One of Call of Duty‘s most iconic maps is coming back, but not in the form that gamers might be expecting. No, we’re not talking about confirmation that Terminal is finally coming to Modern Warfare 3‘s multiplayer, but actually Nuketown, the small scale town recreated for Call of Duty: Black Ops.
A piece of pre-order marketing for Treyarch‘s next Call of Duty entry, Black Ops 2, outrights labels Nuketown as being one of the pre-order bonuses for the game, although no specific retailers are mentioned. But, the real catch is that this map will not be a re-skinned version of Nuketown, but one re-imagined for 2025.
The details come by way of an Irish retailer, who provide a vague image hyping Nuketown 2025, but beyond that there is no look at the futuristic vision for Nuketown or how gamers would be able to procure it. Given that Microsoft has already secured first dibs on DLC for Black Ops 2, a similar deal that Activision has worked out with them in the past, it would make sense that Nuketown 2025 would be available for Xbox 360 gamers on day one.
Another interesting thing to note about this Nuketown 2025 reveal, beyond just the return of a fan favorite map, is its indication as to where the multiplayer for Black Ops 2 might be headed. Multiplayer, the real bread and butter of the Call of Duty franchise, has always received the most attention when it comes to COD reveals, and we expect Black Ops 2 to be no different.
If Nuketown 2025 is but one of the maps featured in the game’s multiplayer that suggests the mode is primarily set in the game’s futuristic setting. The first trailer for the game also showed sequences taking place in the past, but apparently the multiplayer will be making one of its biggest leaps in quite some time. How will elements like the quadrotor or the controllable mechs factor into an experience that is already considered by many to be unbalanced?
Fans can expect more details about Nuketown 2025, and the whole of Black Ops 2‘s multiplayer in the coming months.
Black Ops 2 releases November 13, 2012 for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.
Source: IGN
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Was never a big fan of this map but good to know it’s a pre-order incentive and not a costly DLC that you’ve played before.
Now show us some zombies!
I loved Nuketown. It’s a great map for people, like me, who just play CoD multiplayer on occasion, since it’s so simple and symmetrical; it makes the game a very simple run and gun shooter, which I’ve always been a fan of, myself. To know that they’re bringing the map back makes me look forward to Black Ops II multiplayer even more. Hopefully they release the map anyway, since I may not pre-order the game.
That being said, Let’s have some more Zombies info!
This is such a godawful map. It’s tiny, filled with choke-points and is peppered with holes just begging to be camped in. It was badly designed in Black Ops, it’s going to be badly designed in Black Ops 2 and it really should not be returning at all.
There’s this option in the game lobby, it says “Leave lobby.” You can always choose that option before the game starts.
There are not that many holes to camp in in Nuketown. Actually, I can’t think of one. There are really no “camping holes” in CoD. Just corners, ledges, and windows, which are in every map. And there are really only 2 choke points, which are at the houses. If a whole team attacks the other team, and they orchestrate it well, they can keep that team in the backyard temporarily, but then the other team will spawn in the other backyard, balancing it back out. The only reason you shouldn’t like Nuketown is if you don’t like small maps. And you can’t say Nuketown 2025 is going to be badly designed because we haven’t seen a single screenshot of it yet. Your comment was very poorly thought out.
“Given that Microsoft has already secured first dibs on DLC for Black Ops 2, a similar deal that Activision has worked out with them in the past, it would make sense that Nuketown 2025 would be available for Xbox 360 gamers on day one.”
No sh*t, Sherlock. It says very clearly: “DRIVING PRE-ORDERS …AND DAY 1″
Looks good but don’t know how they will integrate it in with their DLC system… So how do those who don’t pre order get their hands on if afterwards? How long will the exclusivity of it be I think is the question.
Is it just me that remembers that nuketown gets blown up every time at the end of the match so… how can it still be there in 2025? it should be dust.
Good point. I guess they built a new one.
with that train of thought each player should only be able to play the map once in black ops then never again because it blows up.
I want to believe that nuketown is a BO2 bonus, but after giving the pic of the nuketown sign a second look I have come to the conclusion that someone probably hoaxed this.
Nevermind, definitly real.