Shoot ’em up

When you think about zombies, what combines with zombies to make the epic time waster? Video games. Steadily, more and more video games are coming out with zombies, allowing the player  to slay hundreds upon hundreds of the walking dead. One of the first games to introduce such zombie shooting galleries with the introduction of the flood. More and more games have progressed in the zombie shooting endeavours, and one of the most popular games involving zombies is Call of Duty: World at War.

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Set back in World War II, it involves a side game known as Nazi Zombies where you and sometimes a friend are trapped inside a small map that spawns waves of zombies that want your brains. Every kill earns you cash with which you can use to buy weapons from the walls, open new boundaries, or purchase random weapons from a weapon trunk. Very interesting strategies have been created to survive as long as possible, but with each door opened, more entrances are made for zombies to ambush you. Every wave survived, the zombies become harder to kill. At certain intervals, even zombie dogs are released to swiftly hunt you down.  This type of game play can become extremely addictive, especially at 2 am, with you and your friends trying to exterminate the infinite amount of zombies. If you haven’t played this game yet, I suggest you do. It’s full of gun sling action, zombie ambushes, and waves upon waves of blood thirsty zombies. If played too long, you may begin to get a little jumpy.

What Activision  and Treyarch have done well with this game, is building a trend in video games. The storyline and online play of World at War, were not extremely impressive. But the survival mode involved in Nazi Zombies have been an instant hit, and been put in many games recently. Gears of War 2 involves a survival mode in which waves of the enemy attacks you. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 also has introduced games in their Special Ops part of the game in which waves of the enemy surround you and force you to fight your way out. Many people even believed Activision would keep the Nazi Zombie game play, and rumors began of an “Alien Invasion” survival mode. Unfortunately, we were only left with the Spec Ops games. Hopefully, the next Call of Duty will involve another Nazi Zombie game, and we can shoot up as many zombies as we please without risking our own neck.