To pass the time during the
hockeyless summer I have been playing a lot of video games. The newest game that I have become addicted to is
Call of Duty: World at War. When it comes to bang for your buck, this game ranks in my top three. There is the single player campaign, cooperative campaign (play through the missions with others online or
split screen, and many different kinds of online team based games (team death match, capture the flag, domination, etc.). It's your basic first person shooter set in the WWII era but the sick bastards at
Activision included another type of game play that should be illegal in 34 states, Zombie Mode. I don't want to sound like I am bashing the game, in fact, this is a huge compliment. This is the first video game that has actually scared me. Between the night time setting, crazy glowing zombie eyes, and the
perfectly matched background music, the zombie mode is just plain eerie. You start off in a room/building with all of the windows boarded up and your objective is to hold off the zombies for as long as you can.
Notice how the player in the video keeps frantically running back and forth to all of the windows. The very first time that I played zombie mode, I was at home by myself and playing solo. I actually jumped in my seat and probably screamed like a little girl when I turned from a window to see a zombie right behind me.
This mode also has multi player so that you can play with up to three other people, but it doesn't reduce the eerie factor by much. No matter how well you all play as a team, sooner or later, they are going to get you. The claw-like tally marks that appear at the bottom left of the screen tell you what round you are on. Each round the number of zombies increases and they get faster and tougher to kill stop.
Mad props to the programmers of Call of Duty. Zombie mode may only be a "mini game", but it's still ten times better/scarier than any other zombie type game I've ever played.
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