Hopefully everybody enjoyed the double XP period for Call of Duty: Black Ops in May – neither Treyarch nor Activision wanted to see any of the PS3 fans miss out just because of the technical issues. Now the next round of Black Ops action is locked and loaded: the long-awaited Escalation DLC pack will be available in the PlayStation Store on Friday, June 10th.
Escalation features five big chunks of content – four multiplayer maps and one star-studded Zombies experience unlike any other. For fans of competitive combat, your new battlegrounds await:
- HOTEL takes the sunny splendor of a luxirous Cuban casino resort and turns it into a bullet-riddled war zone. Details like the blown casino safe and poolside bar offer some unusual cover for run-and-gunners, but thanks to the high vantage points at opposite ends, it’s also a great map for snipers.
- Why not visit the ZOO? The big cats and deadly reptiles left this abandoned Russian animal park long ago, but the overgrown, dilapidated facility still plays host to the world’s most dangerous game. Hide below in the bear lair or snipe from above on the monorail track – you’ve got the run of the place.
- If you’re looking for a slice of classic Americana, check out the small-town motel and diner near the ambushed CONVOY. The freeway overpass has collapsed, leaving a missile stranded above and rubble littered below – not to mention a pre-fab house, apparently in transit by truck when the attack hit, now toppled on its side in ruins. Talk about trailer trash.
- STOCKPILE looks like an ordinary town in remote Russia…until you find the warhead hidden in the building in the center of town. Use switches to slide the huge steel doors up and down – good for restricting access during objective-based games.
Last but not least, CALL OF THE DEAD goes meta on zombie lore itself with a unique setup: Cinema’s zombie godfather George A. Romero is making his latest undead epic – starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund, Michael Rooker, and Danny Trejo – only to have a real zombie apocalypse break out, infecting the director himself and causing him to stalk you throughout the level. All the stars performed their roles with full motion capture and voice-over, so when you and three friends take on wave after wave of the zombie horde, you’ll do so as some of Hollywood’s most famous monster mashers. Proof positive that there’s a zombie killer in all of us.
Escalation will be available in the PlayStation Store on Friday, June 10, and to celebrate, the double XP will flow once more – enjoy twice the rewards for your efforts through Sunday, June 12. It’s also a perfect time to try out some my unorthodox multiplayer strategies that will keep your opponents guessing.
Enjoy next weekend – I’ll see you online!
Oh Black Ops yay. SO ABOUT BATTLEFIELD 3…
I bought a 20 dolar cards yesterday, and when I founf out about this I just bought the LA Noire pass. There you have it, Treyarch. One less costumer. You make us wait a whole month, and then you tell us to wait one more week? This will go forever!
Dan why cant it come first on ps3 than on xbox and than all other plat forms ?
PS3 should get it first because it was under maintence the whole time and it was boring playing offline wasnt it ?
i cant wait till it comes out
Not only does XBOX get the map first, but COD games to, YOU GUYS ARE A MULTIBILLION DOLLAR COMPANY……..DO YOU REALLY NEED TO MAKE A DEALL WITH XBOX TO GET SOME EXTRA CASH…….I MEAN COMMON YOU CASH WHORES.
@dan do you think escalation will come out a little earlier?
another sigh from me but will it be discounted with ps plus since it said plus would try to benefit us as much as possible
+ Dan Amrich on June 3rd, 2011 at 3:34 pm said:
She was mistaken, thought they were talking about MAG DLC. She actually went back and corrected it. So, for real, July 10. :)
@ Dan Amrich – are you trying to make your point that humans make mistakes? :D Or are you really telling us to wait one more month than previously stated? July or June? I’m pretty sure you said June 10th but now you’ve stated July 10th twice….
It should came out yesterday and now I have to wait longer. are we getting a discount for playstation plus or waiting longer
@ Dan can you start answering the important questions like if we are getting the Map pack discounted or free
Please answer
apparently my psn store still wasn’t up till last night or this morning but still this should have been announced a long time ago. anyone know if qriocity is included in regular ps plus service cause I’ll get it if it is included.
