you cant perorder dlc idiot

Austin

I think he was joking, you fucking moron.

Poor Austin, go play with some big colorful blocks =) its fun and easy, no thinking invoved! FTW!

Exactly what I thought. April 3?! You kidding me?! I need it now! FEED MY ADDICTION!

amen ....

Microsoft charges publishers a massive fee for post-release data updates (such as new maps). Giving them out for free would be a huge financial hit for Infinity Ward. Not to mention they had to pay the level designers for their time creating the maps, as well as QA testers to verify their stability, and probably a few devs for specific code support.

That shot of Chinatown looks like Carentan! Ooh!

It is carentan :) It's a remake :)

Shipment is a great map if you know how to play it. ;)

I know how to play it, yo use sonic boom, matredom, and when you spawn, throw a nade. Then you die and the nade that you drop when you die kills someone els, thus keeping your k/d ratio up. =Laym!

Hahaha, it already is. Everyone is all excited for the CoD4 map pack- but the Halo 3 one is a ripoff and not worth it?

Regarding the number of maps in each pack- CoD4 maps must take much less time to make and are easier to balance. Halo has to balance weapon spawns, vehicles, many more gametypes, plus set it up for Forge.

How does CoD4 even integrate the maps into the matchmaking service?

i was thinking the same thing altho im gona wait for the maps on cod4 to become free and will buy the halo 3

Fish,
Are you serious? The level of detail for 1 COD4 map is multiplicatively more than a whole pack halo stages. AND the COD4 maps ARE balanced...which is more than I can say for any halo map that they bothered to ship with. One of the maps they sold was barely a map but more of a "make your own darn map" map.
And getting 33% more maps for your buck is not a small amount.
There's many good reasons why despite the zillion dollars spent on advertisements, COD4 is the most played game on live right now. One reason...better maps.

Because the game is more fun and the maps have more value IMO.

More Value = It's soooo much easier to make a campaign cut-out than to design something from scratch.

Sure Rat Nest is no different but at least it's very heavily modified so the only thing that stays is the style.

Fish, they have announced 2 new playlists. Apparently, only 2 in the beginning? Variety Team Deathmatch and Variety Tactical or something like that.

@JakubK666:
Correction -- it's harder to turn a single player map into a balanced multiplayer map.

@everybody:
For the last time, it costs IW nothing to send out a PC update, but Microsoft charges them an assload to put out an update on the 360, that's why PC users get the maps for free. I play the game on the 360, but would probably buy it for PC as well if my PC were good enough to run it.

cmon give the halo devs a break!!! Theyre trying as hard as they can to remove the gheyness from halo3...

but sadly the levels of fehggotry involved in shooting 10 year old kids who don't stop saying fuck...not even for one second.. is simply too much, ergo CoD4 wins

LOL
Call of Duty 5 is out in Novemer this year lol along with gears of war 2 and many other exclusives for PS3 and Xbox 360

early april fool's joke?

you will still buy them @ 10 though

I know! AWESOME!

Yeah, well life isn't fair.

PC users also don't get the huge game releases nor large amount of games that consoles users get.

Have a heart, they've already had to spend lotsa $$ on buying a PC that can run COD4 well.

Say it with me:

Cross-platform subsidies!

you have better graphics, less lag, and a larger player base, seems fair enough to me.

Ya well i am an idiot, I have COD4 for pc and 360. . . Long story. I honestly think it looks better on the PC. But then again I have 2 video cards soo? Did they come out with the winter crash map for the 360? BTW AWESOME!

GOTY

j/k no offense

So, you want Infinity Ward to foot the bill of making DLC just because you pay Microsoft for an online service? IW doesn't see any of that Live sub money.

Kodros, IW isn't "footing the bill" for the FREE PC map releases so thats an irrelevant argument. I am not a fan of this $10 for maps BS that started recently, sure I could refrain from buying it but then I will be screwed when trying to play a game online because most of the sheep will shell out money for something that should be free.
I can't believe the screw paying I'm gunna download the CD/DVD for free generation is this ready to shell out money for stuff that has always been free for PC users.