The latest edition of the popular Call of Duty video game has included a playable F1 map of Singapore Grand Prix
The Marina Bay circuit, host of the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, will be a playable map in the next Call of Duty game, developers Infinity Ward have announced. The ever-growing popularity of F1 has filtered through to F1’s Esports platforms, with more gamers getting involved in the yearly F1 releases from Codemasters and EA. The Marina Bay Circuit in Singapore will be a playable six vs six-player map in its next game Modern Warfare 2.
The complete game is set to be released on 28 October on Playstation and Xbox consoles, as well as PC, the first Beta trial for the game launches on Playstation for early access pre-orders on 16-17 September – where players can get their first taste of the map. In a video teaser released by Infinity Ward, it appears as if the map will cover parts of Marina Bay’s pitlane and paddock complex – though no actual F1 branding is present in the clip, suggesting no partnership has been made with the series.
Fans are totally looking forward to exploring the F1 map in the game. However, with still more than a month to go for its release, fans indulged in banter on Twitter.
“I hope Michael Masi isn’t in the game because he’ll change the rules mid game”, a fan shared his hilarious take.
“Can you imagine how Max has popularized F1 because of 2021. He blew so much fresh air into the sport, I couldn’t imagine this during the era of Mercedes dominance”, wrote a fan, who loves the fact that F1 is rapidly growing in popularity
“So at least there will be one new map in the game then. I bet the rest a just lazy remakes as per usual!Game has really turned to junk this past few years, They prioritise new skins over decent content!”, wrote another fan.
“Any way we can get the enemy to all look like mazepin”, joked another fan.
“Im literally just going to run around the track with a jeep or something and time myself … Incoming hot laps, f*** my k.d ratio”, tweeted another fan.
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