Like Bloc, Countdown also suffered from sniper problems. With more recent Call of Duty maps favouring this level design – WWII’s USS Texas and Flak Tower come to mind – Wet Work was a premonition for what the series’ multiplayer would become. Flanking was impossible due to how narrow it was, and it was incredibly easy to get pinned down during a game of Domination or Sabotage. With its tight spaces and symmetrical three-lane design, this map would see a lot of use by snipers and medium-range combatants. Although the amount of cover and low brightness helped to alleviate the sniper problem that Bloc had, Downpour just ended up looking incredibly bland in comparison and didn’t manage to adapt well to Modern Warfare’s fast-paced gameplay. As with Bloc, a lot of the map saw very little fighting as most of the action took place around the barn.

This one is my personal least-favourite map due to the limited visibility caused by the never-ending rain.

Flanking was an option, but tough to try alone due to the open space and the fact that each building was relatively easy to defend by a team. If you weren’t using a sniper rifle on this map you were almost guaranteed a negative kill-to-death ratio, as attempting to fight close-quarters usually made you an easy target. The tribulations of this map were not exaggerated despite being very large, most of the action took place in a central courtyard, with sniper battles raging between two apartment buildings on each side. BLOCīack during the peak of Call of Duty 4’s popularity, I don’t recall ever seeing Bloc coming up in the lobby screen without every player immediately jumping on the veto button. Note that this doesn’t include content included in the Variety Map Pack as I didn’t own that back in the day. Modern Warfare in particular still stood out to me as a solid online experience, and with that fun system in place there also has to come a great selection of maps right? I took the liberty of ranking each map from the base game from worst to best, mixing in both what I think of the maps now as well as my memories of playing them back in its heyday. I recently returned to the series after a long hiatus and checked out the multiplayer components for nearly every major Call of Duty release since the series’ debut in 2003.

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