Nuketown is a small multiplayer map from Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Description

Nuketown is one of the smallest maps from the history of multiplayer, along with Shipment, Dome, Rust and Hijacked. It is based on a typical American suburb, where the effects of a nuclear impact should be demonstrated. For this purpose, realistic construction has been done, you’ll find mannequins, walk-in houses and vehicles. At the end of each round on Nuketown, a nuclear bomb goes off in the background while the scoreboard is shown.

For the most part, the map is symmetrical. There are two houses, each with two stories and a garage, both have a backyard, and there is some space in the middle that has been blocked up with vehicles. Each team spawns in the backyard of one house. The player can decide whether to choose one of the two routes to get around the house, go through the middle or rush to the top floor, from where you have an overview of the middle and the other house. The chaotic action mostly takes place in the middle, where the view is perfect for a machine gun or an assault rifle.

The upper floor is the perfect place for snipers or players who like to stay away from all the commotion. You can get in through three paths; there are two staircases, at the back of the house and on the first floor, plus there is a plant trellis in front of each house that you can climb up. However, the latter is very risky, as you are completely exposed to enemy fire.

Info

• The map originally started as an unofficial project of the main map designer Adam Hoggatt, who grabbed the idea and worked on it for just two days.
• It quickly became the most popular map among the developers of Black Ops.
• The houses have a visible chimney from the outside that snakes along the side. Once inside, you can’t spot a chimney anymore.
• Treyarch’s David Vonderhaar claimed that if you shoot the heads off all the dolls in 15 seconds, you’ll get a surprise. The surprise consists of the song Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones playing over the speakers outside the map.
• In the sky you can see a double rainbow, a reference to a famous video from the Internet.
• On the welcome sign there is an indicator of how many inhabitants the city has. The number always resembles the players on the map.
• You can only cut off the heads and arms of the mannequins.
• Chronologically, the map would have to be set sometime before 1963, because in that year the US stopped tests with nuclear explosive devices above the Earth’s surface thanks to a treaty.
• On the Call of Duty: Black Ops II website, it says that Nuketown Zombies takes place during the events of Moon and after the end of a multiplayer match on Nuketown, meaning Nuketown takes place before Moon.
  The two mailboxes in front of the houses say Mason and Woods.
• The mannequins are in different places in each game.
  A street sign that can be clearly seen in the loading screen already says Trinity Ave, a reference to the Trinity experiments. The Trinity logo also looks quite similar to Treyarch’s.
• When you cut off a mannequin’s head with a crossbow, the head flies off, but the bolt stays stuck where the head used to be. The same is true of semtex and ballistic knife blades, tomahawks just bounce off.
• On every bookshelf in the houses you can find a book written by Edward Richtofen. It is called “DG2 and DG3”, a reference to the wonder weapon DG-2 and its punched version.
• On this map there is a path especially for the remote control charge in the backyards of the houses, in the middle of which there is a ramp. If you do not ignite the acceleration, you will not make the jump and the car will simply explode. In the Wii version this way is not available.
• In the yellow house there is a lamp that doesn’t have a light bulb in it, nevertheless it lights up.
• If you sit in a helicopter gunner while dogs enter or leave the map, you can see them jumping over fences and disappearing into boulders.
• In the Wii version, the muddy paths have been replaced with grass, there is no glass in the windows, and the areas next to the windows cannot be destroyed.
• Under the ground near the nuclear bomb, you can see a strange pink truck when you switch to free view in spectator mode, with “Replace me!” written on it. (Eng. Replace me!) is written on it.
• In both garages are tiny cans that say “Scientific Beef”.
• In one house outside the map, two mannequins stand side by side at the window, looking out while holding hands.
• If you throw a tomahawk into the vents of the yellow house, they simply suck the weapon in.
• It is possible to throw grenades or tomahawks into the chimney vents, whereupon they simply disappear and have no effect inside the house.
• When playing Search and Destroy or Domination on this map, a pile of bulky trash is spread outside the houses near the moving truck.
• If you jump on the bunk bed in the yellow house and slowly make your way to the corner by the window, the player’s weapons will all be bathed in a blue light. Lying down makes this effect stop, but as soon as you stand up it’s all over.
• On February 5, 2011 and March 4, 2011, game lists were added for a short time called Nuketown 24/7.
• When the sun on the map is blocked by an object (ducking behind a hedge, knife animation, etc.), it simply disappears.
• Any reflective surface on the map (windows, projectiles from the
  grenade launcher etc.) always show the yellow bus in the reflection.
• In the Wii version it is impossible to jump on the shield.
• If you stand between the jeep and the barbed wire fence while the vehicle is blowing up, it is possible that the player’s body will be pushed through the fence.
• Treyarch claimed that the map had two other names during the development period, Empty Nukes and Bunting, but eventually these concepts were discarded and Nuketown was chosen.
• In the garage of the yellow house there is an American flag on the wall, which does not show stars, but the sign for peace. The same flag can be found in the S.O.G. mission.
• It is impossible to destroy the atomic bomb or even get close to it. If you shoot at it with a Valkyrie missile, the missile doesn’t even come close to the bomb; if you shoot at it with an RPG-7, the projectile explodes in the air before it does.
• Nuketown and Nuketown 2025 are located 281 miles from Area 51.
• The red truck is a Peterbilt 1950 COE model. However, the license plate says WMD, an allusion to another multiplayer map from Black Ops.

Call of Duty

The Call of Duty series has existed since 2003 and in addition to various spin-offs, including for the handheld systems Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, 14 major titles of the series have now been released. Ever since the first part of the series, great emphasis has been placed on the online multiplayer mode in addition to the single-player campaign, which is also reflected in the development of the shooter series. Since the first Call of Duty, World at War, which was developed exclusively by Treyarch, each part also included cooperative challenges that you could play together with friends. The latest installment, Call of Duty: World War II, also features an extended multiplayer mode that puts you and your friends in the combat zones and famous battles of World War II. Using the divisions, you’ll be able to choose between the deadly sniper and the brute armored division and support your comrades in battle. In addition, World War II also has a zombie mode “Nazi Zombies”, as in its predecessor Call of Duty: Black Ops. Face the monsters of the Third Reich and win glory and honor.