@Drrpy I've been playing through all the Half-life games for the first time and it just occurred to me. It's genuinely creepy but also makes you pity them
The Woman Radio is so damn terrifying it’s probably one of the scariest parts about treyarch zombies as a whole. Knowing that this woman probably in her 20s lived a comfortable and normal American and consumerist lifestyle possible not but a few years ago turned into her concurrent form is utterly terrifying.
I mean bo2 was the last we've ever get the taste of Jimmy's vision n his version of this mode. Zombies had a horrific n dark vibe that Jimmy wanted, while Jason went more to the mythological route
Kinda wish both of them collaborated on at least one map because Jason does do horror extremely well when he wants too and jimmy does subtle horror really well
MoTD honestly terrifies me so much. I hate playing it by myself. The hanging bodies, the tight spaces, the catacombs, the infirmary, the creepy humming during round change music, and the scary real life history behind Alcatraz island, it all freaks me the hell out. I didn't even know that those audio logs and the zombie voices existed in the Victis maps. I'm definitely going to be having nightmares after watching this
I don’t really feel that way with mob. Sure it’s creepy with the bodies and lightening, but it doesn’t really have that subtle horror that really gets under my skin. I feel that way with Verrückt more so. There’s no other map quite like it in terms of atmosphere
I definitely agree bo2 had horror element but it has been brushed away so quick due to the community instant focus on the zombie story and figuring out easter eggs. Badass dystopia tho
@@ObamaBinLaden-me4zvthat makes me really sad honestly, I love the victis crew, they’re extremely underrated. And they actually had personality, which I can’t really say about any attempts at any new CoD zombies crews
W@W feels like horror BO1-BO2 feels like mystery BO3 and on feels like fantasy apart from WW2. ExoZombies feels like science fiction. Loved the breakdown, I can tell you put a lot of effort into this!! ❤️
The destroyed earth featured in the victus maps is peak zombie’s aesthetic only surpassed by the OG WAW WW2 maps. I wish there were more victus maps set in dead earth locations.
When I was a little kid who played BO2 at night I was really terrified of all of the zombis maps. I was scared of Mob of The Dead because of it's atmosphere and the zombies with blood and spikes + the brutus, Buried because of its loading screen (one time I remember my PS3 fell because I was scared), Tranzit and Die Rise because the zombies and their sounds are scary, Origins because of the panzer and the panzer alarm, Nuketown's vibe was disturbing. So that's why I used to be scared of BO2 Zombies as a kid.
man the underlying theme of horror in the early victis maps were something else, i knew the horror was there but never to this extent and now i know i really wished that Jimmy Zielinski could have finished his vision. just imagine how crazy something like tranzit would have been if he had done it a few years later with a game engine like bo3 and the better hardware. the horror theme is something that hasnt been present for a while and is leaves a whole, one which you wouldnt know what filled it before, just subtlety.
Jimmy was just simply ahead of his time, his ambitions nowadays would be praised dude and I so wished he was still active at Treyarch, bring this dude back 😭🙏
I found Bo2 zombies to be the scariest because it had this feeling of hopelessness whenever I played it. While WaW, Bo1 & Bo3 had this type of survival type of feeling to it that made it not as eerie to me compared to the weird feeling of everything is lost and there is no hope that Bo2 zombies had, which i think is even backed up by the fact that the zombies menu had a destroyed earth in the menus
If anybody were to make a found footage/analog horror series about something pertaining to cod zombies it could be this part of bo2 or the dark aether from cold war. The flesh is such an intriguing group that i lowkey wish blundell expanded on
I used to be too scared to even play a match by myself when i was little,even the lobby music scared tf out of me,i always had to wait for a friend or my dad to play with me
I will always say the “worse” graphics makes things much scarier. For example… a clear scream and a muffled and distorted scream (like from a video horror video) is scarier. Personally opinion maybe, but it’s like the example of there is such thing as too much of a good thing.
I’m gonna be honest. Black ops one was the most scariest to me. As a kid. I never even wanted to step foot inside the Zombies mode. When the screen changes it scared the heck out of me. Let alone the graphics and the amount of creepy ambience.
I'm not sure if it's anywhere else. But both in Transit (town area) & the Town survival map itself. In certain spots of the indoor areas. You can hear the cries of a baby & a child. When I first heard it several years ago. I had to pause the game & stop playing for a few seconds since it was so unexpected. It really built the atmosphere further while scaring the hell out of me.
I remember the first time playing BO2 at my friends when it had just recently came out I would start scREAMing when the Denizens came out of the ground and flying towards me making that weird ass noise - I also can't take that first radio seriously cuz I know it's just Nolan North putting on a goofy sounding voice
I kinda stopped playing call of duty / zombies this kinda time and I do massively get some nostalgia from Zombies back then, remembering the first time I played it at like 3am on a sleepover and being unable to sleep! The horror aspect of zombies is certainly something I didn’t know I missed until looking back on it
I encountered my first verruct sprinter in VR zombies. That reminded me of what made zombies a good game back in the day. I would say up till bo3 is when zombies started to insult our intelligence and make stuff less mysterious and out right starts telling us what is going on.
