this easter egg was so creepy that it never returned

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[Frenzy]

In the later versions of Shi no Numa on both Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 3 you cannot grenade Peter McCain down.

On World at War when you knock Peter McCain's body down it will cause an instant game over if anyone touches it - even in co-op.

[RMSY-vcuj]

I remember telling all my friends that you can knock Peter down and nobody believed me because I wasn’t able to replicate it. Years later I thought I might’ve just imagined things. Thank you for showing me I wasn’t crazy all those years ago.

[DemonicDropShotter]

Nah fr i remember searching the whole map for him and realised he was in spawn room the whole time. 13 years ago good times

[sammychristopher]

Dude for real though, World at War zombies was by far the creepiest.

[roronoazoro]

The hanging man is actually a character in the zombies lore, his name was Peter and he was one of the original marines that fought in nacht and verrukt. I believe group 935 caught him and sent him to shi no numa where he got killed and hanged, but the hand that’s on the power switch in der riese belonged to Peter

[valentin]

WaW is the creepiest CoD ever I wish they would make more of these…

[Papa_Khan]

I remember hating playing zombies alone. It scared the hell out of me but id try solo to get better in between playing with friends

[clyde]

I was playing co-op with my dad and we stumbled across this. Without a word, he got up and left the house and I haven’t seen him in years. I’m glad they removed this.

[wokaroni]

Im guessing the reason you die if you touch him is because the game thinks that he's "out of bounds" asset or something

[ezganks]

Sadly CoD will never return to the dark gruesome style WaW was. Campaign, multiplayer, or Zombies. 10 out of 10 game and we didn’t know how good we had it.

[Saterienne]

This is a result of some wonky coding. Zombies games in WaW are coded as co-op campaign missions. When you touch McCain's corpse, something about it kills you, but not in a way that the zombies game logic is looking for (damage from the zombie weapon, grenades, traps, etc). If you do this in co-op, the player that touches it will die as if they bled out in the normal co-op campaign (grey screen that fades to black), and since that is meant to call a checkpoint restart, it does so here. Of course, since Zombies has no checkpoints, it restarts the mission entirely. I would guess it is something to do with a strange physics interaction between the player and the "object" of McCain's corpse, but this is unclear. Besides, it is only possible to knock his body down due to the vintage CoD engine stretching the rope he is hanging from by several times its intended length, so it's fair to assume they simply prevented this behaviour in the future games via fixing that bug.

[andrewplaysagame]

What I loved about World at War was how eerie and unsettling it could be, even in the campaign. Creeping through the jungle on edge in fear of a sneak attack from the Japanese, crawling amidst corpses through crumbling city streets, the screams of the enemies when you gore their arms and legs off. It’s still one of my favorite shooter campaigns to this day

[sltoy]

If you lay down and back up in the corner under the body hanging there is a glitch and the zombies can't get you

[OpticHamster]

I remember doing this so many times, and trolling the shit out of people as well by ending the game, or telling people to touch the body when it was on the ground 🤣🤣

[meganaxeliar]

World at War was THE creepiest and best CoD in my opinion.
Have you ever wandered the map ‘Asylum’? It’s seriously creepy, there’s demon and ghost noises everywhere.

[centauria]

At least you've hanged out with him...

[alexandercorvenus]

Its sad they will never make a game like this again :( thats why this must be protected the sheer grittyness of the campaign itself shows what war was this was my favorite game to play growing up i remember beating it and seeing the zombies mode for the first time.

[EnclaveChad]

And if you do this in co-op when you touch peter, you go down, but you can't be revived.

[zyk]

CoD:WaW will always remain one of my favourite, if not my favourite game of the whole franchise.

The story, the setting, the whole campaign, the zombies... What an amazing game. And one truly terrifying, that replicated the horrors of war.

[HaotoAnimeOnPiano]

0:50 That BGM/SFX put me off guard, I started laughing lol.