This new dlc map pack looks like the best one to ever be released for cod! I absolutely can not wait to play call of the dead. I think I will be logging in some major hours with dlc map pack release/ double xp weekend. Hopefully they bring back nuketown 24/7!
INFINITY WARD IS BETTER THAN TREYARC MAIN MEMBERS OF INFINITY WARD FIRED BY THE CASH COW ACTI THEN THEY SAY TO TREY “GO GET A CONTRACT WITH MICROSOFT SO WE CAN RELEASE THE DLC TO 360 FIRST BECAUSE THE PLAYSTATION 3 IS SO ****** WELL DONE WHEN TREY REPORTS BACK ACTI NOTICES IW MAKING NEW MODERN WARFARE CALLS AND SAYS YOU MAKE PEOPLE PAY FOR ONLINE AND MAKE THE GAME THE ORIGINAL FORMAT THAT EVERYONES BORED OF ****** OFF AND TAKES THE PROFITS. AND THEY ALL LIVED HORRIBLY EVER AFTER
CALL OF THE DEAD SAME GUNS EXCEPT TWO AND SAME CONCEPT ARE PEOPLE REALLY GONNA PAY FOR MORE OF THE SAME
SLEDGEHAMMER GAMES ARE BEING GOOD AND HELPING INFINITY WARD INSTEAD OF ACTI AND TREY AND MAYBE ACTI AND TREY SHOULD SHUT THE **** UP AND GIVE US THE DLC WHEN WE WANT IT FOR ME THE SAME AS 360 USERS AND FOR FOR A CHEAPER PRICE WHICH I THINK SHOULD BE 5.00. CHECK OUT BFBC2 VIETNAM AND YOU’LL SEE WHAT I MEAN VIETNAM IS WAY BETTER VALUE FOR MONEY
AND IF ITS OUT ON JULY 10 ……………………………………… DONT BOTHER RELASING IT YOU AND YOUR COD FRANCHISE CAN GO TO THE PS3 BARGAIN BIN WHILE THE MODERN WARFARES AND BATTLEFIELDS RISE TO THE TOP AND WE’LL SEE THE GAMES THAT REALLY RULE THE MODERN MARKET
what the eff is the error FFFFFFFFFF
IT BETTER BE JUNE 10 OR YOU CAN DO WHAT I SAID IN THE ABOVE COMMENT
KILLZONE 3 IS BETTER
MEANWHILE I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO SONY THAT YOU DID A BRILLIANT JOB ON GETTING THE NETWORK BACK UP AND GAVE US MUCK MORE THAN THEY SHOULD HAVE WHICH IS BRILLIANT AND THAT I KNOW 360 USERS WERE LAUGHING AND GIGGLING UNDER THEIR BREATH WHILE THEY SAID THEY FELT DEPPLY SORRY. THEIR TIME WILL COME
@number3 if you hate COD so much you don’t need to be on the page with your ignorant comments go find a different page where what you have to say actually matters
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I AGGRE WITH YOU SICK WAYZ AWESOME FRANCHISES LIKE THESE SHOULD LET OUT TO BLOW UP COD’S LIMELIGHT . THEN WE’LL SEE WHO’S LAUGHING
IKILLYOURFACE357 ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ME I DONT HATE COD I JUST HATE WHATS HAPPENED TO IT
oh and KZ3 is currently having another double XP weekend, fail for COD
LOOK GUYS I THINK YOU’RE GETTING THIS THE WRONG WAY BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT CODS UNIQUENESS IS LONG GONE
YEAH COOL BUT I HAVENT GOT KILLZONE3 I VE ONLY GOT THE DEMO BUT EVEN THAT CONVINCED ME ITS BETTER THAN COD RUDDY AMAZING CHECK IT OUT IN 3D
Hey Dan, I don’t want to sound rude or anything but you have been commenting on a few people’s comments and stating that the map pack is coming out on JULY 10 instead of its actual date on JUNE 10
yea i am getting sick of this bull s**t.
i am getting sick of waiting for the map packs.
and how could you guys at activision treat xbox better then playstation.
call of duty was basically born on playstation .
