Revolution Is Here

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 DLC map pack 'Revolution' has finally hit the Xbox360 this week.  So with that in mind I have decided to post my views on it; this is not a review.

So I'll start with the multiplayer maps.  The new maps have added a bit of freshness to the online multiplayer because playing the same 4 maps seemingly all the time can be a bit tedious (Hijacked anyone?).  The 4 new maps have a variety of slightly different dynamics around the levels, with things such as the flooding of part of the Hydro map & the moving Cable Cars on Downhill.  These add the need to remember your surroundings or the game itself will kill you if you get in the way of them.

Spawning has always been a major issue in COD but without those issues, you still wouldn't be to far away from an enemy when you spawn.  The new maps have so many different ways to get around the maps and cut-ways making the journey shorter from one side to the other.  After a few games online you soon start to realise that 'Spawn Camping' seems to have gotten alot easier in these maps.

That aside these new multiplayer maps are good, they are not amazing, but they are good.  They inject the new settings that full time Call of Duty players have needed for a little while now and a new gun that is a great gun but time will tell if it is soon to become the only gun that most non-snipers use.

After a few more games online I will skip over the Turned mode.

So finally Die Rise.  Now I've heard a mixed bunch of replies to this ranging from; 'this is an awesome map' all the way to 'this is fucking shit'.  I personally think this map is very good and provides zombie players with a more close quarters environment that adds even more of a challenge to the game mode.  I've played a few games on there now and I am still managing to get lost in the buildings, opening doors to corridors that I've not been down yet.  I think the Easter Egg for this map is going to be hard but hopefully rewarding and not a 'thank fuck that's done' moment.

All in all I think the map pack is a pretty good one and like so many people I'm more interested in where this Zombie's story-line is going to take us over the coming months.

The personal highlight of the bundle for me is Die Rise, but when you play with a bunch of guys who scream like girls when a zombie turns up out of nowhere, it's always going to be fun.