@Walker: You know, I don't snipe on creek. Well, technically. I use the G3 with an ACOG and extra damage :D

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

Am I the only one who thinks that $10.00(800 M$ points) really isn't that big of a deal. But then again I suppose I'm the minority in the community that doesn't mind paying for additional content. Could be the way I'm saying it... $10.00, $10, Ten Dollars, Ten Bucks... Nope, still sounds like a pittance to pay for a game I enjoy.

Re1gn

"Honestly I can't see how anyone still playing Call of Duty 4 doesn't already have this pack"
That's me right here. All my friends bitched at me to get it, but I refused to get it until I saw a price drop (I such a cheap bastard :P).

goldwings

Damn it I bought the maps back when target was having the sale on MS points.. I knew I should have waiting!

Dishwasher

@lurkaku: Bad company is amazing and i agree more etertaining now. But COD4 just has something that no other shooter has, its also alot easier to the common knave. Battlefield BC takes hella skill. and teamwork.

BigSt3ph3n

I love how everyone says the maps suck, despite how positive everyone was when they were being released. If you don't agree with paying for maps on consoles, then you have a valid point but the maps are far from bad. Broadcast is awesome, so is Chinatown. Creek has its niche following, mostly for snipers. I don't generally like the map myself but thats because i can't snipe.

If you play CoD4 regularly, then for 400ms points, your doing yourself a great injustice not picking them up, as Infinity Ward have done a great job implementing them into every playlist.

Walker

Anyone find Bad Company online more entertaining? I thought COD4 was an awesome rush for a few weeks, but then it just started to get boring, very quick.

lurkaku

I will finally buy the map pack now, as I was fucking pissed at 800 points for only 2 new maps, and one map that was straight out of the single player campaign. Such a crock of shit really. 2 maps and one recycled map = 400-500 points for me. I loves me some CoD4, and then some ... but I will not pay outrageous prices for maps. Fuck that.

dead_red_eyes

I stopped playing CoD4 right around the time the maps came out and this'll probably get me back in there, at least for the weekend until I get Rock Band 2 on Sunday.

Well played, Infinity Ward... well played.

MrBartokomous

christ, the maps arent that bad...

killhouse is AWESOME for private match shotguns only, knives only, etc type-games....

broadcast is one of my favorite maps.

chinatown is alight, i guess....i dont like it that much, but i dont vote against it either

creek pisses me off due to snipers, but its still a good map, and there are always ways around snipers, especially on creek, with leaves on the trees for cover.

its too bad killhouse isnt playable in 6 on 6 matches...its great for domination on private matches. you can play domination on shipment, but not on killhouse, i dont get that...

really, if you havent bought the new maps at this point, for 5 bucks, its worth it.

karl_hungus

You hear that Mackey! If you're playing with the team I'ma coming!

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

I actually got the game after this pack came out for PC free, so until reading the names above I didn't realize which ones were the bonus maps. I have to say that except for creek they are all my favorite maps, and creek is great if you love sniping.

I wish PC could get Prestige too though. There's no good reason not to give it to us-- playing without leveling just feels pointless now that I've hit 55.

Harmatia

Oh right, Double XP this weekend. Glad this reminded me, less Spore suck up more of my time with that omnivore mouth part in the cell stage.

Salen

@the-hypnotoad:

It's an awesome game man....Enjoy!! And don't get discouraged when you actually do get killed time and time again.....you'll get better....just keep at it!!

jay427

We need more new maps... not half price old ones.

Blinklink11

@Winterbringer: wasn't the game free too?

oneshot_

Shit. I was excited for nothing. I thought this would be for PC's too...

i_speel_good

Chinatown, Broadcast and Creek are actually both pretty good maps. Killhouse I actually haven't played. It's not that bad for the price.

logikil

Looks like I'm the target audience. I have CoD4 still in the shrinkwrap from January when amazon was selling it for $35. Guess I'll have to bust it out and pick up the maps this weekend. That guy you kill 50 times in a row - that will be me :D

the-hypnotoad

Such a shame the map pack is pretty rubbish. Although I guess 400pts is forgiveable

NecronomiconUK

I find it pretty weak that they charge for 3 maps that are actually FREE on PC.

Winterbringer

Time to finally get that damned P90 and the killhouse map is one of my favorite maps in any multiplayer game.

