User blog comment:Panic!AtTheFallOutBoy/Fair play to Treyarch!/@comment-1263839-20130409170922

Zombies for me has been stagnating far too badly as of late, releasing maps for the sake of it since they ran out of amazing ideas like Dead Ops Arcade (it's hard because most retro games are hard guys get over it), and just started adding small specs which hardly effected the gameplay at all, and since the Zombies storyline is a load of old shit* that keeps getting watered and thrown down our throats by 12 year olds on YouTube, Wikis and Xbox Live the gameplay and atmosphere are the only things I can value anymore.

Mob of the Dead at the very least has decided to actually change up the way you play (with Purgatory and what not). However some of the features such as the Gondola, the Traps and things have me thinking, "Funny how the motto of making Zombies good is catching up to World at War". I'm looking forward to Mob of the Dead because I'll assume it's going to be fun and that it's showing signs of taking a step forward towards the original formula.

*Yes the Zombies story has improved in Black Ops II, although nobody will agree with me it's because they've put the original characters in a bin and have kept them as far away as possible. It focuses more on the characters rather than their actions which is what a Zombie story is supposed to be about rather than setting off a bomb and going "yay". Either way it's still not very good, maybe one day it'll return to the good old creepiness and hidden messages which were woven into the atmosphere of Verruckt and Shi No Numa... sigh. You also found the rant section, something of which I haven't done in a good while.