Did it need to exists? No Am I happy that it does? Yes Its a fun little map and its an alternative to the lava infested green run maps and the complex transit as a whole

I disagree, to me nuketown is more of a challenge map and the ambience is the most post apocalyptic aesthetic there is

I personally liked nuketown in zombies, except for alpha omega... but nuketown to me is a fun bare bones survival map, the best gun is the ray gun or the mk 2, it's also fun because of the random perk spawn there a glich to fly pretty much but yea I like nuketown

Honestly this map felt very fun for it's chaotic nature. It didn't feel overwhelming on the player when it came to setting up as all you had to do was open doors and hit the box and just test your luck while you waited for each perk and pap to drop. However, it didn't feel too easy either as this map puts your skills to the test to see how long you can last with just the bare minimum of perks and paps with no map wonder weapon (excluding both Raygun and Raygun mk2). Also, this map never feels boring, it always felt like your on your feet compared to Nacht which was slow paced and quiet while the horse rushes you or like Kino we're your basically op with the thunder gun in an open theater. It in a way felt perfect where it doesn't make you groan about setting up, it immediately throws you in the action where skills are constantly tested. Also, the map just feels like something is always going on instead of an isolated map. In pretty much most BO1 maps they all felt isolated which just made it feel dull at times like in Nacht or Moon. However in this map, sirens constantly go off, zombies are screaming from all angles, and my favorite part is literally playing during the Moon Easter egg which just gives this map brownie points as it allows you to experience such an impactful climax of the zombies storyline but from another perspective which I just adore. I think the only other time we see this is the red phones on Five and Acension but this one is just amazing. Overall, I love this map and commend Treyarch on their work for this map

I personally think every COD zombies launch needs a simple map and a complex map and Nuketown did it perfectly.

You also gotta remember this was a pre-order exclusive map, the map very much feels like a sales incentive but it is a fun one

I bought Nuketown believing that it had Grief because a saw a KZfaq video on it. I was shocked when I downloaded it that it was just survival and no grief. So, my only options were Nuketown or Tranzit so I decided to just play Nuketown and I love it to this day. It’s the map that turned me from a zombies noob to a hardened zombies veteran.

Never knew that the Nuke at the end was the same Rockets from Moon. I always thought it was some random nuke because Nuketown always end on an explosion. Also i like how this map is just some random characters just trying to survive, not every character has to be a "main character".

4:53 besides the video being amazing already I'm just amazed by you surviving that moment

This is probably one of the best retrospectives I've ever seen. I've been comparing CoD Zombies to roguelites/likes for years, and after BO3 introduced Gobblegums, and how CW introduced insane metaprogression, it's nice to see someone else compare these two genres. Nuketown has always been an interesting map in my eyes. The map itself isn't anything special, but being in the event that caused this entire storyline is wild.

TLDR: you call it a regression, I call it a return to what made zombies good. I think it makes perfect sense why they released it when they did. After a few super challenging zombie maps, it's totally reasonable that they made a map that could still cater to the players who liked that original, simplistic style of zombies. Good things about the map: no "easter eggs" that were actually really complicated quests with no guidance, no huge distances where you get downed way too far from your teammates to be revived, or other such nonsense, you don't die from literally walking on the map like tranzit. The atmosphere is also one of the coolest. They perfectly combined the zombie and nuclear apocalypse aesthetics. It's such a fun spin on the map that i don't mind it being recycled from a classic multiplayer map. Don't get me wrong, I have beef with the map for its lack of mobility (too much debris, cracks, rocks blocking paths), overly heavy dependance on rng, and the fact that they didn't open up the more of the neighborhood to give it more variety. But it's a nice simple map where i can shoot some zombies and not do a million other things at the same time.

The apocalyptic feel of nuketown is my absolute favorite it’s such a amazing map in that regard it is one of the most challenging maps to set up on but it was the absolute perfect pre order bonus I kinda wish we’d get maps like rust or terminal reimagining from Treyarch my fave Easter egg is the zombies getting blue eyes it also has my fave ending hearing Richthofen laugh as a nuke drops incredible my biggest complaint the character had no quotes

Something you also really need to consider when talking about Nuketown is yeah it was just supposed to be a fun little side map. When Black Ops 2 came out even it was just a bonus map included with the Season Pass like Nuketown 2025 was for Multiplayer. And for just a bonus map tagged on initially I’d say it did a really good job at giving players something else to do that wasn’t playing on Tranzit or Town over and over again. Something else good I think it did was bring more people in because well, you’re already playing on one of the most iconic maps in Call of Duty history there’s not much else to learn other than the basics like perks, pack a punch, and training which I still commend Nuketown for to this day.