What I like about the Richtofen vs. Maxis plotline is that obviously the Victis crew aren't the only people participating. They're not the chosen ones, they're simply the most capable of the bunch.
This was my FIRST ever Zombies game. My mom told me i shouldn’t play it cause it would give me nightmares. I ignored her and went to a sleepover and played it all night, and begged her to get it for me. She did, and been in love with the game/storyline ever since. Unfortunate the stories aren’t the same anymore.
I remember playing Mob and Origins for the first time and I was genuinely scared of the map atmosphere maybe cuz I was around 12-13 but those maps were scary, we’re not even gonna mention Brutus and the Panzer
The firs tthing that always creeped me out was rhe hippy music playing in the loading screen to transit. Major contrasts like that are a brilliant recipe to create unease.
I remember watching my dad play bo2 zombies when i was younger n it scared tf out of me then one day he decided to teach me how to play them and it seemed less scary even though he doesn't talk to me anymore or game with me anymore the maps still has this unsettling feeling. I just remember us gaming the maps like the good old days. Motd was the one we used to play that scared me so much.
Damn I need to get myself another PlayStation 3 to play Black ops 2 again. The nostalgia of zombies… great times man it could never be replicated. I hope we see another great zombies storyline or crew like Bo1 & bo2.
What is also scary about BO2 is the fact that the campaign and multiplayer were set in 2025, showing what the world would be like after mass war with other factions and countries. I don't know if the zombies mode was meant to mirror the same time frame, but I would say based on the content and some of the things that can be seen and heard, I would say it was. Looking at what is happening in the world today as well as looking back as an overview like you made Drrpy, this is extremely terrifying. Playing this game as a 12-13 year old was brutal. This is when zombies was seriously scary to play and my friends and I would play like we were really defending our own lives lol. This game has a ton of lore to it, and I go back and play it all of the time. I know for sure that on buried I still get creeped out to this day as a 24 year old seeing the witches in the mansion from a distance and MoTD is still very scary. Amazing video though. This is very interesting to listen to and I am so glad that people are still making content on zombies and Bo2 to this day.
a subtle detail i like about BO2 zombies is the little animation the character makes when you’re down and the game ends. Like theyre trying to get up but fail to do so. I don’t think i’ve seen other cod zombies implement this and i think it adds to that atmosphere
I love these videos for one reason: We see from the perspective of the main character in all of these stories Ordinary people like you and me would be scared shitless having to deal with these many dangers and horrors that our protagonists can easily deal with.
The thing that makes it scarier than the zombies games before it, it actually feels like an apocalypse and the world feels completely empty. Not the best zombies imo, but surely not one I’d play by myself after dark
the warden isnt Stanley Fergurson is actually the director of Alcatraz (i dont remember if he have an actual name or if isnt told) wich you come to know about that with BO4 Stanley got iced in the cutscene after well.... hundred round at least of .357 Magnum and a bunch of stabs
An interesting thing a buddy pointed out, was that MOTD is a split between BO3 and BO4. I forgot which ending leads to where, but it also explains why Alcatraz makes an appearance in BO4 for Blood of The Dead, and The Plane being in the majority of the BO3 zombie maps (for instance, The Giant, which uses the round change sounds from Mob, has the plane on top of the catwalk room) Also props for the Kryptic Unknown outro
Yo at 5:01 those coordiantes from jackass flaps were to a nevada test site on restricted government grounds 65 miles from las vegas😧. Thats bone chillingly accurate yo. What. The. Fuck.
One scary thing I would like to add is that whenever you are playing Tranzit, you can slightly hear people screaming in the distance. This means like there are other survivors in the area trying to survival in Broken Earth but unfortunately got killed.
Loved motd, played it so much as a kid/teen. One time i was playing late at night setting up for a high round attempt and something just felt different. Like a deep unsettling feeling that surpassed any feeling of fear that i have ever had playing any video game. Never happened again, wildly surreal.
As much hate as the zombies map Farm gets, I liked one thing above all else on that map. You went into every match with a sense of dread knowing you aren't going to make it for very long. You just had to make a stand and survive as long as possible. And that is what made that map so memorable for me personally.
When my mom got into an accident on 2012, I went to a friends house, and he only had 2 games, it was Halo 3 and BO1 and he preferred to play Kino every time, but I told him that I preferred Halo cause I got scared just by the first zone, so we played the whole Halo 3 campaign and then we tried to play the BO1 campaign but we were to young to comprehend and got bored quickly so then I started to play cod zombies, and I got a little less scared but couldn’t concentrate and died on the first round every time, but time passes and zombies is a great part of my conscious mind and I got a lot of cariño for it
The strait jacket wearing zombies in transit, + the legend of bus route B, + the existence of nacht being in transit makes me wonder if in this universe bus route B went near verrukt. Ik the logic of it doesnt make much sense since verrukt is def supposed to be in Germany whereas nachts location is more contentious, but with time multiversity shenanigans, and teleportation shenanigans cant a man dream? Imagine if one of bus route B's stops was the actual verrukt facility.
