Killing Zombies Old-Skool

Julia Rec­om­mends

(image via gamesradar.com)

So, were you just as excited as me that that the new COD Black Ops came out and didn’t suck? (COD = Call of Duty for all you noobz.) But wait! Now that you’ve beaten the cam­paign, lev­eled up your pres­tige a few times, and suc­cess­fully killed a bunch of Nazi-zombies in the White House as Fidel Cas­tro, things seem to be in a lull. Or, per­haps you’re new to first-person shooter games and still can’t quite mas­ter mov­ing, look­ing, aim­ing, and fir­ing all at once. What do you do now?!

In either case, Dead Ops Arcade mode is the answer you’ve been look­ing for. Arcade mode is a game type that lets you kill waves of zom­bies in a 2-D set­ting sim­i­lar to a clas­sic arcade game (see below). It is eas­ier to maneu­ver your char­ac­ter around the screen since the left joy­stick is for mov­ing and the right is shoot­ing, so look­ing and aim­ing is unnec­es­sary. The four-player option allows you and your friends to work together on each level – with­out divid­ing the screen up into four tiny boxes in which you can barely see what is going on. Don’t have any friends? They thought of that too because you can play online with four peo­ple just as cool as you.

Now that you’re suf­fi­ciently inter­ested in play­ing here’s what you need to do: Go to your PS3 or Xbox (or your PC–does any­one actu­ally use that to play COD these days?) and put in Black Ops. You’ll notice that Arcade mode isn’t there under the ‘Zom­bie’ sec­tion. That’s because Activi­sion decided it would be bet­ter to hide it from you. (I know – it didn’t really make sense to me either.)

(image via callofdutygamerz.blogspot.com)

Fol­low these steps to unlock Dead Ops Arcade:

1. Go to the open­ing screen. You know, the one where you are star­ing at a series of TV screens while you are sit­ting in a chair before you decide to play cam­paign, zom­bies, or online.
2. Instead of mak­ing a selec­tion, click the Right Trig­ger and the Left Trig­ger, one after another, repeat­edly until you break your restraints and stand up from the chair. On a PC just mash the space­bar a bunch of times and con­sider buy­ing an actual gam­ing sys­tem. This unlocks the “Just ask Nicely” achievement.
3. Next, walk around the walls of the room until you find a com­puter. It will be located behind you. Walk up to the com­puter and turn it on (on XBOX you push x, but the game will give you instruc­tions as to how to turn it on.)
4. Finally type DOA in (for Dead Ops Arcade). This will start the game and for­ever make it avail­able under the Zom­bies Menu.

You are now ready to play. The Dead Ops Arcade open­ing screen does take a while to fin­ish load­ing so be patient and you will get to have all the zombie-killing fun your braaaaaaainnnzzzzz can handle.