On 2 and 3 september, Activision Call of Duty XP, an event for fans of the series, showing not only the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to play, but also paintball can be played in life-size reconstruction of the maps.
The Call of Duty XP event takes place in Los Angeles. Fans of the shooterserie from 19 July ordering tickets, which are $ 150 cost. Cards are only to get for the whole weekend and not for one of the two days. Who wants to, should be at least 18 years old. Also fans from outside the U.S. are welcome. There are thousands of tickets available and the publisher expects at least 7,000 to sell. Activision sets the full proceeds of the ticket sales available to the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit of the publisher that veterans from the U.s. army after their service helps in the search for a job.
The event will take place in a rural area just outside of Los Angeles, on a site of a small 5 acres. Activision promises ‘a ton of consoles’ to put down on the ground, which among other things, the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is playable will be. Participants can the multiplayer mode of the game tests, as well as the new online service Elite. This will give fans the chance to win the game well before the release in november to play. There is also a tournament organized around Call of Duty: Black Ops, for which 32 teams have to qualify. The total prize pool for the tournament is $ 1 million.
On site are two complete maps from Modern Warfare 2 was reconstructed. Scrapyard is a life-sized paintball arena and The Pit is an obstacle course where participants through to be able to run, armed with a paintballgeweer. Those who get hungry from the events, can burgers to order from a replica of Burger Town, the chain that occurs in Modern Warfare 2. Finally, it promises to be the publisher of lectures and panel discussions with the creators of the various games from the series, and on both days, a ‘triple a ‘ closing act’.
Activision has the idea for Call of Duty XP copied from Blizzard, that since 2005, BlizzCon is organising a fair for fans of the StarCraft, Warcraft and Diablo games. Developer id Software has a much longer history with QuakeCon in 1996 for the first time was held.
