Modern Warfare 2: five maps included in Stimulus Package

Due to an early placement on the Xbox Live Marketplace, it has become apparent that Modern Warfare 2 will receive five maps total on March 30 when the “Stimulus Package” drops. This will include three all-new maps and two classic maps from the previous Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, “Overgrown” and “Crash”. No one here is going to complain about having five new maps at their disposal, but it would have been nice to get five “brand new” maps to play on, since technically this package was to cure playing the same old maps. If you played MW1, you already have these maps memorized, reminding you of Mapathy. Oh well! Beggars can’t be choosers, but we can still QQ from time to time. This is still an impressive number of maps to play on, since it is a direct response to Bad Company 2′s smack-talk posted earlier this week with their own map pack.

Based on details that were revealed over at Joystiq, the Stimulus Package will be 329MB, but no pricing has been revealed. You will be unable to queue the download yet either, but expect more details to arrive as we keep refreshing our XBL Marketplace. What we do know is that the pack isn’t out until March 30 on the Xbox 360 and the dates for the PC and PS3 versions have set to be announced. Peep the strategy directly from Xbox Live’s details on the map pack below and keep checking here for the PC and PS3 dates:

“The best-selling Xbox 360 game of all-time just got bigger, with more epic multiplayer content, first on Xbox LIVE! The Stimulus Package delivers 5 additional action-packed multiplayer maps featuring a variety of locations: “Bailout,” a multi-level apartment complex; “Storm,” an open industrial park littered with heavy machinery; “Salvage,” a snowy junkyard fortified by stacked debris and crushed cars. Two legendary fan-favorites from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare return, including “Crash,” [pictured above] a war-torn urban environment; and “Overgrown,” which features a massive dry creek bed. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.”

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