Call of Duty: World at War map pack coming in March

by Justin McElroy on Feb 10th 2009 12:24PM

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Following in the footsteps of the Call of Dutys before it, World at War will be getting a brand new multiplayer map pack in March on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. For an undisclosed price, you'll be able to add "Nightfire" (source of the above image), "Station," "Knee Deep" and "Verrückt (Zombie Asylum)" to your list of playgrounds. See full descriptions of them all, after the break.

We reckon this is good news for WaW fans, but bad news for our planet's reserves of WWII locations that haven't yet been turned into video game levels, a resource that's running cataclysmically low. Where's Al Gore when you really need him?
Nightfire

In "Nightfire," players take to the streets of a war-ravaged Berlin with only the flames of the burning city to expose the enemy.

Station

"Station" offers a bombed out underground train station littered with hidden passageways and destroyed subway cars.

Knee Deep

"Knee Deep" takes place on the island of Peleliu in a once tranquil village turned chaotic Japanese command center.

Verrückt (Zombie Asylum)

The fan favorite 4-player co-op Nazi Zombies Bonus Mode returns with "Verrückt," a terrifying Zombie asylum featuring more weapons, perks via the addition of Perks-a-Cola machines, electroshock defenses and the endless zombie horde.

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Tags: activision, call-of-duty-world-at-war, dlc, fps, Microsoft, pc, treyarch, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (57)

The zombie level sounds pretty interesting, really. I wish it was an all Zombie pack.

I agree
multiplayer is good but generic
nazi zombie mode really separates cod5 from cod4

people speculating/complaining about the price of maps incoming.

Yep, there's always several that think for some reason it should be a hand-out. I'm sure it will be 800 MS points (aka $10.00), which I feel is an incredible value, but as a hardcore fan I'd fork our 1600 points without even blinking.

If it does not come with achievements I will not be buying it :)

It will be free for pc, so i don't really care what it will come out to.

why would it have achievements? i might be wrong, but i don't think you can get any gamer points in multiplayer levels. you can only complete challenges to earn more XP.

By March I will be way too busy with Killzone 2's Multiplayer

May God have mercy on your soul if it's anything like the first killzone.

my thoughts exactly

The first killzone was fine. I still play it, it's honestly one of the three good console fps' to have ever existed. Not including ones that are multiplat on the pc (pc ftw).

I like the idea of te zombie map but i dont think ill be playing COD5 for much longer, after feburary.

perks a cola
MORE LIKE PERK A DOLLA!

Call of duty waw
what is that WAW ITS THE SOUND A BABY MAKES
WAW WAW

neither of your comments were remotely humorous. please stop.

Fail

I find your comments very humorous because I am a funny man.

Sweet! Can't wait to spend countless hours battling hordes of zombies!

Looks good! Should be a day one purchase for me, I enjoyed the COD4 DLC a bunch, so this should be no different.

I would have liked to see them add the "daytime" version of Makin to this pack (as a fifth map), just cause the PC version is getting it, and it can't be that hard for them to throw it in as a bonus. Aside from that, this pack should be good. Great to see them adding a Nazi Zombie level!

this time, the maps sound good unlike the cod4 map pack which most people skipped whenever it came up.

Nah, I rarely saw people skip Broadcast or Chinatown. Creek wasn't that good in my opinion, mostly because I'm no good at sniping and that's a sniping map.

The biggest disappointment in that map pack (for COD4) was the small "training" map they included that wasn't added to many (if any) playlists, it was too small for any team based games. I think I've only played on it a couple of times with some friends. It's ashame they didn't make it about twice/three times the size to at least accommodate some team matches.

Chinatown was amazing. Glad they brought that back from COD2 (it was Carentan). Probably the best map out of the entire COD series.

Can I haz some achievements with these maps? Or are those sold separately?

Although I like the new twists on the zombie mode, I'd rather have a new map to play MP with.

well they're selling you one and throwing 2 in as a bonus. :)

hopefully my roommate picks this up, cuz I'll be too busy spending money on halo wars

why is the downranked... makes sense..

Woo can't wait to get them. I just hope they don't cost as much as the cod4 pack.

Damn. I just got my first RROD on Saturday. I hope I get my console back before this drops.

Microsoft seems to have gotten pretty surgical with replacing them. Last time mine RRODed, i got it back within 10 days.

