Modern Warfare 2 - Tips Tricks and Tactics

The new map pack was released on the 30th of march and was a huge failure as xbox live didn't do the title update before the maps where brought out leaving everyone unable to play the newly bought maps. Later on in the night the maps where working and I began playing on them after many days of playing on these maps I think they have done a brilliant job in making the maps original and all feel different from each other.


Salvage

Salvage is the rusted snowy map that features many small corridors and alot of intense fighting. There are many places where you will see alot of camping. I love this map for run and gun tactics as the head on collisions that you see while running around the map are very frequent. The one two story building is a hotspot for fighting as the space is very controllable and you will normally find a camper at this location. Playing this map I found that harriers and many killstreak rewards do very well as there is not alot of cover apart from some buildings that are at the ends of the map. There are always several ways around the map. Sniping can be very successful on these maps but you will have to be prepared for people coming at you from all directions, as flanking can happen very frequently. Altogether this is a very original map that is not comparable to any other on the game and can be the map in which very intense fighting can occur.



Bailout
This could very well be my favorite map of the map pack as I love the fighting and the very linear structure of the map. There seems to be three main ways across the map. The apartments, the road and the walkway. All of these ways can be very dangerous and can also be seen by the other ways. This map is not suited much for sniping in my opinion as there are many trees that can get in the way of the view. One spot that I like very much is the house that looks over the walkway as this has a great view for defending many objectives like a bomb on demolition. There is only one way up into the house too so a claymore is your best defense. For me this map slightly resembles crossfire from call of duty 4 as this was also very linear.




Storm
This map is a very good map as there are many places to go inside and out. It is a very complex map with places to run and flank enemies all over this map. The various places to flank or be flanked on this map make the gameplay very unpredictable. There is one place that I find very fun to camp (displayed in the picture) This location has two entrances and three windows it can be very hard to keep defended but if you can manage it you will be able to rack up a very high killstreak. Altogether this map is very very complex with not many hotspots for fighting and will always be different gameplay.





Crash and Overgrown
These two maps are like a nice trip back to CoD4 and infinity ward have chosen two of the best maps from cod4 as the killstreaks and the new guns work very very well with these maps.


Overgrown
This is an old favorite of mine and I love the slight revamp of the graphics. It gives it a very subtle but nice change. The grassy map with an old riverbed as  splits the map into two sides. Each side of the map has its own hotspots for fighting one side has the barn-house and the house that has a roof you can get onto. The other side has two two story houses that each has many windows. This map is a favorite of mine for sniping and you will see many snipers on this map. The killstreaks can be very dangerous on this map as a stealth bomber could easily wipe out the whole team if positioned right and as the map is mostly outdoors the killstreaks can also get many kills.




Crash
This map was a favorite of mine and many of my friends. This maps main attraction was the three story building with many people fighting over the roof of this building. This map works extremely well with all the objective games and I love playing search and destroy on this map as the bombs are well placed and also cannot wait to play demolition on this map. This map can be used well with any class as snipers can be very well hidden and defend themselves well in some buildings Altogether I love this map and think there are not many faults with it.







In my opinion this is an amazing map pack and well worth the 1200MS points I would recommend it to anybody as the extra hours of gameplay this provides is well worth the money. Each map is different and none are like the current maps on MW2.