Call of Duty 4: Top Multiplayer Game Just Expanded

Everyone thought Halo 3 was going to be the hottest multiplayer game on Xbox Live!. But the Master Chief is playing second string to the modern warfare multiplayer mayhem that is Call of Duty 4 online. It’s been confirmed that Call of Duty 4 is the most played game on Xbox Live! for at least a few months.

Infinity Ward, designers of Call of Duty 4, put daily numbers of players engaging in Call of Duty’s multiplayer experience on Xbox Live! around 1.3 million per day. The game’s producer Mark Rubin gave away the numbers in an interview last week and added that the incredible rate of online play has been steady for two to three months.

He also revealed that Call of Duty 4 multiplayer numbers on PS3 and PC are also known to be very high as well but neither format can provide solid numbers. We can’t say for certain it’s the top multiplayer game for PlayStation 3, Rubin could only call PS3’s numbers “monstrously huge”.

The numbers of players engaging in modern combat on Xbox Live! is only about to intensify as Infinity Ward unleashes its new multiplayer map pack, available for download NOW. Xbox Live! members can now download new maps for Call of Duty 4 frag-fests for just 800 Microsoft Points. They were just made available to the public this morning (Friday April 4) at around 10 am EST.

Call of Duty 4 new maps:

• Broadcast: Huge map designed for big team games with a mix of indoor and outdoor environments. Centered on a multi-story TV station, Broadcast has lots of elevated window vantage points for sniper activity as well as plenty of room for head to head fire fights. 
• Creek: A large outdoor setting in the Russian wilderness. The map is filled enough cover and concealment for stealth tactics and ambushes. A ravine and underground cave offers lots of run-and-gun escape routes and alternate paths of escape and attack to quickly turn the tables on an ambush. 
• Chinatown: A city’s Chinatown district at night is the focus of urban battle. You’ll fight to survive by the glow of a full moon, lanterns and bright neon lights. Shoot it out in the streets and through connected avenues, corridors and shops. Ni Hao! 
• Killhouse: If you like to get your multiplayer first person shoot-on, up close and personal - Killhouse offers a map of intense combat. This map is a smaller map featuring an enclosed warehouse used as a training facility for you soldiers of online-fortune. A balanced mix of obstacles, cover and concealment await. 

Be on the lookout - my Xbox Live! gamer-tag is Epicondylitus and you might see me there if I don’t spot you first.