Quoting Justin McElroy ---

"Good news for WaW fans, bad news for our planet's reserves of WWII locations that haven't yet been turned into video game levels, a resource that's running cataclysmically low."

Sitting next to the WW2 reserves are the following just as low ones...

1 - Alien invasion
2 - Post apocalyptic
3 - Modern war setting
4 - Future war setting
5 - Alien planet setting
5 - Some combination of all the above.

Anyways. I'll be buying those eventually.

the modern war setting is the least used out of all of those i'm sure.

Best of luck to the guy playing in that picture. Shotguns in this game are utterly useless.

the double barrol is deadly in close corters. I like to use it in that small map (can't remember the name off the top of my head).

haha sawed off shottys are the worst guns in the game

I beg to differ. I use the shotgun (with SoH) all the time on Dome. The sawed off isn't too bad in Nazi Zombies either

Here's hoping the HUGE update that we have been waiting, praying and complaining about, and this game needs, is dropped before the new maps arrive. Like how about some Valentine LOVE with a huge update/overhaul this weekend?

Love the game but I can't stand the new walking on clouds or hovering above map glitches (They think they are so good, don't they?), map exploiting spawn rifle grenades in Hardcore Search & Destroy or any game type really, free firing or just plain old any bullet can cross maps like sniper fire (Wow, way to give people exploiting abilities), perks that don't counter balance or are just out of whack (Stopping Power can't kill Juggernaut or Second Chance has a limited god mode, really?) and the horrible game spawning system (Oh hey the enemy just spawned on top of where I am or I've spawned under an artillery strike, AWESOME.) and last but not least armor protected monster dogs (nuff said).

new reader ..testing 1 2 .. Where do you get all the time .. all them posts ..Great site!

people are still playing this?

the guys floating above the map are fun cause they are easy targets, they have no cover so it's easy pickins and yet they continue to go up there and i just camp and shoot them every time they float up:) You'd think they would stop trying it after you kill them 3-4 time in a row:)

You can't shoot people above maps in the sky, only those that hover over landmarks and properties but not those in the sky.

i'm really happy about the news about this map pack. i'm new to the COD series and i absolutely love W@W. after playing multiplayer constantly, i was itching for more levels so i finally grabbed COD4 and have been playing the multiplayer levels on that. glad to see we're getting more new levels. hopefully they'll include one more map pack in addition to this new one before the next installment comes out later this year.

One of the developer interviews mentioned 2 map packs....

Unfortunately, they also said they were going to offer more incentives for prestiging (perks, weapons, etc), but that never materialized, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

Don't care unless they FIX THE F*CKING GLITCHES. Am I the only one the despises people that glitch? You know what I would find cool? Looking at the Zombie leaderboards and seeing the Top Rounders having gotten there legitimately.

I'm not a big fan of Call Of Duty multiplayer at all. I'll be trading in or selling World At War for credit towards Killzone 2. It's just to run and gun for my tastes and similar to Gears Of War 1 & 2 all the glitchers and cheaters ruin what little chance I did have of enjoying the multiplayer. The campaign was OK but not as good as COD MW and the only redeaming quality about the multiplayer was the Nazi Zombie mode IMO. I'm not a COD hater but I just can't get into to the competitive multiplayer in the least bit. I prefer to play what I consider to be better multiplayer experiences in Battlefied Bad Company, SOCOM Confrontation, Far Cry 2 & Resistance 2. Different strokes for different folks I presume and if you like WAW then I'm happy for you but it wasn't my cup of tea.

Before anyone flames me I'm talking SOCOM Confrontation post launch patch which is a completely different experience than when the game launched. My go to #1 multiplayer experience is still Battlefield Bad Company with it's large maps, balanced weapons, great game modes and array of vehicles.

Bad Company is underappreciated. It's too bad that if a game has some problems coming out the gate (Socom, BF:BC), people just drop it like a rock in this generation of systems and move on.

I agree about Bad Company. Pretty underrated game. The MP is awesome, and the DLC, while slim, is free. Can't beat that. Looking forward to that BF:1943 update on XBLA.

The problem with BF:BC was that you could Buy (as in with real $) weapons to use in Multiplayer. That turned a lot of people off; myself included.

Map packs!!!!!!!

I am pumped

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