I’ll add my two cents in reference to the mindless fun section: Five is a tough map. A lack of an instant-kill weapon, only two real reliable training spots, very weak SMGs until you get to the labs, doors are expensive all through the map. Hence another reason why it wasn’t so popular.

I honestly loved this map. Scared me shitless as a kid. The only other place you can train is on the third floor by the pig in the center of the room. An added benefit of that spot is you can jump through the windows if you get caught up and make a quick escape.

Five is a cult classic. I love playing it from time to time.

I never forgot 5. I still remember the opening cutscene word for word. Gives me goosebumps when I think of it

Easiest way to kill the thief was to put claymores facing the elevator in the war room and if you stand in the back he’ll never take your gun

I'm very torn about "FIVE". I love the idea of killing zombies as JFK or Fidel Castro, inside the Pentagon! On the other hand, the map is too tight, the Pentagon Thief had too much health, and the prices are too damn high. Also yes it's worse in co-op. Ironically one of my favorite maps is "Classified". Treyarch made it more open, more survivable. The only downside being no celebrity cast.

Black ops was my first zombie experience and five was my favorite map at first because Kino scared the shit out of me as a kid

Five will always have a special place in my heart as it was one of the first zombies maps I played with my dad

Five is a little tougher than Kino, but I also think that part of why it was less popular compared to now is remember when BO1 was released you couldn't just play the map. You had to either beat the campaign or unlock it through the terminal.

Personally playing with friends/randoms wasn’t that hard if you just did a more classic camping strategy. Me and randoms/friends would use the PaP room and kinda use it like a worse catwalk

wait, what? why is there no comments? why is there only 11 likes? why does this channel only have 104 subs? How? This video is incredible!

Look I’m just gonna come out and say it. I was scared asf my first time playing “Five” as I was only around 8-10 when I first finished BO1. I loved the zombies gamemode but was terrified to play on my own. So when I completed the final mission and the game immediately put me into the game I almost shit myself when I heard the iconic zombie theme start. TLDR: I got scared of the game putting me into “Five” after completing the final mission

This map got me hooked from the start because of the starting room. Atmosphere is a large part of what makes a zombies make great imo. This map captured it perfectly

You deserve way more attention and views

Wow man you really make quality content. You will be successful.

Wow your comparison with apocalypse now was spot on, that's literally exactly what I was thinking. Major kudos

Made it this far into the series and I love how deep you go into the actual mechanics. Judging maps on whether or not they work instead of “ I KNOW WHAT THIS IS AND WE ALL LIKE IT SO 10/10”

i appreciate your points but i do not think that's it at all. training in the war room is "easy" until round 35. after that it's a death trap as your guns become useless. i've always thought of kino as the solo experience and five as the coop experience. maybe that's just me but i would always have fun camping at the elevator. maybe have one person training and the rest killing off stray zombies.

I believe this is kind of an underrated map, it is also very difficult, it could be listed on a top 5 harder maps

this map means a lot to me. i remember being in 5-6th grade playing online over skype every weekend. i remember being a little kid screaming about getting the death machine for the first time. i remember not having any idea what we were doing. all with 5 other friends who i’ve lost contact with, but who i’ll always remember fondly. i’ve moved on in life and don’t play many games anymore, but those were the days of pure bliss i’ll forever cherish

Just discovered your videos. You’ll be getting more and more subscribers soon enough, great channel!

Five is the first map, as far as I know, to include a non-hostile npc in zombies in the form the lab pig

Everyone knew you needed a solid game-plan to have a successful five run.

I love "five" whenever i think of old memories of playing zombies with my sister when i was young, a lot of the time we were playing this map.

I love five, I remember my first time seeing it when I was like 8 and it blew my mind, hands down one of my favorite maps in the series

Digestible videos that don't waste anytime, talking about things that barely get mentioned. You have an eye for design, that much is for sure

Five was amazing and the only people who hate it either didn't have friends to play it with or were just straight bad at zombies back then

Dude, 5 was literally the first ever zombies map i ever played. That deserves a medalla by itself.

i love Five! I wouldnt say its my favorite but i definitely wouldnt say its forgotten either though.

The only way to survive this map is to do glitches because with 4 players more zombies actually spawn. The freeze ray also slows down the pentagon thief.

