Call of Duty: World at War (WaW) — released November 11, 2008 — is one of the most historically significant CoD titles. It was the game that introduced Nazi Zombies (now simply called Zombies), which became one of gaming’s most enduring co-op modes. WaW is set in World War II across the Pacific and Eastern European theaters, featuring some of CoD’s most atmospheric multiplayer maps. This guide covers all WaW multiplayer maps, all WaW zombies maps, Black Ops 1 zombies maps, COD WW2 (2017) mission count, and how to play these games in 2026.
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Call of Duty World at War — All Multiplayer Maps
| Map | Setting / Notes |
| Airfield | Pacific airfield — open sightlines; sniper friendly |
| Asylum | Abandoned German asylum — close quarters; dark atmosphere |
| Banzai | Pacific jungle with bridge — two-lane design |
| Breach | Berlin ruins — destroyed urban environment |
| Castle | Japanese castle — tight corridors; flanking routes |
| Cliffside | Pacific cliffs — vertical map; multiple elevation levels |
| Courtyard | German manor courtyard — small, fast-paced |
| Dome | German radar dome facility — circular design; fan favorite |
| File | Pacific village — standard three-lane layout |
| Hangar | Airfield hangar — interior and exterior combat |
| Makin | Pacific beach village — horizontal layout |
| Makin Day | Daytime version of Makin |
| Nacht der Untoten | Zombies-origin map — available as multiplayer |
| Outskirts | German village outskirts |
| Roundhouse | Pacific rail yard — large map |
| Seelow | Eastern front — open fields with farmhouses |
| Upheaval | Eastern European village — chaotic layout |
WaW DLC Maps
| DLC Pack | Maps | Zombies Map |
| Map Pack 1 | Station, Knee Deep, Nightfire | Verrückt |
| Map Pack 2 | Sub Pens, Corrosion, Banzai | Shi No Numa |
| Map Pack 3 | Revolution, Breach, Dig | Der Riese |
Call of Duty WaW Nazi Zombies — All Maps
World at War introduced Nazi Zombies — a co-op survival mode where 1-4 players defend against waves of undead German soldiers. It started as a hidden bonus mode and became one of gaming’s most beloved co-op experiences.
WaW Zombies Maps
| Map | Location | Notes |
| Nacht der Untoten | German airfield bunker | First ever zombies map — basic; no power; raw survival |
| Verrückt | German asylum | Introduced traps, perk machines, and electric barriers |
| Shi No Numa | Japanese swamp | Introduced the Hellhounds; first map with a wonder weapon (Wunderwaffe DG-2) |
| Der Riese | German factory | Introduced Pack-a-Punch machine; teleporters; most complex WaW map |
Five — The Black Ops 1 Pentagon Zombies Map
Five is a Black Ops 1 zombies map — not a WaW map — set in the Pentagon during the Cold War era. Players control US President John F. Kennedy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and Senator Richard Nixon defending against zombies in a government facility. Five is unlocked by completing the Black Ops 1 campaign. It features the Pentagon Thief — a special zombie that steals player weapons — and the elevators mechanic unique to this map.
Black Ops 1 Zombie Maps — Full List
| Map | Notes |
| Kino der Toten | Base game — most popular BO1 zombies map; teleporter; cinema setting |
| Five | Base game — Pentagon; JFK, Nixon, Castro, McNamara as playable |
| Ascension | DLC 1 — Soviet launch facility; monkeys steal perks; space setting |
| Call of the Dead | DLC 2 — features real celebrity cast; George Romero as enemy |
| Shangri-La | DLC 3 — Himalayan temple; unique traps; Easter egg with eclipses |
| Moon | DLC 4 — Moon base; no gravity sections; final original BO1 zombies map |
| Nacht der Untoten | DLC — original WaW map ported to BO1 |
| Verrückt | DLC — original WaW map ported to BO1 |
| Shi No Numa | DLC — original WaW map ported to BO1 |
| Der Riese | DLC — original WaW map ported to BO1; slightly updated |
Black Ops 1 — Is It Being Remastered?
