The Creation, Evolution and Exhaustion of Call of Duty Zombies 

Gonna be 2025 in 3 years

@@thetaminus2334 XD

@@thetaminus2334 ;-;

stahp. :

forcer you are in every comment section lol

Bad trade off i agree….even tho i havent played a campaign for story / attentively since bo2

@@mjkoolaid1511 kinda the hard thing tho, that’s probably why they took out the campaign, people don’t really play it

Buy the battepass and dlc 🤣

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well zombies basicly was new campaign if you did follow storyline even though BO4 zombies story was shit, bc they did try to start new one before they had finished old one and now on cold war there is zombies making in BO4 our characters sacrifice meaningless

I was 10 and it was great i stopped playing after cold war and didnt even bother with vanguard

i remember looking through all of youtube for any lore videos i could find. good times.

​​@@mellomoose_yeah i was the friend in my group who knew everything about cod from glitches to estereggs since waw came out when i was 6 and was obsessed with zombies until bo4 and im not really interested in cold war

@@XgoodbyeX same i used to love glitches, and my love for zombies died out at blops4 it just didnt have the same feeling or atmosphere anymore

@@mellomoose_ yeah its a shame but im glad we got at least some good games before Activision bleed it dry lol

Those were the best days for multiplayer

There was a turret in the fountain. I remember watching video ages ago that showed someone no clipping to it. I wasnt there for the launch of verruckt unfortunately. I started playing world at war when Der Riese was new and spent most of my time on that map. I also remember the hanged man on shi no numa you could theoretically knock down with a grenade and he could kill you. It was just a rumor that turned out to be true like the turret. You can knock it down walk into it and it would just kill you on the spot. There were all sorts of cool and weird secrets in that game.

Man that set up, 2 on each side, racing to connect together. The creepy details and the sense of horror. So good

Verruckt was one of my favourites. Playing it with others though, people freak out and try opening everything when you don't need to and it caused a lot of problems overall. If you had 2 good players on one side and 2 bad players on the other, it just made people leave. Then you had unequal zombies on a side, earning less points also potentially causing problems, which is a shame. I really enjoyed it

sounds like a dude with no friends lol🤣

The only games I played for 7 years was Bo2 and Minecraft. And half of the time playing bo2 was replaying the campaign, and the other half was playing thousands of hours of transit. Transit is by far the best zombies related thing produced. Every day I would just eat pizza while playing with random people on my Xbox360. It was the best

Yep, back when u used to bring your console round your friend's house and setup both your Xboxes and play multiplayer together. Back when you used to knock on your buddies house instead of texting them. Good times. I truly think phones and social media (even tho I love phones, fuck social media rho) have ruined the magic in alot of life

The amount of sugar and caffeine I was consuming in that time was ungodly.

@@ThatGuyCanmanNC what are you doing now? Would be nice and inspirational to hear you are successful, or at the very least are living life and whatnot. Asking as a 14 year old kid :)

Same bro, had to complete the campaign to unlock the zombies mode I think! Played WaW with my brother in law when when it first came out, back when most games had split-screen!!!

bro i remember watching your zombie high round gameplay like it was yesterday ♥️

The one and only 💯

Relaxing end why you quited zombies

the undisputed zombies goat has spoken

Always know, you will always be a happy part of my high school era Relaxing, thank you for all the good pure gameplay videos.

Same, I was super into zombies as a kid and got bo1 zombies on the wii. As shitty as the graphics were, theres just nothing quite like blasting zombies away while holding your raygun sideways like a gangster

Same it's the only reason I ever buy a COD. This is why I haven't bought one since the mixed bag of garbage that was Black Ops 4. Bought Cold War tho since it seemed promising and its alright but doesn't have the same feeling.

​@@jrzyxebo4 was great if you take out the remake maps, chaos story was amazing.

Unpopular opinion, but I liked transit. The novelty of the bus was interesting, however, I'll admit the map could've been a lot better. What we got could understandably be seen as a disappointment.

​@@urphakeandgey6308i like it with friends because its so chaos on the bus and stuff also my first cod zombie game was bo2 and i was like 8 and it was just magical to play with friends from school

yeah, was taken aback when he said transit was bad, for me, its always been my favourite, the amount of replayability it had was immense. Most maps you're in the same place doing the same thing over and over, but in transit, you could always mix it up by changing up your strategy, and the rng deciding what items you got (like the hatch) made it so you didn't just always do the same thing, sometimes you'd go to the top of the diner and get the knuckles and camp up there, sometimes you'd go to the powerplant area just to get the gun there (before going in the cabin). Sometimes you'd just screw around, etc. To this day I've still never beaten transit. And playing with other people makes it way more fun. Awesome map.

