You'll Never Look at Vanguard Zombies The Same Way Again

All this proves in my mind is that you can't just have great gameplay and you can't just have great art direction. You need both to marry together in a perfect tandom.

The art pulls you into the space you are playing in and the gameplay keeps you there.

Cold War has very little reason for me to enter but the gameplay keeps me engaged and Vanguard had awesome art with no reason to stay.

Vanguard zombies doesn't suck. Its the people that suck in the game (dont know how to do the easter egg, dont know how to gather money, dont know how to aim and shoot zombies properly, etc.) that im forced to play with that sucks. Matchmaking is so bad, pretty much all the time i hop on to grind camoes on zombies i play solo. Fix matchmaking

I played the game 2 days ago and nope it still sucks

Man your take on this game is perfect. Vangaurd got swept under the rug too quickly to give anyone a real chance to experience an alternate view on the zombies mode. Its sad that the popular peoples opinions blocked people from seeing one of the most similar games to cold war (my second favourite)(bo2 comes first tho) because if you strip vangaurd down to its core fundamentals you can see it wanted to keep all the good stuff from cold war (Being a Treyarch game) like the ui, pack a punch tiers, perk levels and overall wanted to combine outbreak with round baised zombies keeping those missions tied in with the rounds and giving it unique and refreshing new ideas to the table with its awesome majestic Artsyle. Overall i don't think vangaurd was as much of a scrapped together peice of content as many may think, it does take a fair bit of time to actually come up with a new plot, new characters, missions, level designs, and a new setting. Taking all these things into consideration we should still give treyarch a big pat on the back for coming through with at least a zombies mode for us to play at all at that time we could have just not have had zombies that year letting a lot more zombies fans slip away, i mean they could have just made vangaurd a campaign and multiplayer experience only and slapped a 70 dollar price tag on it and we still would have tried it out. People expect Treyarch to just be able to whip up Triple A Zombies experiences every year, No these things take time and money, and the final product isn't always refurbished, Not everyone is going to like it the people who didn't like it' their opinions somehow created this "Me too movement", and if my favourite content creator or friend dosnt like it, therefore I don't. All im saying is that Treyarch are a very talented group and have kept us on the edge of our seats with these awesome zombies titles and we just need to say thankyou to them for spending time in their lives to stress enough and create a new experience for us.
If you read all this thankyou for reading my take on this, as im a very critical and creative thinker when it comes to zombies and i think that we should all sit back and just play some zombies and admire all the details Treyarch has made in games like cold war and vangaurd thankyou again. 🗿🍷

Looks dope

Watching this is like when Gluten free existed and they telling us how good it is and healthy but its just 💩

Rip waw zombies. The og and best zombies ever😢

Imo vanguard zombies was more enjoyable/ felt more like zombies than bo4 and Cold War zombies. I could actually train the zombies and relax

Begging me to watch your other videos instead of just putting that information into this video does not make me want to watch your content

For what time they had, they did solid in a short time. People are worried about COD 2024 being like this, but they dont realize now they have time and instead of the small team, everyones working on it. If we have the fun gameplay of cold war mixed with vangaurds art style and simplicity, then we got a solid game on our hands

I think Vanguard tried its best to make a good zombies survival , and look how cool it was, I really want to get vanguard to try this but sadly, its too expensive, I think vanguard was too hated

I agree the tone was dark but the game was still trash.

The art style definitely is the only reason for me coming back ever

Na I promise you that cold war is the most underrated and it’s actually pretty good

I don’t mind the atmosphere; I just wish for the demons to stop talking so much just by looking at even juggernog. Cold War at least had charming characters talk to you like Peck, Doctor Grey, kravchenko, and Weaver. But I do like the atmosphere of Vanguard, specifically Der Anfang and Shi No Numa. I just hope they tone down the voices and dialogue for the next game.

The aesthetic and the red that was used is what made me hyped for van zombies, disappointed when released but i might go back to it

The dark aether in Vangaurd zombies looks terrible. They couldn’t make a skybox for the dark aether and decided to make the sky have forecast and add a red sun which makes the dimension bright and sunny. What made Cold Wars dark aether look good was how dark it was which was only illuminated by the Aetherium Crystals glowing plants floating jellyfish and lighting strikes which don’t sound like regular lighting and sounds like a pulse. Vangaurd Day aether while the floating rocks and purple look kinda cool and the construct looks cool but the rest of the corrupted lands just feels bland and boring. The Aetherium crystals look awful and when I played I don’t feel like it was the dark aether and it felt like a heavily corrupted place on earth. I hope Treyarch put more work into the dark aether for 2024

I feel the biggest things about Vanguard zombies that I don't really like, just looking at some gameplay, is the first-person animations, the round system, the UI itself, and the overabundance of voice acting. Voice acting is good in a lot of Zombies' most beloved maps like Origins and MOTD, but the issue is I feel the voice acting in Vanguard is just... too much, and kinda bleh. It doesn't feel like it has a lot of substance to it, and while the voice actors did a pretty good job at it, I don't think what was created really fits what we already know for Zombies. The visual style, perk system, guns, etc I could care less about, as long as the game feels nice to play then IMO it's fine, it's just that the first-person animations look horrible compared to the previous games like BO1-BO4. Hell, even WaW had some charm to it's animations.