As of mid-2026, Activision has not officially announced a Black Ops 1 remaster. However, remaster speculation is high — Black Ops 2 remaster rumors have circulated for years, and BO1 is frequently discussed as another candidate given the game’s beloved status and strong nostalgia factor. The precedent exists: Modern Warfare (2019) was essentially a reimagining of CoD4, and Modern Warfare Remastered (2016) was a direct remaster of CoD4. A Black Ops 1 remaster would likely follow a similar path if Treyarch pursues it.
Call of Duty WW2 (2017) — Missions and Platforms
How Many Missions in COD WW2?
Call of Duty: WW2 (2017) has 12 campaign missions. The campaign follows Private Ronald ‘Red’ Daniels of the 1st Infantry Division across the Western Front of World War II — from the D-Day Normandy landings through the liberation of France, Belgium, and into Germany.
| Mission | Setting |
| D-Day | Normandy Beach — June 6 1944 |
| Operation Cobra | Normandy hedgerows breakout |
| Stronghold | French village clearing |
| S.O.E. | Paris — undercover operative mission |
| Liberation | Paris liberation |
| Collateral Damage | Belgian city — civilians in crossfire |
| Hill 493 | Belgium — artillery position assault |
| Battle of the Bulge | Ardennes Forest — winter counteroffensive |
| Ambush | Forest ambush sequence |
| Death Factory | Hurtgen Forest |
| Bridge | Remagen Bridge crossing |
| Endgame | Germany — final confrontation |
COD WW2 Platforms — Is It on PS4?
COD WW2 is available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It was released exclusively for these platforms — not on PS3, Xbox 360, or PS5 natively (though PS4 games play on PS5 via backwards compatibility). Online multiplayer for COD WW2 on PS4 is active — the game has a dedicated player base. For crossplay: COD WW2 does not support crossplay between PS4 and Xbox One — it predates the CoD crossplay integration introduced in Modern Warfare 2019.
Can You Play WaW in 2026?
| Platform | WaW Availability in 2026 |
| PC (Steam) | Available — multiplayer via community modded servers; campaign fully playable |
| Xbox 360 | Available — disc or digital |
| Xbox One/Series | Backwards compatible — playable |
| PS3 | Physical disc only — PSN delisted; low online population |
| PS4/PS5 | Not available — PS3 games not backwards compatible on PlayStation |
For the Call of Duty Black Ops 2 zombies guide including all maps and easter eggs, see our dedicated article on Black Ops 2 zombies maps — TranZit, Mob of the Dead, Origins, and all DLC maps.
For World at War information and community resources, see the Call of Duty Wiki — World at War maps and zombies. For the WaW zombies community, see the r/CODZombies subreddit — WaW zombies community and resources.
The Legacy of WaW Zombies
Why WaW Zombies Matters
World at War zombies was never supposed to be a major mode — it was a hidden bonus discovered by players who completed the campaign. The four WaW maps established every core mechanic that defines zombies in 2026: the mystery box, Pack-a-Punch, perk machines (Speed Cola, Juggernog, Double Tap, Quick Revive), wall-buy weapons, and escalating wave structure. Every zombies map in every CoD since 2008 builds on foundations WaW established.
Nacht der Untoten’s Historical Significance
Nacht der Untoten (German: Night of the Undead) is the first zombies map ever created. It is deliberately simple — no power switch, no perk machines, just a small building with boarded windows and a mystery box. Playing it now is a window into the raw original concept: four players defending a cramped space as waves grow endlessly harder. Nacht der Untoten has been remastered in Zombies Chronicles for BO3, making it accessible on modern hardware.
Der Riese and Pack-a-Punch
Der Riese (German: The Giant) introduced the Pack-a-Punch machine — the upgrade system that remains central to zombies strategy in every CoD game. Inserting a weapon into the Pack-a-Punch for 5,000 points upgrades it with increased damage, larger magazine, and a special name. Der Riese also introduced teleporters and the most complex Easter egg in WaW zombies. Treyarch revisited Der Riese in Black Ops 3’s ‘The Giant’ remake — a updated version of the map with BO3 mechanics.
Black Ops 1 — Kino der Toten, the Fan Favorite
Why Kino der Toten Is Beloved
Kino der Toten (German: Cinema of the Dead) is the most popular and most re-played zombies map in CoD history. Set in an abandoned German cinema, it introduced the film projector teleporter as a central mechanic — linking two rooms across the map for fast rotation. Its layout is almost perfectly designed for zombie survival: clear sightlines, defensible positions, multiple mystery box spawn locations, and a looping movement path that experienced players know instinctively. Kino was remastered in Zombies Chronicles and is often the starting point for new players entering CoD zombies.
Black Ops 1 Online Status in 2026
Black Ops 1 online multiplayer officially shut down for PlayStation 3 in August 2021 when Sony removed the online servers for PS3 games. On Xbox, BO1 backwards compatibility allows play on Xbox One and Xbox Series. PC players can access BO1 on Steam with community-hosted servers maintaining a limited online population. For single-player campaign and offline zombies (split-screen), BO1 works on any platform it was released on.
COD WW2 Multiplayer — Divisions System
What Are Divisions in COD WW2?
Call of Duty WW2 (2017) replaced the create-a-class perk system with a Divisions system — five military branches that each define a different play style: Infantry (assault rifles), Airborne (SMGs/stealth), Armored (LMGs), Mountain (snipers), and Expeditionary (shotguns/incendiary). Each Division has unique abilities that unlock as you level up within it. The Division system was one of WW2’s more divisive design choices — it restricted loadout freedom compared to previous CoD games.
COD WW2 War Mode
WW2 introduced War mode — a narrative-driven objective game mode where one team attacks and one defends a series of objectives on large maps. War mode missions recreate historical WWII battles: Operation Breakout (Normandy town), Operation Cobra (French countryside), and Operation Neptune (D-Day beach). War mode was widely praised as one of the freshest additions to CoD multiplayer in years — attacking/defending a beach landing under realistic conditions felt significantly different from standard team deathmatch.
World at War’s multiplayer is often overlooked in the rush of nostalgia for later CoD titles, but it had genuinely distinctive features. The ability to call in dogs as a killstreak — a WWII-era equivalent of the helicopter — was memorably brutal. The flamethrower as a usable weapon was unique to WaW in the mainline CoD series. The game’s atmospheric Pacific theater maps — Makin, Cliffside, Castle — had a visual distinctiveness that set them apart from the brown-grey urban maps common in other CoD titles of the era. WaW’s Dome multiplayer map, in particular, is frequently cited in ‘best CoD maps’ discussions alongside Rust, Highrise, and Nuketown.
The relationship between WaW and Black Ops 1 is also worth understanding: they share a connected zombies universe. WaW’s group 935 scientists and the Aether storyline begun in Der Riese continues directly into Black Ops 1’s Kino der Toten and culminates in Moon. Players who experience the zombies maps in chronological order (Nacht, Verruckt, Shi No Numa, Der Riese, then BO1’s maps) get a continuous narrative that rewards careful attention to easter egg cutscenes and audio logs. This connected storytelling across multiple games was unprecedented in 2010 and helped establish zombies as a community phenomenon with its own lore community, wikis, and dedicated player base that persists in 2026.
How many missions does COD WW2 have compared to other CoD titles? WW2’s 12 missions is a standard campaign length for the series — CoD4 had 21 missions, MW2 had 18, Black Ops 1 had 14, Black Ops 2 had 11. WW2’s 12 missions takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete on Veteran difficulty. The campaign is well-regarded for its emotional story beats and memorable setpiece moments, particularly the D-Day opening and the liberation mission in Paris.