Five has kind of become a running gag between my friends. We don't really like playing BO1 that much because of how bad the ammo capacity and damage falloff of normal weapons, but when we do play BO1, it's always Five. We just love the utter chaos of the map

Five was a great way to get a fresh feel from the story of the main maps, was a solid map aswell, decent challenge well made map underrated map definitely

This channel is amazing. Great content

when my older brother used to play this game, I used to be like “who are those people” and he used to tell me “oh you’ll know who they are when you are older”. I’m still searching answers till this day. It’s been 69420 years

Another factor is just how tough five was. I hated how most lobbies died before even getting to the bottom floor, and I struggled to get there myself too

Forgotten? Kind of an overstatement in my opinion. I believe five aged better as time went on, we grew to appreciate it more similarly to Shangri la

An actual challenge that could be mastered with enough practice, one of the best maps of all time tbh

Never made it past the war room in Five, it's such a hard map! Playing as caricatures of the historical story characters was the shit though, I always wanted to play as the president. Fond memories of screaming at or getting screamed at by my friends to get on the fucking elevator XD

Woah I played so much Bo1 zombies back in the day and I am just now learning about the “Bonfire Sale”! Great videos man, you’re a true model of how to do good gaming video essays

Funny enough Five was my first introduction to Zombies. I witnessed it first when my step-dad finished the campaign, then got to it myself once I did the same. I was also much more scared of Kino as a kid, so I would select Five to work on my fear before chickening out on round 5 or below. It wasn't until BO2 that I started to get into zombies, but if it wasn't for Five my interest in the mode would have been delayed a lot longer. I probably spent less than an hour in total on that map, but it was the spark that would lead me to loving the series and storyline as a whole

"We're talking about the zombies maps- in good faith -as a retrospective." "And why is *Five* here?! It sucked!" "As I always say, forgive weird maps, but remember their cutscenes."

"Need more beans for the chowder here"

my brother and I played a ton of zombies and as we got better we played five more. it's a good step up from Kino and was super fun just camping on the first floor elevator in the 20s rounds. I love five for its challenge.

I loved five, especially because of the addition of the elevator made it so awesome.

I’ve played this map so many times and I never knew their was traps

Love how cinematic you made this 🤘🏾🔥

Maybe that whole quote of "Zombies is co-op and thus harder on Five" Explains why I liked Five more back in my short lived COD days. I had no friends, no xbox live for lobbies and DLC so always played this map over Keno. Plus always found the intro way funnier

Five has best intro movie next to mob of the dead... " What's he doing here? He lost!" LOL

Me and my friends experimented a lot with trying to make this map work and it eventually wound up being our best map. we almost always ran 3-man parties and figured out a foolproof setup involving one guy camping the pack-a-punch room with an LMG while someone mans the windows and the third guy runs the basic war room train. Four people? Didnt work, it was no fun for the fourth guy. Two people? Didn’t work, the camper would inevitably get overrun. But Five was built for 3.

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Just watched Apocalypse Now for the 1st time in my adult life last night before seeing this video suggested to me today lol

4 people in the Pack a Punch room waiting for the Defcon door to open was fun.

So pleased your channel popped up in my recommended, criminally underrated with superb quality! Subbed! :D

Easy map, the Defcon room can hold with 4 people, if not, then you escape via the teleporter. The Pentagon thief is easy, switch to your worst weapon when he gets close and destroy him with the good weapon you have left. If solo, If not then train him at the catwalk so others can shoot him.

i was always confused on the flow of Five, especially compared to Kino, but I always loved playing it just for the cutscene alone.

One would think that the one zombie map where you get to play as JFK, Castro, McNamara, and Tricky Dick would be the most memorable.

Five was just tough to play tbh. Only my friends who were really into zombies would play it. All the casuals would play kino. I miss playing this with my boy Mike, RIP bro.

I think that was the first time I’ve ever seen someone use that trap in the second room. Great vid, loving the series

The memorable thing of five are the character voice lines

I think the reason that losing your weapon might be worse than going down is that it wasn't a forced restart, but still a huge setback. Somehow it feels more punishing to get set back thousands of points and tons of box hits to get whatever your preferred weapon was than it was to just restart because you were still in the same game and there was still the option of facing the difficult challenge of getting your setup back. You were left with two options: continue playing at a greatly increased difficulty than normal to get your setup back, or just restart like normal. In other words, the game was actually harder than just restarting, or you chose to down yourself / hit the restart button. Not a great choice to give players.

7:18 that was a good transition

Five was fun and the glitch to let you stand on tables and get out of the map made it more fun!

I only clicked this video to comment, it's not. It's literally one of the most iconic maps ever.

Ive never really been into zombies but my friends always wanted me to play it with them. When i tried Five it was my favorite map. Ive never been good at zombies either, only ever got good at running away from them and keeping 1 zombie alive for my team lol

This channel and content are criminally under-rated keep up the good work

Damn, this channel is blowing up. 800 subs just the other day. 2.3K now. GGs bois

apocalypse now is a great movie

Sounds Like SoMeONE bRrraeking IN!

