The Horrors of Call of Duty World at War Zombies...
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃 This is a crazy one, a documentary of sorts delving into the true horrors of world at war zombies, finding out what makes it so scary. This retrospective was really fun to make and i hope you enjoy it :)
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00:00- Intro
02:07- Nacht Der Untoten
08:27- Verruckt
15:40- Shi no Numa
22:31- Der Riese
31:21- Conclusion 
Игры
the scariest part was not knowing zombies was even a game mode, just casually finishing the campaign then hitting continue with no idea what it was for and seeing that intro cutscene and shitting your pants
Yeah, at first i thought it's canon to campaign.
Nowadays You Can Get The Nazi Zombies Game Mode Instantly If You Update The Game To The Latest Version, Which Is What I Did Instead Of Beating The Entire Campaign Game First.
@@Mario2xpSlasher Why Are You Typing Like This?
@@DeliriantPsychosis1442 what do you mean, I'm typing correctly, is there anything wrong with it or something?
@@Mario2xpSlasher you capitalized every letter...
The thing that makes Nacht the scariest, for me, is the total lack of voicelines. Your character doesn't speak, no perk jingles, not even a voice calling out the drop you just picked up. That, and the zombies have a completely different sound from every other map, they hiss and bark at you. Makes them seem even less human.
Well, there is “Kaboom.”
@@SplendidCoffee0 no there isnt, just an explosion
@@ltaldoraine4495 you’re right!
@@ltaldoraine4495 it's simplicity and lack of all the crazy perks, and voice lines, to dead silence with only the sound of the zombies coming for you, with only the mystery box to help keep you alive.
Couldn't agree more, everyone seems to think verruckt is the scariest and understandably so, but nacht is way scarier because of the claustrophobia and silence with it. Ironically though it's one of the easiest maps since they can't hit you as long as your moving lol 😂
Something that I feel like you missed about Verrückt is when you first start the map, how it tells you the year is 1945, and near Berlin. It really helps set in the hopelessness of both the zombies and World War 2 itself. It always gave me the feeling that no one is coming to rescue you. The Americans and British are too far, the Germans are in the final stages of war and fueled by fanaticism and desperation, and the Soviets would probably shoot you on sight if they came across you. All of that, and your character stumbled upon something dark and sinister that no should ever witness. No one is coming to save you...
Your good at describing
It says September of 1945 in Verruckt, so that would be about 5 months after the war was over. Which could still be scary seeing that all your friends are mostly dead or have gone home
Don't forget, you're Americans.
honestly I don't think anyone cared about dates n shit
@@Danny-xk5wj the dates set a time period. I loved the dates.
Another thing to note: you are not facing "Nazi" type Zombies in Shi No Numa. You're facing Takeo's old fellow Soldiermates in the Japanese Army.
Zetsubou No Shima does this too. So it's Adding interesting detail to a World at War Map
And ww2 japanese soldiers were already scary before they turned
Imperial zombies
@@sunofgun07 simple fix: crocodile’s… or was it alligators? Fucc I forgot
@@Crackheadcentral2188 crocodiles
Man, I miss the atmosphere and game design of world at war Zombies.
I hate the action-heavy focus that the mode went down.
@@Coolskateboard no the hell it didn't.
@@minecraftsteve2504 gotta agree with him. Bo3 introduced Microtransactions that broke matchmaking and threw challenge out the window and turned the story into a bloated and dumb Dr. Who style mess.
If you wanna play ZC, everyone is popping Perkaholic on round 1 and if you wanna play the other maps you better have a 10+ minute RUclips guide up
But it did bring in custom zombies that allowed the map nightmare to exist 😜.
@@Coolskateboard IMO Black Ops 2 is what was the final nail in the coffin for 'Nazi Zombies', specifically the last map they released-"Origins" I wanna say it's called, the WW1 trenches-though you could make the argument it was 'Buried', that Wild West esque undergrown faux town map, cause with those two that's when they really started to introduce pure fucking nonsense into the franchise and turned the overall story on top of its head-as that was around the time this new generation of gamers was starting to really play games like COD-IMO even Tranzit was a HUGE departure from what made Zombies so damn good, same with Alcatraz but tbh I did love that map (especially the characters and Johnny Cash theme song).
But hey regardless, BLO3's Zombies was just.... 🤮 And they kept on making it even worse/cringier, fighting giant squid monsters/dragons/parallel universe characters, and Black Ops "Cold War" (Cold War in name only) was more of the same only it was (somehow) even more lackluster and mediocre than before.
@@LateNightHalo I remember seeing a comment where you said "the Golden age of zombies is WaW to bo3". Now you're saying that bo3 killed zombies. Yeah bo3 zombies introduced microtransactions but bo3 zombies was nowhere near dead. Did you forget how bo2 was like during the first few months because of maps like tranzit and die rise. Also the whole "you need to spend 10 minutes looking up a guide" can be applied to bo2 also.
Waw hits differently from newer zombies. Though I love most of the zombie games, Waw had an interesting feel to it. It has a dark atmosphere that I wish newer zombies would incorporate.
Well, WaW itself is a dark WW2 game.
It really captures the horror of war on all 4 sides.