Understanding the WaW zombie wave structure helps explain why the game remains challenging despite its age. Each wave increases zombie health by approximately 10% and adds additional zombies to the round. By round 10, zombies require full magazine dumps to kill with basic weapons. By round 20, only Pack-a-Punched weapons and the Wonder Weapon (Wunderwaffe DG-2 on Shi No Numa and Der Riese) reliably kill in small numbers of shots. The Wunderwaffe DG-2 — a lightning gun that chains damage across multiple zombies — was the first Wonder Weapon in CoD history and established the tradition of overpowered map-specific weapons that every zombies map since has followed.
WaW’s multiplayer Domination and Team Deathmatch modes remain playable on PC in 2026 through community-hosted servers. The playerbase is small but dedicated — WaW has a community of players who specifically prefer its World War II setting and weapon balance over later CoD titles. PC modding has also extended WaW’s life significantly: custom zombie maps created by the modding community have added hundreds of user-generated experiences to the game. Some of these community zombie maps are considered among the best ever made, rivaling Treyarch’s official releases in creativity and design quality.
Black Ops 1’s prestige system also deserves specific mention in the context of WaW and early zombies history. BO1 has 15 prestige levels — more than any other CoD title — each requiring you to reset from level 1 to level 50. For dedicated zombies players, prestige in BO1 multiplayer was secondary to zombie round records, but the prestige emblem progression from crossed rifles through skull variants to the final Prestige 15 badge created a visual record of time investment that the community respected. Reaching Prestige 15 in BO1 was a genuine achievement that required hundreds of hours — the most ambitious prestige grind in the classic CoD era.
Bottom Line
| WaW multiplayer maps | 17 base maps + 9 DLC maps across 3 map packs |
| WaW zombies maps | 4: Nacht, Verrückt, Shi No Numa, Der Riese |
| First zombies map ever | Nacht der Untoten — WaW 2008 |
| BO1 zombies maps | 10 total (4 base + 6 DLC + 4 WaW ports) |
| Five map | BO1 — JFK, Nixon, Castro, McNamara; unlock by beating campaign |
| BO1 remaster | Not officially announced as of mid-2026 |
| COD WW2 missions | 12 campaign missions — D-Day to Germany |
| WaW in 2026 | PC (community servers) and Xbox (backwards compatible) |
Frequently Asked Questions
What are all the Call of Duty World at War maps?
WaW has 17 base multiplayer maps: Airfield, Asylum, Banzai, Breach, Castle, Cliffside, Courtyard, Dome, File, Hangar, Makin, Makin Day, Nacht der Untoten (bonus), Outskirts, Roundhouse, Seelow, and Upheaval. Three DLC map packs added 9 more multiplayer maps plus the zombies maps Verrückt, Shi No Numa, and Der Riese.
What are the WaW zombies maps?
Call of Duty World at War has four zombies maps: Nacht der Untoten (base game — first ever zombies map), Verrückt (Map Pack 1 DLC — asylum; introduced perk machines), Shi No Numa (Map Pack 2 DLC — swamp; introduced wonder weapons), and Der Riese (Map Pack 3 DLC — factory; introduced Pack-a-Punch). All four maps were later ported to Black Ops 1 as DLC.
What are all the Black Ops 1 zombies maps?
Black Ops 1 has 10 zombies maps: Kino der Toten and Five (base game), Ascension, Call of the Dead, Shangri-La, and Moon (DLC), plus four WaW map ports (Nacht der Untoten, Verrückt, Shi No Numa, Der Riese) available as DLC.
How many missions are in COD WW2?
Call of Duty WW2 (2017) has 12 campaign missions, following US soldier Ronald Daniels from D-Day through the end of the war in Europe. The missions span Normandy (D-Day, Operation Cobra), France (S.O.E., Liberation), Belgium (Battle of the Bulge), and Germany (Endgame).
Is Call of Duty WaW available on PS4?
No — Call of Duty World at War is not available on PS4. WaW was a PS3 and Xbox 360 game, and PlayStation 4 and PS5 do not support PS3 backwards compatibility. WaW is playable in 2026 on PC (Steam, with community multiplayer servers), Xbox One/Series X (backwards compatible), and PS3 (physical disc only, low online population).
