Ascension

Ascension will be the eighth Zombie map and is set to appear in the First Strike map pack, which is to be released on February 1, 2011 for Call of Duty Black Ops on the Xbox 360 and a month later on the PS3 and PC. It might also appear on the Wii, but the First Strike pack has not been confirmed to, and a release date has yet to be given. It is confirmed to take place in an abandoned Soviet cosmodrome. The map is to include Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, Takeo Masaki, and Edward Richtofen and will include new weapons like the Gersch Device and Matryoshka Dolls, as well as new perks such as PhD Flopper and Stamin-Up and a new enemy (space monkeys) are to appear in this map.

Trivia

 * The name of this map's song may be called "Abracadavre", because on PC the Game Over music filename is "mus_gameover_abracadavre".
 * The map's name could be a reference to a number of things:
 * The Ascension group of Nazi scientists featured in Executive Order.
 * The writing on the wall in Nacht der Untoten, "You must Ascend From Darkness." 
 * When the film reel shows Mason in the crowd on the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination at the end of the campaign, Mason says "Ascension".
 * At the beginning of the numbers broadcast, it says Ascension, then the numbers that follow it.
 * After breaking out of the chair at the start of the mission Revelations, the mission objectives on the menu say 'Ascension' followed by the number broadcast.
 * There is a rocket on the map, but it is unknown whether or not it will affect gameplay.
 * The map will require power as you can see a drawing of a lighting bolt on the door which leads to the power room.
 * This map is rumoured to enable the player to climb ladders, as there are now more vertical areas such as the launch tower.