After a period of controversy due to voice actor recasting and the divisive Tomb map, Call of Duty Zombies has been building excitement once again. Its next map is poised to drop as part of Black Ops 6 Season 3, which kicks off on April 3, and will take players to the mansion featured in Liberty Falls’ intro cinematic. Players have been shown images depicting the exterior of the mansion, a giant T-Rex fossil (which fans hope will serve as the map’s boss encounter), and the massive containment unit housing the real Samantha Maxis. With teasers referencing the Chaos story’s Order, and both Richtofen and the Wunderwaffe likely to appear, everything is coming together to suggest players could be in for a special experience.
However, even though Black Ops 6 Zombies has a good bit of life left in it, Call of Duty fans and insiders alike are accustomed to looking to the future. Those curious about this year’s Call of Duty release will find a fair bit of information spread throughout various reports, all of which come together to suggest an interesting approach for the new entry. Supposedly, Activision will be publishing a Black Ops 2 successor that offers a mixture of new multiplayer content and map remasters from the 2012 release, alongside a fresh campaign and the carry forward system. For Zombies fans, not only can they apparently look forward to playing as new versions of the original four characters, but six original maps with settings that sound more comparable to Black Ops 3's lineup than locales from the Dark Aether universe. Given how beloved that game was, this can only really be seen as a good thing.
The Perfect Reward For Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies’ Super Easter Egg is Obvious
Assuming Treyarch delivers a Super Easter egg in Black Ops 6 Zombies, it’s clear what the best reward for longtime Call of Duty fans would be.
The Latest Call of Duty Zombies Leak is Another Big Step in the Right Direction
After Black Ops 6 got things back on track by improving on the fundamentals of Black Ops Cold War, it seems like Treyarch is striving to take a big swing with CoD 2025’s Zombies mode. Per Insider Gaming, if Treyarch moves forward with the ideas it has considered, the next iteration of CoD Zombies could feature maps that take place in:
- An alternate version of New York that has been destroyed by a nuclear bomb following the Nazis winning World War 2
- A Japanese temple that sits at the foot of an erupting volcano
- A space station that is stranded within the Dark Aether
While Insider Gaming’s report suggests some more grounded map settings as well, those being Vietnam (which was explored in Firebase Z) and Afghanistan (which could borrow assets from Black Ops 6’s open-world campaign mission), the three maps above boast bolder settings than what was seen in the last several Call of Duty Zombies releases. After all, Black Ops Cold War’s maps were all grounded and heavily borrowed campaign assets, Vanguard Zombies re-used multiplayer arenas, and MWZ took place on the exact same map as Warzone. Black Ops 6 has undoubtedly been a step in the right direction, with maps like Citadelle Des Morts and the Tomb being far more unique from a visual standpoint than anything seen in the current game's three predecessors. Still, BO6 Zombies’ settings are a far cry from Black Ops 3’s, which went all-in on "the rule of cool" and took players to a squid-infested 1940s city and a war-torn Stalingrad ravaged by dragons and giant robots. For BO3 fans, the rumored CoD 2025 maps could finally scratch that same itch.
Insider Gaming’s report also mentions possibilities like the return of Grief, one of the “biggest Zombies maps to date” with a TranZit-like travel system, and the option to play maps in the survival or Outbreak formats.
Wackier Maps and Primis’ Return Could Be a One-Two Punch For CoD Zombies
Though there were numerous strengths of the Jason Blundell-led Black Ops 3 Zombies, ranging from Zombies Chronicles to lengthy Easter egg hunts, two of its biggest positives were its map concepts and character work. Based on all the leaks for CoD 2025, Treyarch will not only be checking off that first box, but the second as well. A previous report from Insider Gaming suggested that gamers would be controlling new versions of the Primis crew, and with the full extent of Edward Richtofen’s latest scheme still unknown, this is not too hard to believe. Black Ops 6 has done well to feature some in-game conversations between its new crew, but for old-school fans, there is simply no matching the likes of Dempsey, Nikolai, Takeo, and Richtofen. Having fresh dialogue between those characters on maps that wouldn’t feel out of place in Black Ops 3 seems like a match made in heaven, so nostalgic players have good reason to be optimistic about this year’s Zombies experience.