Dang I said ww2 zombies when you asked lol, that one was actually like horror movie levels of horror, jumpscares and everything, but yea treyarch does horror in such a small, unique, subtle way that makes it all the more eerie, you dont notice it at first, until you do. And then its there forever
Mob always scared me. Back in the bo2 days I refuse to play the map. It was even more scary when u heard of og reason for there eyes being red. Before the shadow man. It was always a terrifying thought. Even when the bo3 remaster is out. I don't think I'll play it. Also to me I think zombie models also add horror. Mob and Transit. But also origins. To me if u made origins a lot darker and more bloody, and maybe change the zombie eye to glow more in the dark then it would be scary as well. The thing I love about bo3 is people making horror style maps.
World War 2 zombies is by far the scariest. The graphics at the time made everything look so brutal and pop out at you, with some sick ass animations that startle you. Setting and maps were dark. Legit felt like a horror game if you go into it blind
I always loved the aesthetic of both tranzit and die rise. The apocalyptic feel was nailed in my opinion. I always found die rise to be really earie with the towering buildings over the fog. It made the map feel very lived in. I wish Treyarch had done more with that arc of the story because I feel they didn't do enough with it.
I will always feel bad for the first Zombies director. He made 10 amazing maps in WAW and BlOps, and then got fired because Tranzit was held back by console limitations, and Die Rise wasn't what people wanted (sespite being a good map). That's all it took for him to be kicked out, and imo, Zombies hasn't been any good since.
Growing up watching my cousins play this game was always scary to me and everytime they asked me if i wanted to run a game with them cause they KNEW i was scared is just crazy until i actually got bo2 myself i deadass beat the entire campange and got pretty decent at sniping i STILL didnt play zombies until i actually stood up and tried playing. My first match ALONE all i did was run and keep dying i never even shot at the zombies until i realized the game gave me weaponds for a reason. And once i realized that i stood up and actually killed my first zombie and made it to round 2 i was proud of myself still scared as hell but once i went back over my grandma's house and all my older cousin was back on the playstation i decided to play with them and they taught me the tips and tricks on how not to die so fast or save ammo on beggining rounds..but the most helpful thing was to never EVER leave you're back open. From childhood experiences i'd say tranzit growing up was my favorite map just getting on the bus and driving away from the zombies was all it took for me😂.
Dude BO2 was definitely scary I remember playing it with my cousins at the age of 15 i think anyways we’d be scared. BO1 was definitely scary too and BO3 I love shadows of Evil the Aesthetic the Music my god what BO1 , BO2 and BO3 are amazing IMO
Gotta admit, mob and origins gave me chills, back in the days. Cause MAN all theese flocked bodies across the map on origins FKN SAMANTHA talking all the time. The Opening (besides the music) made the thought of a excavation going wrong and zombies appearing feel so real.. Maybe im just biased cause i love origins lol
I was privileged to not know anything about Nacht, it just started when I finished World at War. I was scared and blown away and was hooked from that point and still am.
top 3 Cod Zombies that are terrifying: 1) WaW: You feel isolated in unknown territory 2) BO1: You and your weapons feel underpowered 3) BO2: Everything feels bleak in a broken world..
the weird noises and the intro cutscene to Die Rise and even the zombies pleading for u to kill them when u play as stulinger will always solidify die rise as the creepiest victus map
Bonus points for the map not relying on trite horror elements like nighttime/darkness or a secret underground lab too, it's just an unusually realistic setting.
Actually another terrifying thing about BO2 zombies is we play as CIA agents in Town and nuketown and bus depot and farm , that's actually so mysterious and dark for me
Always found the loading screens for the survival maps with the music to be creepy. having the old picture of what the place looks like, just to spawn in a dark ,Smokey,lonesome map.😅
Genuinely the only map since Origins to even try with horror was Blood of the Dead, which I think perfectly turned Mob of the Dead up to 11. Adding Hellhounds and all the lava made it feel like the perfect combination of all the horror of BO2. Mob had a sombre mood like you said, but Blood really had both the sombre mood with the characters and the story, but the sights really gave the feeling like you were in Hell and it's imo the closest we've had to feeling like we're in a hellish nightmare in any map. Say what you want about BOTD and BO4, but BOTD's atmosphere and visuals are a whole world above any other map. But man, I'd never really thought of Tranzit and Die Rise as all that scary, but the idea of a broken world and what comes of it is quite unsettling.
