The release of Modern Warfare II is imminent and every zombies lover knows exactly what this means. The popular game mode might not get any new content for a while and the waiting starts all over again. In this article, we will also go back in time and take a look back, as well as write about the mechanics and Easter Eggs of the mode. Of course, we will also summarize what the standalone game and Zombies Chronicles 2 are all about.

The Review

Zombies was originally called Nazi Zombies and was developed by Treyarch. This mode first appeared in Call of Duty: World at War and enjoyed great popularity among the community at the beginning. It was followed by sequels in subsequent Call of Duty parts:

• Black Ops
• Black Ops II
• Black Ops III
• Black Ops IV
• Black Ops Cold War
• Vanguard

In addition, Zombies in Infinite Warfare premiered and was released for the first time in a CoD where Treyarch was not the lead developer and was titled: “Zombies in Spaceland”.

This was followed by another spin-off in Call of Duty: WWII, developed by Raven Software and Sledgehammer Games, titled: “Call of Duty WWII Nazi Zombies”.

In total, Zombies consists of thirty-two maps; The first, second, fourth, fifth, seventh, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and thirty-second cards feature Nazi zombies; the third and twenty-second cards feature the Imperial Japanese Army; the sixth, twenty-eighth and thirty-first cards feature American civilians, military and scientists; the eighth card features Soviet scientists, cosmonauts and military; the ninth card features Siberian sailors and divers, on the tenth map there are Himalayan civilians, on the eleventh map there are astronauts and American military, on the twelfth map there are various American civilians, on the thirteenth map there are Russian Spetsnaz and American zombies with various ailments, including zombies in protective suits, on the fourteenth map there are Chinese civilian and military zombies, on the fifteenth and twenty-seventh maps there are American prisoners and guards, in the sixteenth there are Western barmaids, gold seekers and cowboys in a continentally displaced Angola, in the seventeenth German soldiers from World War I, crusaders and medieval Templars in occupied France, in the eighteenth American civilians from the 1940s, in the twenty-third Red Army soldiers, in the twenty-fourth various zombies from previous maps, including Night of the Undead, Origins and Shadows of Evil, in the twenty-fifth there are British passengers and British crew members, in the twenty-sixth Roman slaves, in the twenty-ninth British party guests, in the thirtieth Greek hoplites and civilians, in the thirty-third and thirty-fifth a mixture of Nazi and Soviet zombies, and in the thirty-fourth a mixture of Vietnamese and Soviet zombies.

Furthermore, the Zombies mode has 44 different playable characters.

All maps released so far

• Call of Duty: World at War
  • Night of the undead
  • Crazy
  • Shi no Numa
  • The giant

• Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • Cinema of the dead
  • “Five”
  • Dead Ops Arcade
  • Ascension
  • Call of the Dead
  • Shangri-La
  • Moon

• Call of Duty: Black Ops II
  • Green Run
  • Nuketown Zombies
  • The Rise
  • Mob of the Dead
  • Buried
  • Origins

• Call of Duty: Black Ops III
  • Shadows of Evil
  • The Giant
  • Dead Ops Arcade 2: Cyber’s Avenging
  • The Iron Dragon
  • Zetsubou No Shima
  • Gorod Krovi
  • Revelations

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
  • Voyage of Dispair
  • IX
  • Blood of the Dead
  • Classified
  • Dead of the Night
  • Ancient Evil
  • Alpha Omega
  • Day of the dead

• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
  • The machine
  • Dead Ops Arcade 3: Rise of the Mamaback
  • Firebase Z
  • Outbreak
  • Wall of the Dead
  • Forsaken

• Call of Duty: Vanguard
  • The beginning
  • Terra Maledicta
  • Shi No Numa

• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
  • Zombies in Spaceland
  • Rave in the Redwoods
  • Shaolin Shuffle
  • Attack of the Radioactive Thing
  • The Beast From Beyond

• Call of Duty: WWII
  • Prologue
  • The Final Reich
  • Greenest house
  • The Darkes Shore
  • The Shadowed Throne
  • The Tortured Path
  • Bodega Cervantes
  • U.S.S Mount Olympus
  • Altar of Blood
  • The Frozen Dawn

The mechanics

We don’t want to go too deep into mechanics, but briefly give some insight into 3 categories: Life, Number and Points.

Life

The zombies get stronger from round to round and get more life points. So the zombies have 150 life in the first round and this is increased by 100 each round until round 9. So the zombies have a life of 950 up to point.

At the start of round 10, the zombies’ lives increase by 10% each round. So at round 15 they have about 1683 life. By round 30 they have 7030 and by round 50 they have 47,295! If you manage to get to round 100 (which is a difficult task in the older CoD), zombies with a life of 5.5 million life points stand in your way.