Before Die RIse came out, this map was really important to me as it kept me playing zombies when I didn't want to bother with Tranzit. It adds nothing to the mode, but was really important for those early BO2 days

Without even watching this video, I can say that the answer to the title is: It didn't. But they did get creative with the way they added it into the plot, I thought that was a really awesome move in the story. It's also great fun, and a good challenge.

Nuketown zombies had the most intriguing loading screen in my opinion. I always wondered what was going on there.

Only thing missing was Nuketown grief

People need to understand that Nuketown was an arcade map. No real story mode or structure, just an arena like Nacht

I really miss the old style zombies - where it was just about skill and high rounding. I don't want to follow an Easter, learn complicated buildables etc. I wish they would simplify things and go back to the og style!

I love your commentary and analysis. I'm flabbergasted that you ONLY have 105 subscribers, the structuring of these videos have been too professional for someone of your size. You earned my respect and my sub

Honestly nuketown is by far my s tier map of all maps. I don’t care for ee’s I just want perks a gun and survive and with how complicated and ee focused maps have been bo1-bo4 for me it’s a sense of relief. Any map across any game that isn’t a chore to turn on pap or power and other complications is a plus for me. #BeLikeKino #SurviveLikeNuketown #SimpleLikeTown

Considering your articulate description of everything I presumed you had like, tens of thousands of subscribers. Seriously, great video. Was super interesting to hear your take on Nuketown Zombies and just remembering it all, since well it's almost 10 years now since it released. I personally liked Nuketown, way more than Alpha Omega, it just felt like a fun challenge map, and similar to Town Survival it was refreshing to play more than once other than TranZit, which really required extensive time and effort just for one playthrough. I respect what Treyarch were trying to do with TranZit, but it was too ahead of it's time, and the fact they never even patched the Jet Gun to make it more viable to use as a "Wonder Weapon" was a bit of a joke. I love Rogue Like games a lot so seeing the unique perk system in Nuketown was certainly refreshing. The Round 25 blue eyed Zombies Moon mini Easter Egg was one of the coolest smaller features ever added to one of these tiny maps.

I remember me and my cousin playing this map split screen when we were on vacation. Jugg didn't drop till round 20, somehow we made it there, and to round 25 as well. I think we paused it and went on a walk, when we came back our little sisters had reseted it and were playing. rip.

Nuketown’s one of my fav maps. The thing i like most about it is that the characters you play as are a nice change, cdc-cia officers are so fitting to the game.

I personally enjoy both AO and nuketown, i like the idea that we play on this version of nuketown, after the nuke setting off from the original nuketown.. And then adding zombies was kinda cool for its time, its fun with friends, and definitely was challenging without knowing what perks you'll get, and its a simple map, not really meant to be too big, just nuketown. When AO came out, I was like holy crap after all these years we can fully explore nuketown, and also go into the bunker, and I enjoyed that map too with all the upgrades for the MK2 ray gun, it was sick and both were pretty good in my eyes, I can see how both comes off as terrible from the community

Man could you imagine if all multiplayer maps had zombie map variants. I’d preorder every special edition COD game.

Only problem with this video is it ignores the fact Nuketown was $5. For $5, the map did not need to be some masterpiece and I think it did exactly what it should have.

I think an aspect that's sort of overlooked in the video is that nuketown was actually a preorder bonus and not something that casual players bought so treyarch probably didn't want to get to ambitious with it either. If you didn't purchase a preorder or special edition you didn't have access to this map. Been loving these analytical zombie retrospectives keep it up.

Great Video keep up this Quality and you will hit those big numbers! I personally used this map back in the day as place to practise my training ability and also just to play a round of zombies. After Black Ops 1 and MW3 ,Black Ops 2 was my first real cod where i bought dlc for and really got into gaming as a whole so i never really understood the ''hate'' for this map as for me it was just a fun small map you could just hop in and play alone or with friends. There was no annoying lava and it had this little challenge with the random perk every few rounds in contrast to town. of course it is no Origins or Mob but it never needed to be.

Nuketown had almost no reason to exist in Zombies, but by doing so, it continued the trend of "reusing" maps in such as way that it wasn't done exclusively with the intent of saving time and resources, but for the intention of giving an homage to other parts of CoD. Previously, we have seen Nacht, Verrückt, and Five take direct assets from their Campaign/Multiplayer counterparts to save resources, but as time went on, we've gotten more original maps, yet some where still faithful to their variations. Examples would be Kino and Ascension; neither was a copy and paste, but they were set in the same locations as their counterparts, or shared similar concepts and environments. There's nothing necessarily wrong about it, though one could argue that it all started going downhill when BO4 hit the scene. Reusing a map and giving it a completely different viewpoint of it is just as effective as creating a brand new map, but it only goes to blow out minds further when we see how these unrelated projects are connected in some sort of way.