AND WHY THE HELL DOES IT SAY I AM SPELLING PLAYSTATION WRONG DEATH TO MICROSOFT
DAN THEN WHY DID YOU MAKE A ******* UPDATE ON THE 26 WHICH MADE IT SAY CALL OF THE DEAD ON THE ZOMBIES SELECTION SCREEN FOR ONLINE YOU CANT DENY THIS TELL THE ******* TRUTH ITS UNFAIR MATE
i liked world at war, mw, n then mw2 came out n then third time was the charm. i have got bored of cod, i played black ops for a day and just didnt do anything for me. youre right, the uniqueness of cod wore off long ago. so i just waited for kz3 to come out and try something different. seriously it could use some work as with most games but hey it is its own game. i think it kills black ops and is underrated and underappreciated
@Dan Amrich on June 3rd, 2011 at 12:22 pm
I THINK IT IS
MICROSOFT HAS WAY TO MUCH ATTENTION BUT ACTI AND TREY DONT SEE IT THAT WAY ALSO YOU SAID THEY DECIDED THE RELEASE DATE THEN IF YOU DECIDED THE RELEASE DATE YOUD FELL SO SORRY FOR US AND RELEASE IT AT THE SAME TIME AS XBOX EVEN IF THERE WASNT AN OUTAGE
@Dan
I heard a rumor that another map pack was coming out is that rumor true?
Cant wait to own ppl on any map any game play any time. CYTT! get at my clan we own
I AGREE SICK WAYZ ILL SEND YOU A FRIEND REQUEST BUT IM BORED OF COD GLAD THEY DIDNT PUT ANY IN THE WLCOME BACK AND I MIGHT GET KILLZONE 3 FOR MY BIRTHDAY
@Dan Amrich you may want to look at some of your replies to people, you replied with July 10th instead of June 10th
yeah the COD franchise treats ps as the red headed step child
BUT I STILL THINK THE NEW COD LOOKS GOOD WE’LL WE WILL SEE IF TREYARC CAN ADD IN UNIQUENESS NEXT YEAR WHEN THEY RELEASE THE NEXT ONE WELL THATS IF THEIR FANBASE ISNT DESTORYED BY THEN
PLZ ACCPT MY FRIEND REQUEST SICK WAYZ BECAUSE YOU ARE SICK ( IN A GOOD WAY)
their fanbase is slowly decreasing with releasing the same game over and over and overpriced downloadable crap. hoping mw3 will have big improvements and change the way the game is played. i want cod fans pissed off because they need to be kicked in the mouth. im also hoping when kz4 is released it kills cod
WOWOWOWOWO1 IT MIGHT BE BUT ACTI’S CASE YOU CAN TRUST THAT IT WILL BE OUT AFTER MODERN WARFARE 3 WHILE XBOX GET IT IN AUGUST AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IT WILL BE THE REYCYCLED JUNK THAT ACTI HAS GROWN SO FOND OF USING
wait I think there will be a map pack 3 and they said the zombie map will be in Area 51 or France. I saw it from a website But its still not official.
wierd
MW2 LOOKS WAY BETTER ASWELL BLACK OPS LOOKS LIKE BIRD **** ON MOST OCCASIONS AND KILLZONE 3 ? RUDDY AMAZING. AS I SAID IT MAKES COD BLACK OPS LOOK LIKE A GAME OUT OF A NES
yes the players have no skill what so ever, they rely on their kill streak rewards. convert to KILLZONE lol…true skill
cod doesnt have brutal melees, youtube it. badassness lol
I HOPE THERE WILL BE MORE DRIVING SECTIONS IN MW3 AND THE GRAPHICS ? TO SET A MARK BEAT CRYSIS 2 ( WHICH PLAN TO GET OFF EBAY WITH THE MONEY IVE SVED FROM NOT BUYING ESCALATION
Who did the Call of the Dead poster? ‘Cause there is no AK-47 in the zombie game mode.
THE MELEES ARE TOTAL BADASS AND MAKE BLACK OPS LOOK LIKE A CRYING PUPPY IN TERMS OF GORE WHICH IS THE TOP ESSENCE OF A FPS
AND XBOX USERS BOASTING ABOUT HALO AND GEARS OF WAR THOSE ARE CRAP GAMES MADE FOR LOONEYS