With its release today via nVidia (who are sponsoring the release to the PC platform) to their SLi users in an email link, we get the long awaited 1.6 patch. Within it there are four new maps for us to get to grips with and a few updates on killcam, and other minor bugs.

The new 1.6 patch for Call of Duty 4 has been something of speculation for a while now within the competitive community. There has been a long burning hope that this patch might see a Call of Duty TV brought into existence. Infinity Ward have continued to hint that they are looking into the posibility of TV for CoD4. This really is the next step for the game, and if it is to ever reach the hights of popularity that games such as Quake3 and Counter Strike have then it is imperative for the games long term survival that it's released. Unfortunately Infinity Ward have not released a version of CoDTV just yet, and there has been no word from them regarding it in the recent months.

Within this new patch however there are some new interesting maps :-

Chinatown - A remake of a Call of Duty series classic, Carentan. It pretty much has the same layout as the old Carentan's but with a different feel. This time rather than a sleepy french village, we are plunged into, surprise surprise, a Chinese setting! It could prove to be an interesting competitive search and destroy map.

Killhouse - Killhouse refers to the S.A.S training facilities that this map is loosely based on. A tight enclosed map that has the feel of an aim map from CS. More of a public map for Team Death match than anything else, I don't expect to see this one in compeitive competitions.

Creek - A classic sniper map with big open spaces this is another public map that could work well in capture the flag and team deathmatch game types.

Broadcast - This map reminds me a SoF2 map, and seems like it might play quite well. However badly designed bomb sites let it down and in competition play I do not think it will stand the test of time. It should prove to be a good public map however.

Only time will tell if Infitiny Ward are working on CoDTV - perhaps we will see it in the 1.7 patch!