It was released on May 3, 2011 for the Xbox 360, June 2 on the PC and June 10 for the PlayStation 3.
(meta data) TITLE: Buffy, Freddy, and Romero star in grindhouse-style Black Ops DLC | Ars Technica 35 captures 04 Jun 2012 - 24 Oct 2022 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Collection: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20120604002331/http://arstechnica.com:80/gaming/2011/04/buffy-freddy-kruger-and-george-romero-star-in-grindhouse-style-black-ops-dlc/ # ArsTechnica Main Menu My Stories: 0 ## New Since Last Visit BETA ## We Recommend ## My Discussions Log in to track your discussions. Subscribe Now Log In # Opposable Thumbs / Gaming & Entertainment # Buffy, Freddy, and Romero star in grindhouse-style Black Ops DLC ## The new George A. Romero-inspired zombie for Call of Duty: Black Ops stars by Andrew Webster - Apr 27, 2011 1:05 pm UTC The "Escalation" content pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops is almost ready for release and, unsurprisingly, it contains a zombie-themed level. But "Call of the Dead" isn't just your standard zombie soldier set-up. With heavy George A. Romero and grindhouse influences, not to mention an aptly star-studded line-up of characters, it's sort of like Black Ops and House of the Dead: Overkill had a baby. Which can only be a good thing. Romero is not only the inspiration for the upcoming level—he has a cameo appearance as well. And starring alongside him are Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street), Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead), and Danny Trejo (Machete). In the game they'll be playing four survivors fighting off Soviet zombies in a "mysterious, ice-covered, remote Siberian island." Aside from the grindhouse-inspired storyline, we don't know much about "Call of the Dead." But if the launch trailer is anything to go by it looks like Treyarch is pretty committed to making a fun, over-the-top zombie experience, which should fit in nicely in the Black Ops world. "Call of the Dead" The new stage is launching alongside four brand-new multiplayer maps to form Black Ops' second content pack. Though it's coming to other platforms eventually, "Call of the Dead" is going to be a timed exclusive, hitting the Xbox 360 first on May 3. Reader comments ← Older Story Newer Story ## Top Feature Story ## Feature Story (2 pages) # Blowing away bloatware: a guide to reinstalling Windows on a new PC Hate all that crapware on a new PC? Learn how to get rid of it yourself. by Andrew Cunningham - Jun 1, 1:00 pm UTC ## Stay in the know with ## Latest News # Weekend Ar(t)s: The state of zombie preparedness # Future U: Read all about it! College newspaper heralds future of journalism! # Geek upgrade: review and installation of NewerTech Power2U USB outlet # Fedora could seek Microsoft code signing to contend with secure boot # Mayhem in the lab is productive # Dispatches from the birth of the Universe: sometimes science gets lucky ## Ars Jobs Senior Software Engineer - Aerospace Software Engineer -CA-City of Industry, CyberCoders - Be Selective Location Pasadena, CA; City of Industry, CA Salary N…Senior Laser TechnicianUT-kamas, CyberCoders - Be Selective Location Snyderville, UT; kamas, UT Salary $50,000 - $90,000 Ed….Net Developer - C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server for financial companyMD-Silver Spring, CyberCoders - Be Selective Location Bethesda, MD; Silver Spring, MD Salary $80,000…See more job listings
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The PlayStation 3 received the map pack on March 3, 2011 and the PC version was released on March 25, 2011 through Steam. The Map Pack includes additional maps that can be played in the Multiplayer. These maps include "Berlin Wall", "Discovery", "Kowloon" and "Stadium" and a map for the Zombies mode titled "Ascension" which takes place in a Soviet launch site. On April 11, 2011, a second map pack called "Escalation" was announced by Activison and Microsoft. It features 4 new multiplayer maps named "Zoo", "Hotel", "Convoy", "Stockpile" and one new zombies map named 'Call of the Dead'. This map is based on the movies by George A. Romero, the revolutionary epic-zombie-horror director. The trailer for this map shows the four playable characters: Danny Trejo, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund and Michael Rooker. The name is a reference to the immensely popular Dead Series created and directed by Romero. The trailer also offers a sneak peek of a zombiefied version of George A. Romero himself, lurking out of water. The map is set on a ship, with instead of Nazi zombies, shipcrew zombies.