Call of Duty 4 map pack going live in 30 minutes

59 Comments by Justin McElroy Apr 4th 2008 9:00AM
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters

Infinity Ward spokesman "fourzerotwo" (or Robert Bowling, to his parents) has announced that the new Call of Duty 4 map pack will arrive at 6:30 PST, or 9:30 EST or, to put it in terms we can all appreciate: In 30 minutes. So watch a video or flip through the gallery, do whatever you have to do to prepare yourself. What's that sound like blood pumping out of your ears? That's you getting totally, absolutely pumped. ... Oh, also, there's blood pumping out of your ears. We should probably get you to a doctor. Think we can be back in a half hour? Come to think of it, can you drive yourself?

Once the maps drop (and you part with 800 points/$10) try to pull yourself away for a few minutes to come back and share your thoughts.

[Thanks, Lucas]

Gallery: Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat DLC

Tags: activision, breakingnews, call-of-duty-4, dlc, fourzerotwo, infinity-ward, maps

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Mills and Boom: Apr 4th 2008; 9:05AM

Is this free on PC?

JakubK666 (Ninja Defence Force): Apr 4th 2008; 10:06AM

The fact is that if any of these fuckers tried to screw us over it would be pirated.

That + the fact that most PC Devs have diginity to release stuff for free instead of charging us SHIT LOAD of money.

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force): Apr 4th 2008; 10:10AM

Most PC developers save it up and label it an "expansion pack." Dumbass....

Never confuse the mod community or Epic's generosity with common practices...

BananaBoat: Apr 4th 2008; 10:28AM

Well, granted, some of the mod made maps for stuff like Counter Strike and UT2003/4 are better than the stuff made by the actual developer.

That said, these are professionally made maps by people that actually know what they are doing. Ofcourse they are going to charge you money for them.

I know that people lambasted EA for the pay-for-weapons scheme on bad company, but really I'd like to see some new weapons in the next expansion (sorry, "Map Pack"). I don't even care if they have the exact same stats as guns that are already in the game. Tired of looking at the same weapons over and over =D

Mr. Objectional: Apr 4th 2008; 11:06AM

Infinity Ward released all their new maps for free before they started working on consoles. It IS the "common practice." Anyone who has been with the developer from the start knows that they supported the PC players very well.

Call of Duty 2 changed all that- when they never released the new maps on PC, all their forum regulars walked out and their community manager essentially apologized. I would expect better PC support for CoD4, or they are going to lose all of their PC sales.

One final note about IW and piracy- since CoD1, all of their games have had cd key checks while joining multiplayer servers. I hear they skipped that for CoD4, and if true, it was their own laziness responsible for their high piracy rates.

JakubK666 (Ninja Defence Force): Apr 4th 2008; 3:35PM

I was talking about the Priced Map Packs not the game piracy.Seriously when is the last time you've seen a PC map pack that's not free?

And it looks like there are still key-checks considering the amount of CoD4 hamachi servers.

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime): Apr 4th 2008; 5:44PM

Its free for the 360! just go to the gamestop or eb and get them to give u a pass key for some preorder then cancel it a day later. Hell I paid59.99 for it and thats what the goty cost.

xFenixKnightx: Apr 4th 2008; 9:09AM

Excellent...
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Mogg: Apr 4th 2008; 9:11AM

As far as I know it hasn't been announced for PC yet. 360 today and a few weeks later for PS3.

BonzoTASM: Apr 4th 2008; 9:31PM

few weeks later for PS3!!! CRAP.... that sucks.. One good thing about the PS3 is not every jack ass in the world has a mic... one bad thing... is that thier online content is like the bastard step child of microsoft... :(

Mogg: Apr 4th 2008; 9:13AM

I'm bummed I didn't get to finish Lost Odyssey before the maps were released. I'm on disc 4 and am probably 5 - 10 hours away from finishing it.

I'll have to work on balancing my time between the two this weekend.

Jomolungma: Apr 4th 2008; 9:17AM

As soon as I finish this paper that I'm supposed to be writing (instead of reading this Web site) I'll be spasmodically convulsing in front of the tv like most everyone else.

Ghen: Apr 4th 2008; 9:19AM

My ears hurt :( Eyes going dark... can't see to drive myself :(

xLV426x: Apr 4th 2008; 9:19AM

I've literally been sitting here staring at my x360 dashboard... any second now... any second.. ;D

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force): Apr 4th 2008; 9:26AM

Bah, I get all the shooting violence I need from God of War....

I... really need to quit readin gamepolitics so much....

xFenixKnightx: Apr 4th 2008; 9:41AM

Why are you against such a great game? That just isnt right, especially since its probably the best game on your fav console Sheppy. C'mon now!

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force): Apr 4th 2008; 9:51AM

Nah, not against the game, against the publisher. Trying to snag a used copy somewhere on the cheap. Everytime a listing goes up on craigslist, it's usually claimed within a couple hours... but all isn't lost. I added ~25 genesis games to my collection through that site on the cheap.

Besides, I just wanted to mention that a lawsuit is coming where a child shot another child over skills learned in God of War....

Because it amuses me so..

Phranctoast: Apr 4th 2008; 10:42AM

God of war shooting........ huh? Did the kid throw some lightning?

xLV426x: Apr 4th 2008; 9:30AM

FINALLY! downloading now! 1%....2%... :(

Intentless: Apr 4th 2008; 9:41AM

just wanna say I am amazed no one is saying it is too expensive... or oh god we are paying for a remake... I guess the trolls are just sleeping...

