Surprising everyone, Treyarch’s Call of Duty: World at War has sold more than double on Call of Duty 4’s first week of UK sales.
The game hit two more platforms than its predecessor – PS2 and Wii – and has become a blockbuster hit across all platforms, including PS3, Xbox 360, PC, DS and PSP.
Neither sales figures nor per-console breakdown was provided for the game’s sales.
Series creator Infinity Ward is now working on Call of Duty 6 for release sometime next year.
A new patch for Call of Duty 4 is now available, updating the game to v1.4. The patch adds a new free holiday map and improved modification support. Grab it from Rapidshare (direct link).
Some new Call of Duty 4 screenshots, showing off some multiplayer action. In full 1080p glory.
Activision and Infinity Ward have announced that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will feature an original score by Stephen Barton with main theme and music production provided by Harry Gregson-Williams. The latter’s work has been featured in numerous films, television series and video games including The Chronicles of Narnia, Man on Fire and Team America: World Police. The soundtrack for the game was performed and recorded by a full orchestra, largely at Abbey Road Studios in London, England.
“Harry Gregson-Williams was the perfect choice to craft an immersive and rich soundtrack that matches the heightened atmosphere and tension of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,” says Grant Collier, Studio Head at Infinity Ward. “Harry’s wealth of experience, passion and intensity together with the talents of young composer, Stephen Barton, shine through in the score draws gamers deeper into the epic and cinematic experience that is Call of Duty 4.”
The game hits PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on November 5.
Playing ninja for once, Activision silently announced the “Game of the Year” edition of Call of Duty 2 for the Xbox 360. The GOTY edition will include the original game along with the Skirmish Map Pack, two new multiplayer maps (400 points on Xbox Live) and bonus DVD containing making-of footage, historic interview, commentaries and mission walkthroughs from the developers at Infinity Ward.
It is now available throughout North America.
Just following Microsoft’s E3 Xbox Live announcement, Activision sent out word that Infinity Ward plans on releasing new content for Call of Duty 2 through Xbox Live.
A total of nine multiplayer maps will be released, with the first four maps available for download this Spring; playable versions will debut at E3 in Activision’s CoD2 Lounge (#1200, South Hall). The remaining five maps will be released in July.
The first two maps will be released for free - Vossenack and Wallender, Germany - with the Skirmish map pack (Kalach, Russia and Beaumont-Hague, France) going for 400 points when released.
July will see the second wave with the release of the Invasion Pack that will go for 900 points. It will be a multiplayer map pack featuring the following five maps: Antoville, France (Crossroads); St. Louet, France (Newvillers); Amaye sur Seulles, France (Normandy); Alam Halfa, Egypt (Decoytown); and Rostov, Russia (Harbor).
Infinity Ward sent off an email to notify the Call of Duty 2 community that updates for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game are in testing and will soon be released. Here are the planned additions (and fixes) in the PC update:
- Punkbuster functionality
- Two new multiplayer maps.
- HTTP redirect in multiplayer, which adds an option for modders to send players to an external website to download their maps and mods.
- Repair of multiplayer exploits and minor bug fixes
- We’re also putting finishing touches on the map editing tools for the game and will have those out very soon as well.
- Player Lag has been addressed
- Private Game Lobbies / Reserved Slots
- Enable Live Host to set custom game options
- Map Preferences setting
- Post Game Lobbies (players at end of match will return to lobby)
- Enemy Player Name Notification
- Kick Player (host ability)
- Lobby Game Type, Map and Host Notification
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