Call of Duty 4 getting double XP Sept. 13-14

by Justin McElroy on Sep 4th 2008 3:30PM

When the Joystiq staff goes back to Call of Duty 4, it's usually because we're tired of getting our asses handed to us on a little silver platter in practically every other first-person shooter. Before too long we pine for the one game we've played enough that we're not embarrassed to admit to our team that we write about video games professionally.

But, according to Infinity Ward spokesman Fourzerotwo, we'll have additional reason to go back Sept. 13-14, when CoD 4 will be offering up double XP on PSN and Xbox Live. Come, play with us, and tremble before our staggering (and doubly rewarding) moderate competence.

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Tags: activision, call-of-duty-4, cod4, double-xp, fourzerotwo, infinity-ward, PS3, psn, Xbox-360, xbox-live

Reader Comments (42)

Time to prestige again...

Because, you know, Halo 3 has only been doing this since...what? LAUNCH?

There's a big difference though. Call of Duty 4 doesn't suck.

300,000 People on a daily basis would disagree with you.

300,000 people? Wow isnt that like how many people got raped in the Congo yesterday?

At least Halo 3 doesn't give you free kills on every fucking occasion!

3x Frags,Martyrdom,Airstrikes,Helicopters.Need I say more?

It could be. But scratch that figure: according to B.net, 645,000.

What, 300,000 foul mouthed 13 year olds? Just because something has a lot of backing doesn't mean it's good. Unless you think Bush is a good president because he got millions of votes, or you think shovelware is good because it sells a lot.

And the most insensitive comment of the year goes to...

Tmac, what the hell is your point?

Halo 3 isn't crap and frankly, it's more balanced than CoD4 will EVER BE!

In rebuttal, if it was all 13 year olds, then the game population would be zero. The majority of people on there just want a good game...it's just the youngins that stick out. Besides, the 1st time GWB was elected, Gore had more votes then him...so...and shovelware sells a lot because of uneducated folks.

A flame war worthy of Game Trailers.

Congratulations.

I enjoy COD4, it is different to Halo 3 in a good way.
Different is fine, no need to fights boys and girls.

Time for Prestige #8!

Hey, if I got 7 kills in a row, I earned that goddamn chopper. And it actually takes a mildly skilled player to get kills with an airstrike. You can't just call it in wherever. I don't get how 3x Frags is free kills either... but whatever. I don't bother arguing that Halo 3 sucks, because it's not like I'm going to convince anyone that "oh hey, the past year of my life? yeah, totally wasted, because this guy on the internet doesn't like my favorite game." I jes' ain't gon' stand fer no CoD4 bashin'.

wow there hasn't been a good ol' halo 3 vs. cod4 fight in a while

Yeah...then again it's kinda pointless considering that TF2 is so much better than either of them!

“Yeah...then again it's kinda pointless considering that TF2 is so much better than either of them!”

AMEN.

To be honest I only played Halo 3 online for the achievements and I never got 2x1,3 kills with sword (I can't believe how close I was from getting that one and I missed) and 4 kills in Lone wolves.
Then I bought the Heroic map pack to give it some life but what ruined the game for me was the fact that for some reason the game suddenly stopped by the last minute and regardless of my position I always appeared in 4th place which sucked because I’m not that bad at Halo also that it took me 5 minutes to join a match.

In the case of COD4 I stopped when I got the achievements ,I played it online but it suffered from the Current gen syndrome of Brownish graphics that make things really hard to see so I quitted in order to play more TF2 and *sigh Assassin’s creed.

Thanks. Thanks.

Joystiq are da $h!t.

Only they can take fourzerotwo "gut feeling" and turn it into statement of fact.

Rock on. I love this site.

Wtf is this the most negative stream of comments ever?

Not by a longshot

I like both games. I like HALO 3 for the vehicles and team games. I like COD 4 because the weapons and maps. Both have their flaws, both have their good points.

As if there wasn't enough level55ers these days!

Infinity Ward, F you for F'ing over the PC players every time!

I've not played my (PC) copy of COD in a while, what did I miss that causes this amount of vitriol?

All the updates and things, like this double xp weekend, occur later or not at all on pc. it's like they think that 90% of the pc players are pirates and therefore don't bother. it's that kind of mentality that tempts me to only buy pirated versions of their console games.

We got the map packs free though :D!

at one point i was probably one of the top 100 snipers in the game. None of my friends were playing it any more and i bought bad company, so i put my cod4 career on hold for a while. I hope to later come back and really refine my skills.

Top 100 - that's pretty impressive. I was also in the top 100, probably around 88 or 89.

I like COD 4, because...ya know...the character can RUN. ;)

Well I don't like CoD and find Halo more FUN!

Run all you want, but there's no escape from the dreaded Martyr!

Well I find respawning during an Airstrike way more annoying than Martyr.

any word on those new playlists?

is this why theyre doubling the xp?

I've grown tired of Call of Duty 4. I'll be playing the SOCOM beta non-stop anyway.

I got tired of CoD4 onlinke, so I just stopped playing it. I loved the campaign, and thought it was extremely memorable and perfectly executed, but that was pretty much it. Everytime I played multiplayer, I got paired up with people who have been playing the game since launch, and they are just as rude as people on Halo 3. What really made me quit Cod4 was when instead of answering a question of mine, they just made fun of me, and one even told me to kill myself. But then again, this isn't even a valid arguement, because judging a game by the people that play it is just silly. It isn't a company's fault that their game is played by someone you don't like.

I remember CoD4 online being completely unbalanced, unfair, and nowhere near as immersive as Halo 3. With martydom, choppers, air strikes, random grenade kills, and spawning with any weapon, it felt really cheap.

Halo 3 is more balanced than Cod4, and Bungie is always making changes to balance things out.

I love COD4. Fondest moment ever: randomly tossed a grenade which killed 3 enemies, then another random toss which killed 2 more, called for an airstrike without selecting a target(as I was now being chased by multiple enemies) which killed 2 more, then called in a heli...at which poing I was immediately mowed down. My martyrdom perk kicked in and I killed two more. Couldn't stop laughing...

PC gamers don't get the double experience weekend? WTF, console gamers get everything.

Except for you know Mods etc.

yeah pc miss out on everything
cept you know
mods, free variety map pack, free custom maps, more players in one match do i need to go on??

Halo 3 sucks. It's just fact. If you don't think so then you don't know video games.

I enjoy both COD4 and Halo3. For you who say Halo3 is more of a teamwork game and COD4 gives free kills, you are outside you dam* mind. Play a little Team Hardcore Deathmatch and you will learn what strategy is all about. You can't always run and gun like you can on Halo3. Lets, talk about easy fraking kills... sticky grenades, gimme a break. Dual wielding weapons... okay. COD4 = strategy and a need for skill. Halo3 = prepubescent little punks running around talking shit, praying they will be the first to make it to the Banshee so they can splatter you like little f-ing noobs.

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