Moon: A Love Letter to Zombies 

zombies video essays are easy to come by. good zombies video essays are very hard to come by. this is one of the latter.

4:04 it’s even worth mentioning that DE and Bo3’s version of Moon didn’t have the same type of gravity system. It was more or less a Mod of the game’s jetpack thrusters. There was no real momentum and zombie animations were more or less “scripted to look Zero G”

one thing that sadly doesn't get credited enough was the astronaut back on the PS3 would always have the name of a friend that wasn't online at the time of your game. I'm not sure about the Xbox but it was still a really neat detail.

Moon lent itself to a lot of unique situations and evolving stories. One of my friends and I’s favorite strategies was to hack the ak74u spot so that PaPed ammo was 600 points and then all run mini trains in the area next to it, however we had neglected the excavator in one match. We had teleported back to earth for someone to pack their guns and upon teleporting back we realized we were stuck in spawn and therefore cutoff from our ammo source. We managed to push through a bit of the round but between minimal ammo and frequent downs it came down to my buddy and I. In a bid of desperation he threw a QED that ended up teleporting me to the biodome, saving the game with me as the only survivor of the round to spawn everyone else in as nightmare started playing. It was a great moment that always comes to mind when I think of the map. What a great map.

I remember when people would freak out about throwing grenades indoors when they had no idea even why. They just heard someone else doing it

I remember after getting the Easter egg and being so excited to go back to earth to see if it was different. Needless to say...I realized immediately looking up and seeing the milky way that the entire atmosphere had lit on fire and disappeared. So insane.

Moon is slept on imo I always loved this map. It’s definitely different and has some annoying qualities but I just love how unique it is

Still remember the day this released. Stayed the weekend at my friend's with a few others and played the fuck out of this! Wild how it's over a decade old now, good times ❤️

I remember being told that the next zombies map was on the moon and I flat out didn’t believe it lol.

Moon will always be THE zombies map to me, whenever I think of call of duty zombies my brain goes immediately to moon. It’s not even close to being my favorite or one of my favorite maps but it’s just such an iconic map and moment in time

Bruh 6:24 literally brought me back to playing BO1 I literally said "Oh shit" when the cosmonaut spawned in😂

Der Eisendrache was a good homage to Moon with the zero gravity room, MPD, and blowing up the moon rather than the earth

I miss the old moon map from bo1. Bo3 moon is great but the vibrate and colorful change to the graphics takes away a certain feeling that bo1 moon had. I feel the same way with other maps as well. I wish there was some filter option to give it that feeling again.

Moon is still my favorite map of all time. It had such a great gameplay loop and it was always a challenge to get better at the map. I remember restarting multiple times on round 5-6 to get the right excavator. Good memories.

I've always felt that Moon was and still is the scariest zombies map. World at War maps were scary in their own right, especially Verrückt, but Moon is entirely something else. First and foremost, you're on the moon. If you're a solo player, which I am, then you're always alone with an infinite horde of zombies, but to be alone with them on the moon? To look out at the vast expanse of the universe, seeing a home that is almost entirely overrun by zombies or the vast, potentially infinite void of space? Familiarity with something is what makes scary things less scary, but for me, there is no becoming familiar with Moon. Sure, I know the map. I know where everything is, I know where to train, and I know the EE steps, but the setting always, without a doubt, instills in me a wonderful sense of existential dread. Sure, I can teleport back to Groom Lake, only to again be met with an infinite horde of zombies in a much smaller area, but I eventually need to return to the moon. And when I finally succumb to the horde, I fall to the ground and take one last look out at the universe before I drift away into nonexistence. Moon is beautifully horrifying and poetic, and it will forever be my favorite zombies map.

Not going to lie I got recomend your videos randomly recently and binged watched a lot of them. Thought they were good quality and kept watching. I just seen you got only 300 views on this. I didn't even look before I thought it be a 250k at least. Deserve more keep it up!

Yeah... I also had a jumpscare on 8:43. I felt that one.

I remember back when this came out and we thought this was the end of zombies. The last dlc pack brought all of the W@W maps over, blew up the Earth in the Moon EE, and there was no EE song for the next map teased on the game over screen.

Dude, you have an amazing ability to analyse and articulate the things that made these maps great. With the state of Zombies in the past 5 years, it's easy to forget how good things really were. Pioneering, innovative yet familiar. A combination of real-world figures and elements with fiction. It's a shame that it took years of decline for people to be able to reflect and appreciate how good Black Ops 1 maps really were.

I think moon is actually the scariest map because of its sound design. Hearing that loud beep in area 51, as zombies started infinitely rushing at you would scare the lights out of me the first time I played.

When I saw this I thought it had at least 75k but wow you are amazing keep up the great work you have talent bro

"Hey guys let's go Pack a Punch" *The one guy without the hacker*

zombies is one of the most interesting mode its hard to believe it was considered a side project and now a fully fledged out mode

I still remember the Moons easteregg by heart and go on to black ops one every few months and play it.

