Call of Duty: WWII — A first look at Nazi Zombies prologue and gameplay

Nazi Zombies is the co-op game mode for Call of Duty: WWII. It is the first zombies mode made by Slegehammer Games, which made the WWII game and previously created Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. So naturally, Sledgehammer tried to put its own more serious, story-based twist on the zombies franchise.

The prologue starts out with a story out of Monuments Men (and women in this case). A group of art experts has been commissioned to track down stolen Nazi art. But they stumble upon a German village where something is going wrong. The Nazi scientists (led by Peter Straub) have been experimenting with the undead. They’re trying to bring Nazi soldiers back to life to help with the failing war effort.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.