April 11th 2011 9:00 am PT

Call of Duty: Black Ops ‘Escalation’ Game-add on

Call of Duty®: Black OpsToday Activision has announced Escalation, the next game add-on for Call of Duty: Black Ops and that it will be available first to Xbox LIVE members on Tuesday May 3rd. Escalation, the second downloadable content pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, contains 5 all-new maps; featuring 4 Multiplayer maps and an epic Zombies experience with all-new playable characters. In Multiplayer, battle it out in Hotel, on the roof of a Cuban luxury hotel and casino against the vivid backdrop of old Havana; Convoy delivers intense, close-quarters combat at the scene of an ambushed US military convoy; Zoo takes you on a wild ride in an abandoned Soviet Russian Zoo, with danger at every turn; Stockpile pits players in a remote Russian farm town housing secret WMD facilities.
For Zombies fans, "Escalation" features a unique Zombies experience.

Game Add-on, Press Release By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

  • http://www.facebook.com/xDmAcK King Dmack

    nice

  • http://twitter.com/1337sauce S.R. Rangemeister

    Looking forward to it!

  • http://twitter.com/garymamba Gary KB

    It is about time they had an official announcement for this. I hope this will be better than the last one!

  • http://twitter.com/garymamba Gary KB

    It is about time they had an official announcement for this. I hope this will be better than the last one!

  • http://twitter.com/BobbyJoyce95 Bobby Joyce

    Another over priced add on?

  • http://twitter.com/BobbyJoyce95 Bobby Joyce

    Another over priced add on?

  • Anonymous

    More Zombies! Yes!

  • Anonymous

    More Zombies! Yes!

  • http://twitter.com/Rurick_d_Lodder Luiz Araujo

    and whats the price?

  • http://twitter.com/Rurick_d_Lodder Luiz Araujo

    and whats the price?

  • http://twitter.com/HazyCloud HazyCloud

    Should be 1200 like the last one.

  • http://twitter.com/Rurick_d_Lodder Luiz Araujo

    i hope more people here in Brasil buy this DLC, cause the first one is hard to find people to play.

  • http://twitter.com/Rurick_d_Lodder Luiz Araujo

    i hope more people here in Brasil buy this DLC, cause the first one is hard to find people to play.

  • http://twitter.com/thekrayze Ian Crowl

    i think the zombies map from the first strike was good, but i agree with some post i saw when the first pack was release, they need to sell it in a way that you can by the zombie map separate. sure it would not be a “discount” like buying them all together, but I would spend 400 MS points on a zombie map alone.

  • http://twitter.com/thekrayze Ian Crowl

    i think the zombies map from the first strike was good, but i agree with some post i saw when the first pack was release, they need to sell it in a way that you can by the zombie map separate. sure it would not be a “discount” like buying them all together, but I would spend 400 MS points on a zombie map alone.

  • http://twitter.com/Enkeixpress Enkeixpress

    Awesome. Will it cost 1200MS Points…? :(

  • http://doh.ms Rafael Dohms

    do You have a Brasil Account? I have not migrated mine and i can’t get the mappack before i do. Is the content offering good?

  • http://twitter.com/HazyCloud HazyCloud

    It should.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Doyle/708565130 Matthew Doyle

    hope they reduce the first pack by 50% then i’ll get it as 1200pts is over priced. When does this weeks deals get posted?

  • http://twitter.com/BuffaloBooker Chadwiza

    any word on the release date?…

    EDIT: nvm….im an idiot

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Doyle/708565130 Matthew Doyle

    May 3rd Read the description.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Doyle/708565130 Matthew Doyle

    May 3rd Read the description.

  • http://twitter.com/BuffaloBooker Chadwiza

    Also, any word on double XP?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=600147129 Kayla Charles

    That’s inevitable. :)

  • http://twitter.com/Rurick_d_Lodder Luiz Araujo

    yeah is good, it don’t have a lot of games buts is getting there and it is very easy to find people to play

  • http://twitter.com/DavidVUK David Lee Venters

    Black Ops Anything will make money

  • http://twitter.com/Enkeixpress Enkeixpress

    Make it cost 800MS Points please!

  • http://twitter.com/HazyCloud HazyCloud

    Take that up with Activision. It’s the same price on all platforms.