When you make a zombie mode on a dark and grim war game, you get this.
bo1 is close too, although it probably has more of a mysterious atmosphere and definitely less dark in the non waw maps, although kino and ascension are still pretty dark along with cotd, although that one is a little more comedical as well i guess
It was more subtle with its horror where the other games are more overt and in your face. The first two waw zombie maps don't even look that different from multi-player maps and aren't covered in obvious occult items.
World at War stands atop all other versions of COD zombies for this reason. It’s atmosphere and subtle storytelling is unmatched.
@@daemonvanmeir9697 but bo1 is a lil goofy
I think the reason WaW's zombie atmosphere was so horrific was because the theme of the game itself is horror.
that's why it remains the best zombies mode in the franchise to me. no story, it was just survive as long as possible on a school night
The scariest part about these maps is how easy it is to insert yourself into these abandoned, hopeless situations. They feel like real places, where actual human beings used to live/work. In the case of Verruckt, it feels like you’re no more than a week too late.
PERFECT description, one which I totally agree with
Could I interest you in some LIMINAL SPACES?
Verruckt is actually a real place in Berlin but it’s covered with nothing but vegetations and plants
@@obitouchiha3865 is it Wittenau Sanatorium ?
@@Pgb622 yes
What makes Verruckt even more unnerving is that it's based on an actual place. That still stands. That you can visit.
What is the name
@@cheesytacos6498 It says when you start Verruckt. Wittenau Sanatorium
Altough it looks more like Beelitz-Heilstätten, the hospital near Berlin, wich is also the hospital that Adolf Hitler went to to get his wounds treated during WW1
Sure that the name isnt verrückt ?
It stand for crazy/insane
@The governor Yes
7:30 that isn’t a dog barking, that’s a sound coming from the zombies.
Before the iconic demonic screech sounds (which would appear in Verruckt), the zombies in Nacht der Untoten used a plethora of weird sounds that sound more animal than human. Sometimes they’ll hiss like snake, and other times they’ll sound like a monkey or, in this case, a dog barking.
By the way, missed opportunity talking about how different the zombies sound in Nacht. I’ve grown up with the demonic screeches for so long, that coming back to Nacht in WaW, those zombie sounds creeped me the fuck out.
Those sprinting zombies in verrukt were the worst and always freaked me out
Man those animal noises were hilariously scary 😂
@@DeadlyHellhound GOTTA GO FAST
Yep u correct
@@DeadlyHellhound NO KIDDING.
The scariest thing for me with Nacht was the one different window where the zombies are pulling parts of the cement wall off instead of boards. That in and of itself is freaky, but when you look down the pathway behind that opening it is glowing red at the back and looks like a path straight from hell. It terrified me when I was younger.
Yesss!! It just adds so horrifically to that sense that these zombies will stop at NOTHING to get to you. Anywhere you go, they can too. You cannot hide. No place is safe. You're surviving as long as you can but it starts to set in that your death is inevitable and there's absolutely nothing you can do to change that.
Could u point me the location of it
@@MetroCop2077 It's on the long wall in the mystery box room near the stairs. It will look like a normal wall until the zombies start pulling parts of the wall off from the other side and coming through. You'll hear that distinct sound of cement or bricks scraping against each other while they're pulling pieces off. You can even build it back up like the window boards. I feel like I remember it starting the round after I accessed the mystery box room (it's been nearly 10 years since I've played it though), but I remember some friends claiming it won't start until round 5 and others saying round 10. I'm not 100% sure, for me it was something I didn't notice until I noticed.
Shi No Numa scared me the first time because it's the first real time where they let you go outside. Before, you were stuck indoors, but in Shi, you can go outside and I felt so much more exposed at the time.
This game is the shit! Come back to BO1 for a Resurgeance and check out the vid, MY LIFE WITH NAZI ZOMBIES - The Ultimate BO1 Zombies guide. Let's hit that Leaderboard! ruclips.net/video/1SlPFR2rXok/видео.html .
I was never scared of world at war shi no Numa IDK why probably because I was 12 and knew what I was going into at like noon
@@A1Authority Shit self promotion
Honestly, the worse graphics of WaW Zombies compared to the more detailed and colorized graphics of modern zombies gives it that much scarier vibes. Idk how to exactly describe it, but it just feels way more gritty and ominous. Only zombie map after Black Ops 1 that gets that scary vibe down is Mob of the Dead imo.
There's a vid about how movies on VHS tapes used to make some horror movies way scarier because the quality was lower you should totally check it out dude I think it's by hbomberguy
There's a common rule where, the less provided, the more the brain does the work and will scare the audience. In horror the best blackmail is the viewer's mind, not the demon or salesman at the door.
You said you only scary map after BO1 is MOTD, but there’s one more. Zetsubou No Shima was horrifying. MOTD was also horrifying. Those are prolly only 2
i forget where but it heard somewhere that its impossible to scare someone more than they can scare themselves. you give people info, details, and they start creating plans, countermeasures, etc. cause they know what the threat is. you leave things vague, they end up custom tailoring the threat to scare themselves better than you ever could while also having the paranoia of "what if i'm wrong"
it's not for nothing that all creepy videos or pictures are in general in low quality image on internet. Take a picture or a video in 4K or with a good lighting and stable camera and the creepy thing dead because you can see the thing easly and your brain be less likely to imagine or see things that are not real
"I'm 19" damn dude lol I'm 32 and experienced WaW fresh so I know exactly how you felt playing the OG Zombies. This was a game that brought the boys together every Friday and Saturday, those were the days.
