqi TV station mission in COD4's single-player campaign.
We got a chance to chat with IW community relations manager Robert Bowling--better known to COD4 diehards by his online handle, "fourzerotwo"--aboutthe pending downloadable maps. The first thing he told us was the first thing we wanted to hear about this pack: The Middle Eastern and Russian environmentswill no longer comprise the entirety of the retail game's lineup. Now that the team has moved on from the single-player campaign (and has time to work upsome new art assets), we can expect to see new Call of Duty 4 maps set in entirely new locations separate from the original game.
Well, except one of the maps in this pack. It's called Broadcast and is lifted from the Iraqi campaign "Charlie Don't Surf," in which youassault a television station where the enemy is holed up. Don't think the team just copied and pasted the campaign map into this multiplayer pack, though.It does contain the iconic, cavernous main room with its dozens of computer monitors and TV screens, as well as a big map of the world on the wall. We can tellyou from experience that that's a great place for multiplayer firefights, with all those cubicles to duck down behind and all that equipment just waitingto get shot up by you or your opponents. A large-scale multiplayer match concentrated in that room is going to be serious calamity.
But Broadcast has been expanded significantly throughout its incarnation in the campaign. There are multiple routes into and out of that main room. Some routeslead up to the building's second floor, replete with smaller rooms and hallways. The map is mostly indoors, so air strikes and helicopters will be largelyineffectual--except up on the roof, which you can access from the second floor, as well as in the expanded parking lot area outside the main building. On theother side of that parking lot is another new, smaller building that you can hide out in as well.
The second map we played is entirely new, and it's named Creek. But there's a lot more to it than a simple babbling brook. This is a very large-scaleoutdoor map with a small cluster of houses on one side of it. In the middle, there's a huge ravine circling the perimeter with multiple levels of pathwaysup its side. Down below, the trail leads along the eponymous creek bed to a waterfall. Elsewhere along the base of the ravine, there's a lengthy andwinding cave that cuts underneath the hill then out to the other side. As big as it is, there are a lot of places to go on this map; from pronesniping atop the cliff face to hiding out behind a rock in the tunnel, you never know where an opponent will be attacking you.
Creek is a massive original map with a high ravine, cliffside pathways, and a tunnel through the base of the hill.
Broadcast naturally looks exactly like COD4's campaign, but Infinity Ward's artists have done a nice pass on Creek to give it a distinctive look, withrocky terrain and various sorts of foliage that are more verdant than what you've seen in the previous Russian maps. It all feels a little sunnier and morepleasant than the game's other forested maps, too--at least until you catch a slug between your teeth. Because there's so much underbrush and shrubberyon top of the cliffs here, Bowling pointed out that it's a great map for you to use the sniper's ghillie suit for blending in while going for somesneaky kills.
There will actually be four maps in the final pack, though we can only really tell you about these two. The other two will be Chinatown, which is prettyself-explanatory, and Killhouse, which is a "bonus" map that we didn't get any hard details on (though we were told to think of the single-playercampaign's initial training level as a reference). The map pack will be available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the coming months for an unspecifiedprice. But interestingly, Infinity Ward hasn't decided how the maps will be distributed on the PC, where players are much more expectant of postreleasebonus content being released for free. Realistically, Call of Duty 4's multiplayer is so absurdly good that would have gladly handed over cash for whatevermaps the designers could have phoned in--so we're especially glad to see them putting so much time and care into this first release.
Call of Duty 4 DLC Map Pack Hands-On
If you're tired of Middle Eastern villages and Russian forests, take heart: Infinity Ward has some shiny new battlefields on the way soon.
By Brad Shoemaker, GameSpot Posted Mar 12, 2008 5:39 pm PT
Last year was exceptionally strong for first-person shooters. Yet despite being one of the latest genre releases in the year, Call of Duty 4 towered over itscompetition. There are so many shooters released these days that it's hard to stick with an online community for more than a few weeks, but even monthslater, we're still obsessively playing COD4's addictive online mode with no end in sight. So we counted ourselves among the incredibly fortunate whenwe headed down to developer Infinity Ward's Southern California offices recently to check out the game's first downloadable map pack, which is cominglater this spring.
