The creation of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile may have been seen as an inevitability to many fans, given just how well so many other popular battle royale titles have recently adapted to mobile platforms. Mobile gaming in general has exploded in popularity in recent years just like battle royales, giving a greater insight as to why the marriage of the two has proven so successful.

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will of course maintain much of the core identity of the other versions of the popular battle royale, but will also have to adapt itself to smaller-scale hardware and thus increase its appeal through more unique elements of gameplay. A fantastic way that this is being done is with the return to the popular map Verdansk, which many fans are already beginning to feel nostalgia for.

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The Basics of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile

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Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is set to be a free-to-play version of the massively popular Warzone, designed specifically for iOS and Android devices. Given that Warzone reached a player count of 60 million within a couple of months of its release, it is no wonder why Activision believes that the title can excel and be successful on mobile platforms as well.

Warzone Mobile will largely provide the same experience as other versions of the game, seeing players drop into a battle royale experience with up to 120 people either alone or as part of a squad. Interestingly, Warzone Mobile broadens its appeal by offering shared progression across Modern Warfare 2, Warzone 2, and itself, meaning that players can enjoy gameplay across all three games without a fear of falling behind on progression for their favored title.

As previously mentioned, there is one factor of Warzone Mobile that is seemingly at the forefront of discourse surrounding the game. With Warzone Mobile returning to Verdansk, a lot of otherwise disinterested fans are eager to get their hands on the title upon its eventual 2023 release.

The Importance of Verdansk in Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile

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Verdansk was the first major map to launch alongside the original Call of Duty: Warzone upon its initial release in 2020. With the map representing a time in which the game was at its freshest - before the ever-shifting metas that continue to dominate the core gameplay of the competitive title became prominent - Verdansk is a map already saturated with fond memories and nostalgia for huge swathes of Warzone fans.

The Versansk map was slowly pushed out of the Warzone map rotation with the release of Call of Duty: Vanguard and the introduction of the Pacific-set Caldera map. With its more dated setting and much steeper topography, the Caldera map is seen as controversial to many fans, especially considering how it pushed out the widely beloved Verdansk as the core map of Warzone.

In this way, a return to Verdansk in Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is a fantastic move on Activision's part, allowing fans who vocally wanted a return to the map to be satiated while allowing the upcoming Warzone 2 to fully explore its own identity with its new Al Mazrah map. This fosters an environment in which Verdansk can be afforded the comeback that it deserves, while simultaneously making Warzone Mobile a much more intriguing prospect for a much wider catchment of players upon its release. While it will always be an uphill battle for Warzone Mobile to compete, having Verdansk as its core map provides it with a huge immediate advantage.

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is set to release for Android and iOS devices in 2023.

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