Firearms Expert Reacts to Call of Duty Zombies’ Guns

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Published 2024-07-06
Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the guns from Call of Duty’s various Zombies modes, including the iconic Ray Gun, the Shrink Ray, the Kraken Cannon, and the Cthulhu-inspired Apothicon Servant.

00:00 - Opening
00:48 - Blundergat
02:29 - D.I.E. Shockwave
03:40 - Kraken
05:02 - Apothicon Servant
06:27 - Monkey Bomb
07:34 - RAI K84 (Ray Kay)
08:35 - The Ray Gun
09:59 - The Ray Gun Mk.2
10:53 - The Shrink Ray
12:14 - Thundergun
12:58 - Wunderwaffe DG-2
14:17 - Wave Guns

In the latest video in the Firearm Expert Reacts series, Jonathan Ferguson--a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries--breaks down the guns from Call of Duty’s various zombie modes and compares them to their real-life counterparts.

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If you're interested in seeing more of Jonathan's work, you can check out more from the Royal Armouries right here. - youtube.com/user/RoyalArmouries

If you would like to support the Royal Armouries, you can make a charitable donation to the museum here. - royalarmouries.org/support-us/donations/

And if you would like to become a member of the Royal Armouries, you can get a membership here. - royalarmouries.org/support-us/membership/

You can either purchase Jonathan's book here. - www.headstamppublishing.com/bullpup-rifle-book

Or at the Royal Armouries shop here. - shop.royalarmouries.org/collections/thorneycroft-t…

You can subscribe to the Armax Journal that Jonathan Associate Edited here: www.armaxjournal.org/

All Comments (21)
  • @kapkant6197
    One of the most realistic things in Zombies is the idea that when the Soviets got the ability to make their own Wonder Weapon, they immediately made it an AK platform gun.
  • @MuhammadZhafran
    Never thought my mind that i would see Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum react to wonder weapons from COD Zombies
  • @EdibleClown
    Assessing the F.E.A.R. weapons would hurt Jonathan's soul less than these
  • @AVGNROCKS1996
    Imagine explaining the entirety of the Zombies lore to poor Johnathan, would make the Vanguard episode look like a trip to Disney Land.
  • @Professor-fc7vc
    Hey Jonathan! The "DG" in the Wunderwaffe DG-2 stands for "Die Glocke" (The Bell), which as far as I know was some purported top secret German wonder weapon that was being developed during World War 2. It's heavily implied to exist in the COD Zombies universe as the teleporters on various maps, hence why the Wunderwaffe is called the DG-2, as the second successful project in the program. In the map that came out before the Wunderwaffe's first appearance you could find a piece of paper on the ground that reads "Die Glocke"
  • @ImStabathon
    If anyone wanted to know some lore as to how the Ray Gun came around to Zombies: "I previously had a conversation with an art director and was spitballing ideas about bringing different elements into the World at War narrative, one of the ideas I had was about those retro futurism toys in cereal boxes back in the day"-Treyarch Senior Lead Artist Maxwell Porter
  • @otbc1999
    Jonathan is a metalhead, he'd like the song 115
  • I was just waiting for bro to pull out each gun "Now we actually have a (insert wonder weapon) here in the armory"
  • 4:16 If such a band were to ever exist, they better pay Jonathan royalties from their earnings Cannonball Carousel does have a nice ring to it
  • The Wave Gun is basically a microwave weapon which cooks zombies from the inside out. As for the DG in Wunderwaffe, it apparently, stands for "Die Glocke". It is difficult to judge weapons that don't exist in real life, since there is nothing to compare them to. Especially if you are an expert in projectile weapons and you have to judge energy based weaponry, which are still just experimental in real life.
  • @Lendon142
    The Ray Gun is a DU Gamma Blaster essentially, that's what the "Battery" Packs are that your dumping in the Gamma Blaster, Depleted Uranium.
  • Oh Great Jonathan Ferguson... please take a look at the weapons of the Valkyria Chronicles games.
  • Still hoping for a Valkyria Chronicles video one of these days. I have my fingers crossed.
  • I also like to see Jonathan react to the guns of Binary Domain, which is a cyberpunk game taking place in 2080 in Japan, and the weapons that the main character squad, the Rust crew, are equipped with are basically futurized version of modern guns. And the robots that you fight also have their own standard issue guns, there's also the underground Resistance, who built their own guns. The game was developed by the same people behind the Yakuza games. I would also like to see Jonathan take a look at the guns of Vanquish, a 3rd Person Shooter from Platinum Games, the weapons ranged from futuristic assault rifles, shotguns, LMGs and pistols to energy weapons that actually use the main character's suit energy to fire, too bad Vanquish didn't sell well enough to warrant a sequel, which is a huge shame since the ending is quite abrupt.
  • @Presofcamelot64
    They should definitely do a part 2. There's so many more weapons they can show lol. Like the Ragnoroks, the staffs, sliquifier, that gun on Zetsibo that I can't pronounce. And I REALLY want to see Jonathan's reaction to the Pack-A-Punch Machine
  • I love how Jonathan is actually charismatic enough to have a lot more to say to this type of designs than just "yeahs, it is definitely a gun from this game"