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The famous and long-running Call of Duty Nuketown map can be experienced in real life via a detailed paintball course. Although Call of Duty regularly adds new maps, especially as the franchise shifts more towards a live-service model, there are certain levels that have been revamped and reiterated several times over the years, and Nuketown is one of them.
First introduced in 2010's Call of Duty: Black Ops, Nuketown was positioned as an eerie, uncanny testing site for nuclear weapons. Based on real-world nuclear testing facilities in the 1950s USA, Nuketown is small but packed with interesting details. As its name suggests, the map is a portion of a recreation of a typical US suburb, featuring manicured lawns, cookie-cutter homes, school buses, and white picket fences. Many players may also vividly remember the many creepy mannequins scattered throughout the map, designed to simulate the mothers, fathers, and children of so-called nuclear families. Following the first Black Ops game, different versions of the map would be featured in each Black Ops release, with Nuketown being available in Black Ops Cold War, a sign of its longevity and legacy as an iconic franchise staple.
Now, hardcore Call of Duty fans can check out a real-life recreation of Nuketown at Xtreme Paintball in Massachusetts. Noticed by fans such as Reddit user QAnnihilateQ64, the course is a fairly faithful replica of its in-game counterpart, featuring similar homes, a school bus, and a semi-truck, even including the same barricade that limits players to the cul-de-sac in the video game version. While none of the available images on Xtreme Paintball's website show any mannequins, other details like the back porch on the yellow house and tight garage on its opposite home go a long way towards making this course feel authentic and recognizable.
The Easter egg-packed Call of Duty map is perhaps its most iconic and enduring, as both casual and hardcore gamers will likely be more than familiar with its striking visuals and tight, cramped design that encourages aggressive gameplay. Considering that Nuketown was inspired by real-life nuclear testing facilities, it seems fitting that it would be reverse-engineered into a real-world paintball course.
This paintball course appears to be themed after the original 2010 Nuketown map, but there are several other versions of it that could make for interesting paintball or laser tag arenas. Perhaps this replica from Xtreme Paintball will encourage other Call of Duty fans to craft their own recreations.
Source: Xtreme Paintball, QAnnihilateQ64/Reddit