Modern Warfare 2: Resurgence Pack

Finally, Carnival: a Brazilian fun park where your first matches will invariably feature both a) mistakenly firing at wooden clowns and b) investigating said wooden clowns only to be knifed in the back of the head.

Initially it can feel slightly gimmicky, what with its shoot-outs in and around the park's funhouse, dodgems, magic castle and nearby rickety rollercoaster. On top of this, there are various incidental details such as a Call of Duty arcade machine that strangely has Mario on the side, and a Zoltan Fortune Telling machine (like the one in Big) whose bearded mannequin looks an awful lot like Modern Warfare chief baddie Zakhaev - and also looks great when fed a few bullets.

It is, however, easily the most visually alluring Modern Warfare 2 map so far, and great fun to scrap in. For a start, sniping platforms are fairly visible to each other, and allow for some Enemy at the Gates-style bullets to be exchanged in the air above the heads of most of the other combatants. Meanwhile, the subtly different rival spawn points in modes like CTF (one a concave entrance to the tighter confines of a magic fort, the other a wider area surrounded by a convex circular barrier) make for some unique and intriguing gameplay.

The simple pleasure of holding out against the enemy in an area that looks a little bit like Pat Sharpe's Funhouse, meanwhile, cannot be understated. The only major issue with it is that trying to spot a sniper on the rollercoaster, especially from below and through its rickety boards, is an absolute pain. It really is an area best left well alone unless the game mode or a spawn demands it, or indeed if you are said sniper.

There's little doubt in my mind that Resurgence is of a higher quality than Stimulus, but the price clearly still niggles. For me, it's an automatic purchase; for those who have drifted away and quietly want to break things whenever they hear the phrase "Tango Sucker!" then a wait for a potential price drop might still be advised.