This 12 months’s new Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 3 is filled with outdated maps from the unique 2009 Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 2, which is complicated each by way of the collection timeline, and since it is a new $70 recreation, not a remaster. And but, regardless of the gentle embarrassment that comes with feeling nostalgic for Name of Responsibility maps, I’ve to say I am a bit of excited.
All 16 launch maps from 2009’s Trendy Warfare 2 are included in 2023’s Trendy Warfare 3, and Activision leans into the nostalgia angle in a new blog post about them, which begins: “Welcome house.”
If it has been some time because you performed the unique Trendy Warfare 2, see if these names ring any bells: Afghan, Derail, Property, Favela, Karachi, Highrise, Invasion, Quarry, Rundown, Rust, Scrapyard, Skidrow, Sub Base, Terminal, Underpass, and Wasteland.
I instantly flash again to the late 2000s on studying the record. I performed the hell out of Trendy Warfare 2 again then, and had the much less widespread expertise of visiting Infinity Ward’s workplace and writing a technique information to those maps for {a magazine}, as a result of, yeah, I used to be doing this job 14 years in the past, too. The sights and layouts of Afghan, Scrapyard, Favela, Derail, Property, and Highrise are notably caught in my reminiscence.
The brand new variations of those maps will not be completely similar to the originals, although.
“The best way we approached it’s, ‘How are we going to make one of the best variations of these maps that individuals have ever performed?'” mentioned artwork director Matt Abbott within the video embedded above. “As a result of that is what we wish as followers.”
To that finish, changes have been made to “match extra trendy gameplay,” mentioned design director Zach Hodson. As one instance, now you can mantle to locations you could not initially attain on the skyscraper rooftops of Highrise, however Hodson says that “for probably the most half [the maps are] going to really feel extremely comparable” to the originals.
The weblog put up goes into a bit of extra depth on the adjustments: “Due to technological developments in Name of Responsibility’s animation and motion methods over the previous 14 years, Operators can Tactical Dash and leap between rooftops, mantle, and navigate alleyways with Tac-Stance, giving gamers extra confidence throughout these frenetic, close-quarters engagements,” it reads. “Basically, a ‘modernized’ Trendy Warfare 2 (2009) map means an genuine multiplayer expertise with learnings from the Name of Responsibility franchise’s wealthy historical past.”
The upcoming Trendy Warfare 3 is a little bit of a bizarre one for the collection. For the primary time, all unlocks from final 12 months’s recreation, the brand new Trendy Warfare 2, will carry over. That is additionally the first time since 2007 {that a} Name of Responsibility recreation was adopted with a direct sequel the subsequent 12 months. It was rumored for some time that Activision was planning an enormous enlargement to Trendy Warfare 2 as a substitute of an entire new recreation this 12 months, and it actually appears like Trendy Warfare 3 might’ve began that manner.
If Trendy Warfare 3 does find yourself feeling a bit of slim, although, a sure sort of nostalgia-prone sap (me) could be appeased by these 16 remade maps anyway. You possibly can learn extra about them on the Call of Duty blog. Trendy Warfare 3 can be out November 10.