Broadcast is taken from and expanded upon the Iraqi TV station mission in COD4's single-player campaign.
We got a chance to chat with IW community relations manager Robert Bowling--better known to COD4 diehards by his online handle, "fourzerotwo"--aboutthe pending downloadable maps. The first thing he told us was the first thing we wanted to hear about this pack: The Middle Eastern and Russian environmentswill no longer comprise the entirety of the retail game's lineup. Now that the team has moved on from the single-player campaign (and has time to work upsome new art assets), we can expect to see new Call of Duty 4 maps set in entirely new locations separate from the original game.
Well, except one of the maps in this pack. It's called Broadcast and is lifted from the Iraqi campaign "Charlie Don't Surf," in which youassault a television station where the enemy is holed up. Don't think the team just copied and pasted the campaign map into this multiplayer pack, though.It does contain the iconic, cavernous main room with its dozens of computer monitors and TV screens, as well as a big map of the world on the wall. We can tellyou from experience that that's a great place for multiplayer firefights, with all those cubicles to duck down behind and all that equipment just waitingto get shot up by you or your opponents. A large-scale multiplayer match concentrated in that room is going to be serious calamity.
But Broadcast has been expanded significantly throughout its incarnation in the campaign. There are multiple routes into and out of that main room. Some routeslead up to the building's second floor, replete with smaller rooms and hallways. The map is mostly indoors, so air strikes and helicopters will be largelyineffectual--except up on the roof, which you can access from the second floor, as well as in the expanded parking lot area outside the main building. On theother side of that parking lot is another new, smaller building that you can hide out in as well.
The second map we played is entirely new, and it's named Creek. But there's a lot more to it than a simple babbling brook. This is a very large-scaleoutdoor map with a small cluster of houses on one side of it. In the middle, there's a huge ravine circling the perimeter with multiple levels of pathwaysup its side. Down below, the trail leads along the eponymous creek bed to a waterfall. Elsewhere along the base of the ravine, there's a lengthy andwinding cave that cuts underneath the hill then out to the other side. As big as it is, there are a lot of places to go on this map; from pronesniping atop the cliff face to hiding out behind a rock in the tunnel, you never know where an opponent will be attacking you.
Creek is a massive original map with a high ravine, cliffside pathways, and a tunnel through the base of the hill.
Broadcast naturally looks exactly like COD4's campaign, but Infinity Ward's artists have done a nice pass on Creek to give it a distinctive look, withrocky terrain and various sorts of foliage that are more verdant than what you've seen in the previous Russian maps. It all feels a little sunnier and morepleasant than the game's other forested maps, too--at least until you catch a slug between your teeth. Because there's so much underbrush and shrubberyon top of the cliffs here, Bowling pointed out that it's a great map for you to use the sniper's ghillie suit for blending in while going for somesneaky kills.
There will actually be four maps in the final pack, though we can only really tell you about these two. The other two will be Chinatown, which is prettyself-explanatory, and Killhouse, which is a "bonus" map that we didn't get any hard details on (though we were told to think of the single-playercampaign's initial training level as a reference). The map pack will be available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the coming months for an unspecifiedprice. But interestingly, Infinity Ward hasn't decided how the maps will be distributed on the PC, where players are much more expectant of postreleasebonus content being released for free. Realistically, Call of Duty 4's multiplayer is so absurdly good that would have gladly handed over cash for whatevermaps the designers could have phoned in--so we're especially glad to see them putting so much time and care into this first release.
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Wait you can't play them xbl
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Come on now. Both are great systems to own and I don't feel one is necessarily better than the other.
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i also forgot to add there is 4 maps, not 3....
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when is this dropping?8`
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is cod4 on ps3 down again? havet ben ablet play for like a week....
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I hope its free..
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they wont be free and they drop in spring so we could have these as early as march 20ish...
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Originally Posted by MilitaryIV
peep the avy
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I hope it isn't one of them camper stages like overgrown and bloc..
@ camping.. Hope it's close combat action like wetwork or vacant.
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Chinatown is a take on a CLASSIC Call of Duty 2 map...
but... "in the coming months"?
At least they could give us a estimated date...
but... "in the coming months"?
At least they could give us a estimated date...