{"id":3389,"date":"2017-04-27T18:23:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T01:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2017-04-27T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T01:23:22","slug":"zombies-coming-call-duty-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=3389","title":{"rendered":"The zombies are coming (to Call of Duty: WWII)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s\u00a0<em>Call of Duty<\/em> is ultra-serious. Not that previous ones hadn\u2019t been, but the return to World War II demands a bit more respect than jetpacks and spaceships. There was some concern then, among all the focus on realism and respect, that there wouldn\u2019t be any room for the poor, unfortunate undead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, don\u2019t worry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FIRST LOOK: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CODWII?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CODWII<\/a> Nazi Zombies Confirmed! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hnyDKxChlo\">pic.twitter.com\/hnyDKxChlo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sledgehammer Games (@SHGames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHGames\/status\/857285812265910273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>If it sounds like <em>Wolfenstein<\/em>\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>This cooperative mode is said to be a \u201cbrand new story and a horrifying experience,\u201d shifting away from the goofy corniness of recent zombie modes. The Third Reich is losing the war and scrambling to make a new army. And as any dictator bent on world domination does when science allows, Hitler makes zombies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wolfenstein: The New Order<\/em> did such a good job with its alternate take on the end of World War II that I\u2019m not sure we really need another, but cooperative gameplay is rarely an unwelcome addition to a game like this, and wer\u2019e looking forward to checking it out.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s\u00a0Call of Duty is ultra-serious. Not that previous ones hadn\u2019t been, but the return to World War II demands a bit more respect than jetpacks and spaceships. There was some concern then, among all the focus on realism and respect, that there wouldn\u2019t be any room for the poor, unfortunate undead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}