

I won’t list all the ways these maps differ suffice to say, there is a great deal of variety. Sub Pens takes place in a U-boat base with a grounded submarine at its center and lots of long, open lanes. Tuscan is an Italian city with winding, narrow cobblestone streets and lots of interior areas for close quarters combat. Another WaW map that’s made its way here is Dome-one of the most frenetic, chaotic maps in the game, with lots of open spaces and sniper lanes despite its small size. Castle (a remake of the World at War map) is a mid-to-large sized map set in a beautiful Japanese castle with lovely fall foliage and rice-paper walls. These are all wildly different from one another, with settings taken from every theater of war. Sometimes you’ll play on a huge map like Red Star (though it doesn’t pop up all that often these days) and sometimes you’ll battle your way through the claustrophobic interior of Das Haus or Eagle’s Nest (which is slightly larger).īeyond size, Vanguard’s maps are incredibly varied, with only a handful sticking to the beloved, but kind of repetitive, three-lane structure so many Call Of Duty fans seem obsessed over. Vanguard’s plethora of launch maps means that there is constant variety. But the Ground War and Combined Arms and Fireteam modes and maps all felt too big for Call Of Duty-half-baked attempts at capturing some of that Battlefield magic, with vehicles and sprawling spaces to fight across. War Mode and Gunfight are two of my favorite modes of all time, and I’ve argued over and over again that they should be included in every Call Of Duty release.

Both Modern Warfare and Black Ops Cold War also had Gunfight maps. And in Black Ops Cold War there was Fireteam and the extra-large Combined Arms maps (which were turned into smaller Strike maps, thankfully). So in WWII we had a handful of War Mode maps in Modern Warfare there was the big team Ground War maps.

Over the past three games prior to this, there have always been some other secondary MP mode that’s taken up some of the resources and space that might normally be devoted to traditional MP.