Mob of the dead was literally too scary for me as a kid, lol, even to watch other people play it. Then I saw Vanoss playing cod zombies and everything changed for me. Suddenly the horror turned into raw goofiness and good memories
I’m just glad we all got to live through this. All of them went hand in hand with each other. Very clean transition from horror to mythology. I miss the good old days 🥹
To add onto the horror of victis bo2 is the barriers themselves in tranzit it's ruined yet bloody meaning some took refuge here and we're slaughtered the dim lighting and mystery adds onto the affect the best example is the window in the tunnels meanwhile for die rise it seems so surreal it's like looking at a dead mall/liminal space while other barriers captures something similar to tranzit on how sinister it is while motd is one of the best maps to play nothing compares to the victis maps in story setting and atmosphere love the sky box and the fallout from the blast
BO2 was epic but had a nice subtle of horror. Go in deeper with radio and lore, then holy crap the fear cranks up. Still WAW scared the ever living hell out of me because i was younger and was the new wave of gaming experience in a rising internet age.
i miss the vibes of the victis maps. It was so hard to get into the story knowing that Bo2's DLC season had you constantly being jerked around, with only Tranzit and Die Rise being a decent transition.
What creeps me out is that the missiles hit the Earth in 2025 and the Victis maps take place in 2035 and in the three maps you don’t see anyone else but Victis. I know there’s Arthur to help you and Maxis already destroyed the Earth in Buried but still.
I have a confession, as a kid I would be so scared to play zombies alone and would always force my older sister to play with me otherwise I would never play alone especially on kino der toten
I’ve always been scared of Bo2 as a kid and I hate to admit it but I’m still kinda scared by it, I’ve always wondered why since zombies never really scared me and this video perfectly explained it all, I’m beginning to appreciate all the horror aspects and the way it successfully scared me shitless lol
“Broken Earth” will forever be a setting that fascinates me. It’s truly a shame we only got 3 maps set in it.
Sad asf that we missed out on this seeing
I hope in the new Black Ops game will be revisiting this setting...
Totally agree with you.
@Alex.Mason.1933shut up alex you got brainwashed for a reason
and only one of them is truly good
Something that always spooks in BO2 is hearing the zombies speak in actual English on Die Rise when playing as Stuhlinger
It is crazy unsettling isnt it
@Drrpy now that I think about it, reminds me a LOT of the infected in Half-life 2/ep1/2. Absolutely chilling
DUUUDE I was gonna make that comparison but i didnt know if people would understand lol glad someone did@@Neros_light
@Drrpy I've been playing through all the Half-life games for the first time and it just occurred to me. It's genuinely creepy but also makes you pity them
Yeah
World at war will forever hold that horror theme due to how bare bones and raw cod was back then 💀
Play a WaW multiplayer map on your own, it’s the definition of uncanny valley trust me lol
Gave me ptsd in 8th grade lol
@@DrPandemiczZliterally whole game is scary
I’m gonna bare back you
Nah waw understood subtle horror such as ambient noises making you uncomfortable
The Woman Radio is so damn terrifying it’s probably one of the scariest parts about treyarch zombies as a whole. Knowing that this woman probably in her 20s lived a comfortable and normal American and consumerist lifestyle possible not but a few years ago turned into her concurrent form is utterly terrifying.
Thats what im saying bro 😭
Yeah that was a gut punch
Mob of the dead is so damn creepy. It has such an unique demonic atmosphere to it. You really feel like you're trapped in an endless hellish purgatory
Agreed
I mean bo2 was the last we've ever get the taste of Jimmy's vision n his version of this mode. Zombies had a horrific n dark vibe that Jimmy wanted, while Jason went more to the mythological route
I prefer horrific setting than mythological. Zombies is meant to be scary. Horror factor completely dissapeared or was suppressed when Bo3 came out
I mean world war II did a perfect way of matching the two with mythology and horror
@@koltonlomas7111 agree. Horror and "mythology" esque elements go hand in hand if done properly and deepen each other.
Exactly, it went downhill so fast :'(
Kinda wish both of them collaborated on at least one map because Jason does do horror extremely well when he wants too and jimmy does subtle horror really well
MoTD honestly terrifies me so much. I hate playing it by myself. The hanging bodies, the tight spaces, the catacombs, the infirmary, the creepy humming during round change music, and the scary real life history behind Alcatraz island, it all freaks me the hell out.
I didn't even know that those audio logs and the zombie voices existed in the Victis maps. I'm definitely going to be having nightmares after watching this
Bro same, I remember my brother playing it when I was little and now even then Tranzit and Mob scare me
The theme from the infirmary when you first open it still plays in my head here and there
I don’t really feel that way with mob. Sure it’s creepy with the bodies and lightening, but it doesn’t really have that subtle horror that really gets under my skin. I feel that way with Verrückt more so. There’s no other map quite like it in terms of atmosphere
@smugplush Verruckt is considered the scariest map and that has a TON of blood in areas.