And then they returned with a bus 😅

WOW MAN. I just recently found your channel and these retrospectives are some of the best i’ve ever seen. The fact that you don’t have more subscribers is baffling. Keep it up, because you definitely just earned a new one

Interesting video. Pumped so many hours into black ops and zombies back in the day. Haven’t played this may for several years. Forgot about most of these things so thanks!

10:18 just made me absolutely livid 😒

BO1 was such a good game…god I miss those days

Underrated RU-vidr

Moon was before it’s time

Always loved how the teleported on earth is in Hangar 18, an obvious Megadeth reference. Really love the metal influence in the zombies maps.

I love moon so much. Playing it even now brings so much nostalgia

I know you get a ton of these comments but i just binged all your videos and wow they are really well made. Fantastic work man 👍

Idk if anyone's said this but you can hack the pack of punch and lock the doors so if you needed to pap your guns but don't want to risk going down

Moon feel like the "cult classic" of zombie maps. A good Easter egg with new storyline as well. It felt like moon took everything the devs learned and challenged the players. Moon still one of the most fun maps.

I still play moon, favorite map, Highest I got was round 44, I also managed to build the computer for the Easter egg, but I didn’t have the vrill device

Your content has been an honest breath of fresh air. It's starting to open my eyes on how this isn't 10 years ago. And now it's time I actually try to exapirence the newer stuff instead of comparing it to my most noticable video game memories. Thank you

Keep up the amazing content

Thank god for being able to dupe the hacker as well as doing the no pes glitch, I miss this map

I want to point out that in terms of public lobbies, it was immensely easier to get everyone onto the teleporter compared to Shangri-La asking people to split off in different directions of the map. As stubborn as Call of Duty players are, when someone booked it to the teleporter it was pretty clear what they wanted to do. It's the difference between 1-step and like 4-steps to get to the Pack-A-Punch.

The astronaut ruined moon for me. It was impossible to even get set up almost all the time

Ill be honest the idea of reviewing zombies maps is an overplayed video format but for some reason I have found myself going through all of yours, I dont know what it is particuarly but keep up the good work man much love.

I’ll never forget waking up early asf on a school day, after waiting two days for this dlc to download cause my internet was such ass, and getting the wonder weapon first time ever hitting the box, so fecking nostalgic

Gained a subscriber mate, been playing loads of moon recently keep it up 👍🏻

Thank you. Thank you so much. Moon has quickly become one of my favourite maps of all time. Its so underrated and its wonder weapon is my favourite of all time. I just wish I had bo1 when moon came out. I'm not a 90s kid. And my parents hated games so I missed out on alot. I discovered it through bo3 chronicles. Man I love it so much. I wish I had someone to do the easter egg with

It’s April 1, 2023. Seven years after the release of Bo3. I just did the Shangri La EE with randoms I met on bo3 subreddit. I finally have all bo3 trophies. It is possible for anyone feeling like they don’t have a good group to complete the ee.

This was my favorite map. Over 500 attempts at the easter egg. Did finally do it, and damn was it awesome. Lol

Nice vid bro i watched the whole vid and left a 👍

7:03 bro Rezurrection came out in 2011 we only had to wait another year for BO2

This video along with your die rise video makes me really wish we saw the low gravity used on that map, at the very least a setting we could turn on

over 10 years later, and I just found out that nightmare was on this map. I legit didn't know...

Why am I barely noticing that Bowie know right there 😶

Ahhh back when zombies was amazing the recent zombies have been ass..activision has milked it dry

It's crazy because odds are a lot of us have played together and have no idea.

*gamer picture unlocked* … my god… I’ve forgotten.

U earned a new sub and gonna watch your other videos!

There was a glitch where everyone could get the hacker device if everyone pressed the button at the same time.

Moon is so great. this mans spittin

I just did this maps Easter egg 4 days ago one of the most cinematic purely for no cut scene

Anyone else ever throw a black hole grenade at the Spaceman and he disappears… Only to come back moonwalking and sprinting!?

Bro should have switched his commando instead of mustang and sally

this is a great video man ❤

I really want a stand-alone zombies game

Loved this map. So much fun and the Easter egg was fun to do but sooo annoying if you had to reset on round 8-9

i miss moon so much man

I miss seeing my old friends names on the astronaut, some haven’t been on in a while or haven’t played during the good old days😢

I’ve always felt as if moon was a map made with love to zombies players, it’s the map I run to when I open BO1 and BO3 alike,if I felt like just doing a no man’s land challenge I can, and Easter egg run to play as Samantha and the nice blown up earth scenery? Sure! It has so many different ways of playing, it was crafted perfectly and I think that is a remaster I don’t mind taking over and over and over again like how nuketown and shipment is in every cod now a days, the loading screen music is so cool I’ll never forget the first day I heard it when resurrection released. I was so excited to see no man’s land in classified in BO4 that was awesome. Let me stop ranting I just love moon, thank you for giving it the praise it deserves

These vids are awesome sauce!

