5 things you didn't know about Call of Duty Zombies

The deep secrets of CoD's shambler-shooter.

4. The first Call of Duty Zombies character

If we were to ask who the first character in the Zombies mode was, what would your answer be? For eight years, we’ve known about our core roster of Richtofen, Dempsey, Nikolai, and Takeo, but who started the fire all those years ago in the early stages of World At War’s Nacht der Untoten map?

Strangely enough, only one of the now-established cast was present at the time. The remaining characters were all standard Marines that, according to the story, crashed at the site (Nacht der Untoten takes place on an abandoned airfield). Our one and only character in Nacht der Untoten was Dempsey, a US Marine who had made his way to the facility. Interestingly enough, Dempsey was voiced by a different actor at the time, so the likeliness of him depended entirely upon his image back in World At War. Don’t worry too much if you missed out on this detail, as he was hardly a fleshed-out character at the time.

Though it was live for the world to play, Zombies was still in it’s early stages, and a storyline containing four of Call of Duty’s most iconic figures wouldn’t be realised until later down the line. It took eight months from World at War’s launch for us to finally be introduced to Richtofen, Dempsey, Nikolai, and Takeo in the Shi No Numa map. Prior to that? Dempsey was the only named face in Nacht der Untoten, making him the first Zombies character.

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