Same here I was 22 when it came out. I remember finishing the campaign and then the mode just started out of nowhere. Unforgettable and I wish it could be done again.
Apparently you can't post your playstation gamer tag because I tried twice lol was going to offer to play with anyone still active on the PlayStation.
Damn I never got to experience it, I feel so left out interesting video though.
Same boat, i first played this when i was 14, and sometimes thought i might have been too young for it.
@@daygon128 When I stumbled into that mode I was mostly just irritated at the fact that the game dropped my ass into a horde shooter built entirely around my character crumpling in two scratches. After spending an entire game eating entire mags. On Veteran. You'd think they'd try to make sure the gameplay of the bonus mode actually jived with the rest of the package, but it's fuckin' CoD, I should've known what I was getting into from the start. (That is to say, I should've expected it to suck as much as it did instead of listening to all the jackasses around me who circle-jerked each-other to give the newest CoD a bukkake shower whenever one released.)
World at War was definitely the best horror version of zombies. Playing Nacht late at night, a feeling that can't be forgotten. Verruckt felt like there were survivors, completely trapped in their cells, possibly being eaten alive or beaten by the zombies. The entire atmosphere is completely apocalyptic. Shi No Numa was next level for me, the sounds of the dogs coming in, the pure quiet of the swamp areas, the brutality of the traps, everything worked. Der Riese combines it all to create (in my opinion) a perfect zombies experience. Horror, loads of weapons, all the history and lore... it's amazing. This needs to be captured again
NO, BO1 is what brought it home!!! Everyone, come back to BO1 for a Resurgeance and check out the vid, MY LIFE WITH NAZI ZOMBIES - The Ultimate BO1 Zombies guide. Let's hit that Leaderboard! ruclips.net/video/1SlPFR2rXok/видео.html .
@@A1Authority Did you seriously just fucking make a comment saying Black Ops 1 is better just to fucking advertise a video.
You'll watch zombies dance and you'll like it
Not even CoD zombies, WaW is easily one of the best horror games in general. The war atmosphere in particular is absolutely unmatched to this day. Other horror games have rarely used a war torn background for their style too.
Whenever it came to the Hellhounds what sunk it most for me was their round tune at the start. That guitar riff just gets me every time.
The meteor glowing intensely in the fog during a hell hound round really does add more to its ominous power
THIS! Makes it look unnerving af
@@TheExceptionalGamer I've never played this game but I'm gonna try it when I get a better computer in a couple of months. I really hope it's fun from all the things I've heard :)
@@2mono7 you’ll have a blast, I recommend giving the campaign a go too!
@@2mono7 its great
Nacht: No music, "Look at them shamble towards me," I feel alone.
Verrukt: Sad EE song, mental asylum where patients were tortured and killed, and zombies sprint with murderous intent while you listen to screaming and crying.
Shi No Numa: Alright music, Hellhounds with fog, unknown location where the cause of the zombies is located. Zombies appear out of foliage putting you on edge.
Der Riese: We have the Pack-A-Punch ( *cracks knuckles* ) "I'm done running." *Beauty of Annihilation playing in the background as you shred zombies to pieces.*
It goes from being hopeless and weak, to having hope and being powerful.
This is a really cool twist on the end with der reise being where the power creep starts
Ha ha ha
Kino:
"YOU NEED A LITTLE REVIIIIVE"
Then you get to origins when you really feel invincible while you listen to avenged sevenfold until your whole team gets curb stomped by a robot
Nacht’s EE music is Undone, I like it, no vocals and has the feeling of hopelessness and emptiness of Nacht Der Untoten.
One of my favorite things about the OG zombies is that they would sometimes walk towards you like a typical Nazi. So even as an undead flesh eating zombie Nazi's were so devoted to their cause a part of their brain still allows them to do things they did before they turned. Small, probably forgettable detail but it always made me feel very uneasy.
Like how in Kino they'd march like as if they were in a rally
Goose stepping
Is there a vid that shows that?
@@TheBonesMalone fr, i have never noticed that.
@@TheBonesMalone Just pop in Black Ops and play some zombies. You'll see it.
Nothing will ever be scarier than 11 year old me playing world at war zombies for the first time at a friend's house in like 2008/2009. He went to bed and I tried Verruckt by myself. I was literally too scared to move around the map lol
I was in a similar situation when I was playing Nacht and my friend fell asleep and i was on his Xbox 360 in the dark at about 8 or 9 years old if i remember right. It was TERRIFYING!
I guess this is why I was afraid of zombies as a kid, and before I never knew why I had a fear.
My experince with Nacht... I use to have this friend who lived in an old farm house built in the 1700s. One night in the dead of winter, I was staying over. My friend;s father had started a fire in the fireplace and my friend looks at me and says: "I just unlocked a new mode in that Call of Duty game I got for Christmas can you help me beat it." So we tried a few attempts and refined our strategy each time. But holy crap. You have never truly experienced Nacht until you have played it in front of a fireplace on a cold winter night in a freaken old house. My friends dad comes over to us and asks us to go out to the wood pile and bring in more wood. Let me tell you, that little trip outside into the blinding snow to get wood after playing rounds of Nacht is still a vivid memory in my mind.
