![]() I’m glad Treyarch didn’t give up on the ambitions of going beyond just single map experiences. And much like TranZit, the massive maps are also geared towards exploration. Instead of travelling by bus, you warp through a portal to reach the next area. Outbreak is also a large-scale Zombies mode with a compilation of several different maps. TranZit’s Diner (Screenshot: Activision (Kotaku))įlashforward to Black Ops Cold War, where Outbreak has been a really successful mode. You simply had to know where to deviate off the bus route, and then make your way through a foggy cornfield filled with Denizens. ![]() You could visit the original Zombies map, Nacht der Untoten from 2008’s Call of Duty: World at War. TranZit also had a nice throwback Easter Egg. This paved the way for more story paths choices in Black Ops 2‘s DLC maps Buried and Die Rise. You could choose to help two different characters in the story, ultimately getting different endings to the TranZit narrative. ![]() The storyline quest for TranZit offered player choice, which was something that hadn’t been done before. Zombies could attack and destroy the turbines quite easily, meaning you’d have to go through the process of getting another one before you could access a powered up Pack-A-Punch machine.ĭespite the negatives, there were some enticing factors within TranZit. A portable wind turbine was needed to power it up, which was a very fragile craftable item in the game. Each Zombies map often has its own unique method to power up or unlock the Pack-A-Punch machine, and TranZit had one of the worst methods. Each map area had something you needed, like a perk or a part for a craftable item, but overall the map locations were lacklustre and bare. Ultimately, it was a map that felt both infuriating to travel and felt empty for its size. They served as more of a warning to just stay on the damn bus. You weren’t rewarded for killing the creatures either, meaning they didn’t drop items or power-ups to help you. Even having the Joggernog perk, which grants a sizable health buff, couldn’t help you against the Denizens. ![]() These small, feral creatures could easily catch you off guard and kill you. Hiding in TranZit’s thick fog were unforgiving creatures called Denizens, who would leap on top of you and slash you with their claws. You could walk the road instead of taking the bus, but it was foggy and dangerous. It was very easy to get stuck at a location or separated from your teammates if you couldn’t get back to the bus before it left for the next location. TranZit’s bus driver, a robot named T.E.D.D., waited on no one. The bus made a circuit of five stops, allowing you to visit the locations of Farm, Diner, Town, and Power Station, and then it looped back around to Bus Station. Everything you needed in your normal Zombies experience - powerful weapons, perks, Pack-A-Punch machine, craftables, and electricity - were spread out across the different areas along the bus route. While the need to travel encouraged exploration, it was also one of TranZit’s main struggles. It was difficult to hold off the zombies by solely staying rooted at the bus station, so you were encouraged to hop on the bus to seek out essential perks and better weapons. Essentially, you were abandoned at a bus stop, and you could choose to hold off the zombies for as many waves as possible, or you could hop on a creepy bus to travel to another area. TranZit spawned you into a match with up to four players, and while it mostly functioned like a normal Zombies survival map, your starting area was very small, and resources were extremely limited. Instead of just one map on which to survive endless waves of undead, TranZit was a compilation of maps. But hear me out: now might be the best time to reintroduce the map.īlack Ops 2 served up Treyarch’s third instalment of its Zombies mode, with TranZit providing an ambitious new take on the survival mode. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’s TranZit was an infamously unpopular Zombies experience when it launched in 2012.
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