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Cove is perhaps a little too interested in long lines of sight - it's one of those maps where you can be sniped from a long way across the map fairly easily, and it suffers from it. It borrows rather a lot from the recent and brilliant Far Cry 3, but Cove is perhaps the most eye-catching of the pack - and if not, it's at least one of the more interesting environments. Yep, Cove has backstory, but we'll skim over that. It's set in a beach area where a plane has crashed among a ton of rocky outcroppings, and the two rival factions must do battle. Third, it's Cove - and as with Uprising, third place isn't actually too bad considering the quality of the maps.

#Black ops 2 uplink skin

Uplink may be a bit ugly, but peel back the skin and there's a rock solid map there. Still, there's the consolation that Uplink, unsurprisingly, plays really rather well, with a nice mix of play-styles that doesn't feel too favorable to one particular play-style, and a diverse bunch of areas that manages to make the map consistently interesting to play in. Admittedly, Uplink doesn't look fantastic - there's a lot of the 'future facility' areas we got to a slight excess in the campaign, and the outside areas are a bit dull and overly 'gritty'.

Fan favourite Firing Range got the remastering and re-designing treatment with Studio in Uprising, and this time, Summit is remade as Uplink, with the snowy setting swapped out for a jungle military facility with constant pouring rain. Still, Rush is a blast to play, and feels like Black Ops 2's best close-quarters map yet. It also looks rather nice, even if there's nothing quite as eye-catching as the area pictured above. It's also almost exclusively close quarters, with tiny lines of sight and plenty of areas for rushers (it's in the name!) to square off - and it's only marred by a couple of slightly weird sniping spots in the middle of the map. Rush is set in a paintball arena, effectively bringing to life that paintball-with-real-guns feeling that Call of Duty conveys rather well.

The quirkiest maps in Black Ops 2's DLCs have always been the best - Grind and Studio featuring on the top of my reviews for each DLC, and Vengeance is no exception. The best of the four (in the humble opinion of this writer) is Rush. There's not a Hydro/Magma-esque clunker, even if the average standard is a tad lower than Uprising. Once again, they're quite the mix - the primary colours of Rush mix with the moody lightning storm of Uplink - but they're all unified in the fact that they're all at least good. Vengeance brings four new multiplayer maps - Rush, Uplink, Cove and Detour. Vengeance brings the usual four multiplayer maps, a brand new Zombies map, and also brings the introduction of the Ray Gun Mark II to all Zombies maps - but can it topple the excellent Uprising? The Multiplayer Maps But after all that, the third and penultimate slice of rather expensive downloadable carnage for Black Ops 2 has arrived - Vengeance. We've also seen the announcement, and some gameplay of the next Call of Duty, Ghosts.

We've seen PlayStation 4 claim a glorious and slightly smug victory at E3. We've seen the announcement of the Xbox One, and the uproar and backtracking that followed. A fair bit has happened since the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's Uprising DLC in April.