Regarding Area 51 rewarding players who stayed there a while, Moon was and is my favorite map, and one of my favorite challenges still is to stay there until I can Pack-a-Punch the M1911. Usually that’s by knifing as many zombies as I can until the siren starts, then training them up and using the two grenades you get to make a bunch of crawlers to slowly knife away at for points, buying Juggernog as soon as possible before grinding away with the few bullets you get and knifing until I have 5000 points to get Mustang and Sally. It’s then so satisfying to use them to farm even more points, finally taking the teleporter to the Moon with around 10-12,000 points. Plus, you can then buy your way through the map back to the teleporter, use the box a few times to get two decent guns, then return to Earth to wrack up 20 to 40,000 more points with those guns + Pack-a-Punch depending on what the box gave you, letting you open the entire map and get basically any weapons and perks you want to be fully set up on round One. I still remember the first time I thought to try and do that after finally managing to get enough points for Juggernog for the first time before teleporting, thinking how impossible it would be to get that many points with so few resources, and how many times I had to try again and again, figuring out the most optimal times to use grenades to make crawlers, constantly getting trapped by the agile dogs, and how incredibly satisfying it was to succeed for the first time. --- Of course, it’s so satisfying because it was so difficult and took quite a bit of training/skill and time. To throw shade at BO3, there you can start additionally with the RK5, full ammo for the M1911, and access to many GobbleGums that completely trivialize it.

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The beeb is the round counter in A51

Moon is still my favorite map. I loved when zombies was all sci-fi before it got all fantasy and shit and to me Moon is the ultimate sci-fi zombies map, and I really wish they used that area 51 concept more. Having a place to stack up points while not actually progressing the game is so unique and its weird they abandoned it right after.

Classic ❤

When this map came out, i was 13 years old and grinded the map for the whole weekend even tho i remember there was Nuketown 24/7 double xp weekend wich i usually always played. I really miss those times haha. Moon is still my Top 5 zombiemap of all time, i really got happy after it became remastered for BO3 in the Chronicles DLC. Wish they also remastered Mob of the Dead and Call of the Dead.

moon came out when i was 9, and my favorite aspect of the map at the time was the QED's, i would restart my game just to make sure i got them early on, and then i'd make my entire setup using them, it's too bad they were nerfed in BO3, but it makes sense with maxammo/reigndrops gobble gums. I love every black ops zombies map, but moon has a special place in my heart

Moon my beloved

This will be a bit of an unpopular opinion, but this map is where zombies peaked. The "love letter" aspect is on point, this map was for fans and we loved it despite it's flaws. The developers knew this however and tried to capture more lightning in a bottle as the series progressed. This mentality inadvertently alienated new players as well as long term casual players who just wanted good ol fashion zombie killing. The Easter Eggs, which turned into Main Quests became very complicated, and unfortunately started to bleed into the natural progression of the map as opposed to a separate entity, and more importantly should remain optional. Zetsubou is possibly the best example to use as most of the "set-up" for the map involved the Main Easter Egg to some capacity. I'll focus on the wonder weapon for zetsubou which involved many vague steps, where the next map Gorod's wonder weapon was simply a mystery box spin away. This is just one person's opinion however. I haven't played Vanguard and barely touched Cold War zombies (relatively speaking to all previous zombies titles, including non Treyarch games). This comment may be fairly pointless but I still felt compelled to say it. Happy zombie hunting everyone.

Oh man I loved this map. I still play it on bo3. To me I think it’s the most fun map to play even with garbage random people online. Except the beginning sometimes sucks when people like to run around. It is definitely fun to play though.

I loved moon but it could be a pain in the ass sometimes

The best song on moon was when you died in the later 20's and nightmare would play.

Astronaut takes jug lol

I just finished playing this map🤣

Best map ever

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very nice video :)

I remember playing this map to get the easter egg achievement. We got to the end and where waiting for the achievement. For some reason i lagged out and everyone but me got the achievement. Still salty.

I only love this map because of Black ops 3 remastered it and the gobblegum made it 10x times better for me

Tag was definitely much more reserved but they did kill literally every main character minus the kids and Victus

This map used to always creep me out the most. Looking down into those huge pits where the rockets are…. Gives me chills just thinking about it lol. Agoraphobia maybe?

2:59 well technically...

I wish you would have shown that after you destroy the "earth" at the end of the easter egg and then teleport back to "earth" if you look at the top right of the hanger coming from PaP you can see the "earth" that was destroyed in the sky bringing in the question what did you destroy or where are you currently?

Moon was actually goated, but since it came out at the end of Blops it wasnt played as much as it should have been. Side note this was the last game to incentivize team coordination to this degree because this was the point where people began to move away from using in game voice chat as much, and we would later see as the dominate state of gaming from the xbox one where it fully took over until the present day

This due sounds like N_orte imo

Better days....

10:12 until alpha omega lmao

Love your videos but your pronunciation of Tag der Toten makes me chuckle :)

Moon is The Goat

And then Black ops 2 TranZit came out

I loved hacker and the qed