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New moon!

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:57:38 +0100

"For our fans who purchased the Black Ops Hardened or Prestige Editions and already own the four re-mastered maps, the other contents in the Rezurrection pack will be included at no cost, including Moon, the soundtrack and the theme."

— Activision

Rezurrection is the name of the newest Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC.^[1]

It was first mentioned in an Activision earnings release. It was released on August 23rd first to Xbox 360 and later to PS3 and PC.

If the player did not purchase the Hardened or Prestige Edition, Rezurrection is available for 1200 Microsoft Points. Otherwise, it is available for free.

Spikemore: NEW TOY!

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:46:47 +0100

The is a special variant of the Claymore featured in the Zombies map "Shangri-La". It costs 1,000 points and works exactly like the Claymore. It functions the same way as the Claymore, but it has Punji Stakes attached with fireworks when tripped. The foot stakes seem to deflect off walls for a bit after being fired. Spikemores are not as useful as their counterpart, the Claymore, since Spikemores lose their one-hit kill ability at Round 25 and the normal variant at Round 27

The Spikemore also plays a part in the Eclipse Easter Egg, as it is needed to plug four holes in the tunnel with the MP5K.

Trivia

The Spikemore has no origin to the Zombies story line.
Nikolai can be heard saying "Hey look! A new toy!" When bought for the first time

Rare Weapon 5

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:38:59 +0100

Winter's Howl is a Wonder Weapon introduced in Call of Duty: Black Ops. It is found in "Five" and the Call of Duty: Black Opsversion of Verruckt. It fires a blizzard that causes ice-based effects on the zombies. After a predetermined amount of hits (it takes more on later rounds, and it takes less with the Pack-A-Punched version), a zombie begins to create frost in the water vapor in the air and slows down, additionally doing damage. If the zombie is hit again while slowed, it is stopped in its tracks and is encased in an ice cube. The zombie is immediately dead when it has been frozen. If left for a few seconds, the "ice cube" will shatter, but it can also be shattered by shooting it or walking through it. The normal version holds 6 rounds and has 24 spare rounds. It can be Pack-a-Punched to become Winter's Fury. The Winter's Fury has 9 freeze blasts per magazine with 36 spare blasts, with a longer freeze time and more power.

The Winter's Howl and its upgraded version, the Winter's Fury, are best used as support or emergency weapons. The range is very long, but there is a small delay before the shot reaches its target, similar to the Ray Gun and explosive weapons. The effect is also vision-blocking, and can be detrimental to the aim of teammates. As rounds progress it takes more shots to completely freeze a zombie. By round 50, it can take up to 2 magazines to completely freeze one zombie.

Trivia

If the player shoots a normal crawling zombie with a Winter's Howl, and then stabs it, it will die as if it was a standing zombie.
There is an unusable Winter's Howl sitting on one of the desks in the basement of "Five" Across from it is a target that has a coating of ice, suggesting that it was tested, if not developed, at the Pentagon.
Both the Winter's Howl and Winter's Fury push the player back when fired, similar to the Ray Gun.
On the left side of the gun, the casing is removed, exposing circuitry. This implies that it is still being developed.
Zombies frozen solid (turned into "ice cubes") are technically dead even before they shatter, as a round may end while they are still frozen.
- The freeze effect can also be seen in Call of the Dead, where if a zombie is killed while it's in a pool of water, an ice cube appears around it.
Takeo is seen wielding the Winter's Howl in the poster for Ascension even though it is never seen in Ascension.
The strange thing about this weapon is that it can be fired through the glass windows in "Five" without damaging them. It will still hit zombies behind the window, even if the glass has been untouched. It will not, however, go through the door that leads to the "Panic Room".
The Winter's Howl, along with its Pack-a-Punched version, slows down the Pentagon Thief and will damage him significantly. However, he cannot be frozen into an "ice cube."
It is possible for two players to have the Winter's Howl at the same time. The only known way of doing this is by two or more players going to separate mystery boxes during a fire sale before anyone has gotten the Winter's Howl. If they are lucky, the Winter's Howl can appear in both boxes at the same time allowing more than one person to have the Winter's Howl. (This cannot happen in Verruckt due to the fact that it is impossible to obtain a Fire Sale)
The pick-up icon is an M1911's since the gun wasn't meant to be dropped (Seen via Console commands).

