The history of cod zombies

Nacht der untoten

In 2008 Activision released a first person shooter called call of duty world at war in which the game had a campaign mode which let you play through the story the game is based around and multiplayer which had a bunch of side game modes and maps that you could play with and against other people online however that was not enough during the month of October Treyarch who a partner company with Activision released an update for cod in which could only be unlocked by completing the campaign and if you did a cutscene would play showing your character getting shot down in a plane and crashing as your character slowly comes into consciousness these shadows that were walking would come closer and closer until one shadow that was sprinting came up to the character the screen would go dark and an image would
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This blew my little mind when I saw it. A new game ode called zombies showed in which you chose that option a map called nacht der untoten showed. You spawn in a a broken down room with a staircase covered with debris and a door that had help written on it. Around were windows boarded up and outside the building was fog that didn't allow you to see too far out and on the walls are two chalk outlines of guns. You spawn with only a pistol with very limited ammo. Undead slowly come to the building taking down the boards and coming into the building where you have to stab or shoot to kill them. When you kill all them a number that is at the top of the screen goes from 1 to 2 and more zombies begin to come. The process repeats with the each wave having more zombies than the other however you notice that the zombies are getting faster and they aren't going down as easy your pistol and any other gun on the walls you buy are doing less and less damage so you open the door that says help on it. In that room is a staircase covered in debris and a wooden box with two yellow questions marks on it you open it with a low cost of 950 points and the box opens, various weapons show up and it stops on one whether it's an LMG or an AR or even an Rocket launcher it doesn't matter you have been given a weapon that can replace your small dinky weapons with little to no ammo so you continue to go through the rounds however you notice that the zombies are still getting faster and health grows larger and your weapons are becoming weaker so you continue to hit the box to get more weapons that are stronger and can replace your other weapons that now have no ammo which you can only hold two guns at a time. As time passes it all seems hopeless until a red and strange weapon shows up in the box.

The ray gun the first wonder weapon to be introduced. A strong weapon powered by element 115 (though we don't know that yet) eventually you go through a few more arounds and the zombies completely overwhelm you.

That is an experience that I and many others will never forget.

For reference because you don't actually have a health bar in the game you have 100 heath and each zombie can take 50 health away with each hit.

This idea was very simple a small map with waves of zombies that grow stronger, faster and grow more numbers as each wave passes. You survive to see how many rounds you can last that's it however it worked very well and the zombies game mode quickly became very popular. Your characters are given no name no reason for why they are there the only thing you can assume is they are just survivors to the zombie outbreak that has happened. That is not it with so much love for this new game mode treyarch would begin to see potential in this and they took it and so they made a new map known as verrukt