Ok, Zombies has reeled me in again

[jimbob200521]

It all started many years ago with Halo; my buddy, seeing my new obsession with the Xbox 360 and Halo, insisted that I try CoD: WaW but I kept saying no, stating I didn't like the controls, looks, etc; any excuse I could come up with not to play it because I was a Halo fanboy. Well, let's call him BoB, be damned, he got me WaW for my birthday so I kinda HAD to try it. Hated the campaign, but I found a little nugget called Zombies. From that first game, it was all over and I didn't even know it.

The years since then have been filled with new maps, exploring, new records, etc., etc. However, life has seemed to find a way to pull me away from Zombies from time to time be it work, girlfriend, moving, or whatever, but one thing I've noticed is that, while it may take some time, I have always, ALWAYS, come back to Call of Duty WaW, BO, and now BO2 for the much loved, hated, but always treasured Zombahs.

I'll say this, I lost a lot of interest in Black Ops 2 Zombies when it first came out because 1) It seemed a lot different, I mean story mode? In Zombies? 2) the survival maps were tiny and 3) my usual crew of slayers had left me for other games and for some reason, it didn't (and still kinda doesn't) have that same single player appeal that the Zombies of yester-year did, mainly because you can't seem to do Easter Eggs on Solo (been out of it for a while, maybe I missed something to do with that?).

Anywho, I got a few hours free a couple weeks ago decided to download and try the new map Die Rise with a friend of mine who, coincidentally, had been hanging out with me a lot lately. Now this friend, I'll be honest, I didn't expect much from because we used to play together and he was not good...at all...he sucked. And that's putting it nicely. But lo and behold, we start playing and couple hours later, we've got the flipper, we're PaPing, we're rocking into the high 20's low 30's not running around but holding out in one spot and for me who hadn't played in almost a year and him who used to play like he was mentally challanged, I considered our runs pretty good. In the coming couple weeks, we continued to play, branching out to other maps.

On to last week, Friday at work with everything finished up for the week and browsing youtube and what's this? Mob of the Dead? Surely it couldn't be but alas, it was; NEW ZOMBIES MAP!! And not only that, but it looks to be the most epic since Ascension, at least in my opinion.

So if you've made it this far, I'm not sure what made me type out my Zombies life story but there it is, what got me started and what got me here today. Oh, and the fact that the new map has seemed to refuel my love of the game after I thought I had almost lost it. It almost feels like it did when the first BO map pack came out, or even WaW; just can't quite describe it.

So what's it for you? What got you into it? What makes this game mode so damn special that you just keep coming back to it? Does this new map remind you of the original zombies at all, or even give you that WaW or BO new map feeling?

[MNM1995]

I have a similair story to you. My brother had purchased the WaW map packs to get the online maps, but found love in the zombies maps instead. He was telling me I simply had to play them but I was an online fanboy and therefore reluctant to try them. But, seeing as he was going away for a week on a school trip, I decided I may as well try it.

Best decision I ever made.

I instantly fell in love with the addicitve gameplay and the personalities of the characters, as it all created a gaming experience that I had never experienced before. My brother had to fight me off his PS3 to get a game in of everything as I was absolutely in love with zombies.

I was on the border of buying the maps for WaW until I learnt of BO1 and the zombies mode was confirmed early on. I decided to wait it out and buy that instead, especially as I got the special edition and got the 4 WaW maps with it. I loved Kino, and thought that although it wasn't a massive advancement from Der Riese it was a very entertaining map, but Ascension stole the light for me. I'm not sure whether it was because the map was quite easy but fun, and the story really began to kick off here. It was also around this time I discovered this website and began checking it out for theories, as well as developing my own and becoming a more active member with the community and advancing my knowledge of the story further to the point where I can now recite my version of the story when asked.

After Moon and the easter egg there, I became a very active membr of this forum, especially when BO2 was announced and the lead-up to zombies began again. The theories were being thrown about everywhere by me and others (one of my theories even got a mention in a Youtube video, my claim to fame).

Alas, TranZit came and it knocked my faith in zombies a little. Though I loved the idea and it was pulled off well, it just didn't feel like zombies. Die Rise was announced, but the same feeling came out- it just wasn't zombies. Now however, looking at Mob Of The Dead, I feel like Treyarch have finally hit the nail on the head and got that zombies feeling again. The atmosphere, the characters, the gameplay- it all feels like we're back in BO1 zombies again, something i've missed so far.

So that's my story really, and I am hoping they can pull it off and deliver the experience BO2 zombies is sorely missing thus far.