Modern Warfare 2 DLC Shatters Download Records

Kris Erickson • Apr 7, 2010 • Comments ()

Have you been enjoying the Stimulus Package maps for Modern Warfare 2? You're definitely not alone. Despite getting off to a bit of a glitchy start, the new content has proven quite popular since its launch on March 30th. Microsoft today confirmed that last week's release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package shattered Xbox Live records as more than one million gamers worldwide downloaded the new map pack from Activision and Infinity Ward in the first 24 hours it was available, surpassing the 2.5 million mark within the first week.

The map pack DLC costs 1200 points and is (temporarily) exclusive to the Xbox 360 system and includes five new multiplayer maps. These include reincarnations of the Crash and Overgrown maps from Call of Duty 4, as well as three new maps: Bailout, a multi-level apartment complex; Storm, an industrial park littered with heavy machinery; and Salvage, an abandoned car junkyard covered in snow.

PS3 owners will get a chance to grab the DLC maps when they go on sale April 30th for the price of $15 USD.

Some more impressive statistics on the game: According to Microsoft, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 players have invested more than 1.75 billion hours of gameplay on Xbox Live since the title's release in November, which is equal to more than 200,000 years of gameplay playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Holy smokes, imagine what we could accomplish as a species if video games had never been invented! Well, judging by the amount of frags racked up in MW2, we might have wiped ourselves out for real by now...