The color palette starts out drab and reminiscent of the original, but after you turn on the power, it becomes a lot more vibrant and a lot closer to what you’d expect classic Nuketown to look like. Everything is intact and looks more ordinary and yet simultaneously more sinister than usual. What sets it apart from the map it was remaking is the fact that it takes place prior to the nuclear explosion that had been detonated in the original Nuketown Zombies.

You are in Camp Edward, a Broken Arrow facility that’s been abandoned for more than 50 years. Did Alpha Omega shatter expectations or was it doomed from the start?Īlpha Omega takes place in Nuketown, but right away you notice that the context is a bit different. The Ray Gun Mark II teaser image.Īfter almost nine months since the release of Black Ops IIII, the next chapter of the Aether story was released on July 9th, 2019. The general impression before the map even came out was that it looked cheaply made with reused assets. There were other little things that contributed to the backlash Alpha Omega received, such as a tease that the wonder weapons of the map would be some variation of the classic Ray Gun Mark II. If that wasn’t enough, the audio for the intro and outro cut scenes were leaked soon after the Zombie Rush thumbnail was found. The backlash was quite vast, especially from the codzombies Reddit.įor the penultimate Zombies map, many fans expressed their interest in a completely original Aether map, which hadn’t been made since Gorod Krovi in July 2016. As a few people feared, the next map was a remake of Nuketown Zombies. We hadn’t gotten the confirmation on what the map was exactly until yet another unceremonious leak showed the Zombie Rush thumbnail of the map. However, it wasn’t until late June that they finally started teasing what the next map might be in their usual cryptic fashion. In their February 19th, 2019 livestream, Treyarch had finally opened up about Aether and announced that the final two DLC maps will be about the Aether story and its conclusion. This was backed up by the fact that the ex-QA tester said he had no idea how it would be released, seemingly implying it would not be part of the regular DLC cycle. There was no issue taken with it, as people assumed it would be part of the long rumored Zombies Chronicles 2 DLC pack.

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