Given that the very base vanilla zombies experience was/is always enjoyable, nuketown was enjoyable as well for me, the aesthetics of maps like nuketown are enough to make me enjoy them since the base gameplay is timeless. You dont really need much for a cool zombies experience imo

It’s also important to remember that Nuketown was released originally as a preorder bonus

Also I heard many times that it’s after the original nuketown multiplayer map but I had my doubts

One thing I liked about Nuketown was its rogue-like element of how perks and pack-a-punches dropped at random times. Sure, it can be annoying when you only get Jug at round 20, but it's fun! A challenge!

This map would have been a lot more popular if all the zombies spawned behind a rebuildable barrier outside the map so you could try other strategies than just training the same Ole loop

I feel like you can't look at it for what it is, but rather you look at it for what you should expect it to be. It's a good map; it doesn't need to be innovative or a next step, tranzit already existed alongside it. I'd prefer a thousand nuketowns over cold war zombies

One of my favorites..... my buddy and I would each train in each backyard . We'd make it to about round 36 . For me it was a fast quick easy map to get to round 40

I really want them to remaster Nuketown zombies, I loved the simplicity of that map

Idc what you say black ops 2 is top tier compared to what cods are to come

I love Nuketown Zombies. Reaching round 25 is the goal everytime as a challenge and a warmup

Bro the ray gun and nuketown look like they came out from the same model pack

4:53 nah we just gonna ignore how u got outta that

i always though of a lore for nuke town zombies in my head so what if the reason there are zombie soldiers and zombie hazmats is that the US military was testing nukes and they sent in hazmats to test for radiation levels and as well as soldiers and the military hadn’t realized that there were still people on site and they had tested a nuke with element 115 that killed the people and had re animated them into zombies so the the CIA to try and contain the outbreak and prevent no further infection but the government wasn’t gonna send in any reinforcements to help out so they left the agents to fend for themselves. idk just sorta over thought it in my head and decided to post it here

Nuketown is so fun. I’ve recently got into zombies fully. I’ve played most games from waw-bo2 but the mode never really caught on for me. Got super into CW zombies and that has lead me to playing all the games I missed. I often find myself loading this map just to chill out and play

I like to use nuketown as a warm up map before I play one of the other more in-depth maps. Your lucky to get jug before round 10 so you have to be carful when training. It’s the best way to polish off your training skills I believe.

Imagine treyarch built a whole underground area to go along with this map

I actually wish COD Zombies still had randomness in them. Maybe not as much as this map, but people often forget that COD Zombies is supposed to be a simple game at its core. Elements of randomness is honestly the best way to keep it fresh even if it isn't the most "balanced."

I remember a lot of people wanted Nuketown zombies as a map

4:09 that corpse launch tho 💀

I always felt nuketown would’ve been greatly improved with the addition of PHD, stamin-up, mule kick and deadshot. There are enough spaces for them all to land. Perhaps even removing the perk limit too.

Tbh that bunker was one hell of a supernatural find. Not only were the walls thin enough to hear through, but it’s survived one normal nuclear blast and technically a direct hit from the god damn Death Star. Because all 3 missiles blew up the earth

To be fair, i remember the only way to get access to this map was to pre order the game. I expected more than just ‘nuketown but the walls are broken’ you know. In a way this feels like vanguard zombies, take an mp map and dump it into zombies. This was like the first real lazy zombies map. I played way more tranzit and all the other maps, and this map was just forgotten. Not just to me but many other people aswell due to it being too simple and boring. If you really wanted a survival challenge back then you could just boot up nacht der untoten which to be fair was also remade in the last dlc of black ops 1 xD.

Nuketown scratched the itch of a small zombies map. It got crowded in there quick.

Funny how THIS is the ancient ancestor of the Onslaught mode from BOCW

All this map needed were the wave-guns and the bo1 perks and it would have been perfect

Activision probably told them to make a pre-order map last minute so Nuketown was the simplest map to convert and also everyone loved the map already; the incentive to pre-order was very high. I never liked pre-order bonuses especially when it's playable content cut out of the base game.

Nuketown is the only zombies map I like. No story, no convoluted Easter egg, no power to turn on, just surviving.

I was actually hoping for a Nu3etown 2025 zombie map for Bo3 back in the day lol

Back in the days i played a lot this map, was fast phased fun and i remember loving the random perk system, it gives a different challenge every time. Good analysis and thanks for the nostalgia.

Only complaint I have is I think shouldn’t had a price tag for how bare bones it was but still fun.