"Nuketown"

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:40:03 +0100

Nuketown is the smallest map in Call of Duty: Black Ops, being slightly smaller than the Call of Duty: World at Warmap "Dome". The map is based on a typical US suburb used to demonstrate the effects of a nuclear weapon on a residential area; mannequins as well as accessible buildings and vehicles are shown across the map. There is a special alley for the RC-XD to travel without the danger of being shot, but if you do not make the ramp, it will blow up, wasting your killstreak. The only way to get past the ramp is by using your boost. This can be found at a hole inside the fence on either of the two house's spawns. Except on the Wii there are no holes in the fence so you can not take the short cut. You will need to follow the grass and jump from one rock to another. This will require you to boost your RC-XD. This track leads to the rear of the enemy spawn. Nuketown also features an internet meme, the double rainbowand the names of certain characters on the post boxes outside the houses. It also features a nuclear weapon going off at the end of every game. If players shoot the heads off all the mannequins in the playable area (excluding the mannequins inside of the bus) in 15 seconds, there will be a special surprise. While many players originally thought that this challenge caused the nuke to detonate early, shooting all of the mannequins in the required amount of time causes The Rolling Stones' song; "Sympathy for the Devil" to play for the players. Also there are supports that act as ladders that can be climbed to get onto the rack that players land on when jumping out the window. This can be used to get kills on players who are camping upstairs or have a claymore planted by the door. These supports are on both of the houses.

Another interesting thing about Nuketown is the population sign. When in front of the green house there is a city sign with the text "Nuketown". Below that a population count is shown that actually is the number of players in the game at the moment.

High killstreaks such as a Chopper Gunner, Gunship and Dogs are extremely effective on this map, where the spawns are very small, allowing spawn killing to be easily achieved, though you can effectively hide in either house from Gunships and Chopper Gunners. It is unlikely that your Chopper Gunner or Gunship will be destroyed because you are constantly aiming for the spawn and killing them straight away or if they are inside the buildings, they can't destroy you anyway. The only four locations where the attack dogs can't get you are the the two roof racks on both houses, the top of the barbecue in the backyard of the yellow house and on top of the bunk bed in the yellow house.

Nuketown is a love it or hate it map. Many players love this map due to its quick tempo of games, close quarters combat and that it is relatively easy to get kills. However this is the same reason why other players hate the map, as whole teams can be spawn killed by player controlled killstreaks, or by players in objective based games due to there only being two spawn points. Players will often die to "random" grenades or just die quickly in general, therefore making a bad game very frustrating, however most of the Black Ops community loves this map and usually votes for it. At one point in time there was a new "limited time only" multiplayer playlist called Nuketown 24/7, which only played nuketown but had every gamemode. It was a limited time engagement. It is not advised to snipe here because once the enemies notice you, there will be lots of grenades coming through the window and you will probably die. You can can counteract this by using Flak Jacket and Tactical Mask if they assault your position. The best weapons to use are a sub-machine guns or light machine guns; sub-machine guns for their high fire rate and light machine guns for their large magazine capable of taking down multiple enemies without reloading.

Pack That Punch

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:37:19 +0100

Let’s pack that punch with Kino Der Totens Pack-A-Punch machine. The Pack-A-Punch machine turns your ordinary gun into something greater! You can turn your dumb ol’ Thunder Gun into the almighty Zeus cannon (Shipping and handling included.) In all, it’s a 2 million dollar deal; Wonder Waffled into only 5000 points! But wait! There’s more! It can refill and double your storage amount for no extra cost! That’s right! No extra cost! So come on down to the theater of the dead for your ultimate weapon! You’ll need to link the two teleporters by turning on the power then holding X while you’re in it. For more info call 1-800-PACKTHATPUNCH. If you have a history of seizure or epilepsy, please consult Dr. Richtofen before teleporting. (Product may vary if you’re a zombie.)

Treyarch (The founding father)

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:37:06 +0100

Treyarch is an American video game developer company, founded in 1996 and acquired by Activision in 2001. Treyarch is located in Santa Monica, California.

Treyarch has developed several games in the Call of Dutyseries, which are listed below. Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: World at War have been set in the WWII timeframe,Call of Duty: Black Ops is set in the 1960s. Unlike Infinity Ward, Treyarch has developed games outside of the Call of Duty franchise, and traditionally makes Nintendo Wii versions of their games.

Some of Treyarch's Call of Duty team comes from an older studio known as Gray Matter Interactive, responsible for games like Kingpin (while under their old name "Xatrix") and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The team was responsible for developing Call of Duty: United Offensive before merging with Treyarch. Some of the Gray Matter team still resides at Treyarch, although its founder and several executives from the former studio have found employment elsewhere.

Treyarch is sometimes referred to as Call of Duty's "B-Team", since the Call of Duty games that they made in the past weren't as successful as those made by Infinity Ward up until the release of Black Ops. Treyarch's latest game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, was released on November 9^th, 2010.