Zoot Suit Jedi: Apr 4th 2008; 10:14AM

shhhh...you'll wake them.

playwhutyalike: Apr 4th 2008; 10:25AM

Yeah, I haven't seen a Howl Pendragon post for quite some time now.....

Banhammer?

antV: Apr 4th 2008; 7:06PM

hell, I don't mind paying for GOOD content. just wish i could send the infinity ward guys 10 bucks directly instead of microsoft taking a bite.

Fosssil: Apr 4th 2008; 9:46AM

Downloading now!

baby sea tuna: Apr 4th 2008; 10:50AM

+1 for how excited your avatar looks to be downloading this.

Cole Mullenbach: Apr 4th 2008; 9:46AM

So Pumped for these maps... i was waiting all day yesterday for the possibility that they might come out early... The sad part is now i wont have time to play til tomorrow night... Its going to be a long day and a half

Caleb Andrews: Apr 4th 2008; 10:04AM

I'm in the same boat, my friend... Best friends party tonight and another friend's wedding tomorrow. As if the wedding wasn't going to be boring enough...sigh.

Haon: Apr 4th 2008; 9:49AM

I just hope I can download them. Apparently no one exists outside of NA, Europe and Japan to MS.

NATO_Duke: Apr 4th 2008; 9:56AM

Apparently those people that dont exist to MS also don't happen to realize that their countries have their own rules and regulations for sales in said countries, that sometimes work to slow down the process of new things coming their way.

Wake up. There is no MS conspiracy against you.

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force): Apr 4th 2008; 10:08AM

Of course there is an MS conspiracy. Why just the other day, my computer offered to install a horoscope gadget to my Vista.... HOW DID THEY KNOW MY HOROSCOPE?!? Or the weather for that matter?!? I go outside and it's 39 just like my computer told me....

They're watching me through that clock icon, aren't they?

killploki: Apr 4th 2008; 10:14AM

just do what i do, place a small piece of electrical tape on your screen over top of the clock....for extra protection, maybe try a strip across the entire task bar.

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force): Apr 4th 2008; 10:18AM

I tried that, but Comcast called me and said I was in breach of services.... SOMEHOW THEY KNEW!

playwhutyalike: Apr 4th 2008; 10:27AM

Windows Vista even knows my name! Oh, I had to type it in during the install, nevermind.

xFenixKnightx: Apr 4th 2008; 10:32AM

Still waiting for the funny part here guys =P

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force): Apr 4th 2008; 10:42AM

taint... that's a funny part

playwhutyalike: Apr 4th 2008; 10:48AM

Around these parts we call it a nifkin.

baby sea tuna: Apr 4th 2008; 10:52AM

It's a grundle over here.

playwhutyalike: Apr 4th 2008; 10:59AM

Taint Nifkin Grundle, Private Investigator to the stars!

Haon: Apr 4th 2008; 11:08AM

I live in a British Dependant territory so I should be getting the same rules that apply to Europe instead of some blanket ip block. Thats what I was getting at. Ive woken up, MS doesn't give a flying fuck. All I can do is vent.

markhill66: Apr 4th 2008; 10:17AM

Got it! It's rad. Porter Justice r00lz!

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime): Apr 4th 2008; 10:55AM

grrrr got to go get a new copy.

Ghostdog85: Apr 4th 2008; 12:16PM

Can't wait to see these new maps on the PC. I'm all for variety. I went off CounterStrike because everyone insists on playing Dust2 and only Dust2 all the time. COD4 servers generally have more choice but even so I think the game needed new maps.

IMO the game needs BIGGER maps too. Call me old-fashioned but I'd rather play a game of skill, not one of spam, which is what it is when you have about 40 people running about the place. Shipment? It works great as a map for 2 people playing split-screen on a console. With 32 it's just f*cking stupid.

Personally my attitude to COD4 online is a love-hate one. Sometimes it's great. And sometimes it's all about f*cking kangaroos constantly leaping around getting accurate sniper shots across the map in mid-air, spawn-rapings, random different server rules that see you kicked from one for camping and then kicked from another for not camping enough... and I have no problem with anti-cheat systems so long as I don't have to keep manually updating them all the damn time... which I do with PunkBuster.

Anyway rant over, my point being if the new maps are good enough to get me playing COD4 again and make me overlook all those faults I'll be happy.

Dux0r: Apr 4th 2008; 2:27PM

dude, if you want decent games of cod4 get on irc quakenet and join some pickups.

#mpukcod4.pickup is one of the best.

Acebuckeye13: Apr 4th 2008; 12:22PM

Meh. I'm more excited about the Halo 3 maps anyway. How come all the Call of Duty fans rip on Halo's $10 DLC when they all lap at the feet of Call of Duty DLC, which costs the same, has no plans whatsoever of becoming free, and Halo 3 has Forge? What's the matter with you people?!?

343 Guilty Fart: Apr 4th 2008; 12:31PM

What's this 'Call of Duty' you speak of? Are you a military recruiter?

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force): Apr 4th 2008; 2:20PM

Halo 3 has Forge? Timesplitters has a Map editor. SSBB has a stage designer. UT3 ships with Unreal Editor 3.5. I wish people would stop jacking off over Forge...