Highlights
- Activision released a new Call of Duty: Warzone trailer showcasing new seasonal content and changes, including the Urzikstan map that’s replacing Al Mazrah.
- Urzikstan has already debuted in MW3 as the setting of its open-world Zombies mode.
- COD: MW3 and Warzone Season 1 kicks off on December 6.
Activision dropped a fresh Call of Duty: Warzone trailer showcasing the game’s upcoming wave of content, including the new Urzikstan map. The novelties featured in the video are all arriving as part of Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1.
The inaugural season of Modern Warfare 3 kicks off on December 6. That date will also mark the debut of the shooter’s Warzone integration. One of the biggest changes that Season 1 will make to Activision’s free-to-play battle royale game will arrive in the form of a new map, Urzikstan, which will replace Al Mazrah.
Call of Duty: Warzone – Urzikstan Map Release Date & Details
The new Warzone map is called Urzikstan and will be launched along with MW3’s first season; here’s the release date and the map overview.
New Warzone Trailer Combines Urzikstan With French Classical Music
A December 4 trailer offered yet another extended look at how Urzikstan will look in Call of Duty: Warzone. The newly debuted video has quite a bit of flair, combining gameplay footage with pre-rendered character close-ups into a decisively dramatic promo edited to the sounds of French classical music. Specifically, Activision used Claude Debussy’s 19th-century piano piece Clair de lune (Moonlight) as the backdrop for the new Warzone trailer, with rather cinematic results.
Aside from showcasing some dramatic action across Urzikstan, the video also goes over a number of gameplay changes that Season 1 will bring to Warzone. Those include Tac-Stance from Modern Warfare 3, a new mechanic that attempts to combine the hip fire and aiming-down-sights (ADS) modes into a uniquely adaptable stance that brings the best of both worlds. Warzone players will be able to enter Tac-Stance by aiming down the sights and pressing down on the d-pad. Doing so will sacrifice some of the ADS accuracy for extra mobility, which promises to be particularly useful in close-quarters combat. Tac-Stance will also activate automatically while sliding, unless disabled in the game’s settings.
COD: Warzone Season 1 Content and Features
Another notable change debuting in Warzone Season 1 concerns water traversal; as seen in the brief trailer segment featuring a diving operator, players will now always have a backup pistol equipped while swimming. The upcoming season will also mark the return of unadulterated slide canceling, a mechanic that was severely limited in last year’s Modern Warfare 2, only to make a triumphant return in its sequel.
As for the upcoming scenery switch, Warzone players who already bought Modern Warfare 3 should have a pretty good idea about what to expect from the new map. Namely, Urzikstan has been present in the new Call of Duty game from day one, because it serves as the setting for its open-world Zombies mode. And though the COD: Warzone version of the map will be largely unchanged, it will offer one unique feature in the form of a fully functional train, which can also be seen near the end of the new trailer.
Call of Duty: Warzone
Warzone is a free-to-play battle royale game in the long-running Call of Duty series. The game has seen over 100 million active players and features several different gameplay modes.
- Franchise
- Call of Duty
- Platform(s)
- Xbox One, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- Released
- March 10, 2020
- Developer(s)
- Infinity Ward, Raven Software
- Publisher(s)
- Activision
- Genre(s)
- First-Person Shooter, Battle Royale
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Engine
- IW 8.0
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs, Violence
- Metascore
- 79
- Platforms That Support Crossplay
- PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
