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By Charlie Barratt published 5 May 2011

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Freddy Krueger, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the cast of TalkRadar – together at last!

Today we’re playing the latest DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops, which released yesterday and costs $15 on Xbox Live. “Escalation” comes with four new multiplayer maps, but sorry, we were far too obsessed with the new zombie mode, “Call of the Dead,” to show you anything else. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Danny Trejo, Robert Englund and Michael Rooker battlingUndead George Romero in the snow?

Seriously, this is some crazy shit and, even if you’re not a Call of Duty fan, you should probably hit the play button right now to hear us try and make sense of it.

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