Throughout it’s 14 year run, Zombies has been the thing that’s really helped set the Call of Duty franchise apart from countless other first-person military shooters for me. Even though the quality has been all over the place, I’m personally of the mind that every single map has something to offer, even if it’s something tiny. So today, I wanted to go through every single one of them and point out something I love about it, whether that’s some easter egg, a wunder weapon or even just a little lore tidbit.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
0:58 – World At War
3:10 – Black Ops
6:40 – Black Ops II
9:39 – Exo Zombies
12:14 – Black Ops III
16:04 – Infinite Warfare
19:50 – World War II
23:41 – Black Ops IIII
27:33 – Cold War
31:48 – Vanguard
35:08 – Wrapup & Outro
Other stuff to check out mayhaps????
Vanguard Zombies Retrospective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjinWya3sIk
Origins review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Na3Njj1JHc
Alpha Omega review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HUGjRjoZg
Black Ops IIII Zombies reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKGiF3SWKzqBPCkHHxUcyqI5tVXyXjr-d
Cold War Zombies reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKGiF3SWKzqBIimCf0LI1w_xaWLLp1QYz
Persona 3 Retrospective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vio6bWC1VFw
Extra Links:
Twitter where I shitpost and renderpost:
https://twitter.com/JrrizzoYT
DeviantArt where I renderpost but IN HD WOAH:
https://www.deviantart.com/jr-rizzo
Credits / References / Video Clips:
LastGenRichtofen – Buff Peck render
https://twitter.com/Lastgen01
Scobalula – Greyhound/Parasyte [used for the thumbnail renders and extracting various assets]
Max0r – An Incorrect Summary of ULTRAKILL | Act 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKx1oGw0IRM
Official Treyarch Livestream – Eclipse:
https://www.youtube.com/live/CGfvwFm-0C0?feature=share&t=2759
Youtubers Reacting to PPSH in Gorod Krovi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrA93ErcMHo
Ryan Gosling Finally Eats His Cereal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYTljd3f6eg
Alex Jones Runs After Someone Green Screen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4buPMavjFM
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Hope you all enjoyed this little look through COD Zombies! Like I said at the end, I'm curious as to what little things y'all love about Zombies as well!
BTW, If I sound different between certain segments, it's because I recorded a lot of this on separate days. I TRIED to make it all sound similar, but I sound slightly different literally every time I record and sometimes even in the same session. soz lol
Update time: I feel like I say this every time but, its been a hot minute, huh? The IWZ retrospective was supposed to be next I know and this video was actually supposed to be out in April, but creative burnout is a bitch. I haven't the faintest as to when the next video will be out either since I've been spending most of my free time making render art or playing completely different games like Bayonetta and Ultrakill, plus I'm still kinda burnt-out. Could be next month. Could be when Outbreak 2 comes out in November. Who knows? Regardless of what's next and when, I'm really happy with how this video turned out and I hope you all enjoyed watching it.
Take care, everyone 🙂
Zombies is such a diverse game mode and has plenty for everyone. And to think it all came from a small little side project in waw. I respect the effort put into this video man. Really clean. The work shows (:
"Infection or is it infected?"
OPEN MY EYES TO SEE AN EXO MEDIC
BETTER BELIEVE I ALREADY REGRET IT
MAKE MY WAY TO THE LEFT
TO THE VALUE VOLTAGE
IM AN EXO SOLDIER
Jumpscare at 9:31, keep aware
As much as I miss rizzo’s weapon guides, these are great too
L FUCKING HUGENY
Honestly even the bad maps are still fun to play just going back and experiencing a map all over again is what makes me love zombies no run is the same and you essentially can enjoy any map however much you want
10:55 Holy shit, I’ve played Carrier hundreds of times back when it came out and I didn’t even know the Deep Sea Diver Goliath was in the map lmao.
There is no jumpscare at 9:31
It is currently 3:22 am for me so you saying alone with my thoughts at 4 hits differently lmao. Also you saying shang is one of your favs is a big red flag 😂
I’ve been doing the hardcore Easter eggs on ww2 and I skipped to darkest shore just to see what could possibly be good about that map and you mentioned someone getting torn apart. Is that actually the only good about that map because I forgot that even happened.
there's always something to like in the worst map(hopefully)
30:17 cause Aigis is amazing and deserves a good life after everything she’s been put through… also for being an ai in p3 dancing she also is deluded that makoto isnt actually here
3:13 HE SAID IT HE SAID IT
You forget Extinction
AE is one of my fav maps ever, the EE, the gauntlets every thing lol
Criticizing IGN for calling IX, “Eleven”, and then writing out bo4 as “Black Ops IIII” is pure gold
After the tag der toten ending.i still don't know how people could hate the map
8:36 in a western town C:
“Five nights at Freddy’s at Freddy’s”
no fucking way your ingame name is WilliamAftonFanf, and insane that it took me 15min to notice
We back at it again with another great video by rizzo
I flipping love this guy
I'll just pick one Map from Each Game that had the thing I liked about that map that stood out to me the most from the other maps
World at War:
Verruk – The Atmosphere and how it sells the point that you're in an Asylum with the Screaming and Scribbling on the Walls.
