When Call of Duty: Mobile launched, the only zombies map was Shi No Numa, a Japanese swamp, which is one of the original maps from Call of Duty: World at War. But people are hopeful.įans hope that the Undead Siege mode is a precursor to the classic mode returning, perhaps in a later season towards the end of 2021 or at the beginning of 2022, judging by comments on social media. There's absolutely no word on whether the wave-based Call of Duty zombies mode will return, only speculation. Will the 'classic' Call of Duty: Mobile zombies mode return?
How this side of the mode actually works isn't clear at all, and we're expecting quite the learning curve when playing this mode for the first time. That's because Undead Siege also has elements from tower defense-style games, as you need to build defenses and turrets to fortify a base. You drop in with one of your custom loadouts from the multiplayer mode, but apparently you also need to scavenge equipment and tools to keep yourself in the game. As you'd expect, each night brings tougher hordes of enemies.
In Undead Siege, you're dropped into the map in squads, and have to survive five 'nights' as a team - how long that equates to in actual real-life time, isn't clear. We have big plans for zombies and want to grow the team to realize them.(Image credit: Activision) What will Call of Duty: Mobile zombies be like?Īs we've said, Undead Siege isn't the wave-based classic style of Call of Duty zombies you're used to - instead, it uses the Battle Royale map. Whether or not a standalone Zombies project is part of that remains to be seen. At the time, Activision said it was working on “an exciting slate of premium and free-to-play Call of Duty experiences for this year, next year and beyond”.
“There are several design positions open at a range of experience levels so it’s a great time to apply if you are interested!”Įarlier this year, reports claimed that Call of Duty would be breaking its long-standing annual release cycle next year and skip its premium 2023 instalment. “We have big plans for Zombies and want to grow the team to realize them,” Drew wrote. While retweeting Treyarch’s recent recruitment call, Kevin Drew – associate design director at the studio and in charge of all things Zombies – seemed to strongly suggest that the rumoured Zombies project could be real. Treyarch, the studio that pioneered the mode, is expanding its team and looking to recruit in a number of positions, and it seems, a bulk of that recruitment drive is focused on something to do with Zombies. One of these has potentially been in the rumour mill for over a year- more than a few times, we’ve heard reports of a standalone Call of Duty: Zombies game being in development, and recent developments seem to lend some credence to that. Activision has a lot of major upcoming Call of Duty games in development right now, from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2and Call of Duty: Warzone 2to a dedicated mobile version of the battle royale title– but as you’d expect, there are other projects in the works that haven’t yet been officially acknowledged.