New Warzone Map Is Revealed as Urzikstan

This year, Warzone will pivot to another fresh map and it’ll receive countless updates courtesy of the release of Modern Warfare 3. From new movement mechanics to a fresh and innovative Gulag structure, and from all-new vehicles to traversal elements, the Warzone experience that’s coming this year looks absolutely fantastic. What’s more, the new Warzone map has just been revealed – it’s Urzikstan, the environment players were first introduced to back in 2019’s Modern Warfare.

It’s already shaping up to be an impressive map, fusing a massive, open foundation with dense and diverse points of interest. It has had some real attention poured into it from Raven Software, and at first blush, it looks like a huge improvement over Modern Warfare 2’s Al Mazrah map that was introduced in 2022.

Let’s All Go To Urzikstan

During the Call of Duty NEXT showcase, Raven Software’s developers spoke about Urzikstan as a Warzone map. They explained that it’s a fusion of sorts between the Middle East and Europe, and in a fictional sense, the map would fit somewhere between Verdansk and Al Mazrah. With that in mind, it almost pulls together elements of both of those maps – and it does so in a very effective and aesthetically pleasing fashion.

There are skyscrapers flanked by residential regions, and long-forgotten railway stations leading to treacherous power plants. There’s a military base, a port, waterways, and rural regions – it’s a monumental construct that looks like it could be the most densely-packed Warzone map we’ve ever seen. But, at the same time, the new Warzone map doesn’t feel like it has too much empty space littered around it. It genuinely looks like it’ll be a wonder to explore.

It doesn’t end there, though – Urzikstan is also the setting for the new Call of Duty Zombies experience. That’s right, the entire map will be populated by bloodthirsty zombies and terrifying mutants, and it’ll be up to players to team up, enter the map, fight for survival, and then successfully leave the map again.

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What’s New In MW3’s Warzone?

There are plenty of changes coming hand-in-hand with the new Warzone map. It looks like community feedback has weighed heavily on the development cycle for this map and mode, and as a game, it looks leaps ahead of what we’ve been experiencing for the last year in Al Mazrah.

Here are some of the more innovative changes coming to MW3’s Warzone:

The Gulag will ‘rotate’ with different environments – one might contain stacks of cash, and the next might be set at night
There’s a train that circles the map that players can actively control and drive along the tracks
There are horizontal ziplines in addition to redeployment drones
It features all of MW3’s enhanced movement mechanics
Like MW3, Warzone will feature red dots on the minimap once again

It’s a sizeable undertaking for Raven Software, but it looks as though it’s already set to pay off in dividends.

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