Black Ops 1:
Call Of The Dead – George Romero wanting to Dig Up the Old 935 Experiments to do who knows what maybe create his own Zombies to make his films to really Solidify his Title as the Godfather of the Dead.
Black Ops 2:
Mob Of The Dead – The Monologues each Character has with themselves when they're down and how they are Sorry they are for the things they've done
Black Ops 3 :
Gorod Krovi – The Upgraded Monkey Bomb Quest in which you are honouring a fallen soldier with Flowers, A Candle and a Flask is so sentimental.
Advanced Warfare :
Descent – The Easter Egg Step where you have to wear a Goliath Suit and walk the Ocean Floor to press the button as I looked around to notice how dark the bottom of the Ocean is I always have the Spine Tingling Feeling that I'm going to get attacked by a Sea Creature even though I know their isn't one.
Infinite Warfare:
Spaceland – The Setting of the 80's and the Fact it's in a Amusement/Theme Park is the perfect setting for a Zombies map and it's funny using Infinite Warfares weapons in this Map because they fit the Sci Fi Craze of the 80's.
WW2:
Final Reich – The Panzermorder's Grotesque design with the Amalgamation off all those Corpses being Welded and Stitched together still creeps me out to this day.
Black Ops 4:
Blood of The Dead – The Presence of Ghosts in the Map and you helping them get their freedom after years of Torment and Torture .
Cold War:
Die Maschine – Going into the Dark Either and seeing our reality being bent into this Nightmarish but also somewhat Beautiful world and how our actions there affect our reality in the map.
Vanguard :
Honestly I don't have much to say in terms of Vanguard Zombies so I'll just say I liked the Satanic Themes each map has and how Quirky the Demon Gods are.
If you took the time to read all this, I appreciate it, and I am sorry for the Long Read
PS Loved your Thoughts about each Map Rizzo
Honestly I love all of iw zombies there just something so fun about it
Dude, Rizzo, I appreciate your take on zombies. I actually got back into this late last year after I was laid off (hadn’t played since bo2) and I have been just ABSORBED into these games! I feel the biggest thing I’ve been drawn to about this game mode is the sheer amount of things to do and variety! Since getting laid off I saw BO3 + zombies chronicles was on sale and I played the living mess out of that game! Then, after that I wanted to branch out and see what these other zombies games were about – and I heard a lot of trash talking (BO4 ruined the story, AW is trash, IW takes a nosedive in quality after the first map, WW2 is forgettable and bland,BO:CW is too easy, and Vanguard is to be burned at the stake). Hearing all of that made me feel a bit down but I bought another one anyways (AW) and much to my surprise (even though, yes, not better than BO3) I had a lot of fun with it! So, looking through the internet (and don’t worry, I’m getting to my point here) I was curious if anyone else had any sort of positive things to say about these other games. I know what people hate about them, but is there anything that they did right? And on YouTube, I wasn’t going to get much of that from the popular guys. So, to my surprise, I found your in-depth reviews of each game and they greatly helped me out with which game to get next (I have them all now on PS4 – even ghosts for extinction) so thanks for looking at these games with both the critical eye and the ability to notice the positives that each map brings. Every map has something unique to bring (whether visual or gameplay or lore) and that’s something that I love the most about zombies.
TLDR: overlooked pockets of map design
Always loved the diner sign in Tranzit had most of the lights blurred out so it only read NOW DIE and I don't know how many people noticed it but my good ness it was such one of those minute details I loved Treyarch implemented in their maps.
I can remember when Rizzo hated tranzit just like the rest of us. Time sure does fly.
Beware Beware
Also yes the fog is wonderful
Neat fact me and a friend figured out with the M27 in BO3:
It is functionally identical to the ICR, animations (albeit having an earlier buggy slide animation like the shields), damage, and almost all sounds minus the reload sounds.
Its likely the M27 was a testing weapon that was used as a basis for the ICR, much like the Brecci in BO4's trailers. It was probably left in the files as a biproduct and was never truly written out of the code until after Zetsubou.
tl;dr the ICR IS the M27, just a futuristic version with a different model.
Don’t usually comment on videos but this was absolutely phenomenal hope it’s not the last one we’ll see any time soon!
30:07 I think this means you’re autistic