Vanguard Zombies, whether you love it or, way more likely, hate it, clearly wasn’t the product anyone at Treyarch envisioned. It’s very obviously underbudgeted, understaffed and undercooked in nearly every regard. And when you hear stories about how the project’s development cycle was allegedly less than 4 months from conception to release, all of that starts to make a lot more sense. But in spite of all of the stuff that is clearly very, very wrong here, there are some diamonds in this rough that I think are worth highlighting.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
0:36 – Part One – The Good
19:57 – Part Two – The Bad
34:14 – Part Three – The Ugly
37:24 – Part Four – Conclusion
38:36 – Outro
Other stuff to check out mayhaps????
Origins review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Na3Njj1JHc
Alpha Omega review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HUGjRjoZg
Black Ops IIII Zombies reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKGiF3SWKzqBPCkHHxUcyqI5tVXyXjr-d
Cold War Zombies reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKGiF3SWKzqBIimCf0LI1w_xaWLLp1QYz
Persona 3 Retrospective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vio6bWC1VFw
Extra Links:
Twitter where I shitpost and renderpost:
https://twitter.com/JrrizzoYT
DeviantArt where I renderpost but IN HD WOAH:
https://www.deviantart.com/jr-rizzo
Credits / References / Video Clips:
Scobalula – Greyhound/Parasyte [used for the thumbnail renders and extracting Vanguard’s audio files]
Max0r – An Incorrect Summary of ULTRAKILL | Act 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKx1oGw0IRM
Jerma985 – Jerma Laughs at Car Crashes: The Musical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUh-CeSPXCQ
Treyarch’s 2022 Zombies Development Blogpost:
https://www.treyarch.com/game-intel/2022/04/Treyarch_Content_in_2022
Gianni Matragrano – Ultrakill Community Memes 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QLft2Rh7dM
Any Bellekar appreciators?
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Two good zombies games
1 – Vanguard.
2 – MW 3 Zombies.
Only zombies, that I like!
Black Ops 6, is shit, but it's my opinion, some people may like it.
the bad, the bad and the bad
I'm sorry you had to play this garbage enough to review it man
Great lore, terrible narrative. Love it
37:07 I.e. another rushed Zombies mode tacked onto a game Treyarch didn’t make
30:07 not necessarily
29:20 how did they not catch this one of all things?
28:03 Triple AAA is generally indicative of more bugs, lol
6:20 they added round based?
2:16 sounds like Rogue Likes a bit
This aged pretty well, love the grind game they've added into bo6 from vanguard
Prior to the multiverse collapse? Does that mean the dark aether story isn’t actually a reboot but kind of a sequel?
Omg I forgot how much I loved the Rogue-like-like progression of vanguard's altar of covenants. Garbage game but that's such a kool concept
I just love the note that says Black ops 3 wasn't that bad I remember full well how bad Black ops 3 was on launch swap one gobblegum and the machine moves around and if the zombies hit you you can't sprint so one hit you're screwed Hi it's so funny how people are stupid saying how perfect Black ops 3 was it never was on lunch
Man imagine if we got a map like mauer on vanguards engine and art. It would be amazing
31:35 technically Sniper Elite Zombies did this first even before WW2 and debatably better
We in desperate need for MWZ Retrospective, since a lot of round-passed fans weren't around to experience it
Vangaurd zombies is total ass, but i will say that the zombies and other enemies look fuckin badass, especially kortifex, he has the best design in my opinion, its mainly the red theme that intrigues me
ngl first 20 min was a glaze session
3:34
Did not expect to see clive barker's jericho here.
Perk system in vanguard was ultimately flawed who wants to run circles around a perk machine rebuying the same perks over and over again if there was a way to fast buy up to the highest tier it would be way better, + the little tie in to the chaos story with the addition of the dark aether gods being mistaken for ones throughout history is so fucking dumb, why not keep the gods as the real ones and not just their own separate characters. I thought the chaos story tie in was okay but I’d like it to be handled with care. Ideally the chaos storyline would be continued but I doubt anyone would give it a chance.
IMO, it’s good. BUT it is, also in my opinion, too little too late
If they made it where there was no lag in solo play I wouldn't have minded playing it a bit more. However between the lack of map diversity and lagging in freaking zombies my will to play shaved down massively.
I absolutely love Vanguard zombies. That's coming from a die hard treyarch zams guy. I think Sledgehammer just made a fun, blow shit up and don't think zombie mode and its fantastic
And here I thought I was the only one who liked Vanguard's Zombies. It's nice to see someone who likes it as much as I do. 🙂
You know I’ve crapped on this game but they at least tried, I feel bad for treyarch
How did you get to round 107 without pausing btw you still can’t pause the game if you do after 5 minutes or less you either down or crash lol vanguard is so horrible dude😂
Vanguard zombies was the death of cod zombies.
Hey just wanted to say that I religiously played zombies from when Origins came out (got Buried the same day) and absolutely Grinded Exos zombies and started to lose interest at around Gorod. And then my interest peaks and drops with each zombies release proceeding. Lose me in the middle of the DLC season. Dropped off with Cold War cause bad Etherium Crystal system. Haven't played any since Cold War and getting distance and growing up and coming back to the mode over time as I get older always makes me go on a binge of your zombie reviews from WW2 to now (made me get back into and start to love WW2 zombies btw) and you along with a few other content creator have helped me have a newfound love for a mode that has always been near to my heart and appreciate it in a more intelligent designed and artistic sense and although I don't own Vanguard you really sold me on really checking it out one day and just want to thank you to contributing to keeping zombies loved more and more as I get older. It won't be lost to time on me 🙂
It freaked me the fuck out when you mentioned that bo3 can be considered classic zombies. Still feels current
I have not played a single second of this zombies 😂😭 idk if thas good or bad