Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Map Pack detailed [Update: Now with screens!]

by David Hinkle on May 14th 2010 9:46AM

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Xbox Live's Major Nelson had Infinity Ward "creative strategist" Robert Bowling on his podcast recently to talk about the upcoming Resurgence Map Pack for Modern Warfare 2. Set to release on June 3 on Xbox Live, the pack will be priced at 1200

($15) -- the same as its predecessor, the Stimulus Pack. Resurgence will feature maps old and new, including two Call of Duty 4 maps and three new locations:

Vacant -- the wide open Russian office complex from CoD4
Strike -- the urban town surrounded by hotels from CoD4
Carnival -- an abandoned carnival area with a Ferris wheel, fun house and other attractions
Trailer Park -- full of "super tight corridors" and featuring a pool ("Mobile Estates," Bowling calls it)
Fuel -- a "sniper haven" based in and around an oil refinery

Bowling says that the new maps will be tied to specific playlists, just like the Stimulus maps. With the Resurgence collection, however, it's possible that all of the maps will be available in every playlist, as long as "demand is high." And, as with the previous pack, the new maps will be exclusive to Xbox 360 for a short time before coming to PC and PS3.

Update: We've got images of all five maps, which you can check out in the gallery below or by clicking the image in the post. Enjoy!

Modern Warfare 2 (Resurgence Pack)

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Wow, 2 more CoD4 maps?! That's crap. Might as well go back to playing CoD 4 then.

@Jerry
WOOOOOOOOOW
you would talk about BC2 in a MW2 post

New BFBC2 maps should be coming soon....most likely after the Onslaught add-on...

I really want some more nite maps....hell, use the same maps but at nite would be a good thing too

BBC2? Is that to BBC what ESPN2 is to ESPN?

Actually yeh, it is. On TV here in the UK. :)

BC2 is awesome, way better than MW2 in most ways. Its not about just killing people and gaining kill perks but actually working with your team, helping squads, the destructible environments, huge maps, vehicles, and incredible sound design make it unlike anything else. I mean hell the BF series started it all when it comes to "modern warfare".

Yea I agree, surprisingly I've had alot more fun playing BC2 than I ever did playing MW2; tanks, choppers, destructible environments, and less camping and the fact people usually work as a team, made it much more enjoyable .
MW2 just took it self to seriously and left out the fun, BC2 is not meant to be all that serious and as a result has both fun SP and MP. I do love all the BC2 maps, though I too am looking forward to some new maps...

"Fuel -- a sniper haven based in and around an oil refinery" - great the amount of campers is what put me off playing MW2 in the first place, so this sounds like something I'd pay for....

It can now be downloaded but it's too laggy. And there are only few players around. Expect this to be fixed this day. Source: http://2su.de/aQ1

I was super excited for Crash/Overgrown, plus the new maps being fun didn't hurt. I'm excited for this, minus the fact that Vacant is just a spam fest :| Oh well.

That's right. If the Trailer park map was released for BFBC2, at the end of the multiplayer session, it would look like a tornado went through it.

I was hoping for Ambush if any older maps made a appearance. Oh well Guess I'll have to hold off for the next 2 maps packs.

i simply don't understand, guys. you're forking over 1/4 the cost of a game for 3 new maps and 2 recycled ones? please don't plunk down on this one, folks (even though millions of you undoubtedly will), it's the root of the expensive and short-lived DLC.

Well it's this, or I spend more than that going to the movies for a night.

It's an easy decision for me o_O

I can't wait to buy these new maps.

If you have it, flaunt it, that's Activision's motto. They have fans who'll buy a turd from Kotick for 15 dollars if it has Infinity Ward's logo inscribed on it somewhere. Who writes on poop though...that's another tale.

This actually just made me $37. I just put my game on ebay so I don't have to worry about the temptation of the overpriced game additions anymore. Thanks, Activision!

Jynxycat makes a good point.
All $15 really means is skipping on going to dinner one night, it's not that big of a deal if you really enjoy the game.
I know it's been said hundreds of time before, but JUST DON'T BUY IT. From the comments, all of you are BF:BC players anyway, and you all hate MW2, so why do you care if the CoD community spends their $15 on DLC? If you don't play they game, quit wasting your energy whining about it.

The price-paid / hours-played ratio makes these "overpriced" map packs worth a purchase for me. Value is relative and a matter of perception.

@jynxycat
You're comparing apples and oranges. A proper comparison would be spending an additional $5 to see an extra scene for Iron Man 2.

The price is way too high for the content. If they had some more Special Ops thrown in and maybe another single player level, then $15 *might* be okay. Just curious as the what price would be too high for you? Maybe you're rich or something or just use someone else's money, but if these prices become the norm, a lot of us will be forced to miss out. That to me seems unfair.

same here. I'll buy this along with any other map packs they release.

I paid $15 for pat princess, $20 for burnout paradise and I have not gotten nearly as much enjoyment out of those as I have with the stimulus package.

I've gotten more enjoyment out of the the first map pack in ONE NIGHT, than I have gotten out of Bioshock 2, and other $50 dollar games.

@ ben: How can you judge people who are posting and claim they don't own MW2? That's sort of close-minded, don't you think? Just because someone is frustrated with a price of downloadable content doesn't mean they don't own the game. I for one bought the game not thinking the DLC would not cost that much. You may say it's just a $5 increase, but where does that end? To you, it may be no different than a movie or whatever else, but that's not how I see it. Consumers have to put their foot down somewhere.

