New Venues for Victory: COD4 map pack IMMINENT!

Recently, a press release from developer Infinity Ward announced Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's first downloadable map pack.  This comes just weeks after Halo 3's free Heroic Map Pack release which opened up Foundry, Rat's Nest, and Showdown to the world's cheap and underpaid gamers (myself included).  The Heroic Map Pack has been available for 800 Microsoft Points for about a month and a half now, and I have to wonder if COD4 (Call of Duty 4 for the layman) will follow suit.  

 

Well, regardless of payment, COD4's new map pack looks, for lack of a more grandiose and stunning word, SWEET.  Succulently sweet, syrupy sweet, candy sweet, and any other kind of sweet you can think of.  It comes with four maps: Broadcast, Chinatown, Creek, and Killhouse.

Broadcast takes the fight inside a television station loosely based on one of the single-player campaign missions.  Chinatown is a re-interpretation of everybody's favorite COD2 map, Carentan.  Creek is a large outdoor map with plenty of cover and wilderness, and Killhouse is a live-fire training course that promises some intense fast-paced carnage.  The new game of the year edition of COD4 (out on April 3rd) will include these four new maps stock.  

If you're anything like me, you can't wait for these maps to come out.  Playing Countdown, Crossfire and Showdown all the time can get pretty boring and frustrating after someone snipes/C4's/noob-tubes you from the same spot thirteen times.  Hopefully, Infinity Ward will also open up some of the online maps for LAN play while they're at it.  Cross your fingers for split-screen online, but that's a rant for another day. 

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