Call of Duty: Blacks Ops and Avenged Sevenfold Come Together for Escalation

Video game fanatics and music fans can rejoice together with the release of “Call Of Duty: Black Ops Escalation”. The newest version marks the second installment of Call Of Duty: Black Ops on Xbox LIVE online entertainment. As of May 3rd, the video game, along with all of its special and new features, is now available for download worldwide.

Escalation’s four new multiplayer maps and never before seen Zombie experience, featuring George A. Romero, Robert Englund, Sarah Michelle Geller, Michael Rooker and Danny Trejo, and an original musical track from Avenged Sevenfold titled “Not Ready to Die,” will continue to draw in millions of gamers around the world, since the release of the first “Call Of Duty”.

Let’s take care of your video gamer obsessive personality first. The new multiplayer maps include “Hotel,” where players battle it out on the roof of a Cuban luxury hotel and casino, “Convoy,” which delivers intense, close-quarters combat at the scene of ambushed U.S. military convoy, “Zoo,” which sets gamers on a mysterious ride through an abandoned Society Russian Zoo and finally, “Stockpile,” which puts players in a remote Russian farm town. The Zombie experience titled, “Call of the Dead,” assembles a zombie-carnage dream team to fight a new and undefeatable zombie crowd in the ice-covered isles of Siberia.

We must admit all this Zombie talk goes over our heads a little bit, but it definitely sounds like we could get lost within landscapes and scenery of “Escalation”. It intrigues us, but also scares us that spending a little too much time playing “Escalation” could falter our grasp on reality. The graphics seem too stimulating to pass up. We put our chances in our stern self-control.

What might draw you more to the world of “Escalation” is the game’s music, particularly the track, “Not Ready to Die,” from Avenged Sevenfold. The track is appropriately titled for a game about Zombies and war. The beginning instrumentals sounds mimic tunes of an old fashion horror movie and as the track takes hold the tempo transitions to more contemporary sounds of horror flicks, those of hard rock bands. Vocalist, M.Shadows, sings with such aggression and rage that he can build up the courage enough of the most intimidated and unskilled video gamer to wreak havoc on his or her competitors. The guitar rifts between the vocals are frighteningly jarring, but also carry a heavy melody causing us to see imagery of a battle scene, even without playing the video game.

Not purchasing “Calling Of Duty: Black Ops Escalation” will be a total loss to the video gamer within you and the music fan. The pack is available first on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 1,200 Microsoft Points. To celebrate the release of “Call Of Duty: Black Ops Escalation”, Activision and Treyarch today are hosting a “Grudge Match” on Xbox Live at Treyarch. Deron Williams of the New Jersey Nets and Tyreke Evans of the Sacramento Kings will lead the teams in a head-to-head match up.

Still not a video game fan? Well, Avenged Sevenfold will unveil the electronically strategic side of you. Not a music fan? Well, “Call Of Duty: Blacks Ops Escalation” will have your heading nodding away to the rock band’s track as you conquer the battlefields.

by Lonnie Nemiroff