The Discovery map has a snow bridge that can be blown up with a grenade.
Kowloon looks cool with a “zip line” you can slide down to move quickly from one end of the map to another. It also includes a Zombie map dubbed Ascension. What’s in these packs that promises to hold gamers’ attentions? The First Strike maps will include four settings: Discovery, in the Antarctic research station that is a scene in the game Kowloon, set on the rooftops of the district of Hong Kong Berlin Wall, featuring a firefight at Checkpoint Charlie and Stadium, set in an American hockey rink. That generated roughly $300 million in sales for Activision Blizzard. A year ago, the two map packs for the previous Call of Duty game, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, sold more than 20 million units. On top of that, map packs consume the time of hardcore gamers as they extend the value of online play with new multiplayer arenas.
(Yes, it was nice of Activision Blizzard not to schedule this on Valentine’s Day). As we noted before, spouses of gamers may care about this so they can plan their solo vacations and make sure they don’t expect any romantic holidays around Feb. The rest of us are going to feel the impact, from workplace absences to empty beds. Sony, meanwhile, has launched Little Big Planet 2. Electronic Arts will have to put up a good fight with Activision Blizzard, as EA just launched Dead Space 2 and the PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2, both big releases. February’s retail sales numbers - which are likely to be low because of a shortage of Xbox 360 consoles and Kinect motion-control systems - may be weaker than usual since the downloadable map packs are not counted in retail sales figures produced by market researcher NPD. The map pack will likely create a log jam on Xbox Live today as gamers download the map pack for $14.99, or 1,200 Microsoft points.įor the video-game industry, the impact will be obvious. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.
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