Holy shit you’re growing quick

I play this Everytime I’m on black ops 1 it’s not forgotten and is still fun

My good friend had this game on ps3. He was NEVER into games honestly kinda sucked and he knew it. but he wasnt interested in games and still isn't today, but every time I went over he'd ask if I'd like to play a match with him of five. So I like to think this map is special because it made a friend that never touch any games want to play a quick match with me. I honestly think it's the only thing he used his ps3 for expect when I was over playing it lol

Five was is probably forgotten because you were required to beat the campaign to play it and it wasn’t apart of zombie chronicles

No black ops zombies maps are forgotten to the zombie players back then

I wish I could go back to my first five zombies match

I remember my first game on this map. Other than not knowing the layout or anything remotely important, I knew that there were gonna be three nondescript objects that were gonna make sound upon holding square/X on. Finding that red phone on the starting floor and hearing the little buzz indication of an action being done was such a rush. Immediately told the people I was playing with (CoD friends I can’t remember) to look for red phones, and that there were two left. When Eminem started playing we all popped off. Five was a great entry if you wanted a zombies game with more tension and fear. Lots of deaths inside the labs. Love your videos, binge instead sleep, you’re awesome.

Least successful? Maybe, but my most favorite map in BO1? Definitely. I loved the difficulty, I loved playing it with randoms, I loved flexing on them with my forty plus revives. I loved having the audacity to challenge the thief and always getting the bonfire sale. Cheap pack is literally the most amazing thing about this map. But all in all, the experience for me is far better. Kino was and is so cookie cutter, that for me to say it's even decent in the tiering, would be a shame and a lie unto itself. I've always loved the offbeaten trail. Five, Call of the Dead, and ShangriLa were my favorite BO1 maps. The Victis maps are far and away my favorite on BO2, and Shadows is the very best map in all of COD zombies, and I'm one of those who knew that when it first came out. Classified is top tier, but I prefer the Chaos maps over the rest of the offerings in BO4. And Cold War, though not the best game of all time, grants some of the best gameplay we've ever seen in zombies. My opinions almost seem contrarian, but I assure you, they're not. I just have different tastes. I like difficult maps, and the chaotic nature of the maps I mentioned. I like when zombies breaks the mold, and go a bit wild rather than staying formulaic or status quo.

Five was never forgotten

Was a great map to practice on. Loved it

Nobody forgets the pain

Five was fire in my opinion granted I was like 12/13 so I would’ve been cool with almost anything at the time only annoying things for me was people would troll and block the elevator leading to everyone’s death and not many train areas

Am I only one who prefers the difficulty of Five? Call of the Dead and Five are my favorite maps from B01 due to the insane difficulty and skill ceiling. That's not to say I don't appreciate the simplicity of Ascension, I love it too, but I love really bring forced to stay on my toes with Five. It's the only Zombies map I ever played that genuiely made me excited to formula strategies for it as a kid.

The idea that even the DOD is vulnerable to the zombie menace and such is terrifying.

It’s my favorite map because it’s the first map I got to play with my best friend which I call a brother. It’s the most fun/hardest map for me. The Easter egg song is awesome because it activates when you open pack a punch which is even more fun because once you have your packed guns it’s fun to mow down all the zombies with your homie. Winters howl isn’t the best but it’s so fun same with the pentagon thief, great idea to add him in and even better when you kill him and get the pack-a-punch drop. Love the character as well my favorite being Namara. Just love it

Why is HE here? He LOST!

It was so good once you got the hang of it my friends never even bothered trying to see the beauty in this map

It’s so underrated to

I personally quite enjoyed Five as a kid. Even coming back to play it this year, I've found that I still enjoy the map.

If anyone says they don't like 'Five' because it's too hard or whatever, i don't CARE, im saying it. SKILL ISSUE MATE.

This reminded me of Arcade zombies, that was an easy one to enjoy with friends.

didn't five have a glitch in which you could get on top of the table in the first floor and be practically invincible?

Big ups on the content

I’ll always remember Running and gunning thru the lab with the awful Lawton, getting to round 30 was more satisfying then finishing a marathon lol

Nothing like Nixon all paranoid in the beginning 😂😂😂😂

Five had the Eminem hidden song though, & that was always awesome when the death con doors open and he's rapping and your blasting

This map was a classic

The strat in 5 from my time was to camp the bottom elevator all sitting inside and cycling who was guarding the back window, then when it got bad buy the elevator and do it again from the top, rinse and repeat. Then run out after moving floors to get packapunch. Also it was one of the least successful maps if you played with people who didnt know the strat. In my experience the worst map was for sure shangrila you could never get a lobby for it and everyone was miserable when in the map. I remember playing Five for hours on end with people and showing them the ropes, and easily making it to the 40s most of the time

any of yall remember the glitch that let you jump on the window boards and then onto the table?

Me and my cousin always used to camp the first elevator as long as possible. Sure, you wont live long but those rounds will be a lot of fun once they get hectic

One of the best maps for me. I enjoyed zombies for the challenge it offered. Therefore making “ five “ a favourite for me. The kino nostalgia has finally worn off after YEARSSS of playing. Its too easy, now boring. Five with 4 players is really really difficult

fav zombies map ever