Nuketown 2025

"The fan favorite returns, reimagined in a vision of the future!"

- Map description

Nuketown 2025 is a downloadable map released for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It was available for free on November 13 to anyone who pre-ordered the game, purchased a launch copy, or purchased the Hardened edition or the "Care Package" limited special edition of the game. The map is a remake of Nuketown, a map which first appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops. While the original Nuketown went for more of a 1950s vibe, the new map is now meant to represent a "Model Home of the Future" for 2025.

As of November 19, 2012, the Nuketown 2025 / 24/7 playlist was removed and replaced with a playlist titled Chaos Moshpit. It includes all close quarters maps with a variety of gamemodes. The Nuketown 24/7 playlist makes a return to the game whenever a double XP weekend occurs.

As of March 13th, 2013, the map can be downloaded for free on Xbox Live. This feature, along with the micro-transactions, will be released for PlayStation 3 and PC on April 12th, 2013.

Trivia

 * Shooting the heads off of all the mannequins within two minutes of the beginning of the match will cause the screen board to display the Activision logo in retro style. The player will then be able to approach it and play the classic Atari games Pitfall!, Hero, Kaboom!, and River Raid. The hands that the player gets to control the joystick with are based off the first person model for the game Doom.
 * If the player looks directly at the sun, the glare it gives off looks like a representative model of an atom.
 * Nuketown 2025 is a "Home of the Future" type of map, while Nuketown is a nuclear testing zone.
 * Nuketown 2025 does not have any intro song before the game starts.
 * There is a small double rainbow in the second floor of the orange house.
 * The green "Hydro Car" strongly resembles the 1955 Lincoln Futura concept.
 * The robot in the garden pod resembles the iconic.
 * The RC-XD passage outside the map is still present from the original Nuketown.
 * The letterboxes outside the two houses read Woods and Mason.
 * There is a picture upstairs in Woods' house that shows the original Nuketown from Call of Duty: Black Ops in it.
 * There are postcards upstairs in both houses showing pictures of the map. Some of these are the postcards Treyarch showed before the map was revealed.
 * The flags lining the entrance include the logos of Treyarch and Raven Software, along with multiplayer factions from both Black Ops II and Black Ops. The factions are: Seals, Mercs, ISA,SDC, FBI, Militia, Spetsnaz, Black Ops, Op 40,Tropas, SOG and NVA.
 * There is a model of the "Welcome to Nuketown" sign from the original Nuketown on the shelves upstairs in Mason's house.
 * Just like in the original Nuketown map, the books read Edward Richtofen upstairs in Mason's house.
 * The clocks in the houses tell the exact time of the time zone the player is in.
 * The Atari games easter egg is seen at the end of the trailer.
 * Oddly, if the player ends the round (Usually versing bots) during the start up while the screen is gray, the ending with the nuke exploding will also be grayed too.
 * The multiple signs that are put by unique future ideas can give an interesting insight to what people of the 50's and 60's thought the year 2025 would be like.