There have been rumors of giving new game type abilities to Call of Duty 4 console Xbox and PS3 players for awhile, but they have finally been confirmed. A description of each new Call of Duty gametype to be added is below, no word on exactly when they will be coming out though.

Search and Destroy with Multiple Bombs – Same as normal S&D except instead of one bomb, everybody gets one. This prevents endless bomb camping and gives players with slower internet connections the chance to plant a bomb for once. The downside is it takes away from some of the classic S&D strategy that goes on.

Hardcore Free For All – Just what it sounds like, normal free for all mode except everyone starts at 30 health instead of 100 which amounts to around ten times more run and gun.

Hardcore Headquarters – Headquarters only bullets do more damage, there is no HUD, and most importantly Friendly Fire is on. The idea behind Friendly Fire being on is that it will prevent endless amounts of nade spam at the Headquarters position because people will be too afraid of killing their teammates. In practice though I doubt it will change Headquarters game play at all.

Bare Bones Team Death Match – Team Death Match without perks or kill streak benefits. This promises to be the most interesting game type, what will people do without being able to whine about Martyrdom and Airstrikes? I do admit though this is probably an improvement over the normal TDM games.

This won’t mean much to all the PC players Call of Duty out there who already have access to these gametypes, except for Barebones TDM which is not avaiable unless you are playing on modded servers. Hopefully with the 1.8 patch PC players will be seeing a Barebones gametype available on normal Call of Duty 4 servers.