This sounds spooky! The setting is perfect too 👀
World at war is such a gem of a game not just zombies in general the dark atmosphere was very fitting, war is dirty, war is terrifying and they nailed it perfectly
Zombies and Campaign are both horrifying in their own ways and that’s what makes WAW such a timeless game
when i younger i was actually scared to play zombies alone but got over it after a couple tries by myself lmao
I'm still not over it lol
Same with me man when I first got the game but I was very young at the time so when I finished the campaign and went into Nacht I was so scared of the first zombie that I quit the first time playing it and haven't played in like a week until I started playing it again but I swear man the map, the zombies and the sounds the whole vibe of it was just very scary and creepy
Same I remember When B01 came out I was like 6, at the time, and my friends has got it from their dad and I remember when they loaded Up Kino Der Toten and lord I was too scared to even look at the screen
My dad forced me to play zombies with him and this is before I knew of its existence lol. I was like 8 yrs old
Same here ! And, to be honest, World Ar War's Nacht Der Untoten still scares the shit out of me !
I can't even imagine what was going through the minds of people who were the first to play this game, imagine finishing World at War which is by no means a kids game, its arguably one of the darkest CODs ever made, you click continue after you finish that insane campaign and this shit pops on your TV screen at 2 am....terrifying
I was there lol. Most people didn't wait thru the credits so they only saw the new option in the main menu, which was equally if not more terrifying, like its always been there but you just didn't notice until then. Being an 8 year old at the time definitely made it scarier, but once you got a few friends to play with you it became more fun than scary. Then Verruckt came out and all 4 players were scared shitless again. Good times.
The story I made up when I was younger for Verruckt was that the four marines escaped the first map and made there way to the nearest fob. Finding it over run, they run into the asylum. The hand was in the power switch was another survivors way to lock themselves in the room and had to cut off his hand. That 5th survivor was trying to leave clues behind for anyone that could decipher a way to stop the zombies.
I always wanted the next map to be closer the the reichstag and us to kill a zombie hitler near his bunker.
I love this. I used to fill in the blanks when it came to radios and things, it was good fun
@@TheExceptionalGamerabout the carnival music in verruckt
theres a sign in german on a wall that says "warning, any disabled people will be sold to the circus"
I miss when zombie's was honestly just about the nazis doing fucked up shit and accidentally created zombies out of desperation to win the war
I wish they went with a more frankenstins army approach than All the stuff about alternative dimensions and time travel
Sniper elites zombies mode is the direction i wanted them to take,
Ever tried Wolfenstein?? The NAZIS did more there
Waw zombies and dead snow used to have me ridiculously satisfied in a repetitious loop. I think back then there were 9 movies in the nazi zombie subgenre but the majority were poor. Outpost (the sequels weren't around) and obviously Dead Snow were the only ones I watched over and over during skinning up breaks from waw nazi zombies
I'm surprised you know about Frankenstein's Army
Sniper Elite Zombies are easily my favorite depiction of Nazi Zombies in literally any medium ever. It shows the lengths and desperation that the Nazis were willing to stoop down to in order to win the war. That, and a supernatural pact with Satan is far more terrifying than some science stuff
@@woundofbriccius1611 this is also based on true story and as well as why Marvel created HYDRA in the first place
Waw and BO1 are by far the best zombies modes, after that it had the "Resident Evil" effect where it went less horror and more action which isn't exactly bad, just not my style.
BO3 is a superhero game with a super hero marvel story
Waw and BO2 are better than bo1
SO TRUE!!! This game is the shit! Come back to BO1 for a Resurgeance and check out the vid, MY LIFE WITH NAZI ZOMBIES - The Ultimate BO1 Zombies guide. Let's hit that Leaderboard! ruclips.net/video/1SlPFR2rXok/видео.html .
Blocks ops 1 wasnt really horror... More comical but its definitely OG zombies
I really like how they threw Nacht in to the transit map. If anything, it just made the isolated and creepy feeling even better
yeah fr. The way it was submerged in the corn fields...
@@TheExceptionalGamer And paired with the fact that the Earth already being destroyed makes it even more desolate unnerving unsettling and terrifying than it was.
Tranzit for me for the most part was scary given to how the Earth is a molten hellscape with lava everywhere the ground uprooted, building destroyed or on fire and the fog and the other creatures that came from this destruction being the denizens
It still has an ambience to this day that is the most isolated and most deserted telling u nothing is left of this world other than the only few survivors (the Tranzit Crew). The actions of the Ultimus Crew's actions were invain.
Richtofen controlling the Zombies through Sthulinger due to eating Zombie flesh and making them fulfil his ultimate sheme of them thinking they can restore the world.
