> Indeed, I argue that you can witness bits of fy_iceworld’s DNA everywhere, blasted and seeded across the entire landscape of the game industry, as long as you have the blacklight to trace its ropes of influence. Perhaps its most famous direct descendant is Shipment, an official multiplayer map for the original 2007 release (and 2019 remake) of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

Today I learned that Shipment from COD is modeled after fy_iceworld! I can’t believe I never put 2 and 2 together. These types of small, hectic maps are always fun. Halo has Octagon variants, COD has Shipment and Nuke Town.