I think the hanging body bags were the dead versions of the motd crew that died and when the cycle restarts the bags keep appearing
I definitely agree bo2 had horror element but it has been brushed away so quick due to the community instant focus on the zombie story and figuring out easter eggs. Badass dystopia tho
its also the fact that so many people didnt care about victis
@@ObamaBinLaden-me4zvThat and TranZit and Die Rise straight up sucking as maps
@@ObamaBinLaden-me4zvthat makes me really sad honestly, I love the victis crew, they’re extremely underrated. And they actually had personality, which I can’t really say about any attempts at any new CoD zombies crews
@@Broski-Brodski yeah, back when treyarch had a passion for zombies
W@W feels like horror
BO1-BO2 feels like mystery
BO3 and on feels like fantasy apart from WW2. ExoZombies feels like science fiction. Loved the breakdown, I can tell you put a lot of effort into this!! ❤️
👍
World war II wasn't fully science fiction. It's more about ancient legends and stuff that are not as talked about in history
Ww2 was scary as hell tho not a lot of people mention it either
true, it scared me more than Bo1 and bo2 @@mtwetwipe1207
Take me back to the BO2 zombies era 😢
being raised on this game, i feel an undertone of horror, and an irreplaceable vibe that hints of pure agony. great game
The destroyed earth featured in the victus maps is peak zombie’s aesthetic only surpassed by the OG WAW WW2 maps. I wish there were more victus maps set in dead earth locations.
When I was a little kid who played BO2 at night I was really terrified of all of the zombis maps. I was scared of Mob of The Dead because of it's atmosphere and the zombies with blood and spikes + the brutus, Buried because of its loading screen (one time I remember my PS3 fell because I was scared), Tranzit and Die Rise because the zombies and their sounds are scary, Origins because of the panzer and the panzer alarm, Nuketown's vibe was disturbing. So that's why I used to be scared of BO2 Zombies as a kid.
man the underlying theme of horror in the early victis maps were something else, i knew the horror was there but never to this extent and now i know i really wished that Jimmy Zielinski could have finished his vision. just imagine how crazy something like tranzit would have been if he had done it a few years later with a game engine like bo3 and the better hardware.
the horror theme is something that hasnt been present for a while and is leaves a whole, one which you wouldnt know what filled it before, just subtlety.
Jimmy was just simply ahead of his time, his ambitions nowadays would be praised dude and I so wished he was still active at Treyarch, bring this dude back 😭🙏
I found Bo2 zombies to be the scariest because it had this feeling of hopelessness whenever I played it. While WaW, Bo1 & Bo3 had this type of survival type of feeling to it that made it not as eerie to me compared to the weird feeling of everything is lost and there is no hope that Bo2 zombies had, which i think is even backed up by the fact that the zombies menu had a destroyed earth in the menus
It also shows you how people would react to a situation like this
If anybody were to make a found footage/analog horror series about something pertaining to cod zombies it could be this part of bo2 or the dark aether from cold war. The flesh is such an intriguing group that i lowkey wish blundell expanded on
DUUUUDE IKR. I would literally pay someone to make like vhs tapes for this kinda stuff it would be such a cool idea
Too true
@@Drrpyplease do
How much
I used to be too scared to even play a match by myself when i was little,even the lobby music scared tf out of me,i always had to wait for a friend or my dad to play with me
I will always say the “worse” graphics makes things much scarier. For example… a clear scream and a muffled and distorted scream (like from a video horror video) is scarier. Personally opinion maybe, but it’s like the example of there is such thing as too much of a good thing.
When I showed my friend Black Ops 2 zombies and explained to him about the broken Earth, he said womp womp.
Womp womp
I’m gonna be honest. Black ops one was the most scariest to me. As a kid. I never even wanted to step foot inside the Zombies mode. When the screen changes it scared the heck out of me. Let alone the graphics and the amount of creepy ambience.
I'm not sure if it's anywhere else. But both in Transit (town area) & the Town survival map itself. In certain spots of the indoor areas. You can hear the cries of a baby & a child. When I first heard it several years ago. I had to pause the game & stop playing for a few seconds since it was so unexpected. It really built the atmosphere further while scaring the hell out of me.
At the staircase in the bar and by the dumpster in the alley O_o
"We must've gone through this 50 times.
And we'll go through it another 50 if that's what it takes!"
Whats next... "9:30, lights out, guard begins his route" or something😅
The radios in BO2 was so cool to hear.
Finally hearing other random people’s thoughts and experiences of the infestation really builds the world
I remember the first time playing BO2 at my friends when it had just recently came out I would start scREAMing when the Denizens came out of the ground and flying towards me making that weird ass noise
- I also can't take that first radio seriously cuz I know it's just Nolan North putting on a goofy sounding voice
I kinda stopped playing call of duty / zombies this kinda time and I do massively get some nostalgia from Zombies back then, remembering the first time I played it at like 3am on a sleepover and being unable to sleep! The horror aspect of zombies is certainly something I didn’t know I missed until looking back on it
WWII zombies is a real horror game
Ik it’s so underrated.