InfernoT

New playlists not happening after all? Too bad, I was really looking forward to some new gametypes.

superbagman

Good timing for those people who just snagged 360's after the price slashing.

ncsbert

I don't have the pack, and this ain't gonna give me any more incentive to get it. All my friends tell me the maps suck, so I always host and we don't have to worry about it. Totally looking forward to the double XP though.

Lazlo

I have this game, and do not have the map pack. I didn't even know that I was missing out on anything.

skrame ☆

I was never too exited about these maps. It was only when I literally found myself falling asleep on some maps that I bought them.
My opinion? They only serve to show how good the original maps are.

From a Sniper/shotty pov (my usual classes), Broadcast is essentially a bigger version of Vacant with a second vertical level and a big room in the middle.
Chinatown is a recycled map. And while yes I had fun reliving my Carentan experiences...it gets old....fast.
Creek is horrible. The action stays fairly stagnant throughout unless one team really sucks and gets pushed all around the map.

And then about 80% of the time these new maps get vetoed quickly.

Killhouse I cant say anythign about as Ive never played it, as I just play ground war all the time. Does anyone happen to know what playlist that level comes up on the most?

As for Double XP weekend....does anyone really care?
Yeah Ive been sitting at Base 55 for six months, but if you're actually trying to hit Prestige 10, lvl 55 and haven't by now....thats pretty damn sad.

I'd rather have something worthwhile addded gameplay wise to keep me going until COD5.

OldManOnTheHill

@Re1gn: I agree, it isn't too much for me to consider. Especially when it's a game that you put in a lot of time playing.

Teamwork Takedown

The new maps are great. Actually all 20 maps are great, each one has it's own little charm. OF course I do veto certain maps on certain gametypes tho.

Chinatown is a great remake of Carentan from COD2 (my favorite COD2 map)

Broadcast is a nice indoor/outdoor map. And I recall playing the campaign in the TV room thinking, "Wow, this would be awesome online!" Sure enough it came true.

Creek is a crazy map that can be real tough to play when everyone likes sniping. I'm not a sniper but I can take snipers out with my M16 with no problem.

Killhouse is good for small team games or 1v1.

Teamwork Takedown

@akumadiavolo: Perhaps I should have been clearer. If reaching 10:55 is a goal of yours in this game, and you've had the game since around January, and you haven't reached that yet, then yeah, I'd say its fairly sad if someone had not made it to that point yet.

But that's all really beside the point I was trying to make: Does anyone really give a damn about a double XP weekend when the overall support is lacking so?

Also, @SAKY: Thanks.

OldManOnTheHill

@OldManOnTheHill: tactical

SAKY

As much as I love IW & Company's work I feel that they really dropped the ball with maps, this is still the only map pack and it would seem that this will forever be the case. After getting 7 map packs out of previous 2 iterations, 1 set of 4 maps seems like a huge letdown. :(

I'll confirm some other folks comments when I say that Chinatown & Creek always seem to get voted.

SAKY

The only map packs I pay for are the Halo ones.

CCCombobreaker

@Re1gn: Yeah, i think $10 for 3 mediocre maps is a big deal, especially when i play on the PC and get the same maps for free. OR when you can buy Team Fortress 2 on PC for $20 and get a great game that includes fairly regular free updates that add quite a bit to the gameplay each time.

Kayin

I stopped playing when the maps came out.

I don't know why its such an amazing thing to have Double XP for a weekend.

Halos had this for quite a while.

flukielukie

How is IW so bad at supporting this game? We have gotten one map pack that is pretty bad to boot and two playlist updates. They announced another one over two months ago and it's still not out. That's BS. It's not hard to make playlist updates, and I understand it costs them money to update the game and they probably won't recover that cost in sales, but come on. Over 8 million people gave you their money, give us a little love.

@OldManOnTheHill: It's sad if you are not 10x prestige? How so? Because they have a life outside of games? I play the game way way too much and am at 9x. It's not sad, it just means you have things to do outside of games.

akumadiavolo

@Teamwork Takedown: Actually Carentan is a CoD1 map.

Winterbringer

Nice, with the 2xp, i should prestige again and then some.

Ra is on Seinfeld

I'm still waiting for the new playlists.

Lixie

Have the game, stopped playing before the maps came out (other games etc.) I'll probably play it this weekend, I know I did have a lot of fun when I did play it. Probably give the maps a go at half price too.

nukednova

@oneshot_: Zing!

IntelSilver

This is cool for newcomers- and that's exactly who it is intended for.

