WATCH: Professional Airsoft Players Recreate Nuketown from Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War

Published 12/31/2020, 4:11 AM EST

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Certain maps in games propel the title to greatness, while some go on to acquire an undeniable legendary status. This has been the case with many titles like Counter-Strike’s Dust 2, to Apex Legends’ Kings Canyon. These legendary maps make their respective games special. The Nuketown map in the latest entry in the Call of Duty series, Black Ops Cold War, has a similar reputation.

Fans love these old school maps so much that a group of professional airsoft players went out and recreated the said map in a real-life setting.

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Fans brought the legendary Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War map to life

The actual life experience will not stack up to the one provided by the video games. However, it still holds some special importance to see something of this scale being built in actual life so that fans can experience the legendary map ‘Nuketown’ again.

Professional Airsoft players gathered from all over the world to breathe life into this amazing map. Rules of engagement on this map were pretty straightforward. Each shot by the paintball gun was to be considered as a kill shot that would send them back to the spawn site. The elected game mode for this round of play was a normal ‘Team Deathmatch’.

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Youtuber Dutch The Hooligan was among the players that took part in this event and he also recorded his experience fighting in the legendary map with his Airsoft gun.

Dutch added elements from the video game into the recording so that fans can follow through as the battle rages on. The love and admiration for this map knows no limits, as it has remained relevant even after a decade removed from its release.

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The studio should always focus on giving the community legendary maps like these that can survive the test of time. The romanticism of fans with such maps not only serves the game and keeps it under the spotlight, but also grants it a status that is undeterred by the growing competition.

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Ayank Chourasia is an eSports author at EssentiallySports and has been professionally writing since 2016 and has worked across many fields. He regularly keeps tabs on a wide range of professional esports like Dota 2, Valorant, CS and fighting games. He has been an ardent gamer since his childhood, and became a defender of the ancients in Dota 2 during his college days.
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