Black Cats
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 Shooting Japanese ships. | |
| Game | |
| Call of Duty: World at War | |
| Character | |
| Locke | |
| Team | |
| United States Navy | |
| Weapons | |
| Dual M1919 Browning Machine Guns, M2 Browning Machine Gun | |
| Place | |
| South of Okinawa | |
| Date | |
| April 3, 1945 | |
| Objective | |
| Destroy Japanese merchant ships and protect the fleet from a massive Kamikaze attack. | |
| Enemies | |
| Imperial Japanese Army | |
| Multiplayer map | |
| None |
- "Okay people. The fleet still needs our help. Anyone wanna back out...didn't think so."
- — Booth
Black Cats is a level in Call of Duty: World at War. It is the 11th level of the campaign. This is the most unique level in the game, as you are the gunner of a PBY Catalina, or a Black Cat. The player will start off fighting enemy merchant ships resupplying the enemy on Okinawa until the radio operator gets a distress call that the fleet has been hit by a massive kamikaze attack.
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[edit] Walkthrough
The mission starts as two PBY Catalina planes, codenamed Hammerhead and Manta Ray, discover a Japanese merchant fleet, and receive orders to open fire. Once within range, Petty Officer Locke opens fire upon the merchant fleet, and after several passes, the fleet is sinking. Manta Ray's radio officier, Booth, informs the crew that the US Fleet has been attacked en route to Okinawa. The two planes start towards the reported location of the fleet, but are ambushed by Japanese Zeros, and, Hammerhead is shot down. From here the Catalina continues towards the fleet, and lands in the water. Fighting against both PT Boats and Zeros, Locke also must rescue the sailors floating in the water. Once the PT Boats are destroyed and as many saliors have rescued as possible, the Catalina prepares for takeoff, although is under heavy fire from Zeros. Locke and his fellow gunner try shooting as many down as they can, although the are running low on ammo. By the time they are about to take off, there is a trio of Zeros coming at the Catalina head on at 12 o' clock. Locke opens fire, and mere moments later, a trio of F4U Corsairs fly overhead, shooting down the inbound Zeros, just as the gun runs out of ammo. From here the battered Catalina takes off, and the mission ends.
[edit] Tips
- When fighting with the fleet, destroy the PT Boats before shooting at the Zeros, as the Zeros do not pay attention to you usually, as they will try to slam into your boats.
- On harder difficulties, it wouldn't be beneficial to rescue the survivors when under attack, as PT Boats may appear while Locke is pulling someone in, and can cause disorientation to their location, and eventually death.
- Booth will tell you which direction the Zeros are coming from.
[edit] Xbox 360 and PS3 Trophies/Achievements
- One Bad Gato is achieved when you finish the level on Veteran difficulty, worth 30G on the Xbox.
- The Sum of All Zeros is achieved when you down 45 Japanese Zeros in 'Black Cats', worth 15G on the Xbox.
- Lights Out! is achieved when you destroy all the spotlights in the cargo convoy, worth 10G on the Xbox.
[edit] Trivia
- When you are moving from one gun to the other inside the PBY Catalina you can see a few real American World War II propaganda posters on the walls.
- This mission is not available on co-op.
- When you are on the right turret, if you look at the far right, you can see Laughlin on the back turret. But when you change to left turret he suddenly pops to the left turret area.
- "Gato" is the Spanish and Portuguese word for "cat" in reference to the PBY's being known as Black Cats.
- If you shoot at one of the merchant ships when it's going up, it will go down once you shoot at it.
- There is a rare glitch when you rescue a sailor, your view changes so that you are looking down the doorways to the cockpit. You will still rescue the sailor but you can't see him or anything else interesting.
- This level isn't available for the Wii version of the game, and neither is Nacht der Untoten.
- Even though this level is not available in the Wii version, the audio for this level can be heard in the credits
[edit] Gallery
 One Bad Gato. |
 Sum of all Zeros. |
 Lights Out! |
| Campaign levels of Call of Duty: World at War | ||
| Levels | Semper Fi · Little Resistance · Hard Landing · Vendetta · Their Land, Their Blood ·
Burn 'em out · Relentless · Blood and Iron · Ring of Steel · Eviction · Black Cats · Blowtorch & Corkscrew· Breaking Point · Heart of the Reich · Downfall | |
| Nazi Zombies | Nacht der Untoten · Zombie Verrückt · Shi No Numa · Der Riese | |