@Ben

Because if you guys buy these map packs at $15, then EA will charge $15 for our BFBC2 maps; and we can't have that! Lol

Give us the ability to design our own maps and upload, and i guarantee some talented users will be there to make the maps as good, if not better than the ones they are releasing.

Show me on the doll where Activision touched you. Don't be afraid, we won't let them hurt you anymore.

DON'T BUY IT! And yes, there's a REAL reason. Whether you are a MW2 fan or not, buying this sets a precedent. If Activision sells another million of these, every publisher is going to see that and ALL DLC is going to start being obnoxiously overpriced. WHY can't you see this? Yes, it is roughly the cost of one movie.... NOW. Remember how a few years ago, TWO movie tickets cost about the same as one now. Then the theaters saw that people still buy tickets even if they are being gouged by the cost. It's not inflation, it's people just accepting the new, higher price.

Don't give in to this outrageous pricing model for limited content. Pretty soon you're gonna get 3 hours of gameplay for $60 and have to pay increments of $15 throughout the year to get a full game.

i think some of users here are missing the point: this will enable publishers to keep charging more for less. remember when microsoft stated their first-party games for the 360 would be $50? as soon as gears of war hit, that was the end of that. now $60 is the accepted norm for a first-run title.

the cost of extra content is ballooning and developers are even sometimes developing this content in parallel with the retail release! in my opinion, DLC should be like an encore, not the accepted standard. these day-one DLC packs are nickle and diming us to death.

Thanks for Saying that Arc. I love COD6 as much as the next person but these DLC are way too expensive. They should've had the ten maps and some spec ops missions for 15 bucks . Thats a good deal.
Unfortunitly a crap load of people are going to be buying this, which will make activision continue to jerk us.

Everyone that thinks they are gonna talk people out of spending $15 is a fool. Activision is doing what any company that sells a product does. They're charging what the market will bear. With 2.5 million sold you had better get used to a $15 price tag, at least from Activision. All this pissing and moaning isn't going to accomplish anything. Am I the only one who is sick of hearing (reading) it?

They spend all this time making new maps but they don't even bother to fix their game.

Fixes don't bring in the big bucks. I didn't buy the first one and I won't be buying this one. I really should get rid of the game while it still has some tradein value.

Now what's broken with it? I somehow manage to still have fun with the game each night that I play.

Yeah no kidding. Before I traded my PS3 copy in, people were still using care package glitch even after the update. When I bought MW2, I thought to myself. " I know the single player is probably going to underwhelm, but atleast the multiplayer will be fun." . . . then several glitches, exploits, 5 foot knife kills, nad spams later, I'm playing BC2.

@That Burning Sensation

The "nad spamming" doesn't good.

Especially for a burning sensation.

Buy it now for 2400 MS Points!

I was excited the PS3 finally got the maps until I learned they were tied to a specific playlist. Looks like I'll be passing on these too.

I normally just play domination and pass on everything else. I was annoyed when the map pack was basically "mosh Pit" forcing me to play capture the flag, team deathmatch and all the others.

BUT...

it changed shortly after release. I just go to domination and the maps are added into the playlist. I'm not sure about the other modes because I only play domination.

I was really hoping for more Spec Ops maps. Especially 4 player Spec Ops maps ...

Wait, 5 CoD maps costs $15?
lmao

By comparison.....one could have bought all 4 PixelJunk games for the Same price....

...or both Max Payne games
or Mass Effect
or Dragon Age
or...

Both Mappacks even equal BC2
or 11 CDs of Chopin played by Rubinstein

Lets continue this, shall we?

Sure, let's continue.

Or half a night out for drinks.

Or dinner for two at a moderately nice restaurant (without drinks).

Or 3 blu-ray movies that I might watch I dunno, once every 6 months (if I am feeling in the mood) at about 2 hours a piece.

Or 1/3 of a 3-day pass to Lollapalooza, or 3/4 of a single day pass.

Hmmm, should I go on?

Oh my bad, i for some reason had $60 in my head because you were throwing out retail games.

So we are talking $30 then? Yeah, scratch half the things on my list and change those fractions.

or you could buy a movie ticket and maybe get 2 hours of entertainment.

or I could use it towards paying for parking.

or I could buy 5 gallons of gas

or I could use it to cross a bridges, maybe two depending on which ones

or you could buy some terrible pixel junk games that you might play for an hour.

Terrible pixel junk games? Uhhhh where can one find one of those? I have put 15 hours on average on each PJ game I have....

@space
The PJ games I've sank many of time into. I've yet to play a bad one.

you played pixel junk racers for 15 hours? seriously? be honest. I own eden, shooter, monsters, and racers and I think I played them each for 2 hours. to me that was a waste of money. unless they start charging $1 or $2 a game I'm not buying anything more from them. If these map packs were $20 I 'd still buy them, because I know I'll enjoy it thoroughly.

even if I played all of the PJ games for 15 hours each it would still be far less than the amount of time I will put into these map packs. You might think it's too expensive. but I think $8 for shatter or $15 for matt hazard or any other PSN game is too much.

And so it begins.....

Big $$... I sold mine after finding out the last pack was too much. I'm done with the CoD series, as well as the Halo and GoW.

I moved on to Battlefield when the first pack came out. For $5, fine. $15 is just being greedy.

Still, everyone will buy these. I'll take the $30 I saved and buy Red Dead/Alan Wake.

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