First Strike was fun. Escalation rocked. But Call of Duty: Black Ops fans want more – they crave new battlegrounds and new experiences. Black Ops developer Treyarch knows this, so they’ve been busy creating another fresh batch of DLC maps: Annihilation. The newest add-on content will be ready for download from the PlayStation Store starting Thursday, July 28th.
Annihilation features four new standard multiplayer arenas – Silo, Hangar 18, Drive-In and Hazard – and the deadly jungle Zombies experience, Shangri-La. “The goals we set were about quality and variety,” says Treyarch’s Online Director, Dan Bunting. “We wanted to make everything feel unique and distinct.”
Annihilation delivers on those goals with five all-new environments:
Drive-In: This one-time American movie paradise once showed war movies; now it’s the location for one. The holes in the screen have been filled with snipers. The popcorn is stale, but they’re still serving up hot lead in the concession stand. “Drive-In is a small map, very fast paced,” says Treyarch’s Online Director, Dan Bunting (the nice bearded man from all those behind-the-scenes videos). “It’s similar to Nuketown in that it’s a fast, close-quarters map.”
Hazard: Ah, the Cuban good life! This swanky golf course features lush greens, oceanic driving ranges, and long-range sniping opportunities straight down its deadly fairway. Never mind getting a hole in one — try not to get lots of holes in you. Those skilled with assault rifles and sniper rifles will enjoy this one.
Silo: If you’ve ever said to yourself, “This is a great map, but what it really needs are missiles launching right next to my ear, so every time I line up to snipe someone, I pee myself instead” – and really, who hasn’t? – this is the map for you. Muddy sloped terrain, a smattering of construction equipment, and a few carefully placed sniper towers make this military outpost a tactical challenge regardless of game type.
Hangar 18: This one’s a tribute to the Groom Lake military base where the government developed the SR-71 Blackbird – or, depending on the conspiracy theories you choose to believe, where they stored a recovered alien spacecraft. Either way, you’ll be in an out of buildings frequently here, not to mention using a multi-million-dollar piece of reconnaissance aircraft for cover. But that’s not the only secret project it’s hiding. “Hangar 18 has a couple of fun easter eggs,” hints Bunting. “I can’t talk about them because it would ruin them.”
Shangri-La: Welcome to the jungle, where the Zombies have taken over an ancient shrine. But be extra careful – the environment’s many hidden tricks and deadly traps can be used against you as easily as your undead enemies. “It’s one of the more creative and clever map designs we’ve got so far,” says Bunting with pride. “The diehard fans are really going to appreciate the story hooks in this one as well.”
Annihilation will be available in the PlayStation Store July 28th — less than two weeks away. And as is the custom, the weekend that follows will offer all players double XP in celebration. See you at the drive-in!
What’s a “nacies”? Did he mean “nancies” which I read in Harry Potter and in context was something like “sissy”?
Either way, bye!
map pack 4 cant wait
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Hello people. Im glade to hear about the new map packs,but I have a entire diffrent question. For people who have had their ps3’s repaired by sony,how long did it take to get it back after they fixed it? I sent mine out 2days ago and Im basically dying over here without it,I mean when the network went down that was bad but being completely without it is terrible.The sony rep. said the ps3 service center is in Lerado,TX & im in Houston,TX so it should’nt take that long because the problem with my slim is the power supply( on a system I bought this year in FEB.) please respond!
Drive-In lol bout time they have another small map like NUKETOWN!!!!!!
@Dan Amrich i read alot of you replys an the only thing i see is you love xbox an hate on sony, why do i see this? because you stand up for xbox an say stupid things, like oh ps3 gets this only, ill admit i could care less for xbox an i would be happy if the combany went bankrupt but you say you like both, act like you like both an then screw ps over an hope they don’t notice, like ps owners are idiots, xbox ruined GTA4 because rockstar games know GTA would suck on more than 1 disc an with xbox offering so much money they decided to take some old things out to replace with new things since they couldn’t fit everything on xboxs disc but hi the ps3 discs could fit 3 or 4x that much, im gonna buy bf3 becuase atleast they are trying to make both ps3 an 360 the same, i don’t see bf3 acting like 1 system is gonna be better, like how every cod thing i see first on xbox or something like that
@NYOSKAR_123 the convention here in LA, i live in washington an if i was gonna go, i wouldn’t know, that convention is proof that cod are trying to get more people to hate on sony, DOWN WITH MICROSOFT
If that’s the only thing you see, I’m going to ask you to look closer. Let’s start way back at the beginning: If I hated Sony the way you suggested, why would I even be posting here?
What you actually see is that I am platform agnostic. I have fun with a lot of games on a lot of consoles. Don’t mistake that as being hostile to you — it’s quite the opposite. I’m friendly with everybody, because at the end of the day, we’re all gamers. If playing games on a PS3 makes you happy, that’s great — it makes me happy too. But it doesn’t mean I’m enlisting in a war against all the other happy gamers out there.