Activision offers details on
Descent, the next DLC pack for
Call of
Duty: Black Ops III, saying this will launch first for PlayStation 4 on July
12th. Its arrival for Windows will probably be about a month after that, which
gives plenty of time to memorize this outline of what this will bring:
Call of Duty: Black Ops III Descent features four new multiplayer maps
that takes the momentum-based, chained movement system across the globe to
unique settings that include a cryogenic prison, a Viking village frozen in
time, a giant robot combat arena and a modern day reconstruction of an ancient
Roman villa:
- Empire: Treyarch adapts its Black
Ops III movement system to the Call of DutyŽ: Black Ops II fan favorite map
Raid. The re-imagining of this classic, medium-sized map features an
authentic Roman villa that has been "recreated by a modern-day eccentric
billionaire," where a classic map structure mixes with the new gameplay
mechanics of Black Ops III.
- Cryogen: Located far off the coast
in the Dead Sea, an isolated compound holds some of the world's most
dangerous criminals in frozen isolation. Sentry towers keep watch over the
small map's circular design as frenetic combat is funneled around the
prison's cryogenic tubes, where opportunities for wall running attacks
abound.
- Berserk: Ancient sentinels from a
lost civilization guard the entrance to Berserk, a Viking village frozen in
time. Players will fight through blizzards, and control the center bridge as
they navigate this medium-sized map's wooden buildings, deadly rocky
outcroppings, and tight chokepoints.
- Rumble: Gamers battle amongst
larger-than-life mechanized warriors in Rumble, a stadium where giant robots
battle to the roar of the crowd. This medium-sized map funnels high-speed
combat to the central arena, where players battle their way through fallen
mechs and pyrotechnics.
Descent also thrusts players to an alternate universe of Nikolai's
motherland, the 1940s Soviet Union, in the next highly-anticipated chapter of
the Origins Zombies saga, Gorod Krovi. Players face-off against a swarm of
mechanized zombie infantry and dodge hell-fire from aerial dragon assaults, all
in the middle of a raging battle within the remnants of Stalingrad. Gorod Krovi
delivers the most exciting Zombies experience yet, filled with horrifying new
enemies, exciting new gameplay mechanics and an epic set of Zombie annihilating
weapons.