Since it is no longer possible for the engine to trade the life points after a certain point, the round 200 is the end and the life points are no longer increased.

Number

The number of zombies increase in each round. Nevertheless, the maximum number of zombies per round in World at War (before the map “The Giant”) was 24.

In “The Giant” as well as in the coming parts, this changed. Unlike health, zombies do not multiply linearly but according to a certain key. Unlike the health of the zombies, their number does not grow linearly but follows these formulas after round 10, where R is the current round and is rounded up if the result is not a whole number:

• 1 player: 0.000058 * R^3 + 0.074032 * R^2 + 0.718119 *R + 14.738699
• 2 players: 0.000054 * R^3 + 0.169717 * R^2 + 0.541627 *R + 15.917041
• 3 players: 0.000169 * R^3 + 0.238079 * R^2 + 1.307276 *R + 21.291046
• 4 players: 0.000225 * R^3 + 0.314314 * R^2 + 1.835712 *R + 27.596132

This results in a steady increase between rounds; in a solo game there are 33 zombies in round 10, 60 in round 20, 105 in round 30, 243 in round 50, 510 in round 75, 885 in round 100, and so on.

Point system

A point system is integrated in Zombies. With these points doors can be opened and weapons can be bought. Furthermore, the player has the possibility with these points to activate traps, to punch the weapon and much more.

Examples of actions that earn points:

• Non-lethal hit: 10 points
• Fatal torso hit: 60 points
• Deadly limb hit: 50 points
• Deadly explosive hit: 50 points
• Fatal hit on the neck: 70 points
• Deadly hit on the head: 100 points
• Deadly close combat: 130 points
• Repair a barricade: 10 points

The story

Overall, there are three primary storylines that occur in Zombies. The first is the Aether storyline released, which began in Call of Duty: World at War, spanned Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and Call of Duty: Black Ops III, and concluded in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The story is based on conspiracy theories about secret Nazi technology and spans a huge and expansive timeline that spans multiple timelines and universes. The story is about an ancient conflict between two primitive peoples – the Preservers and the Apothicons – and four soldiers trapped in a time loop, who try to repair the great damage caused to time and space by an extremely powerful element that changes the cosmos, through dimension jumps.

The second of these storylines was the Chaos Story, a completely different storyline that had nothing to do with Aether and only appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The story is based on various real-world mythologies (mainly Norse, Egyptian, Celtic and Greco-Roman). The story revolves around the disappearance of an archaeologist by a mysterious occult group and the attempts of his daughter (as well as three known allies) to save him.

The third of these storylines is the Dark Aether Saga, a sequel to Aether, introduced in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and expanded in Call of Duty: Vanguard in the form of a prequel. The story is set in a new universe that follows the events of the Aether story, and therefore includes some recurring elements and characters. The overall plot follows the Nazis’ experiments with a dark alternate dimension inhabited by hellish creatures and ancient gods, and the consequences of breaking the dimensional membrane between the two worlds.

Easter Eggs

Zombie mode is known for its variety of Easter Eggs that can be solved. Compared to Black Ops Cold War and Vanguard, the Easter Eggs used to be a lot harder to solve and find. In the other parts, it used to be harder to find and solve the Easter Eggs. Shadow of Evil was the most difficult Easter Egg so far. It took just under 5 days and 20 hours to find and solve the Easter Egg. It should be added here that it would have taken even longer in all likelihood. Because the last step was found out by a dataminer and sent to an East Egg Hunter via donation.

We also have a list for you with the 10 longest Main Easter Eggs:

1. Shadows of Evil – 5 days, 20 hours
2. Originis – 2 days, 17 hours
3. The Iron Dragon – 2 days, 16 hours
4. The Rise – 2 days, 14 hours
5. Tranzit – 2 days, 12 hours
6. Buried – 1 day, 12 hours
7. Call of the Dead (Co-Op) – 1 day, 3 hours
8. Mob of the Dead – 23 hours
9. Shangri-La – 13 hours
10. Call of the Dead (Solo) – 13 hours

In comparison, the Easter Eggs in Black Ops Cold War took less than 10 hours to solve.

Certain maps have main quests as well as side quests. However, it also happens that certain maps only have a side quest. Known side quests are those where a song is played after successfully completing the Easter Egg!

How many of the side quests have not yet been found is not yet clear. Just about 1 month ago a new Side-Easter-Egg was found in Nazi Zombies (WWII). It took thus scarce 5 years Until this Easter Egg was found. See for yourself: