Rezurrection classics — Black Ops Zombies Easter Egg Guide

No power, no perks, no traps in the 2008 original — pure survival on wall guns, grenades and a fixed Mystery Box. BO1 adds Cold War weapons to that Box (plus Monkey Bombs and the Thundergun), swaps the unnamed Marines for the Ultimis crew (Dempsey, Nikolai, Takeo, Richtofen), changes the Help Room radio's playlist to campaign and Dead Ops Arcade tracks, and adds the Carpenter power-up. Mule Kick arrives later still, via patch 1.15. The barrel song Undone is also a Black Ops addition: shoot three exterior red barrels visible from the Starting Room windows (they only need to be damaged, not destroyed).

Version: Undone was added in Black Ops 1 with three barrels and continues into BO3/Zombies Chronicles with a harder rule (every barrel — the wiki counts 28). It is not BO3-only.

Perks and the Power Switch already exist in the 2008 original, along with the Electro-Shock Defences — there is still no Pack-a-Punch. BO1 swaps Cold War weapons into the Box, replaces the Springfield wall-buy with a Kar98k, adds the Carpenter power-up and Mule Kick, adds Winter's Howl and Monkey Bombs to the Box, reuses Kino der Toten's zombie models, and swaps the unnamed Marines for the Ultimis crew. An extra interactive radio is added on the American-side balcony, playing campaign and Zombies tracks. No dog rounds in any version.

The four perks (Jugger-Nog, Speed Cola, Double Tap, Quick Revive) are already scattered randomly across the outer huts in 2008, and Hellhounds debut here — still no Pack-a-Punch, so the Wunderwaffe DG-2 from the Box never scales up. BO1 keeps the WWII wall guns but swaps the Box to Black Ops weapons plus Monkey Bombs, adds Carpenter, and — via an update on 27 September 2011 — adds Mule Kick to the Starting Building. It also adds a fourth radio, Backtracing to the Future, covering how the Ultimis crew travelled from Der Riese to Kino der Toten. Solo zombie counts increase per round here in BO1, unlike the World at War original.

Pack-a-Punch, the Bowie Knife, Monkey Bombs and the Fly Trap all debut in the 2008 original — this is the only one of the four classics with an upgrade station. BO1 adds Mule Kick (Thompson/furnace side) and the Thundergun to the Box, and lets solo players buy Quick Revive for 500 points, up to three times, as a self-revive. Hellhounds continue here past round 25 as an alternative to a teleporter power-up drop. The Fly Trap itself is unchanged by the remaster: no item reward in either version, dialogue and an achievement only — the Annihilator and free-perk chain some guides describe belong to The Giant, a separate Black Ops 3 map, not this one.

New to the classics: Nacht der Untoten is the shortest, tightest introduction — two rooms and the Box, nothing else to learn. Verrückt adds perks and a real power switch. Shi No Numa adds randomised perks and the Wunderwaffe DG-2, and is the most spread out of the three perk-less maps. Der Riese is the natural finish, since it is the only one with Pack-a-Punch. For holding: Nacht trains best upstairs near the Box-side stairs; Verrückt loops the kitchen/hall route, firing the Electro-Shock trap on cooldown; Shi No Numa holds the Fishing Hut, its largest room; Der Riese holds the catwalk near the STG room or, as an alternative, the Teleporter C balcony. Each map's own page (linked above) gives the full loadout for its hold.

Quick win: None of the four punishes you for skipping doors you don't need — unlike later maps, there is no achievement tied to opening every room on any of them.