Transit was the downfall of zombies

@@Toastery7 same lmao, its one of my favorite maps

All the people involved in the OG games are either dead, or retired. This new batch of "Developers" are essentially slave labor. They don't create games they want anymore. They make games the man in the suit sitting in his high rise apartment thinks will sell. The video game industry has really become a cancer, much like the Marvel movies. Devs are underpaid and overworked and oftentimes rushed. So you get a shitty product released way too early and isn't finished for another year and a half. Indi studios are gonna take over AAA studios soon if they keep this business strategy or putting as much out as possible all the time.

@@jakemensik2842 or we are going to have another video game crash. I think the whole industry needs to take a break and rethink how they make games. I mean, Ubisoft is about to go under if they continue the monetization and crap game releases. Its only a matter of time before all the major AAA studios go under if they don't change how they make their games. People who make creative entertainment have to be invested and passionate about the project. Like you said, most new developers entering these major companies are not too keen on the features and direction these new games take which leads to unpassionate uncreative game making. Halo is dead, Cod is losing players at an alarming rate, battlefield is still trying to figure out how to make a game they have made 24 times, FPS in general is looking pretty bad. Only time will tell how this all plays out...

That’s the corporate cycle, take something niche and sell it, then dumb it down for the mass market, milk it till the original audience hates it and until it’s shit and repeat with something else

It wasn't already obvious with other things?

Cod zombies and tomb raider are some of my favourite franchises and yet both suffered a similar fate

probably b/c no one in the zombies community really pushed the modded maps like in the past games and as a result the wide spread community doesnt know about it/ remember it

@@0Heeroyuy01 I feel like I used to watch custom map videos on black ops 3 all the time

@@oz7586 i remember like the first couple mouths after all the tools were released there was a few guys watching the modding scene and they did a few videos on them but after about 6 mouths the custom bo3 maps faded away into the shadows like all the good cods have done

@@0Heeroyuy01 When good maps release there are still some publicity about them

@@jackoberto01 really? iv not seen shit about zombies in probably a couple years

I thought I was still in the campaign 😭 it was terrifying!

I was so scared i quit as soon as I saw the first zombie. I didn't play it again until I got access to the internet. Good times.

i remember the switch between the standard black ops 1 menu and the zombies menu scaring the SHIT out of me as a little kid lmfao the way the guy in the top right stands up and leaves only to come back and start banging on the glass still haunts me😭😭

Right? He waffles on about TranZit being terrible but doesn't talk about the submaps. Town is THE classic BO2 zombies map outside of the DLCs!

That's What im saying and im still fairly young

@@nononoohfuck nah bruh u old, **fortnite dances on ur 401k retirement fund** (lol I am 25 & this video made me feel ancient as someone who has gotten tired of the COD regular releases & hasn't played since BLOPS 2)

@@von... my story, basically exactly. Hello, fello traveler!

It's been a decade

It's because everyone is incorrectly using the term retrospective. It's a review. But the algorithm likes buzzwords which is why everyone did an iceberg a while back.

Yup, im one of them. Played both from the start of each game 👴🏻

A true co op PvE shooter experience is something people were wanting for a long time and for awhile zombies was the best we got.

who plays destiny anymore lmao. anyone who still plays deserves the abuse. They should sunset everyones gear again any time now.

A large portion of both communities play both games and i find that really cool

@@Loser-oy8hz I’ve been playing since D1 beta. His sentiment is on point in a way although some words are flawed. (Like obv there are tons of people playing) Bungie has a track record (way before sunsetting) of making shit decisions and taking a long time (1y+) to course correct. Recently it’s been Sunsetting and the DCV removing purchases, but these are far from the only examples. Long time players have just accepted that Bungie will randomly make huge decisions that will fuck up part of the game, and you need to be okay with that. But not everyone is okay with paying 100$ a year for that type of experience and that’s reasonable. Games model is not for everyone

The first time I saw Elvis shake his rear end I was all shock up.

Lmao thank God he didn't

Having radios and just little quick side objectives was where it was at!

That's what I miss about those games. With the addition of mandatory buildables it ruined the flow

Agreed. So glad I'm not the only one and that this sentiment is spreading. I remember complaining about it back in the day on Reddit and some forums and the only response you'd get was a sheep-like "they can't just do the same thing forever bro." I'm not asking them to "stay the same," I'm asking them to not force me to watch a 20+ minute guide just to figure out how to open up 90% of the map.

