Call of Duty: Black Ops - Escalation
Escalation is a downloadable content pack (DLC) for the 2010 game Call of Duty: Black Ops. It includes four new multiplayer and one new zombie map: - Zoo (takes place at an abandoned Soviet zoo) - Convoy…
Call of Duty: Black Ops - Escalation is a shooter developed by Treyarch, released 3 May 2011 on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What Call of Duty: Black Ops - Escalation is
Call of Duty: Black Ops - Escalation is a shooter game developed by Treyarch and released in 2011. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on IW Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Escalation contains 5 all-new maps; featuring 4 Multiplayer maps and an epic, star-studded Zombies experience with new playable characters. Battle it out in 'Hotel' on the roof of a luxury hotel & casino in old Havana; 'Convoy' delivers close-quarters combat near an ambushed US military convoy; 'Zoo' takes you on a wild ride in an abandoned Soviet Russian Zoo; 'Stockpile' is set in a Russian farm town housing secret WMDs. For Zombies fans, “Call of the Dead” features a cast of iconic horror film stars battling zombies on a Siberian island.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, historical, horror and survival. It supports multiplayer for up to 18 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 1 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Call of Duty series
Call of Duty: Black Ops - Escalation is the 59th of 204 entries we hold in the Call of Duty series. The next entry was Call of Duty: Black Ops - Annihilation in 2011. Its critic score of 40 is 34 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Collection 1 at 90.
How it was received
Call of Duty: Black Ops - Escalation holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 28 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 6 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Call of Duty: Black Ops - Escalation launched on 3 May 2011, within three weeks of Portal 2, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire and Terraria. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Portal 2, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, Terraria.
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