I don't remember there being any reused maps in Extinction, but I looked anyway. Developer Interview: • Call of Duty: Ghosts (... Twitter: / thegodzilla150
Never thought i'd say this but props to infinity ward for how creative they got with extinction, you can tell it wasn't a mode that was forced by execs like other zombies/coop modes, it was a passion project through and through and i love that about it
Point of Contact is to Extinction as Shi No Numa was to zombies. You could spot reused assets if you looked hard enough, but overall it was unique and pretty creative, especially for the first game featuring each respective mode
I really like the niche you present with videos like this, but more on point. This video leads me to believe that some of the magic of the older maps was how while the zombies' team had to work with scraps from the campaign or multiplayer, when they were thinking outside of the box we got maps like Ascension and five. Which are maps to this day I know thousands go back to.
Another sweet vid bro. A couple suggestions. - Wonder Weapons / Unique weapons that are similar in design or gameplay to a normal gun from the same game or similar. - Unique zombie noises facts and trivia. Like when was "Sam" first ever said by the zombies in a map? or is there anything else interesting that can be heard from them. - I'm not sure if you covered it, but comparisons to each different version of a map, Such as Kino in B01, B03, Phone game for example, I do know there are slight differences that can be found, for example there's a door in Kino BO3 that makes a specific knocking sound when you touch it, but the same door does not in the original. All in all, keep it up!
i really love these kinds of videos, i've been subbed for a while and i love watching every upload; please keep it up!! it's nice to go back and revisit lesser appreciated games, especially in such monolithic franchises as Call of Duty. just in general i love taking a step back from the intended gameplay loop and instead putting a microscope up to the weird little things and seeing just how the developers made a given map or effect or whatnot. Ghosts has always been a guilty pleasure of mine, and Extinction absolutely is my fav variation of the typical Zombies formula. the maps in the entire game have for some reason stuck out to me, despite kind of all being pretty typical everyday locations with a blandish colour palette (maybe because they feel a lot like the places specifically i grew up or visited), and the Extinction maps especially so (i never had the DLC as a kid but i've gone and checked them out over the last year or so). i hope the mode will someday be revisited and improved upon; it seems like the devs really did try to make it unique and stand out both in the game and the franchise within the yearly work cycle they are provided, and gave it so many odd quirks that make it special. modern CoD doesn't scratch the itch for me often anymore, and so i find myself returning to the more black sheep aspects of the franchise like Extinction; i would be sad to see it never return because it was too different at the time for people to like it as much as the established MW and BO titles. i know the cycle tends to be "game comes out, people hate it and say old one was better, new game comes out, people hate it and say old one was better", but man, even for the time i thought it was overhated. i dunno lol. nice video, mr zilla, much love!!
A couple years ago I was playing black ops 1 and noticed part of Berlin Wall was directly copy and pasted into cold war for Mauer der toten. From what ive seen no one else has noticed or posted about it
Genuine shame we'll never get anymore Extinction content. Especially since Infinite Warfare would've been the perfect way to make a sequel. (I mean Extinction literally ends in space lol). Yes Beast from Beyond exists but I don't think anyone wants to remember that. Anyways great video! Hope to see one of these videos on Exo Zombies since I'm pretty sure elements of some of the maps were reused. At least the wiki thinks so. It claims that Outbreak contains elements of the campaign level Captured and the multiplayer map Bio Lab. Carrier contains elements of the campaign level Armada. And Descent contains elements of the campaign level Utopia and the multiplayer map Retreat. And Riot contains...well Riot is literally just Riot lmao. Last thing I'll suggest because I know suggestions can be annoying is that the wiki also says WW2 zombies reuses assets. The Darkest Shore containing elements of the campaign level D-Day and the multiplayer maps Pointe du Hoc, Operation Neptune and HQ. The Shadowed Throne contains elements of campaign level Collateral Damage and the multiplayer maps Flak Tower and Aachen. Bodega Cervantes contains elements of the multiplayer maps Sainte Marie du Mont, Operation Breakout, Carentan and Operation Intercept. And the campaign levels Operation Cobra, Stronghold, S.O.E. (I think the wiki is wrong here because how can such a small map reuse seven different maps/levels?) and U.S.S. Mount Olympus contains elements of the multiplayer map U.S.S. Texas. Since very few youtubers like doing videos on these games, idk I thought it'd be cool to see you tackle them. Since you seem to like looking for reused assets. Just some ideas, great video!
Agreed, it’s a real shame that we didn’t get more Extinction. And I think I’ll take a shot at reused maps in AW, WWII, and IW someday. I just have to go through them and see what I can find
Reusing assets is just part of game development it’s just easier to reutilize something rather than make a completely new asset, but props to infinity ward for being creative even with reusing assets
Ah Cod Ghosts.... I used to love this game! Extinction was my favourite addition but there was one MAJOR problem I had with it: *You couldn't pause the game.* Yep. Even with the 'pause' menu up, the game would still go on in the background, meaning you would have to marathon the session.
Man holy fuck me and my brother always talk about shit like this every time we marathon all the maps. Would have loved to see the design process behind everything in Extinction, from the characters, the levels, weapons, cryptids themselves, etcetera, etcetera. A behind the scenes kinda thing, if that makes sense, but on the same scale as what you see Zombies getting. Like how Rockstar Games send their devs out to real life locations to get reference pics and whatnot for use in the GTA series, I've always wondered what the inspiration behind some of the levels were (if any), Awakening in particular. I highly doubt this will resonate with anyone, but there's a series from a guy by the name of AnyAustin called "unremarkable and odd places in *insert media here*". That entire concept is one thing that keeps me coming back to these relatively obscure and forgotten games lol.