But for us vets- how 'bout some new maps and modes, eh?

avgbear

@Kayin: Don't get me wrong I couldn't agree with you more on this, but this isn't the PC market. The console community unfortunately gets shafted on a fairly regular basis, I've just learned to accept it.

Makes me wonder why I ever stopped playing PC games... Now I remember!!! I got amazingly tired of spending $300/500 for a video card every 3 years. So I guess the argument is $10 now or $400 later (Very general statement as we know video cards are not created equally).

Re1gn

I actually reinstalled CoD4 last weekend to play some multiplayer.

After a couple rounds I was disenchanted with it once again.

belo

@akumadiavolo: Once again, my friend. You're missing the point. And being unnecessarily rude as well. Discussion over. Move on.

OldManOnTheHill

Weak, why can't it be double exp on the same weekend. I have the PS3 version.

DigitalHero

@OldManOnTheHill: You were perfectly clear, you are just dumb. Getting to 10*55 takes a long time even using the most profitable game modes. Some people don't have that much time to play and would consider it sad that people have put that much time into the game.

akumadiavolo

I still play COD on occasion and I don't have the map pack. All of my friends do and, while they joke about me not having it, never really have anything good to say about them. Still won't be buying at half price.

Numerous

@ncsbert:
I agree.

For the people buying 360's, COD4 is prolly something they will buy if its their first new-gen console. Lower price might get more buys this way. By now, the entire purchase price should be pure profit too, since its likely they already recouped all dev costs on it.

Qix213

It's the map price cut also for the PS3 owners? or just for the Live? I didn't see anywhere were they mentioned that.

Cess007

OH WOW!!! 360 is having all these sweet market place deals...Now that my 360 is getting repaired and I probably won't get it back till October. Thanks MS!!!

Orionsaint

wasn't playing but for half priced maps maybe I'll check it out again for awhile.

dubbfoolio

@Winterbringer: I figured someone would call that out, but i'm talking about COD2, or better yet, only the Call of Duty games on the 360. Despite what others may thing, not everyone plays COD games only on the PC.

Teamwork Takedown

I hate Killhouse in online free for all...but it's HILARIOUS in 4 player local/custom matches with KNIVES and NADES only.

Shandy706

I always thought the guy ranked number one with a billion kills had to be the lead on the game, even though his name doesn't start with one of those.

This is a cool event, I'll have to call my friend I play with so we can play it all day.

kylo4

@DigitalHero: I tried. Regretfully it took too long to confirm with Sony and the soonest they could do it was the 18th. Sorry.

fourzerotwo

@akumadiavolo:

Not to add to this nigh-pointless discussion or argue against your stance, but....

...it can't take that long if you play HQ every time you play, maybe putting in 10-15 hours a week.

Disclaimer: I'm also a Base 55 and never cared about ranks, prestige, or accomplishments, only the gameplay.

As for the topic, I never bought these maps, and I thought it was hilarious that a $10 pack of only 4 crummy maps set a frickin' first week DLC record for revenue generated with few complaints, but two of the best XBLA games made get priced at $15 and the vocal blowback is ear-splitting.

Those two games are topping the charts as I type this, I know, but still...

EComni

Great...now when will they lower the price on COD4 on Steam? I want my 50% off weekend!!!

Quilt

I don't have the variety pack :P lucky me. unfortunately, I don't own the game yet either :/

reywing

Hah keep buying maps while us PC gamers get them for free :P.

belger0g

Pity im working 39 hours this weekend alone...

BostonK

Sweetness. I actually have this weekend all to myself and am looking to get the double XP. I've been trying to get that beautiful yellow cross for such a long time now....

xMindPrintsx

I dont have the map pack either and I play CoD4 a lot. Not really worth shelling out money for something that should be free. Gonna wait until they're free. If they wont, I think I can live without them.

Oh and...
I've had CoD4 since the game came out and I'm only 8th prestige. Just because they've had it for a while doesn't mean they should all be at the highest level. Pretty stupid way of looking at it. Some people like to take their time playing the game and could go for months without having a go. All I do is play MTD. None of these higher earning game modes. I'm not bad at the game either so people just take it at their own pace.

/rant over

SylvyLombax

I think it's funny that Microsoft's STILL charging for the 360 map pack. Us PC gamers are ready for new maps now pleez. Some new guns/options would be nice as well.

avconsumer2

Just got COD4 from Gamefly. I am totally going to whore the hell out of some exp.

I haven't played it since the beta (saving it until I could give it full attention) and I am psyched for this.

StartingAces