User blog comment:Armyman234/Treyarch hands over DLC production to Raven Software/@comment-1248307-20101202213932/@comment-1248307-20101203102424

Well to answer your question BigT95 'Five' sucks quite possible the worst designed map they have ever done.

Don’t get me wrong, Kino is a nice map, I read on this site that it was originally slated to be released as a WaW map with what would have been map pack 4 before they cancelled it. Had they done that I would have probably loved it, however my problem with it was that they released it as part of a new game when it doesn’t really add anything to the series in terms of play.

While I also agree with you on the lack of camping in Kino I think that what makes the map so good, its a good run and gun map as it has lots of open spaces for you to dodge and shoot, had they released it for WaW it would have worked perfect for me, as people who wanted to camp could have played Der Riese and people who wanted to run and gun could have played this and Shi No Numa (which is the best run and gun map out of all of them in my opinion). The whole thing would have worked very well and depending what you felt like doing you could have played the map which suited your mood or playing preference. Also the wall weapons would have been WWII weapons so would have owned…

Back to 'Five' and why it sucks...They made a map which is supposed to be for running and gunning yet made the corridors so thin that its almost impossible to avoid a horde of zombies, I know they wanted to offset that with the teleporters, but it just doesn’t work, I've yet to have a game on that map where I have come away and thought, I really enjoyed that.

I also think they also got the character order on it wrong, it’s a small thing I know but for me the character order should have been

(White) JFK = Tank, They got this right) (Blue) Castro = Nikoli (both communist revolutionaries) (Yellow) McNamara = Takeo (they just both come across as similar character wise) (Green) Richtofen = Nixon (creepy weirdo)

If you had asked anyone what order the characters on Five should be I think they would have said that order to make it go with the other maps but they got it wrong, and Castro is green, Nixon is yellow and McNamara is blue, I know its a little thing, but the map is just plagued with annoying little things,

Thief round sucks Corridors to narrow Characters wrong order Did I mention the thief round sucks, I mean seriously what the hell is the point No ability to organise yourself No spot to camp (which wouldn’t be that much of a problem but see point 2)

This is why I am not too upset that they are handing it over to Raven, after all the map they did specifically for this game sucks, let someone else now give it a bash and see if they can do it better.