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The supernatural whispering in Shi No Numa can be heard in the campaign and in some multiplayer maps, along with more otherworldly ambiance all throughout the game. Such as in the mission Semper Fi when exploring the shrine and in the map Asylum when in the bathroom, and it felt like you were trespassing on ground you do not belong. There was also a never ending "ringing" noise that can be heard in multiplayer and singleplayer that was unsettling. WaWs emphasis on the horrors of war went above and beyond in not just visual design, but its disturbing audio design.
Wow you unlocked a memory for me here, I remember being in a 1v1 on a big map in WAW and i could hear those sinister whispers! It freaked me out because they felt so out of place...
I miss it so much it just doesn’t hit like this anymore, black ops 1 was the shit too. Too many good memories 🥺
You’re right, black ops 1 has some creepy stuff as well. All them memories 🥲
Good times boys, hope we can see cod like this again on day
@@TheExceptionalGamer (bit late I'm aware lmao) do you plan on making a series out of this? I love these map breakdowns even though I've played all these maps for my entire life at this point, keep up the great work
Black ops 2 was scarier than black ops one, at least a few maps. Still no where near waw.
"Sounds like someone is breaking in!"
"Sit down dick, its just a storm"
black ops 1 is something else lmao
The dog woofing is actually just a zombie noise. The noises on nacht were very strange. Like the hissing
Wow that’s insane, I should just throw a dog treat at them and then they would leave me alone I guess haha
I like to think it's a teaser to hellhounds, more interesting that way lol. Easter eggs ftw
I thought the hissing was them spawning from the depths of hell
I really wish they kept the desaturated colors for chronicles, that would have made those maps 10x scarier
Although this was only in the mobile version, it was terrifying to see that white zombie face pop up on your screen meaning a zombie is behind you
They're bringing it back through regular cod mobile!!!
Used to have the cod zombies app on my iPod touch 😂 good times bro
I remember going up the street to my friend's house, and he had a small CRT television in his basement with no windows or lights. We'd play World at War zombies on it religiously for about 2 months. Just on the one map. It was such a creepy atmosphere to play the map to. The intro cutscene gave us goosebumps every single time.
This is so wholesome!
I guess for me I'll explain so reasons to the creepiness of each map.
Nacht- Off the back, the perfect word for this map is "Isolation". Like there is no other survivors with you, your in a deserted airfield from war, and you see soldiers that although look like survivors are actually the walking corpses of fallen soldiers who are slowly making their way towards you. Also this map is very claustrophobic which is unsettling for many and the quietness of the map is haunting in itself. The only noises you hear are just from the zombies or the one or two radios from the map. With these combinations, it truly cause one to be alert at all times.
Veruckt: For this one, the main horror is in it's history. Dentist chairs, creepy carnival music, baby crying, and more you can tell that this place was a place of torture for it's residents that stayed here before it became infested with zombies. Also it's surprisingly has darker shades compared to any of the other WAW maps to come along with the fire which makes it convey a disturbing feeling. There's also the dripping water from years of decay that has taken over the map. And just like Nacht, this map is also claustrophobic, but not in it's size, but rather it's tight corridors which puts the player in a state of panic as danger is literally around the corner. Overall, this is my favorite waw map in creepiness.
Shi No Numa: Already, the first thing we notice is the unusual setting with it's zombies and the camp itself. Like we are in enemy territory captured and trying to fight for survival. The feeling already makes one curious and uneasy but what makes it more creepy is the zombies themselves in their movement. Specifically in the WAW and Bo1 versions as the way the zombies walk is unnatural compared to others zombies from previous maps. Not to mention the decay and disgusting nature of the map. If veruckt was already disgusting with it's decay in it's map, we'll get ready for maggots, blood, and gross swamp environment found on the map. Also did we mention the sheer terror from the introduction of hell hounds? It will leave some first time players panicking as they run from these beasts from hell. Although I don't think this map is too creepy, it's make up for in a disgusting swampy environment. Not a bad map.
Der Riese: This one is creepy as their is some story here. Here, Richthofen basically did cruel experiments on Samantha and Fluffy behinds Maxis's back and it shows a bit of context on group 935, the creation of the undead which were failed super soldiers, the creation of the wonderwaffe and it set up for future maps like Kino or Moon. Overall, a disturbing background story. From the looks of the map, we are in a huge facility with lots of machines, test tubs and teleporters that give off a Frankenstein esk vibe which adds to the creepiness factor. Plus it's a dark map in it's lighting although not as dark as Veruckt, is still pretty dark which is unsettling at first. In a way, it reminds me of when your forced to turn off a light in a room and your scramble out that room to escape the darkness. Also, let's not forget to mention the entire place is on fire and is falling apart once we get there as if it was recently abandoned. Probably the least scary in my opinion but a good creepy map.
And I think verduckt is in the campaign.
@@plushluigi7417 how do you get verruck?
@@zherean42069 it's in one of the campaign missions, one where you are with Reznov.
@@plushluigi7417 all of the waw zombie maps have elements from the campaign and multiplayer in them, the only one where i'm skeptical of it is shi no numa, but nacht, verruckt and der riese all have parts lf campaign/multiplayer in them.
Nacht is literally the building seen at the japanese airfields in campaign and multiplayer (which is funny considering they're nazis in zombies lol) verruckt is also an asylum in both multiplayer and campaign (and also creepy in multiplayer as well thnx to the ghosts you can hear) and der riese has atleast parts of a multiplayer/campaign map, its a bit of a tough one but afaik its the part at jug and maybe another one too but idk.