​@@urphakeandgey6308As much as I hate redditors, im assuming a lot of people say that is because a lot of people with that sentiment tend to want zombies to be Der Riese over and over again. I wouldn't call it "sheep-like" for wanting a game to evolve. Not to say you want the same thing obviously, im assuming you want a good balance of both just being able to survive and also have Easter eggs to cater to both types of players which would be pretty cool. But sometimes im tired of is people always making the same overexaggerated statement "Ermmmm I don't want to watch a 20 hour tutorial to open one door" because it really isn't nearly as bad as people are making it sound. Im assuming this mostly comes from Shadows of Evil because of the process of opening up areas and pack-a-punch. But literally you can open up 90% of the maps pretty much every other BO3 map without a tutorial. You don't need to do the easter eggs in BO3 to enjoy it and survive. The thing about BO3 is you can literally rock most weapons and they will be pretty viable thanks to the double pap AATs. It would be cool if they could find a good balance to please both audiences but I really think the "complexity" is completely overexaggerated. I feel like it doesn't really take that long to learn a map. Sure you may have to use tutorials 5o figure out some, but after a bit, you won't need tutorials because you know exactly what to do. Its like learning to not open one of the stage doors and Kino to make it viable training spot, its something you learn that becomes second nature. Just my two cents

Same. My brother played those two maps all the time and it was how we mainly bonded when we were younger. I miss those days frequently

Yesir!! It hits different

I think that would be amazing

wtf!? for an easter egg!? this is beyond attention to detail that devs does.

*Der Riese and Verrückt :3

@@johannisguardian529 I always fuck up typing Der Riese lmao. Verrückt I feel I'm the clear for, the fact that the comment was coherent while drunk is a marvel all on its own 😂😂

@@johannisguardian529 Goddamn typos making my explanation seem worse 😂

@@TheLazarusOperation

watching in horror as people miss out on window points and open the wrong doors

Can't speak for COD2, but let's be real... The Modern warfare series, first game somewhat included, wasn't exactly some "gritty realistic homage to wartime heroes." It was a bombastic, over-the-top, dramatized, Hollywood-esque of a story. Even WaW's campaign was leagues better in terms of representing war and the people who fought it.

​@@urphakeandgey6308I mean Going from CoD4 to MW2 was the beginning of death of CoD

Honestly the past several games have had excellent campaigns. WWII is probably the best story I've ever seen from CoD, and the recent MW campaigns have been really engaging.

Call of Duty 2 was basically the last realistic game

​@@randysterbentz5599"WWII is probably the best story I've ever seen from CoD"

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Oh good ol Nanners, good times

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His name is Brad Vickers

based pfp

BRAD? ISNT HIS NAME MARCO? WHAT

You should try to play se zombies with him

Aw, you reminded me of when I used to play these games (and tons more), with my own little sister. She never played, she would always watch and ask questions. I miss that :( now we’re all grown up, and don’t see each other much.

I had the same sort of journey, as a socially awkward kid CoD was a huge barrier-breaker and zombies was how I spent time with people from school and made long time friends back when I didn't have many. Good memories 🎉

@@raxxtv1998giggling cos i remember always watching my older brother play and nagging him to let me join even though i SUCKED so he’d begrudgingly hand me a controller then all i really did was walk around fixing barriers and getting downed at round 4 or something lol what a nostalgia trip

Dirty Dog! remember

Wow, you have a million friends? Very cool

this vid is just a random guy that spent $1000+ in the past 10 years giving a basic explanation of a mid gamemode people realistically cared about for 1 or 2 years

You said it brother

Bo3 moon simply looks better also chronicles fixes the fact that bo3 wasn't casual friendly so bo3 will always be the peak of zombies especially with custom maps

@@DazedRose115 exactly no matter what bo3 will be peak till a new zombies changed out minds.

imo bo3 is easiest to come out, you got double pap, extra health, fast slide spamming, gobblegums and custom maps 99% being shit except leviathan which has existed since cod 5 kek

@@DazedRose115 I disagree. There is a certain "ambance" to BO1 moon that is missing in BO3. While I like BO3 BO1 or WAW zombies is peak zombies to me.

Black ops 3 was insane I would try bo3 if I were you

Yep, the simplicity was fun. When you had to do the same convoluted bullshit every game to just get a pack a punch every single game it got boring fast

Cold War exists.

