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 and Call of Duty Online.

Overview
Nuketown is one of the smallest maps in the Call of Duty series, along with Shipment (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare), Dome (both Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3), Rust (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)  and Hijacked (Call of Duty: Black Ops II). The map is based on a typical 1950's 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. After the explosion, soldiers who were on that map reanimated and turned into Zombies.

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 ladder is a very risky way, as the player is open to enemy fire.

Trivia
Nuketown