Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ‘DLC Season’ Debuts This Month with New Maps

Activision has just confirmed its downloadable content delivery strategy for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, saying that over 20 pieces of new content will appear for the popular first person shooter from now until September.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has broken sales records and got tens of millions of people addicted to its online multiplayer mode.

Now, after a teaser announcement at the end of last month, Activision has finally confirmed how it will begin delivering the downloadable content for Modern Warfare 3.

First and foremost, all the DLC will be a part of the Modern Warfare 3 Content Season, which starts this month and ends in September. Throughout the season, over 20 “content drops” will be made by Activision. Each drop will contain either a multiplayer map, a Spec Ops mission, a new game mode or various other things.

These drops will happen at least once a month and are going to be available, at first, just for Xbox 360 users who have a premium subscription to Call of Duty Elite. Non-premium subscribers or those who play Modern Warfare 3 on the PC or PlayStation 3, will have to wait for this new content.

In case all these details got you confused, Activision exemplified this strategy with the first content drops that would happen on January 24 and would include two new maps.

“The first two Content Drops will be multiplayer maps—also playable in Modern Warfare 3 Survival Mode—that throw combatants into a war-torn Central Park and an Italian seaside village. Liberation is a vast, militarized landscape, ripe for long-range sniper and LMG fire, with mounted turrets on either end that lend power to anyone brave enough to expose themselves in exchange for deadly firepower. Piazza is the idyllic Italian getaway that is anything but, where tight corners and branching pathways pose great risk at every turn. Close-range combat dominates in Piazza, where attacks from behind, above and below are an ever-constant threat.”

After these two maps, new content drops will follow every month, bringing plenty of other things for the game. What’s more, each drop will be celebrated with competitions on the Call of Duty Elite online service.

Check out a video about this new strategy below, straight from Activision.