ACTIVISION AND TREYARCH SET TO DELIVER ONE OF ITS MOST CREATIVE AMBITIOUS DLC OFFERINGS
TO DATE WITH
CALL OF DUTY®: BLACK OPS II UPRISING –
AVAILABLE FIRST, EXCLUSIVELY ON XBOX LIVE ON APRIL 16
A Volcanic Town Overflown with Hot Lava. A Reimagining of Call of Duty®: Black Ops’
“Firing Range” Map. And Zombie Mobsters in Alcatraz. Yep…You Read That Correctly
– Uprising’s All-New Zombies Adventure “Mob of the Dead” Brings Together Iconic
Hollywood Mobsters and Pits Them Against the Undead in the World’s Most Inescapable
Prison
Santa Monica, CA – April 4, 2013 – Call of Duty® fans are set to receive another
premium offering of Downloadable Content (DLC) with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
Uprising on April 16. The game’s second, epic DLC pack of the year
will be available first, exclusively on Xbox LIVE® for the Xbox 360® video game
and entertainment system from Microsoft beginning on April 16, with other platforms
to follow. Call of Duty: Black Ops II Uprising will include four new exotic multiplayer
maps, plus an exciting new Zombies experience called “Mob of the Dead” that takes
players to Alcatraz with four of the actors behind some of Hollywood’s most iconic
mobsters, including Ray Liotta, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Pantoliano, and Michael Madsen.
“With Uprising, the team has really outdone itself again,” said Mark Lamia, Treyarch’s
Studio Head. “In addition to creating four amazing new multiplayer maps, the Studio
has been hard at work on the Zombies front to surpass what we accomplished with
‘Call of the Dead.’ What they’ve done this time around is nothing Zombies fans have
seen before – and if you don’t believe me, just wait until you get into Purgatory.”
Following tradition of the original Call of Duty: Black Ops fan-favorite Zombies
mode “Call of the Dead,” Call of Duty: Black Ops II Uprising’s wildly creative
new “Mob of the Dead” Zombies experience finds the four prohibition-era mobsters,
Billy Handsome (Liotta), Al “The Weasel” Arlington (Pantoliano), Salvatore “Sal”
DeLuca (Palmentiri), and Michael “Finn” O’Leary (Madsen) serving time in Alcatraz
Prison, only to discover that being behind bars is the least of their problems.
With plans to break out of Alcatraz foiled by the rise of the undead, the quartet
of inmates will have to lean on their mob-derived skills with firearms, blunt
instruments
and improvised weaponry as they battle the zombies infesting and overrunning the
island. In order to survive, players must work their way through the steel cells
and aging concrete buildings while fighting off a multitude of zombified prisoners
and guards trapped on the island with them. Additionally, if a player becomes an
unfortunate victim, “Mob of the Dead’s” new feature known as “Purgatory” sends
players into the afterlife. This new twist on Zombies gameplay is ripe with its
own set of objectives, and offers fans a truly new and unique experience.
Uprising also delivers another four new, exotic and diverse multiplayer maps set
around the globe for fans to jump into. “Magma” is a modern Japanese village with
volcanic eruptions carving multiple paths throughout the town. “Encore” takes place
in the aftermath of a deserted London music festival and leaves numerous opportunities
for run-and-gun, close quarters combat. “Vertigo” is a futuristic high rise in India
housing a high-tech lab featuring dizzying vistas and multi-tiered pathways. Finally,
“Studio” is a contemporary remake of “Firing Range,” a fan-favorite multiplayer
map from the original Call of Duty®: Black Ops. “Studio” is a Hollywood movie back
lot with a variety of cinematic themes that range from Sci-Fi to the Old West