Agree with another comment, should try BO3 zombies, thats the last time zombies were good. How many maps beetween all dlc 10/12? Was awesome.

The transition between black ops 1 and Black ops 2 was crazy, black ops 1 cut straight to the chase about killing zombies and had small secrets for fun until the last couple of maps that had story Easter eggs but it wasnt the selling point of the game mode, black ops 2 was so far from simple zombies it was insane, every map heavily depended on the story told Easter eggs to even be slightly fun.

They need to reignite the horror elements of BO1. They need to study it and understand ever aspect that made it what it was.

@@jamiehall-hanlon3104 Amen.

​@@jamiehall-hanlon3104Not just BO1, they need to go back to WaW when it was actually scary. BO1, while fun, is where it started to get more campy. Granted, they were still cool and a few maps were creepy, like Call of the Dead (if you turned the voice volume down). But WaW was where it was at.

​​@@PANCAKEMINEZZthey just need to get rid of the bright and vibrant look that new zombies has, i already know *most* devs are glued to vibrant and colorful shit these days but just maybe we'll get a gritty new zombie game one day that matches waw and kinda bo1.

They also need to give us lobby options, even if it's just for private matches. For me, Zombies went downhill immediately with mini-bosses and special zombies. Just allow me to play with normal zombies only, no sprinters, and a meaningful mystery box.

Yep. BO2 Transit was something different but it didn't have the same feeling. After BO2 I lost interest entirely.

Bro what? maps like Mob and SOE blow moon out of the water

Bo3 was like the peak of zombies in my opinion and thats coming from someone who started playing call of duty with BIG RED ONE back on the PS2

Thematically? The EE ending is great, but other than the Biodome and No Mans Land, the entire map is just washed up boring grey palette, with most of the map being a facility. There are many more maps released after that are thematically and visually better, this is just nostalgia talking.

Ur tripping

Still my favorite one other than bo3, it was my first cod zombies and I'll always appreciate how easy it was to do my first ee (ix btw)

Indeed

Surely you mean der riese

I think BO3 zombies is perfect. It’s not really complex at all to do the base gameplay mechanics on any of the maps. What’s complex is the Easter Eggs, and that’s the point of them. They are supposed to be grindy and hard to find

@@bigsplash6055 Yeah, I definetily share the same opinion. BO3 Zombies was just goated. Ofc I played WaW, Bo1 and Bo2, but BO3 was just this kind of game with "basic" machanics, new mordern graphics and some stuff to do if you want. The PaP-Steps are neccessary in my opinion because it would have gotten lame so fast. For me the perfect game. I was so hyped up on Bo4 but they fucked up the gameplay so hard. Imagine Bo4 maps with Bo3 mechanics. Holy this would have been nice

More than likely they had that idea later and just added it to make the lore seem like it was thought out. Alot of the zombie lore was kind of just thrown together

Another example is apparently Monty's scarf can be found in multiple levels even pretty far back.

Your last sentence sums up one of my favorite experiences in zombies. So glad to have experienced that point in time

If you can’t imagine life without a game you need to invest into new hobbys

Whoaa

The thing i dont understand is why they decided to change it up way too much most of the people enjoy zombies like they were up to bo3 they just shouldve stick to that

Thank you, was searching for this. "Thought I was lunch for sure!" haha!

Same only maps i did the ee on were 9 the mansion map and tag

@@mjkoolaid1511 dead of the night

Why you play solo?

@@myhonorwasloyalty Because some people like that?

I didn't like bo4 but at least I can say there was a lot of passion. That team wanted to create a zombies masterpeice and I think the overthought things a bit in design. Also the reason I strongly dislike cold war. It's more fun, but for the first time it felt like zombs was made to fill a quota (like the multiplayer) instead of really passionate people creating something

that is one of the things i hated the most about bo3. double pap, very good guns with double tap and gobble gums made it too easy

@@cakes9962then just don’t use them. Simple

@@Breds_5 i do not use them and still too easy

we all miss this time dude stay strong it will come again when your gonna have a kid :)

Why? Why did you quit zombies ans 10 years ago? So in bo2?

As well as cod2 with green run && farm

Not to mention that origins intro had A7Xs song Shepperd of fire

Plus being able to more the box and re roll with Leroy plus vulture aid and the wonder weapon just made buried one of my favourite maps also the weapon locker and bank

Awesome to see you enjoyed it that much. Thanks!

Yeah i fell after bo4 and i gope their next game will be good cus i miss zombies