What are the core tenets of CoD? Let's see: you used to be guaranteed exactly one NPC with an excellent moustache, and a level you'd never play with your mum in the room. Nowadays you get young men running ceaselessly around tightly-coiled maps, and zombies.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is out today, and doesn't have its dedicated Zombies mode yet. But US retailords GameStop seem to think it'll arrive at a later date as DLC.
"Breaking News for Call of Duty Fans – Zombies are Back!", read a GameStop press release.
"This just in, Zombies are back as part of the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare season ! Stop by any GameStop to pick up one of the most anticipated games to launch this year, along with four multiplayer map packs, Atlas Gorge, and yes – ZOMBIES."
There's no word on when the zombies are coming, but CoD tradition dictates that we'll get them about a month after our chums on Xbox.
In the meantime, there is a wave of zombies you can enjoy as part of Advanced Warfare's co-op survival mode. But you'll have to shoot them in between waves of normal old human beings with their boring, regular respiratory functions.
It's semi-possible to buy Advanced Warfare in a shop today, in its limited Day Zero edition. Its full retail release is scheduled for tomorrow. But in the likely event you have a Steam , you should know that the new Call of Duty has unlocked already. Perhaps you've played a bit of it? How Spaced out are the Spacey parts?