A couple of my favorite maps are Origins, MOTD, and Moon, and all of those have a very nice atmosphere, all have nice first-person animations from their respective games, the easter eggs are fun, and all around just feel great to play. All have great voice acting too that fits well in their games. With Vanguard, the maps look alright, though it does feel like there's a lot of stuff going on at once and makes it confusing, the voice acting is fine but could be better, and the first-person animations don't look nice. One big thing is that a lot of custom maps in BO3 implement these animations from the newer games, and whenever a map has them, it instantly lowers the quality of the map in my mind, because I'm so used to BO1-BO3's animations, it just feels wrong to suddenly change them.

I’m honestly glad vanguard zombies sucked because Sledgehammergames is to fuckin incompetent to make their own zombies mode. Next Sledgehammer game. If treyarch hops on that. I hope that fails as well so we can get a good treyarch zombies game in an actual treyarch title

Yet its graphics and lighting are far far worse than cold war. I get your point but they literally took a step back in quality. That is a strange move for cod. I'm not usually a stickler for quality as I grew up with Nintendo and still stand by that but you can make the art style "better" and take a step back in quality in a multi billion dollar company...

I don’t see why there’s so much hate around Cold War. It’s an amazing game considering the pandemic happened during the production and everyone had to work from home to finish the game off.

Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw you only had 5k subs. Your quality is off the charts.

This game caused me a migraine

Cold War was the best Zombies experience for me

Finally someone who gave praise to Vanguard 💯🫡🔥.

Treyarch was dealt a terrible hand and there was no way vanguard could of succeed under these conditions with it being a skeleton crew that has never even worked on zombies before on a brand new engine. Activision knew it and did not care but I do respect treyarch for not giving up despite pretty much 100% negative reception and ended up making Shino reborn which was a solid map.

shi no numa reborn was a homerun in vanguard zombies imo, the map was just alot of fun and showed the potential vanguard had.

When they announced round-based was coming to the game I binged Der Anfang and Tera Maledicta nonstop until Shi No Numa arrived, and it really started to click with me after getting used to all the features. Nowadays I really enjoy the mode, round-based and objectives. It's not the best zombies experience, but I like it way better than spec ops from mw2019 and mwII

Tbh I don’t think it really matters. Vanguard had the worst launch ever and the damage has already been done 😭

Yes BO4 and BO2 had mediocre or poor launches, but they both have Top tier DLC content which made up for it.

Vanguard never redeemed itself. All future updates simply made it functional 🤷‍♂️

is the game worth buying now? as it's 50% off now

I will give you this, yes, vanguard had brilliant art derection, and I loved the demonic theme of the game mode, but the gameplay itself is so bad compared to every other entry in the franchise that it completely ruins the game for me. Shi no numa reborn did a good job patching up the cuts that der unfang and dera malidicta made, but at that point I already stopped caring about vanguard zombies.

The best thing about vanguard as a whole is never playing it

Art style Was pretty good

Not trying to be a dick but this entire channel is just copium for some of the worst zombies experiences

I do hate how when people hate something, they refuse to say anything good about it even if there might be a few good things worth mentioning

I still find it horrible

I love it that you're positive about things, instead of other people that only hate and cry like babies.

The best thing that Vanguard did was show us that treyarch STILL listens, even when down on the ropes they still tried to alleviate our concerns of everything. People didn't like out of gameplay progression? Perks and field upgrades upgrade in game. Too easy? Now you're a 2 shot without armor. Style points are... lacking? (It wasnt) let's make it ALL about style points and color. Even when they cannot produce a product on par with any previous titles it still TRIED to do its best to be an expansion to cold war

I don't like vanguard and the zombies but recently tried out the shi no numa round based and it is pretty okay. The guns in vanguard feel good to shoot and the gameplay is fine. I have been playing lots of bo4 zombies lately as well. I have hope for treyarchs next zombies title. I did a round 100 on shi no numa round based it's easy as heck and not as boring as cold war high rounds. Keep up the great videos donuts 🤟😎

The best thing about Vanguard Zombies, is that it’s over now.

The atmosphere was definitely solid. I remember watching the first trailer for Vanguard zombies and being very hyped despite the fact that I knew it wouldn't be round based and that was 100% thanks to the dark WW2 setting. I was very excited to see Treyarch go back to their WaW "horror" roots. Sadly the game itself was a huge disappointment, but the vibe was great. I hope that Treyarch's next game has a unique personality to it.

Vanguard, whilst VERY BAD, is giving alot of Chaos vibes with the art style, which is excellent.
I hate Vanguard, I don't like it and don't play it, but man when I'm like watching a Rizzo review on Vanguard I'll see certain things like the designs of stuff and think it's quite neat

Vanguard is underrated imo