Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 DLC Announced for February
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 DLC Announced for February

By December 22, 2015January 25th, 2016No Comments

If you have a PlayStation 4 and you love Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, you’ll be glad to know the game is getting its first downloadable content on February 2. The DLC is called Awakening. It will include four new multiplayer maps—Gauntlet, Splash, Rise, and Skyjacked—as well as a new chapter of Zombies mode, “Eisendrache.”

Activision has provided descriptions of the four maps, below:

  • Gauntlet: Grounded in a military training facility, Gauntlet plays up the core philosophy of Treyarch’s classic three lane map structure with distinct variety in visuals and gameplay. Each of the three primary lanes has a unique environment as players battle through a sprawling jungle, sub-zero artic zone and rainy urban cityscape.
  • Splash: Set in an abandoned water theme park, this vibrant and playful map delivers an imaginative environment complete with waterslides, a wrecked pirate ship, and a lazy river ride that winds through a fantastical forgotten city. Splash is designed to drive an open flow of combat, including plenty of opportunities for underwater gameplay.
  • Rise: Set in the snowy outskirts of Zurich, Rise is a Coalescence Corporation construction project for a massive subterranean research campus. The design of the map caters to a mix of classic Call of Duty cover combat alongside strategic core movement opportunities, with each section of the map offering distinctly different styles of gameplay.
  • Skyjacked: Set on a security VTOL in the clouds over urban Zurich, Skyjacked is a reimagined version of the popular Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 multiplayer map Hijacked, and retains the same fast and frenetic gameplay from one of the most popular maps in Call of Duty history, but with a twist. Skyjacked gives players the opportunity to explore the map in a variety of new ways thanks to the all-new core movement system in Black Ops 3.

Awakening will cost $15. It’s included as part of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 season pass, which will cost you $49.99. The DLC will be coming to Windows PC and Xbox at an unannounced later date, but will not be coming to last-gen consoles.

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