“First Strike” will contain four new maps and a zombie map:
- “Discovery,” Takes place in Antarctica.
- “Kowloon” set in Kowloon, on the rooftops.
- “Berlin Wall” Checkpoint Charlie action.
- “Stadium,” A hockey rink in the Northeast U.S.
- “Ascension.” (The co-op zombie mode map.)
The new map will cost you a whopping 1200 Microsoft Points
ENSU3;1163599 wrote:First Strike Black Ops Map Pack Scheduled for February Release
Once again priced at $15, Treyarch will add four new competitive maps and one new Zombies map
If you're a dedicated Black Ops player that's beginning to tire of the game's selection of multiplayer maps, you've got about two months to wait before that problem is resolved. Treyarch has announced that it's planning to release the first downloadable map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops sometime in February for Xbox 360.
Treyarch's Dan Bunting appeared on Major Nelson's podcast yesterday to discuss the upcoming DLC, entitled "First Strike." It will be comprised of four competitive maps: "Discovery," set in the single-player's abandoned Antarctic research facility; "Stadium," a hockey rink; "Kowloon," which takes place on the rooftops of Hong Kong; and "Berlin Wall," set at Checkpoint Charlie. In addition, a new map named "Ascension" for the game's Zombies mode will also be included.
"On this map pack, we focused a lot more on providing variety of weaponry, variety of engagement, ... [and] a lot more verticality, bringing some sniper opportunities to it," Bunting said on the podcast (via Gamasutra).
The two map packs for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, despite an increased price of $15 over the previous standard of $10, still managed to sell incredibly well -- the first of the two, the Stimulus Package, sold 2.5 million copies. Knowing that it can be successful at that price, Activision has set the price for the First Strike DLC at the $15 mark. And as was announced at E3, the map pack, like all Call of Duty map packs to be released over the next few years, will release first on Xbox 360, with PC and PS3 versions following later on.
There is a little more info
I'm looking forward to the Hockey stadium no matter what
