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Treyarch released the "First Strike" Map Pack on February 1, 2011, for the Xbox 360. The
PlayStation 3 received the map pack on March 3, 2011, and the PC version was released on March
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25, 2011, through Steam. The Map Pack includes additional maps that can be played in the
multiplayer mode. These maps include "Berlin Wall", "Discovery", "Kowloon" and "Stadium" and a
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map for the Zombies mode titled "Ascension" which takes place in a Soviet launch site.
On April 11, 2011, a second map pack called "Escalation" was announced by Activison and
Microsoft. It features 4 new multiplayer maps named "Zoo", "Hotel", "Convoy", "Stockpile" and one
new zombies map named 'Call of the Dead'. This map is based on the movies by George A.
Romero, the revolutionary epic-zombie-horror director. The trailer for this map shows the four
playable characters: Danny Trejo, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund and Michael Rooker. The
name is a reference to the immensely popular Dead Series created and directed by Romero. The
trailer also offers a sneak peek of a zombiefied version of George A. Romero himself, lurking out of
water. The map is set on a ship, with instead of Nazi zombies, shipcrew zombies. It was released on
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May 3, 2011, for the Xbox 360, June 2 on the PC and June 10 for the PlayStation 3.
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A third map pack called "Annihilation" was released for the Xbox 360 on June 28, 2011, and on
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July 28, 2011, for the PlayStation 3 and PC. It contains four new multiplayer maps named
"Hangar 18", "Hazard", "Drive-In", "Silo", and a new zombies map named "Shangri La", which takes
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place in a legendary shrine lost in an exotic jungle.
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The fourth map pack, "Rezurrection" was released on August 23, 2011, for the Xbox 360, and
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September 22, 2011, on PlayStation 3 and PC. The Rezurrection Map Pack is made up of 5
Zombies mode only maps. It includes the first 4 maps from Call of Duty: World at War ("Shi No
Numa"/"Swamp", "Nacht Der Untoten"/"Night", "Verruckt"/"Asylum", "Der Riese"/"Factory") fully
remastered. It also includes a new map called "Moon". "Moon" allows players to fight zombies in
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zero gravity with both the player and the zombies under zero gravity influence.