Call Of Duty For The DS

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:36:52 +0100

Today it sees that the video game consoles that are most popular are the consoles: PS3 and Xbox 360. Today I’m going to talk about something different for a change. I’m gonna talk about Black Ops for the Nintendo DS. Unlike the other consoles, the DS version is only rated T for Teen. It is, there is no blood except for blood that comes out of melee attacks about 95% of the time. DS has zombie mode for the game but no map-packs. The four zombie maps are called: House, Facility, Temple and Overlook. Each map consists of three rooms that you can unlock with points. The first room always costs 5000 points and the second room always costs 10000 points. In some cases DS zombies is harder because it only takes one hit from a zombie to kill you. Now onto multiplayer. There are about the same amount of multiplayer maps in DS as there is the console version not including DLC. It consists of maps such as: Yard, Stronghold, Graveyard, and Paddy. Each multiplayer battle can contain six people in it. You can unlock different weapons and perks depending on how many kills you have with certain weapons. In campaign, the levels are very similar to the ones on Xbox and PS3. They’re just in different settings. For instance, on Xbox 360, the second level is where you escape a Russian prison camp. In the second level on the DS version, you escape a Cuban prison facility. The storylines between DS and Xbox/PS3 are so different, yet so similar at the same time.

Quarantine Map pack

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:38:38 +0100

Quarantine? Could this be the new zombie map? I found an online tour of a new DLC and I saw what seemed to be an American base stationed in Vietnam. I have reason to believe that this is the new zombie map because every where I see the word "Quarantine,"and a lot of biohazard symbols. Not only that but what do you see most in zombie maps besides zombies? BLOOD! There were blood stains all over the map! More clues that lead to the new DLC map pack.

MP40

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:38:16 +0100

The MP40 is one of the most common weapons in the game, and by default has abundant ammunition. It does high damage, though this tapers off in United Offensive, along with high magazine capacity and very little recoil and an adequate rate of fire, except that unlike other machine-guns, the MP40 doesn't have a semi-automatic firing mode. This makes for a very versatile weapon in singleplayer, as it only takes two body shots to bring down an enemy, although in UO, it takes upwards of 5 rounds. Its high damage and rate of fire makes it the best spray-and-pray gun in the game, as it can clean an entire room with only one magazine.

Rare weapon 4

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:37:53 +0100

The V-R11 The V-R11

is a Wonder Weapon that appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops. It debuted in the Zombies map, Call of the Dead, and is currently exclusive to it.

The V-R11 is a very unique weapon. When a zombie is hit by one of the V-R11's beams, it will turn into a normal human. The human will be chased around by zombies, and he will scream while he is alive. He will run away from the zombies, heading towards the closest body of water and attempting to use the shortest route possible, freezing himself to death. Since he attracts zombies, he may be utilized as a makeshift Monkey Bomb, but the zombies will only chase him if he is the closest person to them. If another player is closer, the zombies will go after the player anyway, effectively wasting some of the V-R11's scarce ammunition. If the player is at the correct stage of theOriginal Characters Trapped easter egg, then he will run to the base of the lighthouse instead. Because the human being will run to the water, the weapon is more effective the farther away the player uses it from the closest pool of water (such as the top of the lighthouse). Its cross-hairs are unusually small.

When Pack-a-Punched, the weapon is renamed the "V-R11 Lazarus." When it is upgraded, it fires red bursts, much like the Porter's X2 Ray Gun. Due to the fact that the normal V-R11 fires green bursts of energy, but red bursts when Pack-a-Punched, like the Ray Gun does, the two weapons may be at least somewhat related. The magazine capacity increases to 6 shots with the reserve ammo increasing to 18. Shooting George A. Romero with the V-R11 Lazaruswhile he is in a body of water will cause him to disappear into the water. If a player shoots a zombie three times with the V-R11 Lazarus, it will cause the zombie to explode, awarding the player with the achievement "Stuntman". A zombie shot with the V-R11 Lazarus will also attract George A. Romero.

The player can also shoot another player with the V-R11, ot the V-R11 Lazarus, giving them a red tinted screen and having zombies ignore the player for 10-15 seconds. The player appears to have red lightning coming out of his body, like George A. Romero, except different colored. It also appears to give the player Insta-Kill capabilities, allowing them to clear out groups of zombies or allowing them to revive downed players without interference. However, you can also shoot a teammate with the V-R11 that is not Pack-A-Punched with similar effects, although the effects last for a shorter duration.

The V-R11 will also put George A. Romero into his "calm" state when he is angered and will anger him if he is calm. He will automatically be angered again after 10-15 seconds if he was calmed down with the V-R11.