COD4 maps: Original roster and MW4 returns

How many COD4 maps are being counted?

The community COD4 map template lists 17 Included maps, including Winter Crash, and four Variety Map Pack maps, giving 21 entries. Here, “base roster” means that template group, not a claim that every platform shipped with every entry on release day. Winter Crash is a later PC/Mac bonus, so the list must not be read as the original console launch inventory.

The killstreaks.com map archive instead counts 20, omitting Winter Crash as a variant. The supplied reference flags the community article’s prose and platform treatment as inconsistent. This page states the counting convention explicitly and counts Winter Crash once, rather than adding another bonus entry after the total.

Which maps are in the Included group?

The names and setting labels below are attributed to the community map template and the linked COD4 map pages. They describe the original game, not MW4 arenas or the separate Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Mobile).

• Ambush — Middle East.
• Backlot — Middle East.
• Bloc — Pripyat.
• Bog — Middle East.
• Countdown — Altay Mountains.
• Crash — Middle East.
• Crossfire — Middle East.
• District — Middle East.
• Downpour — Western Russia.
• Overgrown — Western Russia.
• Pipeline — Pripyat.
• Shipment — Russian shipyard.
• Showdown — Middle East.
• Strike — Middle East.
• Vacant — Pripyat.
• Wet Work — Bering Strait.
• Winter Crash — Winter version of Crash.

Campaign associations on the community map pages provide context, not a claim that the multiplayer arena is an unchanged campaign level. A ship, courtyard or industrial site can be adapted for different objectives. This roster does not turn those setting labels into measurements of map size, travel time or engagement distance.

What DLC actually belonged to COD4?

The community DLC ledger and Wikipedia’s cited downloadable-content history identify one map pack, the Variety Map Pack. Its maps are Broadcast, Creek, Chinatown and Killhouse. Broadcast uses a communications-building setting, Creek a rural village, Chinatown an urban district, and Killhouse a training warehouse, according to the community map records.

Wikipedia’s cited pack history dates the Xbox release to April 4, 2008, PlayStation to April 24, and the free PC release to June 5. Those are original COD4 releases. The later Remastered resale is a separate edition’s transaction, not another original-game pack. Vantage, Concussion, Destination: Moscow and Graveyard are not COD4 map packs in the supplied source ledger.

Where does Winter Crash fit?

The community Winter Crash record identifies it as a seasonal version of Crash delivered with the PC v1.4 update, with PC/Mac availability and no original console release. It remains within the template’s Included group for the roster above. Its later appearance in Modern Warfare Remastered does not retroactively make it an original console map.

This distinction matters when comparing collections. A list of a console player’s available maps can legitimately differ from a cross-platform historical roster. The useful answer names the platform and inclusion rule rather than forcing the same unqualified total onto every edition.

Which maps returned in later games?

The community map pages record Crash, Vacant and Overgrown returning in Modern Warfare 2, with Crash and Vacant also in Modern Warfare (2019). Broadcast and Killhouse also returned in the latter game. Strike returned in Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare II, while Showdown returned in Modern Warfare II. Those are remake records attributed to the community wiki, not additions to the original COD4 inventory.

Crossfire has a community record for Call of Duty: Mobile, but its Modern Warfare 2 version was scrapped. That distinction prevents a cut entry from becoming a shipped remake. Likewise, a Wet Work Easter egg is not another full map release. Modern Warfare Remastered preserves the original setting in a separate edition and should be named as such.

Which COD4 map returns in MW4?

Activision’s MW4 launch briefing schedules Shipment for October 27, 2026. It is the only confirmed full COD4 map returning in the supplied comparison. None of MW4’s 12 Core launch maps, listed by that same briefing, is a shipped COD4 map. See the MW4 launch roster for the actual names and formats.

MW4 Rooftops and Forest should not be merged with COD4’s cut maps bearing those names. They are separate records. Kill Block can draw inspiration from older locations in modular sections, but that is not proof of a full Crash remake in MW4. Shipment’s scheduled return also does not mean that the Variety maps return with it.

What can this map history establish?

The map-reading guide separates publisher markers from tactics. A returning name does not prove unchanged geometry, spawn behavior or weapon performance. MW4 damage, time-to-kill, recoil and effective-range measurements remain not published in the available records. The COD4 legacy overview compares the supported structures without transferring combat figures between games.

Sources

• Community COD4 map template and DLC ledger — inclusion groups.
• Wikipedia COD4 — cited DLC dates; Winter Crash — community platform record.
• Activision Maps and Modes briefing — MW4 launch maps and Shipment date.