Nuketown (map)

"Nuclear testing grounds. Lots of fast paced action."

- Nuketown's map description

Nuketown is a small multiplayer map featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Overview
Nuketown is one of the smallest maps in the Call of Duty series, along Shipment, Dome (both Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3), Rust and Hijacked. The map is based on a typical U.S. suburb used to demonstrate the effects of a nuclear weapon on a residential area; mannequins as well as accessible buildings and vehicles appear throughout the map. At the end of every game played on Nuketown, a nuclear bomb goes off during the scoreboard sequence.

The map is mostly symmetrical, as there are two houses with two floors and a garage, a back yard to both and a middle section with a few vehicles. In both ends, the team spawns in a garden area in the backyard. The player may take a road to the center of the map on either side of the house, go through it or go to the upper floor, which has a vision over the center and the other house. The chaotic action happens mainly in the center which has sightlines ideal for submachine guns and assault rifles.

The upper floor is a popular place for snipers as well as players who prefer staying back from the action. It is accessible by three ways; there are two stairs, in the backyard and inside the house on the room closest to center, and there is a gardening balcony outside the house on the main window, which can be climbed. However, the latter is a very risky way, as the player is open to enemy fire.