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, PC, and Wii. It is confirmed to take place in an abandoned Soviet cosmodrome. Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, Takeo Masaki, and Edward Richtofen will be the characters featured in this map. The map will include new weapons like the Gersch Device and Matryoshka Dolls, as well as new perks such as PhD Flopper and Stamin-Up. 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." 
 * The words Ascend from Darkness are sometimes visible whilst traveling through a Teleporter.
 * 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
 * In the newest update, when the player escapes the chair in Revelations, and looks at their mission objectives they will find that they have been changed from a string of numbers into "Ascension."