Friday is finally the day that PlayStation 3 and PC Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 owners can get their hands on the newest DLC pack for the game, entitled Vengeance.
The DLC pack was available one month ago to Xbox 360 owners, due to the timed exclusives deal that Activision has with Microsoft over DLC for the game. We gave readers a preview of what to expect for the game, but now the DLC will officially be available for all versions of the game.
The DLC consists of four new maps: Cove, Rush, Detour, and Uplink. Cove is a tropical map and considered the best of the bunch. Rush is based on a paintball course and offers a welcome theme change. Detour takes place on a bridge that players must storm across. And Uplink is a remake of the original Black Ops map Summit with a switch from snow to tropical weather. A new zombie map, Buried, is also part of the DLC, which tasks players with defending themselves against Old West zombies. To help them out, a new zombie weapon, the Ray Gun Mark II, comes with the download for use on all zombie maps.
The DLC is not the best downloadable content pack for the game, but offers some solid new options for players, and the new zombies map is fairly well constructed and offers a more traditional zombies mode than the Mob of the Dead map that came with the last DLC pack, which had Hollywood voiceovers and was set on Alcatraz.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has been in the news recently, but not for anything directly involving the game or the upcoming new entry in the series, Call of Duty: Ghosts. Some fans took it personally when developer Treyarch implemented a new patch in the game balancing some weapons, which caused them to vent their spleen on design director Jeff Vonderhaar. Enraged fans took to Twitter to threaten him and his family with acts of violence, causing others in the industry, include Bioshock creator Ken Levine, to defend Vonderhaar.
In addition, IGN is reporting that Treyarch parent company Activision reported $1.05 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2013, which is actually down from the $1.075 earned in the same time frame last year. Of that massive profit, $387 million was through digital sales such as DLC like Vengeance.
Look out for more Black Ops 2 news, including information on the last DLC pack scheduled for the game, right here.
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