Nuketown in real life makes for some explosive fun
The Call of Duty the franchise has had some truly iconic maps over the years, but few are more famous than Nuketown, which was first introduced in Call of Duty: Black Ops. It is well known and loved for its close-ups, fast-paced gameplay, and is watched over and over again throughout the series. No matter how the map’s aesthetic changesplayers know the layout like the back of their hand, which is why it’s fascinating to see the map laid out in real life as a Nuketown paintball.
Apparently, the Nuketown map has inspired quite a few real-life replicas at paintball parks, including one captured in a popular Reddit post. The photo shows an aerial view of the map, which includes two houses, a large truck and bus, and a few cars scattered around. It’s strange to see in real life when you know the area so well, down to the sight.
This guy called the quest map “nuclear town” his own paint field from gaming
While the image from the Reddit post is Paintball Xtreme Park in the metro area St. Louis, a real-life map of Nuketown has been a trend in outdoor theme parks for years now.
In 2013, Tippmann, a company that manufactures shooting equipment, sponsored an event called “Nuketown 2013“In East Dundee, Illinois accentuates the layout of the map. Another park called Xtreme Paintball (not related to the aforementioned park of the same name, as far as I can tell) started advertising Nuketown map back to 2016. Activision even hosts their own live Nuketown Paintball Event at the Forum in Los Angeles that same year. Other maps like Shipment was also treated with live-action.
The list could go on – point is, everyone can agree that the paintball implementation is in fact pretty bad. Call of Duty map, and there are dozens of parks that have posted real maps to prove it. I’ve never played a painted ball bearing in my life, but I’ve played dozens of hours on a Nuketown playlist in CoDso i suddenly wanted to embellish some camo and got destroyed by some orbs full of paint.
