World Famous Rock Band Avenged Sevenfold and Highly-Acclaimed Comics
Painter/Illustrator Alex Ross Lend Their Talents to Apocalypse, the Epic
Conclusion of the Call of Duty: Black Ops II Season Pass
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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