The barking on nacht der untoten actually comes from the zombies which makes it all the more terrifying. Whenever i listen to the zombie noises from nacht that one always gives me the chills
5:36 I would always argue that to make scary games more scary, just eliminate the music in general and make the noise just death silent like Silent Hill and World at War Nazi Zombies did. Nothing but dead silence would always trigger that sense of loneliness and wariness is what makes the game scary. I'm honestly tired and over having alot of noise in the games that are supposed to be horror but put in alot of noise for whatever reason.
I really like how they focused more on the horror aspect rather than the gameplay. Like, the silence just creeps me out, and Nacht der Untoten (idk if i spelled that right) really helps it.
The atmosphere in WaW is just unique. WaW is my favorite zombies game because of its bare bones and difficulty. I love everything about WaW, the AI may be bad in WaW but its what it makes it UNIQUE.
It also has character, because a lot of effort was put into it. The soundtrack, the story, the MP, the Zombies... all had so much thought and care put into them. There's nothing else like it, it's why I love video games.
Waw zombies is absolutely the best in any cod game. No other comes close
@@LochyP I would agree if it weren't for the QOL changes made to future games. I love being able to grind for levels and camos, that's the best (and most fun) part. No one can logically disagree with that imo.
@@HaveButOneLife imho, most of the qol changes have been for the worse. Zombies became increasingly convoluted, needing to work through the maps in a certain order and having to scour for items. I understand it's all for story, but for me, zombies shouldn't feel like a second campaign, the setting is enough. Searching for items to complete a map just isn't as fun as trying to reach the highest wave possible.
@@HaveButOneLife what do you think of infinite warfare zombies? For me, that was a very surprising second place "best zombies ever." Shame it was quite so hard, after so so many hours we could never kill the big boss zombie.
The high difficulty and simplicity of nacht worked so well as just a post-credits mini game. It blew my mind when they said they were adding another map, I didn’t expect it at all at the time
I remember how creepy-scary this game was. So much that I would only play it with a full team of players; never alone.
Combine the fact that playing multiplayer alone and hearing the ambience really makes this the most dark, gritty COD game of the series
Not to mention it has the most gore
The worst thing about the Verrückt carnival music is there's a sign in German near the balcony which translates to "Any unattended children will be sold to the circus"
So they attracted the children by making them think the structure was a circus?
@@flip849 More that we're listening to the carnival these children were sold to
The fact that you mention that the cymbal monkey could very well have been one of Samantha’s toys makes me think of them in a very different light now. Since Samantha controls the zombies, she gets distracted by the cymbal monkey, because she probably used to like watching it hop around and play music. She lost so much in this but the cymbal monkeys are one of the few things she can still cling on to.
Cold war zombies: Die Maschine brought back that fear i felt playing Nacht for the first time. Going under gound in complete darkness with zombies coming out of random little spots was wild.
Especially when the disco party starts, pure terror
Zombies has become too mainstream. I know it sounds hipster but there will sadly never again be a scary cod zombies
I wish zombies was an entire game of its own! But if that happened that would kill the cod franchise
Yeah... The game mode soldout
I remember when I first played WaW when was 9 or 10 I accidentally started a zombie game by myself, I was so terrified of the cutscene and the laughing in the beginning that I cooked off a frag grenade seconds after the round started lol
Exact same thing I did, I would have been 10 at the time. Beat the game and was launched into that experience afterwards, absolutely horrifying to child me.
What always freaked me out was that the zombies were basically reused models of the German soldiers from the game which always gave this sense of having just killed them and then they get back up again
Just was never replicated since the zombies were always given a more rotten appearance, just didn’t have the same uncanny valley factor
This game easily has the most incredible atmosphere I’ve ever seen in gaming. I can’t even describe it, best I can come up with is a “vintage feel with a sense of helplessness”. It really captures the feel of being in a war and the zombies especially exudes despair.
The laugh is always what really creeped me out. Ill always remember beating the game for the first time and being led into this mode. It really had me feeling anxious in an otherwise dark mood
The first time I got into this mode as a kid, I heard the laugh and instantly quit out lmao
The way I always say the noises in Nacht is the zombies being more animal than human. I really enjoy the sounds they made showing they have become feral.
The biggest thing about WaW zombies that make it so much better is the ambience. No extra sounds going on, no visual aspect to distract you from survival, just the feeling of hopelessness and paranoia. You really hit the nail on the head stating that. Newer zombies feels like you're just playing a character in a game. This makes you feel like you're legitimately fighting for your life.
Excellent video man, one thing I wanted to mention after coming back to WaW Zombies after many years bc of this video and more of yours…
The zombie vocalizations are completely different on Nacht. Verrückt introduced the sounds we all know and love and meme, but their voices on Nacht are way more sinister and creepy.
the scariest zombies mode for me was the cod zombies on the nintendo ds, it was so creepy due to the bad graphics and how zombies oneshot you
They loved to sneak up on you too
There was also a zombies game on the iphone that only had Nacht on it, prob the first high profile mobile game with ~100MB file size
God the memories. I was always into video games, my Dad showed me games like Bioshock and Call of Duty World at War when I was 4-5 years old, and one time he yelled my name from his gaming room and I went in there and he said there was a new game mode and he wanted me to play it. I took the controller and started up “Nazi Zombies”. The cutscene and sounds were immediately burned into my memory and I was terrified. The first thing I did was look at all the barriers. I think after a while that day, my highest round was 4 and my brother made it to 7-8. Me and my brother got to round 12 I think just the next day. When more maps came out, I was in love. I had always been interested in WW2 so these maps collected the grim, hopeless feeling of the war, while combining the horror and desperation of the undead coming back just after the war. Also thought it’d be cool to mention, because of World at War being the only game in CoD to include the Marine Corps as the main characters (co-main characters for WaW), I’ve always had an infatuation with the USMC. Now, at today years old, that passion is turning into fuel for getting more fit and just today, trying to contact a marine recruiter. This game, more than any other has shaped who I am. The other zombies games are nostalgic, the multiplayer brings me flashes to those memories, but World at War does so much more mentally it brings me to the verge of tears. I really hope Treyarch can simplify zombies and give it this same atmosphere, the new generation should be able to look back at these like we do with WaW
On the university campus by my house there used to be an old early 1900s asylum, rotted & abandoned. When this game came out there were so many people exploring it lmao they put up barbed wire fences to keep em out
I was 10 when i played WaW, back when it was new, i had just finished the campaign on either a friday or a saturday evening, it was late and dark. I have never dealt well with horror, so that starting cutscene freaked me the fuck out.
I still can't play zombies alone.
Shi No Numa was probably the scariest for me when I was younger. It literally gave me the heeby jeebies, I remember getting so scared
It sure did have its own unique feeling to it, used to freak me out too
The opening sequence for _"Nacht der Untoten"_ makes my blood run cold after all these years. _"Nacht der Untoten"_ is by far the scariest map. The lack of Perk-a-Cola machines, the cramped and claustrophobic quarters, and the ominous and foggy atmosphere all combine to make an unforgettable horror experience. The original _Nazi Zombies_ storyline was excellent, but "Call of the Dead" is when the storyline jumped the shark. "Ascension" is the last good Zombies level in terms of lore. "Moon" was a fun and innovative map, but by then the storyline had crumbled into nonsense.
Moon was incredible but impossible for me
This whole game really got me into a lot of horror and occultic stuff that I find fascinating. This game still lingers on especially the zombie mode and their ambiance and the screech of zombies.
Honestly the ticking clock, stuck at 9:15 if I recall right, in Der Reise scared me a lot as a teenager, it was just creepy, made it feel like time was frozen around you. Also those dots on the moon that hinted at a future bigger than any of us could’ve imagined were so creepy back then.
Yeah I got that feeling too
This is a joy to watch during a stormy night. Definitely brings back alot of nostalgia, great video! Looking forward to see more content from you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Even making the video flooded me with nostalgia
just some creepy easter eggs you forgot to mention:
- the richtofen demonic laugh easter egg in Shi No Numa (hold X on the bookshelf in the Doctor's Quarters, near the trap switch)
- the creepy phone call easter egg in Shi No Numa (hold X on the phone sitting on a desk in the Comm Room)
- the severed lower half of a body, stuck in one of the two furnace shafts of the Teleporter B Room in Der Riese
- the hanging body (only lower half visible) seen through the window into the other building, visible from the Teleporter B box location in Der Riese)
very nostalgic though!
The crash cutscene is one of the most chilling, and ominous things I've ever seen, it's terrifying.
I was 7 years old when I first played nacht der untoten it blew my mind. Then I remember the dlc getting released and der riese felt huge.
Loved this video! I remember being so scared of Nacht when I was a kid. It’s fascinating seeing how that horror of WaW still holds up almost 15 years later. Keep up the excellent work, the editing and style of these videos is top notch
Thanks a bunch! 15 whole years and it’s still spooky, not many games can achieve this but WAW has just gone and done it.
Even as a 25 year old that played WaW Zombies for the first time last year (I played every version of the remasters) this was a whole different experience. I had no idea that the iconic Zombie noises weren't in the original Nacht, and the noises that they do make is even more atmospheric and terrifying. And then the Verruckt sprinters.. Dear God..
6:25 on Nacht it's not a mystery box, it's THE mystery box. It'll be your best friend, your lover, and your worst nightmare all wrapped up in one.
Nacht and Verruckt are definitely the scariest. I’m 20 almost 21 so I played WAW at a young age, I remember beating the campaign and literally shitting bricks when I saw that cutscene and spawning into that concrete bunker. Complete isolation, nothing but you, the mystery box, and the weapons you may acquire to defend yourself from the horrors of the nazi zombies.
I’m not a fan of the zombie genre as a whole anymore I feel like it’s just the same thing over and over again however, nazi zombies in WAW was definitely the most unique and fun/scary experience I’ve had
No it's a lot different now, you can pay $20 to change clothes
Clicked on this vid just to say I saw the WAW Zombies cutscene after completing the campaign when I was about 8. Absolutely curled up in the chair and started crying. In fact it scared me so damn hard that I started praying that a zombie outbreak never happens before I would go to bed, looking back it is just funny immaturity and fear.
This comment is a gem 😂
Y'know, as the story went on and got more and more bloated after bo2 it became really easy to forget how horrible group 935's experiments were sometimes, and how much samantha suffered. It is truly awful to think about the things that warped that poor child's mind into the bloodthirsty puppeteer of a zombie horde
I remember in 2011 I was finally able to get all the Map Packs and experience all the maps and it was frightful but it was amazing. I always found Der Riese as the 3rd scariest because of Sam’s story
This is well documented, why does this only has 100 views???
Honestly the soundtrack took it to the next level
We need more horror shooters tbh, I love the genre. Something Counterstrike and Source-y but with actual horror elements.
the games campaign always gave off an eerie vibe. like all those bodies and death had a cause and effect. booting up what i though was an epilogue mission and seeing zombies come out of the fog made me shit myself back when i was 13 or whatever. I always guessed that the soldier survivor you play in nacht was apart of the bomber mission that ended up crashing at the end of the mission
I always thought the barking dogs in nacht were the running zombies, cuz you would only hear the barking when the zombies start runnings
You have made some exceptionally well put-together videos on this channel, great work man
Thank you mate! Means a lot :)
Used to play Nacht back in middle school on a big tv in a basement in the middle of nowhere at night time. It was so creepy and scary but i loved it.
I remember having a crazy desperate last stand on the second floor back in the day.
Everyone had an MG or a shotgun and the zombies were basically piling through the door.
Great job on the video! I remember first loading into zombies with no idea it was even a gamemode in about 2009, I was 9 years old and was terrified. WAW zombies just had this aura around it, I remember seeing multiple screamer videos back in the day that would claim to discover easter eggs on the maps (there was one called samanthas ghost that utterly terrified me as a kid).
WAW had that feeling throughout the whole game. Story, multi-player, and zombies just had this eeriness
my favorite moments from this game as a kid was spawning into nacht and eventually being able to buy the scoped Kar, i knew that it wasnt as good as other guns but it was so goddamn fun to use i still feel that way
Amazing content. I remember getting creeped out at night with this game, although loved to play it anyway. I'd love to see you cover Black Ops 1 too, Kino Der Toten was one of the scariest experiences I had in a CoD zombies ever.
I can’t stress this enough it’s why I love WaW zombies. Remasters and reimagined maps on later cods don’t have the same eerie and dread that this game had. I love bo3 zombies but I wish it had this atmosphere instead of world class saving the universe stuff.
The atmosphere in WAW in every game mode is just unmatched, the game was just excellent
Unbeatable atmosphere, I sure hope they get their act together and decide to make a stand-alone game, such a no brainer.
Vurrukt is so extra scary to me because the voices make me feel like, on top of it all, theres more then Samantha Maxis haunting the corridors, as if opening any door could let a dark, and invisible foe, to further steal your last shred of hope
Think you missed some of Der Riese's most ominous details. The moon being all screwed up, the dog cages complimenting the bloody pawprint in parts of the map, and the clock being stuck in a time loop were always the more unsettling parts of Der Riese to me. Also world at war zombies clipping is fucked and you'd basically get grappled you whenever you tried to knife them. It was unintentional and more of a bug that would be fixed in following releases, but it also ended up making them feel more threatening to fight or even get near since they'd just get you stuck so easy lol.
Im not gonna be able to sleep for a while now after hearing those tapes with Samantha, maxis and richtofen oh and fluffy. And the asylum map too.
They’re so haunting!
World at War had this dark creepy insanity feel to it. Legit the best WW2 game ever made. Set the tone for how terrifying that time period was. Zombies was the scariest honestly.
I remember watching my stepdad play through the campaign of WaW as a kid, same with multiplayer. Then one day, he finally beat the campaign and that cutscene began. Both of us were confused but the moment he saw a figure running from the fog, he instinctively covered my eyes to stop myself from getting scared.
Now this wasn't unusual for him to do, as he knew that my childhood trauma was a show called Lost Tapes. The idea of something emerging from the darkness/fog and running at me was a horrifying thought. Nowadays, I can watch the cutscene and love the aesthetic
The noises in the background when the round starts is what made nazi zombies (WAW) the scariest to me
This mode brought my 3 brothers and I together to play this when we got our hands on this Masterpiece. It might've been the last game the four of ever played anything before my older brothers and I moved out later on. We never got to play any of the "new" maps for WAWw but we had a blast with WAW Zombies.
I loved the music production in this game. Really suspenseful and put you in the game mentally.
World at war in general was just a gritty, horrifying masterpiece
While I love most of the modern zombies games, you can’t deny that WAW really was the prime zombies experience that had the atmosphere and vibe originally intended. Being a fan of Horror I would love to see them bring back this kind of atmosphere in the newer games when they come out, hopefully the new acquisitions from Microsoft brings about a new and dark experience. Awesome video
Your video quality is amazing, honestly this video is an underrated gem
Thank you so much, I’m glad this was entertaining :)
You forgot to talk about the easter egg songs, like whenever Beauty of Annihilation came on in Der Riese you suddenly felt more powerful lol
That Zombie in Verruckt at 13:31 running full speed at you is so terrifying