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Call of Duty 4 for Xbox 360 falling behind PC version?

Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing a fair amount of Call of Duty, both over Xbox Live multiplayer and the single-player modes, and I’ve been finding a few bugs that seem to have been fixed on the PC versions of the game that haven’t been addressed for the Xbox 360.

I’m going to save my review until I am finished playing the single player mode, which I plan on doing since it has been truly a joy to play thus far, but I did want to mention that I think Call of Duty 4 is the best first-person shooter I’ve ever played.

One December 19th, the Official Call of Duty Web site reported that they updated the PC version of the game with a few new features as well as a fairly large amount of bug fixes. Version 1.4, as it is called, included a “winter version” of the map Crash (one of my favorite maps) that included Christmas lights, claymores, candy canes, and presumably snow - which would be really neat to have available through the Xbox 360 - but it isn’t.

Some of the bugs fixed had to do with server issues (which, incidentally is where the majority of the small problems I’ve had with the game really show their head). There is also a fix for bullet accuracy. I was wondering why Chris was able to shoot me so easily, now I know.

The only reason I can see, at this point, as to why the Xbox 360 version of the game will get updates slower than the PC version is because the Call of Duty developers will have to deal with Microsoft’s Xbox Live service when they want to update the “server” portion of the game. Since all communications between players happens over Microsoft’s network I’m guessing that is harder, or more complicated, to update than it is to release a patch for PC users to download to their local computers.

I’m looking forward to the next update - but even more looking forward to finishing the single player mode so that I can start over at a harder difficulty.

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