From a design communique:

Attached in this mail is the first shot of the new multiplayer area of Sadr City. It will be similiar to M16/M17 block, but much harder to control the streets with various interest points - one is of course the big building on the south where player (who controls it) has a great view of almost 1/3 of the map - mostly open street area!

When the action starts, teams can take many routes to meet the enemy - northern part will be very narrow, some of the building are open to enter (mainly on the corners). Light area is the area that players can access, everything else with the red lines and dark color is blocked by rubble, dirt and other stuff... BLUE (US) side starts on the open street, right area with main wide street is roadblocked, if the enemy pushes US side back to the start they can still hide from snipers among the wrecked cars and then counterattack. Same goes for the red side.

The beauty of it is that the battles will be big fun with good teams in this map, a real part of Sadr City (Al Thawra). Also, two big warehouse areas that are quite open are present so if just a few players are playing on it they can agree where to meet... that's the basics, hopefully you like the plan! I'm already putting the block together... today.

From an interview with our European game designer, Icebreakr. He is the co-creator of two FPS commercial games - Nam (based on Vietnam) and WW2GI (based on World War II) published by GT Interactive (Infogrames) in 1997 and 1999. Icebreakr joined the Slovenian military service in 2000, excelling mainly in the field of Information Technology. In 2001, he left the Slovenian Army and co-founded two computer-related companies. In 2002 and 2003, he worked on a military simulator project based on the Operation Flashpoint engine used for small squad ops computer training. He founded and has been active in the NatoSoldier.com online gamers community in the European online war theater. Icebreakr joined the Kuma team in the beginning of 2004 to help create realistic and immersive combat situations for hardcore military sim players and build a strong online gaming community. He's also a devoted paintball / airsoft player.