Call of Duty: World at War includes Nazi Zombie Mode

Wow, they're just trying to copy Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead, good try Treyacrch, you're still not gonna get my money.

This game just went onto my buy list. Though its still right behind

Left 4 Dead
Far Cry 2
Gears of War 2
Fable II
Fallout 3
Smackdown vs Raw 09
Vigilante 8 Arcade
Saints Row 2
Qauntom of Solace
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts(the only one Im buying on day 1)
C & C: Red Alert 3

So It might be awhile, lol. If I buy it at all.

I call shenanigans!
...though the pictures look both convincing and cool...

I thought WaW was only in the pacific.
Why would Germans be in the pacific?

Appealing to the Wolfenstien crowd eh? Looks like CoD just jumped the shark, or zombie Hitler if you prefer.

To quote Moorio:

"I'll shove 99 bottles of beer up your ass."

Eh, I'll stick to Gears horde mode. It sounds much better anyways, and will have a larger following.

WTFF? Zombie mode? That's retarded. Why does this game have to piss on COD4 so much?

eh. i sure am hoping that zombies do not become to games, like the world war 2 genre has become. meaning, played out.

Why all the hate? What is the basis? It's not like the zombies are in the campaign... it's a mini-game that is unlocked after beating the game. The zombies don't rise during the battles in the Pacific or Eastern fronts.

I personally think it's a wonderful idea. I was trying to figure out which of the two games (CoD:WaW or L4D ) I was going to buy first. With CoD:WaW you get both games in one. You get the 2 most evil enemies to fight in any game rolled into one game!

Also stop the Treyarch hate. I think many people will be suprised by this game. Treyarch is not a bad developer, they only had 8 months to make CoD 3 and I think they did a wonderful job. I still play 3 online to this day. CoD:WaW has had more that twice the amount of dev. time.

Co-op included? Cause that could be hella fun.

Anyone else try the beta? I went in hopeful, came out canceling my pre-order. I switched it Gears 2 insted

Its that COD5 hud? what the fack?

I just wish for another COD4 style.

I already have CoD4 and preordered Gow2, still don't need this game...

wow, zombies are everywhere nowadays

Well... They just got 60 bucks from me. I was going to boycott this game because I hated cod3 but now im buying it because it has freaking zombies! Im such a consumer whore.

left 4 dead? sounds alot more like gears of war 2 to me. and extremly badass

rip-off damn im getting it anyway :P

Stubbs, is that you? Stubbs what are you doing!?! LEGGO MY ARM STUBBS! AHHHH.

(zombie mode is halfassed Left 4 Dead. there I said it.)

So let's see here: Waw is officially borrowing from:

Cod4 (multiplayer) - I could say cod series in general but I mean come on, it IS a cod game... but the multiplayer is much, much too similar to cod4
Wolfenstein/l4d - zombies
Halo - deathcards instead of skulls
Gears of war 2 - horde mode
far cry 2 - fire

did I miss any? the odd thing is that these are really just coincidences since the game was in development before any of these features from rival games were announced or released.

This is activition's middle finger to valve. Oh, snaP!

Still not convinced by this game, multiplayer was crap.

"Left 4 Dead does not have zombies, they have people who are infected with a disease. They are the "Infected" and share no traits with zombies other than being really ugly and consuming human flesh.... kinda sounds like a hooker really."


They share no traits with zombies? They have rotting flesh. They used to be humans, but have changed. Their arrival resulted in the collapse of society. Them attacking another person, results in that person becoming a zomb..I mean(for the purposes of this arguement alone) infected.

The truth is, every single trait that you attribute to zombies, that isn't in the infected - zombie variants of Dawn of the dead, 28 days later, left 4 dead, etc. Most of those traits weren't ones zombies had to begin with. Those were traits that certain works of fiction added to zombies, that were carried on.

The concept of the zombies evolved from superstitions of the undead. Earlier zombie movies, kept that superstition aspect. George A. Romero for example, has a bible alluded answer to the zombies. Other zombie movies had demonic, or sorcery explanations.

Modern zombie deplictions, have abandoned that. Because audiences don't respond to that very well any more. So how do they create a valid explanation for zombies? The only reasonable explanation was an infection.


As for the increased speed of zombies, that was an effort to appeal to a audience that wants more tension and a faster pace from movies.

If you actually remember. Zombies used to eat brains. They didn't originally eat flesh at all. They killed a victim, and ate their brains because they had none. And yet one of the only traits you see infected and zombies as sharing is that they eat flesh. Theres lots of ways the concept of the zombie has evolved inorder to survive.

The problem is, the zombie genre died. And by the time it was revived the audience had changed so much. That the genre had to change so much at once, that some fans of the original genre reject it. But had the genre evolved as it should have, and had it never ended up dieing for as long as it did . Well then we wouldn't even be having this arguement.

"the odd thing is that these are really just coincidences since the game was in development before any of these features from rival games were announced or released."

Skulls were in Halo 2.

Horde mode is a survival mode. Another game that has it, is the XBLM port of Marathon: Durandal. That came out in August 2007. Well before that, a thread with thousands of comments on B.NET had people asking for a survival mode in Halo 3. EPIC cites Geometry wars and smash T.V as inspiration for Horde.

Then theres the COD 4 multiplayer. Of cource Treyarch saw that well before we did. I mean their game uses the same engine.

As for wolfestein/ Left 4 Dead. Wolfestein has been out for a long while. Left 4 Dead has been announced for a long while.

You also have to realize something, just because the game started development before another game announces features. That doesn't mean you can't add that feature to your game, half way through development.

The only coincidence there is the fire. Which lets be honest, is hardly a revolutionary idea. The mechanics behind the propagation is new, but the idea itself isn't.

I think the zombie idea is cool, i mean we have left 4 dead for that kind of gameplay. But it's like the arcade mode in cod4 but better. I think it will be a lot of fun, random but fun!

I feel bad about the Zombies.

I mean, CoD is a "realistic" franchise, oriented at the real war. Why this twist to undead? You're not Resident Evil, it's not Gears of War.

Also I really think it's kind of de-humanizing Germans. You know, we're normal people, even if very bad things happened, which should not be forgotten.
These wars and war crimes have been done by human beings. Myth creation shouldn't be involved in history ... uninformed youth might think it's all just a funny story and Germans really aren't normal people ... and that the crimes were only possible with "unearthly" beings involved.

Why no german campaing mode anyway?