Call of Duty Zombie mode supports four players

Who knew?

You may not be surprised to know that Graybush, Stormblade and Blackwalt played Call of Duty: World at War Zombies last night. Although "played" is kind of a loose term.

For a group that is used to reaching Level 20 or higher we were having issues.

Level 8, for example, on our first try.

And then Level 4 on our second try. Yes, four. That's not a typo. While Graybush's simple "whoa" will get an immediate deployment of the National Guard, my "I may need a little help over here" followed by a REVIVE flag got nothing. Nothing. It wasn't until the second REVIVE flag (Stormblade) that Graybush realized he was in trouble. Look! A third REVIVE flag. That can't be good. "A little more information may have been helpful." Whiner.

So with no idea of what was wrong we went back in determined to show those Zombies a thing or two.

And we did. Up to Level 10. Ten. Yes, we sucked.

And then Coxxorz came online.

Now it's important to realize that Coxxorz doesn't enjoy Zombie Mode. It's not his style of game and he won't play it incessantly like the three of us will. Despite it being Sega Nite we didn't expect him to join us. This would explain why all three of us immediately spammed him with Live invites. Spammed.

And after his sarcastic response "cut that out" we realized he probably wasn't coming and started our next round.

And our next round started oddly with the message "Coxxorz has joined your Xbox Live Party." Whoops, quit out. Didn't even make it through Level 1 that time.

See! Four people: Please don't ask me to explain pwn call.Level Zero on our fourth try. Woohoo!

Here we go again. Fifth try.

So we discovered several things about playing with four people. The German character is funny. And he really doesn't like the American character.

We never hear the German character because he is only active when there is a fourth player. "No more monkey sing-along for the cadavers," "This must be how Dempsey's mother must have felt when he was born!" He's sarcastic, just like Coxxorz.

There is also an increase in chatter for the other characters as they make comments directed at Richtofen, "Poor Richtofen! Surrounded by his own creations," "Richtofen's surrounded. Poor little Kraut."

I had to look these up as I don't remember them all. I do remember we were laughing more than usually as we were hearing a lot of character quotes for the first time.

And we did okay through some very entertaining levels. We started one level by accident (yes) and all four of us were no where near the Catwalk of Hope and Love and it took us a couple of minutes to scramble back into position and setup. Coxxorz almost didn't make it.

We started one level without a floor guy so it was immediate and no one had ammo. Coxxorz and I ran for the nearest reload spot, Coxxorz got lost and when we got back there was no Graybush. He had bought a new weapon and teleported away to upgrade it. He made it back but only just. We also survived Stormblade falling off the catwalk and a level where all of died once including two of us at the same time underneath the catwalk.

At one point I jumped off the catwalk (intentionally!) to try for a Max Ammo power up. I didn't make it. At least not alive. The moving zombie horde pushed my corpse into the power up and activated it. FOR EVERYONE ELSE! If you are down and need to be revived you don't get any bonus from activated power ups so everyone else got ammo at the expense of my corpse. I spent the rest of the level hiding behind the other three.

We made it to level 22 and ended with three of us down in the catwalk room with all our pistols empty and slashing with our knives (at least Stormblade was, I forgot to) while Graybush was standing above us trying to revive any of us while a horde of zombies jogging his elbow. And literally, it was a horde. Everytime Graybush got bumped he had to start over. As good of a medic as he is, we were still doomed.

Still. Level 22. A far site better than 8, 4 and 10. Maybe we need that sarcastic german to join us more often...