Got lost in the lower area of the first map and dear god…
7:01 This is terrifying. This is a thing that could happen on the zombie apocalypse
It's good to have someone actually highlighting how interesting the lore is.
Incredile video my friend, Victis Crew is so underrated and I love their maps with all my heart.
Also just got to the end and...this is absolutely terrifying. This part of the story is absolutely the most fascinating to me
I encountered my first verruct sprinter in VR zombies. That reminded me of what made zombies a good game back in the day. I would say up till bo3 is when zombies started to insult our intelligence and make stuff less mysterious and out right starts telling us what is going on.
What I like about the Richtofen vs. Maxis plotline is that obviously the Victis crew aren't the only people participating. They're not the chosen ones, they're simply the most capable of the bunch.
This was my FIRST ever Zombies game. My mom told me i shouldn’t play it cause it would give me nightmares. I ignored her and went to a sleepover and played it all night, and begged her to get it for me. She did, and been in love with the game/storyline ever since. Unfortunate the stories aren’t the same anymore.
Please make more videos like this because this video explained bo2s horrors quite well and gave me some goosebumps
Standing at work while watching this I’m literally shaking in my boots so spooky
Lmaooooo
I remember playing Mob and Origins for the first time and I was genuinely scared of the map atmosphere maybe cuz I was around 12-13 but those maps were scary, we’re not even gonna mention Brutus and the Panzer
The firs tthing that always creeped me out was rhe hippy music playing in the loading screen to transit. Major contrasts like that are a brilliant recipe to create unease.
I can’t fully appreciate tranzit because I rage every time the jet gun breaks and I’m forced to rebuild it
I remember watching my dad play bo2 zombies when i was younger n it scared tf out of me then one day he decided to teach me how to play them and it seemed less scary even though he doesn't talk to me anymore or game with me anymore the maps still has this unsettling feeling. I just remember us gaming the maps like the good old days. Motd was the one we used to play that scared me so much.
Damn I need to get myself another PlayStation 3 to play Black ops 2 again. The nostalgia of zombies… great times man it could never be replicated. I hope we see another great zombies storyline or crew like Bo1 & bo2.
What is also scary about BO2 is the fact that the campaign and multiplayer were set in 2025, showing what the world would be like after mass war with other factions and countries. I don't know if the zombies mode was meant to mirror the same time frame, but I would say based on the content and some of the things that can be seen and heard, I would say it was.
Looking at what is happening in the world today as well as looking back as an overview like you made Drrpy, this is extremely terrifying.
Playing this game as a 12-13 year old was brutal. This is when zombies was seriously scary to play and my friends and I would play like we were really defending our own lives lol. This game has a ton of lore to it, and I go back and play it all of the time. I know for sure that on buried I still get creeped out to this day as a 24 year old seeing the witches in the mansion from a distance and MoTD is still very scary.
Amazing video though. This is very interesting to listen to and I am so glad that people are still making content on zombies and Bo2 to this day.
Wish more recent games did what ww2 did in making the game have a more horror focus
Bro playing bo2 town alone and just listening to the ambience background music was terrifying for me
a subtle detail i like about BO2 zombies is the little animation the character makes when you’re down and the game ends. Like theyre trying to get up but fail to do so. I don’t think i’ve seen other cod zombies implement this and i think it adds to that atmosphere
The thing that still gives me chills is the shi no numa radios, that map creeps me tf out
THANK YOU! All the radio audios in general are so fucking good at world building. Def the MOST interesting part of zombies for me.
I love these videos for one reason:
We see from the perspective of the main character in all of these stories
Ordinary people like you and me would be scared shitless having to deal with these many dangers and horrors that our protagonists can easily deal with.
Hearing the electric cherry jingle for the first time shook me
The Flesh and hearing zombies speak is the scary part.
Someone finally said it, when I was like 10 Bo2 zombies scared the shit out of me
The intro to WaW zombies. Too this day still gives me the creeps
The thing that makes it scarier than the zombies games before it, it actually feels like an apocalypse and the world feels completely empty. Not the best zombies imo, but surely not one I’d play by myself after dark
Only thing spooky was when you open the doors with the turbine but then proceed to run back and open buyable door
Die Rise always made me wonder what was below the fog, if the skyscrapers are a hellscape, imagine what it's like on street level.
the warden isnt Stanley Fergurson is actually the director of Alcatraz (i dont remember if he have an actual name or if isnt told) wich you come to know about that with BO4
Stanley got iced in the cutscene after well.... hundred round at least of .357 Magnum and a bunch of stabs
SMG0: Oh My Lord
Niles: This Is Bad
Fred: So Zombies Are Scary.