  • http://profiles.google.com/jesseeads Jesse Eads

    overpriced yes.. will we still buy it.. yes!

  • http://twitter.com/89_M_K M.K.

    Already prestiged, so I don’t know yet, the map pack or brink? :D

    /e: login with twitter account? oh come on give gamertags back :(

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  • Anonymous

    Yawn.

  • http://www.gamer4eva.com David Mccue

    Videos and Images please.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Byles/100000628358210 Matthew Byles

    New characters for zombies?…. Not interested

  • Anonymous

    If they remove Richtofen I WILL TAKE ACTIONS!!!

  • http://twitter.com/Papaxmistake Jeff

    hell yeah!

  • Anonymous

    Probably gonna cost 1200 Microsoft points

  • http://profiles.google.com/desmo95 Desmond Moeller

    Definitely Brink.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Bluck/100000873832072 Steve Bluck

    It’s not the same price on all platforms in the UK. The first one was £10.20 on Xbox Live, but £11.49 on PSN.

  • http://twitter.com/AndrewBennett84 Andy Bennett

    Glad to finally hear about it, but why is Major Nelson letting this out first. Shouldn’t Treyarch be pumping this up via their website and or Twitter (JD & VAHN, looking at you). I mean it is less than a month away and not a PEEP out of the creators of it. Seems like some rather pitiful business/marketing sense to me.

  • http://twitter.com/AndrewBennett84 Andy Bennett

    That goes down to the consoles and how they charge for points. You also pay a subscription for XBL where as PSN is free, so technically it is still more on XBL if you want to get into specifics. But IIRC PSN allows you to just pay for the price of the item where as XBOX makes you purchase points which most people end up spending more in the end.

  • http://profiles.google.com/ilyblazed Chris Caballero

    nice we get to play as the infected

  • http://www.facebook.com/TriPham1982 Tri Pham

    Nice what the fucking price on this bitch?

  • http://twitter.com/AndrewBennett84 Andy Bennett

    Same as always….1200 MS points.

  • http://twitter.com/AndrewBennett84 Andy Bennett

    Figure that will be a while as Activision/Treyrach hasn’t even announced it’s existence to the public yet. You think they would have stake to announce it before other media outlets do, but apparently they have more important things to do. The COD site is still just advertising the First Strike Map Pack and JD and Vahn are M.I.A. on Twitter.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001212134327 Ben Assirati

    NEW CHARACTERS OMG!!!…Oh wait, 1200 MS for the map pack and probably 400MS for the all-new zombie characters. For 400 MS the new characters better be Chuck Norris, Michael Jackson, Dumbledore and Gandalf…Even if they were the same characters with different coloured clothes people will doubtlessly be rushing to buy this all-new map pack just to be let down again.

  • http://profiles.google.com/flyjar Paul Rajcok

    Can I buy it without the zombie pack. ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Devan-Soor/100000291268889 Devan Soor

    Nah, It would be sick tho

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=752786632 Garrett Schneider

    The multiplayer maps are only in there so us zombie players don’t feel cheated out of our money. lololol

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1068187723 Thomas Jeremiah Heck

    you would think the would give us a freebie for once, as a thank you to loyal fans!

  • http://twitter.com/X420 Smoke

    Sounds pretty good although i bought First Strike and haven’t touched it in almost 2 months.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Becky-Cartwright/743233199 Becky Cartwright

    will it b better than 1st 1? as i deleted it lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/BillyChavis Billy Chavis

    No we don’t? The new zombies characters include: Danny Trejo,Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michael Rooker, and Robert Englund. I have no idea where you got that we play as the infected. This is not LFD1 or LFD2. Sorry to burst ur bubble

  • http://twitter.com/BXTECHY52 YES IT IS I

    1st The site looks great and another map pack I will buy and never play because the newer maps are so COD4 based that the pace on them ARE SO SLOW AND MLG PROISH!

  • christopheradams74

    It doesn’t even say anything about it having new characters so unless I’m missing something I don’t why you would think there are.

