Sooooo... here's a couple ideas I had.
Maps: Some friends of mine were playing on Call of the Dead, and we really liked the idea of a tower format, like the lighthouse.
Each floor of the tower would have a different perk-a-cola machine, with the Pack-a-Punch at the very top. Utilities would include an emergency escape ladder, activated by a controller that requires money, and only allows movement between floors that have already been opened
After bouncing ideas off the wall for a bit, someone mentioned that the tower could be the Washington Monument, with the Zombie game itself taking place in a post Nuclear Armageddon Washington D.C.
Alternatively, traveling down the tower, into the basement levels below ground, serves to advance the storyline. The objective could be to free the characters from Five from a Cryogenic Stasis, or the the storyline could be the charcters from Five establishing contact with the main characters on the moon.
If the map is the Washington Monument, the story could take several turns. the immediate area around the monument has been preserved, like a bubble in the wasteland of D.C.. Outside the bubble, death is swift and certain, with dust, fire, and radiation making it uninhabitable.
A final objective for the storyline could be to energize a bridge that extends through the uninhabitable zone, to the end of the easter egg. This may even be accomplished by a new (or old) weapon, like the Thundergun.
Utilities:
1) The above mentioned ladder system would be one utility
2) A device that requires an input of $500 from each player, and allows the map's easter egg music to be replayed.
3) Traps, of course are always good. Some suggestions are "Gravity Wall of Death", or "Lazer Turrets"
4) A way to improve purchased perks (Perk-a-Cola-Pro?). Juggs becomes permanent, Stamin-up runs forever, Deadshot causes Zombies to explode when headshotted, etc.
Weapons:
1) A new explosive that does damage in two directions only, like a Zombies version of the Bomberman bomb.
2) A Wonder Weapon that literally incinerates enemies (turns them to dust).
3) A Wonder Weapon that has ricochet bullets (may also be a perk).
More than a few ideas that cropped up during our Zombies game, please comment.
-Nex the Slayer
