Monkey Bomb



The Monkey Bomb is a new weapon confirmed for Call of Duty: World at War's Map Pack 3 (Pictured right). It was discovered in one of the achievements Treyarch released on their website. In the Der Riese Gameplay trailer it is shown as a "Cymbal-Banging Musical monkey toy" who has a bomb attached to it and after awhile it explodes killing a group of Zombies around it. It acts as a 'wunderwaffe' form of bouncing betty. Unlike a bouncing betty, it's movement and music attracts the zombies towards it and leaves them 'mesmerized' by it before exploding. By attracting the zombies towards it and NOT detonating after detecting motion, it can kill considerably more zombies that a standard bouncing betty, and can also reduce the number of zombies coming towards the player. However, it takes a very long time (nearly 5 seconds) to prime, so it is not the best choice to use in the heat of battle.

The Monkey Bomb is a special grenade which can be received from the mystery box, from which you receive 4. The monkey bomb used by pressing the secondary grenade button. The achievement/trophy "Acquire Waffle Weapons!" requires a player to have the Ray gun, Wunderwaffe DG-2 and the Monkey Bomb simultaneously.

Tips

 * Monkey bombs are very useful when reviving downed teammates due to the fact that they distract all zombies in the immediate vicinity, buying you precious seconds.


 * They can be useful when being chased, dropping one behind you will distract (and hopefully kill) any pursuing zombies


 * They are very useful for setting up traps, if you see a large group of zombies coming, one well-placed monkey bomb will likely take out most, if not all of them, and also buy you precious seconds to reload or buy ammo to take out any survivors.

Trivia

 * Nikolai does not like the Monkey Bomb's song, as is indicated by his quote "Good. That song was driving me nuts!" upon the detonation of the bomb.


 * The phrase said by the Monkey Bomb ("Get ready for a surprise!") is a reference to the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall in which a bomb disguised as a fake head says the exact same line before detonating.


 * It may be quite similar to the pipe bomb from the Left 4 Dead series, as it attracts the zombies
 * You only get 3 Monkey Bombs from the mystery box, unlike Molotovs where you get 4, but you can get more from max ammano


 * A possible explanation why the Monkey Bomb attracts zombies is because it plays more or less Polka music. This is humorous because the zombies are Germans and it also shows that the zombies still have some memory of their past lives.
 * If you throw the monkey bomb in the furnace, it will start screaming and then explode. After the explosion a voice will say "Why are you cruel to Mister Monkey? Mister monkey just wants to play!

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