David Vonderhaar, Game Design Director for “Call of Duty: Black Ops 2,” has stated that the Nuketown 2025 map for the popular first-person shooter will be making its way into the game’s normal rotation.. In response to a fan query whether the pre-order exclusive map that was used for double experience events would ever fully return to “Black Ops 2,” Vonderhaar simply replied, “Eventually, yes.” The news that the Nuketown 2025 map wouldn’t always be available after the launch of “Call of Duty: Black Ops 2” was met with controversy as players felt they should have access to a feature that was offered as a pre-order bonus. Now it looks like fans will be getting the map back, in full, at a future date.
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Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.
@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol
Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.
If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.
Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.
Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite
I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.
Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts
I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.
Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.
We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.
I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.
I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.
MOAR CAMPING?!?!?!?!?!?
Obv.
Should have been like that from the beginning. It was false advertising. The Nuketown playlist description was "24/7, 365 days a year, we never close". And on the Nuketown promo it never said anything about only being for double xp weekends, there was no disclaimer at all, nor did Treyarch/Activision ever say anything about it. I was pissed when they took it away, that map was the whole reason I preordered.
I've kind of grown to like the map. I hated nuketown at first for a long time as the game pace was just daft and crazy even for Cod.
However, I've kind of grown to like it. I played it non stop over the last dxp wknd. You just have to have your own strategy that works on the map. The map should be on normal rotation although I can see players just switching between it and that boat map which is nuketown by another name.
I'm not the fastest reaction wise so a lmg with shotgun secondary is my setup of choice. You running knifers and quick scope snipers can eat my LMG lead!
Is it only coming back for people who preordered or everyone? And will it make its way to the Wii U?
The map sucks.