CoD: WWII Devs Explain How They’re Making Nazi Zombies Terrifying

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Call of Duty: WWII is taking a different approach with it new Zombies mode. Gone is the campiness, stunt casting, and overall unthreatening tone – Nazi Zombies mode is taking a chance and going for true horror. Oh, sure, there’s still a bit of a grindhouse edge, you can’t escape that in a game about fighting a zombified Fourth Reich, but Sledgehammer is aiming to actually scare players this time around.

So, how are they planning to achieve that? In a recent interview with GamesRadar (which you can check out in its entirety, above) Nazi Zombies creative director Cameron Dayton and Activision director of development Jon Horsley explain it’s largely all about the zombies themselves.

“Many other stories have explored the biological, viral, infectious element of [zombies] and we wanted to see, what if these were zombies that were constructed? What if they were engineered and built as weapons as war? And then of course we've got this wonderful backdrop of World War 2 and military forces that might just do that sort of thing. We've had to really dissect the science of scaring somebody and try to deliver different types of fear potentially in different ways."


So, just how scary is the game? According to Dayton, even he’s been known to let out the occasional embarrassing shriek when playing…

“I think this is, without a doubt, the scariest version of Zombies that you will have ever seen. We had some members of a certain professional sports team come through, and they were big fans of the zombie mode, and I was trying to be cool and show off the latest element that we just opened up. And so, I'm kind of half talking to them, half looking, and I turn around and a zombie busts out of the window right in front of me. I shriek like I'm 12 years old. That's the game we're making."


Of course, Nazi Zombies won’t entirely throw the zombie baby out with the befouled bath water. This is still a four-player co-op experience, and, in addition to the horror, Sledgehammer promises an “exciting, mysterious, sleuthing experience” with a ton of deeply-hidden Easter eggs. In fact, according to them, their own expert play testers still haven’t uncovered everything they’ve slipped in.

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SilkyPosted:

From the trailer we can see it already looks pretty scary.

nolanberollinPosted:

Hopefully they make ZaziNombies terrifying without ruining the mechanics.

SupervisorPosted:

Zombies is what im most excited for about this game

XboxPosted:

So hyped for this game. Zombies might just be the part I'm most excited for.

TOXICPosted:

Zombies just looks awesome, most excited to play zombies out of the whole game to be honest.

EchoPosted:

Zombie's need to have a big difference between that and MP. The more scary the better Love the look of the upcoming zombies!

ZydrinPosted:

Zombies needs that scary factor, it has never once been scary and really hope they can pull it off!

DecyPosted:

Hopefully this will be good. then the zombie community can be alot more active and possibly even bigger as it will draw in new fans great news tho a more scary aspect is always nice. But the story is really what matters!

FibrilPosted:

Sounds interesting, I wonder if some zombies will hind around a corner until you approach and they'll jump out or something haha

MajPosted:

Can't wait to play this years zombies! So hyped!