Launched on Friday, Activision’s new US military recruitment sim features questionable morality, provocative politics, a super creepy Ronald Reagan – and a totally different kind of Nacht der Untoten. This time, they’re dressed up to boogie down like it’s 1983.
First introduced in 2017 via a BBC News video because the internet is random like that, the Ghanian “coffin dance” meme was subsequently re-invented for the 2020 coronavirus pandemic with an EDM remix on TikTok because… the internet is random like that. Now it’s back in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Zombies map Die Maschine, as we discovered over the weekend.
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— Tarryn van der Byl (@nxtrms) November 15, 2020
WTF… #CallofDutyBlackOpsColdWarXboxSeriesXS #XboxShare pic.twitter.com/ufOPxgaiKP
— Gareth R (@NeverGlade_ZA) November 15, 2020
The first time for us, this psychedelic easter egg popped entirely by accident, but according to PCGamesN, the event is actually started by shooting a series of five orbs around the Pack-A-Punch in the power station. At the end, the box opens up and dumps a bunch of resources. Groovy.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is out now on Xbox and PlayStation consoles, and PC.