Nuketown zombies would have been a legendary custom map though. Arguably one of the best

Nuketown zombies was teased during black ops 1. I dont think they just wanted to experiment with it, however they could have done so much more with it,

I love Nuketown. Probably my most played maps in that game were Nuketown, Origins, and Mob of the Dead. Nuketown mostly due to how it reminded me of the early, simple maps from WAW. Also, I had a number of friends who didn't play much zombies and Nuketown was just a fun survival map that was easy to pick up and understand even to a relative newbie. Great map, in my opinion. Variety in map design is good, I think!

Honestly, I think it would've been cooler if they had it so that it was just normal nuketown straight out of the first black ops game, but then at round 25 or something the rockets land, and it goes to the way you see it then

Haven’t played zombies seriously since bo3 idk why this channel was recommended but I raise a chicken nugget to this fire content L’Chayim

I always thought it would be cool if there were Spetsnaz Uniform zombies and Black Ops Uniform zombies.

that was a damn good video, a shame it aint been seen by so many..

Just wish it was more like going out of border and walk through the streets and entering other houses. Also if you could enter the bunker in the green garden would be nice since you could open the shed in the yellow garden for a power up.

I’m really digging your content dude, it’s nostalgic asf

I like that its the link between bo1 and bo2 Zombies even tho its just a Barebones map made because nuketown was populare

Something I never understood was the time setting. This is obviously based on the Nuketown from Black Ops, set in 1968. We know this because the trailer depicted the original Nuketown, it contains the same props, and the zombies are dead Black Ops and Spetsnaz soldiers from that game. But if it is set in the same time as Moon, which is 2025, what is going on? Why is the original Nuketown still here when it was destroyed at the end of Black Ops and how are there dead soldiers from 60 years prior still there? Treyarch also seemed to contradict the explosion. We all originally thought back in 2012, that Moon takes place in 1968 which would initially make sense if the Groom Lake Facility was nearby which caused the factions to reanimate and explain why the explosion seem to have just happened. Not to mention Green Run had a 1950’s aesthetic before we knew it was set in 2035. But after finding the truth, it seemed like a better idea would be to put Nuketown 2025 instead, as that battle also took place in 2025. In the Chronicles comics, it is revealed that the explosion was caused not by a nuke, but by Broken Arrow drilling Element 115 led by Dr. Schuster. Then in Alpha/Omega, it was shown it was actually Samantha Maxis rage that destroyed the place. It makes zero sense. It would have been better if Treyarch didn’t try to connect this to Moon.

I loved this map, this was so much better than transit which was a breather but all and all I knew at some point that it would've became a zombies map thanks to the nuke at the end of the mp version

My one complaint is that there SHOULD have been Grief mode. It was a literal PvP map, and it would've worked better than the other grief maps in my opinion

Had alot of fun just surviving on this map

New favourite KZfaqr found. Keep up the content, it's insanly enjoyable!!

2:42 NOOOOOO NEVER OPEN THE WHITE DOOR!

Nuketown truly is one of the zombies maps of all time

Because imagine in 20 years your reminiscing on Black ops and thinking, “why the fk didn’t we get Nuketown zombies?”

This is a great video. It’s make me go back and watch all of the different retrospectives

My brother gets so mad when I go down I run this map by myself to get better and crazy I did

Holy crap I just realized you are doing every map-subbed.

This channel is going to be huge I am calling it fantastic content

I am still confused on why the place is so destroyed BEFORE the nukes dropped.

i was hyped for this, but the map turned out to be way too stressful for a casual like me

Playing zombies since Nacht Der Untoten, seeing a small map like Nuketown zombies pop up after all these insanely huge maze-like maps was very refreshing. I love all the other BO2 maps but Nuketown will always be my favorite.

I used to practice training on this map a lot

Gave you a sub, honestly this is great content

Hey man I discovered your videos today and I love them keep up the good work

4:09 lmao what is that flying zombie ragdoll

I will always find it funny how nuketown was a critical location in the zombies story, as it held the elemental shard

originally this map cost $40 bucks cus it was only available thru the season pass so this might be the most expensive zombies map

Your videos are so good!

I once had a run back in the xbox 360 days where i guess the perk stuff gitch out or something because fucking juggernog never spawned, got to round 24 or 23 by panicking every sjngle round lol. I think its a nice map, glad it exists

I... don't even remember Nuketown as a zombies map lowkey 😂

is nobody gonna mention that sweet juke at 4:53 ??

Nuketown Zombies is Nacht with perks.

Honestly, I just wish Nuketown had a trap and stamina up.

The perks are dependant on the population counter

WaW and BO1 map with bo2 guns. I'm happy

I didn’t mind nuketown but far from my favorite , I kinda viewed it as Five, being kind of a bonus and different experience (also more difficult). But it definitely also feels like the devs knew they went too far with transit so this is tossed in for a more basic experience. Thank goodness BO2 zombies DLCs were fire