Nuketown Zombies is a Zombies map that is featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and the twelfth Zombies map overall. It is based on Nuketown, a multiplayer map from Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The map's main playable faction is the CIA, with the CDC also playable in Grief. The map's events are set following the nuclear explosion after a multiplayer game ends on the original Nuketown, with buildings and other environments demolished as well as the nuclear fireball of a "mushroom" cloud seen outside the map. This map is also set during the events of Moon, as zombies have yellow eyes to begin with, but eventually change to blue to signify Richtofen's control of them; additionally, Samantha's voice can be heard at first when collecting power-ups, but over time, Richtofen's is heard instead. As you finish rounds you can hear what Richtofen and Samantha say during the Big Bang Theory, or the Moon Easter Egg from Black Ops.

The map is only available to players who purchase the Hardened, Care Package, or Digital Deluxe editions as well as fans who acquired the game's Season Pass.

In this map there are no perks at first. But random perks fall from the sky.The clock in the middle of the map counts down the rounds to the next Perk-a-Cola/Pack-a-Punch drop.

Starting
M1911
Two M67 Grenades

Off-Wall weapons
M14 - Located at the back of the School bus
Olympia - Located on the front of the truck
Claymores - Located in the truck from the right side of the boarding ramp
Bowie Knife - Located in the truck (Next to the Claymores)
Semtex - Located in the truck (Opposite the Claymores)
AK74u - Located in the truck (Opposite the Bowie Knife)
Galvaknuckles - Located in the truck (Obscured by crates in the very back)
MP5 - Located in the bedroom of the Green house
M16A1 - Located in the bedroom of the Yellow house, at the right of the window
B23R - Located in The Living Room of the Green house
Remington 870 MCS - Located at the fireplace of the Yellow house

Mystery Box Weapons
KAP-40
Executioner
Python
M1216
S12
Chicom CQB
SMR
FN FAL
Ballistic Knife
M8A1
M27
MTAR
Galil
DSR 50
Barrett M82A1
HAMR
RPD
LSAT
RPG
War Machine
Ray Gun

There are three teddy bears on the map. Once activated, the tune Samantha's Lullaby featured from the loading screen of the zombie map Moon can be heard. The first Teddy Bear is in the yellow school bus in the spawn area, beside the mannequin.
The second Teddy Bear is in the yellow house, upstairs on the bunk bed.
The third Teddy Bear is behind the fence of the "garden" area in the back yard of the Green house.

The air raid siren warns the players of the falling perks that will down them if it lands nearby them or kills them if they are too close. The falling perk can also kill zombies within a wide blast radius.

Shooting the heads off of all mannequins will play a 8-bit version of Coming Home or a 8 bit version of Pareidolia , as a contrast to Sympathy for the Devil playing when the heads are shot off in less than 15 seconds in the original Nuketown.

If the player reaches Round 25 on Original difficulty, the zombies' eyes turn blue and the Demonic Announcer changes to Richtofen, as an aftermath of what happened on Moon (Richtofen's Grand Scheme).

In the background of the map, the sound of an air raid siren can be heard. This exact same sound can be heard on Der Riese and Ascension.

Nuketown Zombies is the fourth map to have randomly spawning Perk-a-Cola machines, the others being Shi No Numa, Shangri-La, and Moon.

At round 6, a bus can be heard

Similar to Ascension, if a Monkey Bomb is thrown outside the map, the bomb will laugh and the Demonic Announcer will laugh at the player.

Starting after the nuclear detonation on Nuketown, players will spawn in the center of the map. Debris and rocks block paths, making navigating harder. Perks and the Pack-a-Punch Machine will spawn randomly across the map.

Just like prior Zombies maps, the player can buy an M14 and an Olympia on the back of the bus and the front of the truck respectively. The doors to both the yellow house and the green house are both locked, needing 750 points to buy the door. There is a debris blocking access to the inside of the truck, which costs 3000. Inside, you can find a Bowie Knife, Semtex Grenades, Claymores, an AK74u, and Galvaknuckles hidden behind some boxes. There is a Mystery Box spot under the overhang of the yellow house's garage. The player can also crawl through the gap in the green house's garage, leading to an empty room where zombies can come from the ceiling, the hole leading into the house and from under the garage door.

Inside the yellow house, the player can find the Remington 870 MCS above the fireplace for 1500 points, with the debris to the upstairs and the door(s) outside costing 1000 points. Upstairs, in the middle of the two windows, one can buy the Colt M16A1 for 1200 points. There are gaps in the porch leading to the backyard, allowing the player or the zombies to drop down into the backyard. There are also a debris blocking the stairs from the backyard to the second floor, costing 1250 points. In the backyard, there is one Mystery Box spot, outside of the garden patch. There is also a door that costs 3000 points that leads to a random power-up drop.

Inside the green house, you can find the B23R next to the TV, which costs 1000 points. Like the yellow house, there is a closed door and a cluster of debris costing 1000 each leading to the outside and the second floor respectively. In the bedroom upstairs, you can find the MP5, which costs 1000 points. Again, there are gaps in the porch leading to the backyard, letting you drop to the backyard, with the debris costing 1250 points to remove the debris in the stairs. The backyard has two Mystery Box locations, one is next to the left of the fallout shelter, and the other is on the side of the ruins of the doghouse.

The Nuketown population sign number will show the player how many zombies they have killed. If the player kills a zombie once the counter goes to 00, it will reset to 99 and the white hand on the clock nearby will tick, and then a timer will go off.


This map has no windows, as the zombies will spawn from the ground and climb over fences to reach the player