  • Anonymous

    I really hope they’ll stop the “region locked” DLC stuff, though. I don’t want to (and never will) buy the crippled german version of the game and MS won’t allow me to buy the UK/US Maps…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=758592520 Edward Kerner

    you mean I VIL TAKE ACTIONZ!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=758592520 Edward Kerner

    Im getting bored of Black Ops, hopefully this map pack can bring me back, because i will have nothing to play after I beat Portal 2

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=758592520 Edward Kerner

    It says it in the article, reread it.

  • Anonymous

    They’ve always been 1500 points.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mattkruss Matt Kruss

    get brink , its going to be the BOMB :P

  • http://twitter.com/mcmax3000 David

    They’ve always been 1,200 points which is $15.

    Well, always since the first MW2. There was a time when they weren’t as over priced.

  • http://www.facebook.com/BillyChavis Billy Chavis

    No it doesnt I read it like 5 times. It said it comes with an all new zombie experience. That is exactly what it said with the last map pack for ascension. And since i play that every day and i know i cant run around as a space monkey, im pretty sure you cant be a zombie.If you type in Danny Trejo twitter cod zombies, it shows his tweet that says he and the other people i listed above are in it. So yea

  • http://twitter.com/mcmax3000 David

    I don’t really think I care enough to spend $15 but the idea of a Zoo map really interests me. I don’t recall any shooter with a map that has a Zoo setting.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=540445433 Mark Sunter

    Please please please let it be Chuck Norris, Michael Jackson, Dumbledore and Gandalf

  • Anonymous

    Completely unrelated, but this will be the first time in a long time that I don’t know what the Deal of the Week is until it is actually available.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Roderick/100000957233312 Ryan Roderick

    whats the point?

  • Anonymous

    Oh, right. I was getting the dollar amount and the point amount backwards. For some reason I thought you were saying it’s always been $12, not 1200 points.

  • http://www.facebook.com/synpanda Steve Haverda

    Trey Arch-horrible since CoD3… No one makes a CoD game like Infinity Ward, Trey just makes mod’s of their games and Activision sells it to suckers for full price…

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  • http://twitter.com/3rkid 3rkid

    Haha, good one, man. Damn near made me forget how wonderful World at War was and how terrible Modern Warfare 2 was.

  • http://profiles.google.com/harrypottersdaddy Harry Potter

    army of two 40th day

  • http://twitter.com/Boom3aa Boombaa

    And what about the price ?

  • http://botchweed.com Game News

    Looks like just another waste of money to me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/EpicVisionOrg Michael Gerrits

    TRUE TRUE

  • Anonymous

    I liked black ops so I think that I will like this add-on

  • Anonymous

    I just want them to fix the hit boxes and the horrible spawning system

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1795861082 Matt Burke

    Yeah going under all the maps in WaW was amazing. Why can’t we do that in all the games.

  • http://profiles.google.com/skylar.scaling Skylar Scaling

    You know, because MW2 was so glitch free…
    Black Ops is by far the best CoD to date, followed closely by CoD4. Why is that so hard for people to see.

    This is a day 1 buy for me for sure.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000108662276 Edward Monkton

    if it wasn’t for Treyarch CoD would only come out every two years

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000186847301 Ivan Daniel Garza Rivera

    Mw2 es una mierda yo lo tengo y solo lo jugue una ves y me aburri llegue al nvl 3 y lo deje ai y me puse a jugar COD Black ops y ke ke Cod black ops tenga fallos VALE LA PENA JUGAR AUNKE SEA KON FALLOS sin COD no existiria MW2 porque el nombre lo dice COD MW2 sin treyarch no ubiera salido mw2 y aunke WaW tiene grafikas feas acomparacion de Black ops sigo jugando zombies en WaW Puto!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001166930547 Rony Drew-Drew Jacques

    True MW2 WAS TERRIBLE

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1626860533 Joey Salamone

    1200 mp

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisa-Duguay/588125064 Lisa Duguay

    Sweet! Cant wait! All the maps look interesting to me, but I want more info on Call Of The Dead! New charaters etc… Anyway I think its going to be a blast, certainly buying this one!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisa-Duguay/588125064 Lisa Duguay

    Sweet! Cant wait! All the maps look interesting to me, but I want more info on Call Of The Dead! New charaters etc… Anyway I think its going to be a blast, certainly buying this one!

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