How Der Eisendrache Used Nostalgia To Make Something New

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• CH

  @Chrisey96. · 3 years ago

  A near perfect combination of old features and new mechanics, casual and hardcore gameplay on a map which was large enough not to be simple but small enough not to be tedious. Can you imagine how much more successful BO3 would been if this was the launch map.

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• JE

  @JediEscoliosis4465 · 2 years ago

  i have like 200 hours on this map alone and NOW YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT THERE WAS A SECRET MELEE WEAPON, i have to play it again...

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• DA

  @davemac9563 · 3 years ago

  Der Eisendrache was the last map I enjoyed from the Blundel era. After that, I was getting sick of his look up a guide to get everything style.

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• JO

  @Joel_now_in_HD · 3 years ago

  RETURN OF THE GOAT

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• SA

  @saintcanadianbacon8354 · 3 years ago

  I'm a sucker for medieval castles

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• JU

  @JuneDodge115 · 3 years ago

  I played this map a lot on splitscreen with my brother. He'd make the fire or storm bow and I'd make the wolf bow. We got to to round 36 once which was my longest  game at that point. One of my favorite maps in the whole series

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• DJ

  @DjFluttersMTF · 13 days ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jR69ysXBo&amp;t=1189">19:49</a> Man I really loved training on the rocket platfo- HOLY SHIT A SKELETON

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• JO

  @jordannardolillo5920 · 2 years ago

  This map def required YouTube to upgrade the bows and pack a punch lol

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• CL

  @ClonedGamer001 · 3 years ago

  Technically speaking, between Kino and DE there is another map with a non-English name. Shangri-La is a Chinese name, but it doesn&apos;t have a direct translation the way Kino der Toten can be directly translated to &quot;Theater of the Dead,&quot; but it roughly means &quot;Utopia&quot; or &quot;Paradise.&quot;

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• NA

  @natashamaddox3117 · 2 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jR69ysXBo&amp;t=16">0:16</a> Train Go Boom.

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• LY

  @LylaFur · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jR69ysXBo&amp;t=294">4:54</a> shangri la.

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• SE

  @SenyiKimmo · 1 month ago (edited)

  There&apos;s something really interesting about how Der Eisendrache draws specifically from the <i>finales</i> of the previous three games. It has elements of Der Riese, Moon, and Origins. Obviously there&apos;s a smidge of Mob in there, but all Zombies 2.0 maps owe their existence to Mob so I&apos;m not counting that.<br><br>I think it was trying to signal that this was the beginning of the end, in the same way Origins was the &quot;end of the beginning&quot; if that makes any sense.

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