Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike DLC out Friday

Call of duty Black Ops First Strike

Treyarch community manager Josh Olin has tweeted to say that the First Strike map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops will finally be coming out on PC this Friday. The pack contains three new multiplayer maps and a new zombie map, and will cost £11.49/$14.99.

The maps consist of Stadium, a map based around a hockey arena, Kowloon, a map set on the rooftops of Hong Kong, and the Berlin Wall, which stages a fight at Checkpoint Charlie. The fourth map is a new zombie survival level called Ascension, which adds new monsters to fight, including Russian cosmonaut zombie monkeys . There's also Discovery, a multiplayer tuned version of the Reznov mission from the single player campaign.

The map pack is available to pre-order on Steam at 10% off, making it £10.34/$13.50. For more information, check out the Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike site , the trailer below, or this amazing Berlin Wall power ballad .

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