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Yesterday was the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 stimulus package. The package or DLC, as the modern gamer calls it, which is short for downloadable content consists of 5 multiplayer maps and nothing else. Guess what that costs? Maybe $5 or $10, NO! It was $15!

Let’s say that you need a bottle of pop and it’s your favorite pop that you drink all the time and the company suddenly raised the price. You have to get it because it’s the only thing that tastes good, but you know that their charging way too high of a price. Yes I compared CoD to pop and that’s exactly how I felt about this stimulus package, I had to get it because I knew it was going to be awesome, but I was shocked by the price. The map packs for the other Call of Duty’s were only $10 and I believe that those were much more worth the money. Why did you do this Infinity Ward? You just knew that most people are like me; it’s a necessity to have this upgrade and you understood that the gamers were more that likely to disregard the price.

The creators didn’t even construct much of a map pack. They brought back two maps that were from the first Modern Warfare, not anything creative, but they were my two favorites, Crash and Overgrown for those of you who know what I’m talking about. Therefore it was a good choice, but it definitely didn’t need to cost $15 and the other three maps are actually stunning. They each have a completely different feel, one of them is called Salvage, it’s a smaller map set in a junk yard in the dead of winter. Another is called Bailout, this map takes place in an urban area with both short and long range combat. The last map of the bunch is known as Storm, set in a rundown power plant gamers get tons of cross fire from rooftops and also from soldiers on the ground

The Stimulus package is definitely a success and it was 34 days ago when it was released to Xbox owners. Microsoft paid extra money for the map pack to come out for Xbox users earlier, why couldn’t we both get it at the same time? Who knows? I do know that I will enjoy this map pack as long as Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 stays around and that Xbox is LAME!!