An interesting thing a buddy pointed out, was that MOTD is a split between BO3 and BO4. I forgot which ending leads to where, but it also explains why Alcatraz makes an appearance in BO4 for Blood of The Dead, and The Plane being in the majority of the BO3 zombie maps (for instance, The Giant, which uses the round change sounds from Mob, has the plane on top of the catwalk room)
Also props for the Kryptic Unknown outro
Song goes too hard I had too
Yo at 5:01 those coordiantes from jackass flaps were to a nevada test site on restricted government grounds 65 miles from las vegas😧. Thats bone chillingly accurate yo. What. The. Fuck.
One scary thing I would like to add is that whenever you are playing Tranzit, you can slightly hear people screaming in the distance. This means like there are other survivors in the area trying to survival in Broken Earth but unfortunately got killed.
Loved motd, played it so much as a kid/teen. One time i was playing late at night setting up for a high round attempt and something just felt different. Like a deep unsettling feeling that surpassed any feeling of fear that i have ever had playing any video game. Never happened again, wildly surreal.
the zombie screaming HE LIESSS is a horrifying memory i forget i had. sick video
Whole of zombies storyline is just epic
As much hate as the zombies map Farm gets, I liked one thing above all else on that map. You went into every match with a sense of dread knowing you aren't going to make it for very long. You just had to make a stand and survive as long as possible. And that is what made that map so memorable for me personally.
When my mom got into an accident on 2012, I went to a friends house, and he only had 2 games, it was Halo 3 and BO1 and he preferred to play Kino every time, but I told him that I preferred Halo cause I got scared just by the first zone, so we played the whole Halo 3 campaign and then we tried to play the BO1 campaign but we were to young to comprehend and got bored quickly so then I started to play cod zombies, and I got a little less scared but couldn’t concentrate and died on the first round every time, but time passes and zombies is a great part of my conscious mind and I got a lot of cariño for it
For me ww2 is a whole new level of spooky
The strait jacket wearing zombies in transit, + the legend of bus route B, + the existence of nacht being in transit makes me wonder if in this universe bus route B went near verrukt. Ik the logic of it doesnt make much sense since verrukt is def supposed to be in Germany whereas nachts location is more contentious, but with time multiversity shenanigans, and teleportation shenanigans cant a man dream? Imagine if one of bus route B's stops was the actual verrukt facility.
Bus Route B is on route to Nuketown if u were curious
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Dang I said ww2 zombies when you asked lol, that one was actually like horror movie levels of horror, jumpscares and everything, but yea treyarch does horror in such a small, unique, subtle way that makes it all the more eerie, you dont notice it at first, until you do. And then its there forever
Mob always scared me. Back in the bo2 days I refuse to play the map. It was even more scary when u heard of og reason for there eyes being red. Before the shadow man.
It was always a terrifying thought. Even when the bo3 remaster is out. I don't think I'll play it. Also to me I think zombie models also add horror. Mob and Transit. But also origins. To me if u made origins a lot darker and more bloody, and maybe change the zombie eye to glow more in the dark then it would be scary as well. The thing I love about bo3 is people making horror style maps.
World War 2 zombies is by far the scariest. The graphics at the time made everything look so brutal and pop out at you, with some sick ass animations that startle you. Setting and maps were dark. Legit felt like a horror game if you go into it blind
Is it worth playing in 2024? ps5 to be exact mate. smooth 60 fps would be sick but hows the DLC like and is it worth getting it
The attention to detail on BO2 was ahead of its time. Damn I miss those days.
I always loved the aesthetic of both tranzit and die rise. The apocalyptic feel was nailed in my opinion. I always found die rise to be really earie with the towering buildings over the fog. It made the map feel very lived in. I wish Treyarch had done more with that arc of the story because I feel they didn't do enough with it.
I will always feel bad for the first Zombies director.
He made 10 amazing maps in WAW and BlOps, and then got fired because Tranzit was held back by console limitations, and Die Rise wasn't what people wanted (sespite being a good map).
That's all it took for him to be kicked out, and imo, Zombies hasn't been any good since.
Growing up watching my cousins play this game was always scary to me and everytime they asked me if i wanted to run a game with them cause they KNEW i was scared is just crazy until i actually got bo2 myself i deadass beat the entire campange and got pretty decent at sniping i STILL didnt play zombies until i actually stood up and tried playing. My first match ALONE all i did was run and keep dying i never even shot at the zombies until i realized the game gave me weaponds for a reason. And once i realized that i stood up and actually killed my first zombie and made it to round 2 i was proud of myself still scared as hell but once i went back over my grandma's house and all my older cousin was back on the playstation i decided to play with them and they taught me the tips and tricks on how not to die so fast or save ammo on beggining rounds..but the most helpful thing was to never EVER leave you're back open. From childhood experiences i'd say tranzit growing up was my favorite map just getting on the bus and driving away from the zombies was all it took for me😂.
