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Nazi Zombies: Portable is a free and open source Call of Duty: Zombies demake

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I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this one before! A few developers have been building Nazi Zombies: Portable, a Call of Duty: Zombies demake powered by various enhanced forks of the Quake engine. What's a demake? It's basically remaking another game in an older style.

The developer explains: "The game itself is feature-equivalent with Call of Duty: World at War on a generic level. Gameplay components are implemented with minor parity differences. Most World at War maps and their unique features are not yet represented. Various small additions and changes from Call of Duty: Black Ops are present as a means of gameplay smoothing, but not on a wide scale. NZ:P is, first and foremost, a Call of Duty: World at War remake."


Pictured - Nazi Zombies: Portable on Linux

If you've not played Call of Duty Zombies and have no idea what is going on: in simple terms it's a Zombie survival wave-shooter mode. You start off with a simple handgun, and gradually gain money from taking down the walkers to buy up new weapons and access new areas. I tried it out for a bit today and it feels pretty good actually, they really nailed the vibe of it and the mechanics.

Fun to see such a project exist. And perhaps with a little GamingOnLinux shout-out it can find a new audience, and who knows maybe some development help. Would love to see this one keep expanding.

See more on the GitHub and official site. You can even try it in the browser. It's also on itch.io.

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Tags: Native Linux, Action, FPS, Free Game, Itch.io, Retro, Zombies
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mrdeathjr Oct 7
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In my case run ok using zink

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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 7 October 2024 at 3:24 pm UTC
Klaas Oct 7
I still don't know what's going on. Is it single player or multiplayer? If multiplayer – coop or last man standing or whatever?
Samsai Oct 7
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I still don't know what's going on. Is it single player or multiplayer? If multiplayer – coop or last man standing or whatever?
Looks like either singleplayer or multiplayer co-op. It's a wave survival shooter, so shoot zombies until you die.
WMan22 Oct 7
Woah, I haven't thought about this since playing the PSP port in the late 2000s, neat. Happy to hear it's been still chugging along all this time.
Pyretic Oct 7
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I still don't know what's going on. Is it single player or multiplayer? If multiplayer – coop or last man standing or whatever?

There seems to be a Dedicated Server option, so yes, multiplayer
eev Oct 7
I still don't know what's going on. Is it single player or multiplayer? If multiplayer – coop or last man standing or whatever?

It's both, singleplayer and co-op multiplayer, you can get up to 4 players in a server and it's all PvE against the zombie waves.
Doktor-Mandrake Oct 7
I hope they could possibly add splitscreen to this, if it's possible?

Surprisingly Black Ops 3 on PC has splitscreen for some zombie fun.. sadly world at war does not on pc
chaussettes Oct 8
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Commenting to keep track that this exists. Gave it a whirl in the browser and it plays pretty faithfully to the original. World at War always seemed to run pretty poorly through proton/wine for me so this would actually be a good easy way to get my zombies fix. Only thing I've noticed that's a bit different is the zombies seem to swing really fast and will windmill you to death in less than a second sometimes, but still a good recreation anyway.
Mezron Oct 8
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This is silly and cool! Good find!
shadow1w2 Oct 11
Been playing the 3ds port, pretty good for what it is.
pilk Oct 13
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The screenshot made me think about the CoD games that came out on DS. If you've never heard of those versions, they are exactly as awkward and janky as you're thinking.
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