We’re as critical as anyone of the shortcomings of Call of Duty Black Ops and related DLC, but you can’t deny that Treyarch do a great job of picking the right characters to include (who didn’t enjoy killing zombies as JFK?), and producing absolutely great promo videos (The Berlin Wall video is a case in point!). And they’ve done both for the new ‘Call of the Dead’ Zombie map included in the forthcoming ‘Escalation’ DLC pack.
So Call of the Dead is inspired by George Romero, the legendary horror director of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, etc, and the trailer also references the recent Grindhouse films of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. But the biggest news is the cast of playable characters. Are you ready for this?
Call of Dead lets you play as: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy!), Robert Englund (Nightmare of Elm Street), Danny Trejo (Machete and countless other Tarantino films etc), and Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead, countless action films). Plus George Romero himself makes an appearance!
Apparently the plot will see them fighting Soviet zombies in a mysterious, ice-covered Syberian island. So that’ll be the Discovery map assets being reused again?
But the fun of fighting as, or alongside the likes of Buffy and Danny Trejo means that we should see more interest in this Zombie map than the previous two, and the promo video is a work of art:
There are also 9 new screenshots to accompany the video, which you can check out below. The Escalation DLC pack arrives on May 3rd for the Xbox, with PS3 and PC coming some time after
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