I never heard these radios very interesting love the vid so far
Dude BO2 was definitely scary I remember playing it with my cousins at the age of 15 i think anyways we’d be scared. BO1 was definitely scary too and BO3 I love shadows of Evil the Aesthetic the Music my god what BO1 , BO2 and BO3 are amazing IMO
8:01 reminds me of this funny irl event that spiraled out of someone eating bat soup
Gotta admit, mob and origins gave me chills, back in the days.
Cause MAN all theese flocked bodies across the map on origins FKN SAMANTHA talking all the time.
The Opening (besides the music) made the thought of a excavation going wrong and zombies appearing feel so real..
Maybe im just biased cause i love origins lol
I was privileged to not know anything about Nacht, it just started when I finished World at War. I was scared and blown away and was hooked from that point and still am.
top 3 Cod Zombies that are terrifying:
1) WaW: You feel isolated in unknown territory
2) BO1: You and your weapons feel underpowered
3) BO2: Everything feels bleak in a broken world..
the weird noises and the intro cutscene to Die Rise and even the zombies pleading for u to kill them when u play as stulinger will always solidify die rise as the creepiest victus map
Bonus points for the map not relying on trite horror elements like nighttime/darkness or a secret underground lab too, it's just an unusually realistic setting.
Actually another terrifying thing about BO2 zombies is we play as CIA agents in Town and nuketown and bus depot and farm , that's actually so mysterious and dark for me
I still remember when i first saw the mob cutscene and it scared me
Always found the loading screens for the survival maps with the music to be creepy. having the old picture of what the place looks like, just to spawn in a dark ,Smokey,lonesome map.😅
Mob of the Dead is still my favorite zombies map of all time. Such a haunting easter egg.
Genuinely the only map since Origins to even try with horror was Blood of the Dead, which I think perfectly turned Mob of the Dead up to 11. Adding Hellhounds and all the lava made it feel like the perfect combination of all the horror of BO2. Mob had a sombre mood like you said, but Blood really had both the sombre mood with the characters and the story, but the sights really gave the feeling like you were in Hell and it's imo the closest we've had to feeling like we're in a hellish nightmare in any map. Say what you want about BOTD and BO4, but BOTD's atmosphere and visuals are a whole world above any other map. But man, I'd never really thought of Tranzit and Die Rise as all that scary, but the idea of a broken world and what comes of it is quite unsettling.
Ww2 zombies legit scared the hell out of me when I first played it especially with the jumpscares .
Mob of the dead was literally too scary for me as a kid, lol, even to watch other people play it. Then I saw Vanoss playing cod zombies and everything changed for me. Suddenly the horror turned into raw goofiness and good memories
I’m just glad we all got to live through this. All of them went hand in hand with each other. Very clean transition from horror to mythology. I miss the good old days 🥹
To add onto the horror of victis bo2 is the barriers themselves in tranzit it's ruined yet bloody meaning some took refuge here and we're slaughtered the dim lighting and mystery adds onto the affect the best example is the window in the tunnels meanwhile for die rise it seems so surreal it's like looking at a dead mall/liminal space while other barriers captures something similar to tranzit on how sinister it is while motd is one of the best maps to play nothing compares to the victis maps in story setting and atmosphere love the sky box and the fallout from the blast
Mob of the dead was already terrifying on its own but hidden story beats make it even more scary
I love the spoopiness of the radios but I wish I could be more scared cause it doesnt sacre me anymore and being scared is a wonderful thing
I wonder if there is a zombies map for every subgenre of horror,
I.E: Shadows of evil: Cosmic horror
Dead of the night: Gothic horror
Still remember my first time playing kino and being scared but bo2 zombies is goated
BO2 was epic but had a nice subtle of horror. Go in deeper with radio and lore, then holy crap the fear cranks up. Still WAW scared the ever living hell out of me because i was younger and was the new wave of gaming experience in a rising internet age.
something that scares me in bo2 is the ambience of the maps
i miss the vibes of the victis maps. It was so hard to get into the story knowing that Bo2's DLC season had you constantly being jerked around, with only Tranzit and Die Rise being a decent transition.
What creeps me out is that the missiles hit the Earth in 2025 and the Victis maps take place in 2035 and in the three maps you don’t see anyone else but Victis. I know there’s Arthur to help you and Maxis already destroyed the Earth in Buried but still.
I have a confession, as a kid I would be so scared to play zombies alone and would always force my older sister to play with me otherwise I would never play alone especially on kino der toten
I’ve always been scared of Bo2 as a kid and I hate to admit it but I’m still kinda scared by it, I’ve always wondered why since zombies never really scared me and this video perfectly explained it all, I’m beginning to appreciate all the horror aspects and the way it successfully scared me shitless lol
I don't okay videogames anymore (last 13 years lol), tried recently until my xbox broke, but wow what a throwback.