Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Apocalypse Available Now First on Xbox Live
August 27 2013 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
The highly-anticipated conclusion to the Call of Duty Season
Pass has arrived! Award-winning Treyarch and Activision Publishing
cap off an epic season of Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
downloadable content (DLC) with Apocalypse, available now on
the Xbox Live online entertainment network from Microsoft. The
game’s fourth and final DLC Pack delivers four thrilling and
diverse multiplayer maps, as well as “Origins” – the all-new,
wildly creative Zombies experience that reunites players with the
original heroes going back to Call of Duty®: World at War, and
closes this chapter of the Zombies story arch for Call of Duty:
Black Ops II.
“We have been going hard at it all year, supporting the
game, and delivering new content and experiences for fans,
and Apocalypse is the perfect conclusion to the Black Ops
2 season of content,” said Mark Lamia, Studio Head for the
developer Treyarch. “Multiplayer fans have it all with this one,
and Origins will yet again set a new bar for Zombies.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Apocalypse delivers four
diverse multiplayer maps:
- Pod: A failed utopian community
from the 70’s has left stacks of dilapidated residential pods
nestled into an abandoned cliff side in Taiwan. Its residents long
gone, the modernist compound now hosts frenetic combat as players
must run atop the pods, as well as navigate their multi-tiered
interiors for a strategic edge.
- Frost: Fresh snow meets
explosive gunpowder in this snow-capped European city, where the
bridge over a frozen canal separates it into two sides, requiring
players to employ multi-level strategies as they traverse the
terrain in order to outsmart, and ultimately outshoot their
enemies.
- Takeoff: Fans of “Stadium” from
the original Call of Duty®: Black Ops First Strike DLC will find
themselves at home on “Takeoff.” Marooned in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean, this remote launch site is all about close-quarters
combat, combining tight corners with open spaces for intense
encounters.
- Dig: An adaptation of the
fan-favorite “Courtyard” from Call of Duty: World at War, where two
archeological dig sites in Afghanistan become the perfect
playground for combatants eager for hectic, unceasing
confrontations. Treyarch, has retained the spirit of “Courtyard”
with two major chokepoints and a wide open layout with raised
platforms, but has also provided fans with a fresh take by
including a multitude of pathways.
In addition to the four maps, Apocalypse also reveals
“Origins,” the most horrifying and imaginative Zombies experience
to date. Players will be deployed to a Dieselpunk-stylized World
War I-era France that brings back the four original heroes – Tank,
Nikolai, Takeo, and Richtofen – from the very first Zombies map
featured in Call of Duty: World at War, as well as hordes of
zombies that have overrun the French countryside’s trenches and
fields, as well as the ruins of an ancient and mysterious
location.
Apocalypse also marks Treyarch’s partnership with
award-winning Warner Bros. Records rock band, Avenged Sevenfold,
whose new song, “Shepherd of Fire” from their just released album,
“Hail to the King,” headlines the soundtrack to the game’s Zombies
experience.
Along with Avenged Sevenfold, Treyarch also enlisted the talent
of famed comics illustrator and painter, Alex Ross, to lend his
talent to “Origins,” providing original Zombies art depicting the
four returning hero characters.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Apocalypse is available today
first, exclusively on Xbox Live for the Xbox 360 games and
entertainment system from Microsoft for a suggested retail price of
$14.99, with other platforms to follow. Players who have already
purchased the Season Pass on Xbox 360 can download
Apocalypse now. Call of Duty: Black Ops II is rated
“M” (Mature – Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language,
Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs – content suitable for persons ages
17 and older) by the ESRB. More information on Call of Duty:
Black Ops II can be found at
http://www.callofduty.com/blackops2 or on
www.facebook.com/codblackops. Fans can also follow @Treyarch on
Twitter.
About Treyarch
Treyarch is an industry-leading game developer, wholly owned by
Activision Publishing, Inc. whose Call of Duty: Black Ops II
set world-wide launch day records, and whose previous game Call
of Duty: Black Ops set an entertainment launch opening record
upon its release in 2010 and continues to be one of the
best-selling games of all time, according to NPD and GfK
Chart-Track.
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