Call of Duty: Experience 2016

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Call of Duty: Experience 2016
Official Call of Duty XP 2016 logo
GenreVideo gaming
Location(s)The Forum
Inglewood, California
CountryUnited States
Organized by
WebsiteCall of Duty: XP

Call of Duty: Experience 2016 (shortened to Call of Duty XP 2016 and COD XP 2016) is the upcoming second Call of Duty gaming convention held by Activision and Infinity Ward. It will be held at The Forum in Inglewood, California from September 2 to September 4, 2016. Serving as the follow-up to the first convention held in 2011, the event is to feature the multiplayer reveal for the upcoming title Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare as well as the 2016 Call of Duty World League Championship.

Background

The first Call of Duty XP event was held in 2011 to promote Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and its multiplayer mode as well as the series' online service Call of Duty: Elite. Also at the event was a $1,000,000 tournament featuring competitive Call of Duty teams.[1] For the 2016 event, select people within the Call of Duty community who had covered the game multiple times received a surprise envelope from Activision, the publisher of Call of Duty, in early June 2016. These envelopes were not to be open until the day after it was received. Once opened, a ticket to the Call of Duty XP 2016 event was revealed as the envelope's contents.[1]

Location and setup

Call of Duty XP 2016 will take place at The Forum, an arena in Inglewood, California. The convention will be held from September 2 to September 4, 2016. It has three ticket packages; Enlisted ($49), Veteran ($129), and Prestige ($199), with each package tier offering more content (i.e. only the Veteran and Prestige tiers have the Care Package bonus and only the Prestige tier has the VIP Lounge access bonus). Each tier, however, features bonus digital content for both Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.[2]

Events

Infinite Warfare multiplayer and Black Ops III DLC

One of the prominent events of Call of Duty XP 2016 will be the official reveal of the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare multiplayer mode. Anyone who attends the convention will be able to play the multiplayer mode hands-on, being the first people of the public to do so. Also playable will be the game's Zombies mode as well as the multiplayer mode for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. The fourth map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops III will also be revealed first at the event and will be playable at the convention.[3][4]

2016 Call of Duty World League Championship

Another prominent event of the convention will be the 2016 Call of Duty World League Championship, a competitive e-sports tournament. The tournament, which is similar to the one held at the first Call of Duty XP convention, will feature 32 competitive Call of Duty teams from around the world. The prize pool will be $2,000,000, which is the largest prize pool in Call of Duty Championship history and double the pool at the first event.[3]

Other events and announcements

Present at the convention are two activities that are spin-offs from in-game experiences. One is Nuketown Paintball, which is paintball in a designated area that replicates the famous Nuketown map as seen in the Call of Duty: Black Ops titles. The other activity is Zombies laser tag, which is essentially laser tag in an area that replicates the Zombies mode and universe, which has been present in Black Ops titles as well as Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. An experimental and exclusive Call of Duty-related PlayStation VR experience will also be shown and tested at the convention.[4][5] Special announcements and special music guests have been announced but not revealed.[6] Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys and rapper Kanye West appeared as musical guests during the first Call of Duty XP convention.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Bhat, Keshav (June 8, 2016). "Call of Duty XP 2016 event announced, takes place September 2nd – 4th". charlieINTEL. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  2. ^ "Call of Duty®: COD XP 2016". Activision. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; June 9, 2016 suggested (help)
  3. ^ a b Paget, Mat (June 8, 2016). "Call of Duty XP 2016 Convention Announced, Dates Revealed". GameSpot. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Carpenter, Nicole (June 8, 2016). "Activision Announces Call of Duty XP Fan Event". IGN. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  5. ^ Schwartz, William (June 8, 2016). "Activision Hosting Another Call of Duty XP 2016 Event For Infinite Warfare & COD Champs". Attack of the Fanboy. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  6. ^ "Official Call of Duty® XP 2016 Announce Trailer". YouTube. June 8, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016.

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