Subject: 9 Cool Things about Nuke Town in Black Ops Tue Nov 16, 2010 5:12 pm
1) Double Rainbow all the way- This one is obvious. If you havent seen the youtube video of the guy that gets all emotional after seeing a double rainbow... well.. this is a tribute to that.
2) A Sponser Car- The Jeep wrangler in the map has the same markings as the Special Addition Jeep Wrangler being offered for sale as the Black Ops Addition.
3)Street Signs- If you look at the street signs they are named LatchKey and Trinity Ave. Trinity was the name of the very first atomic bomb test, while Operation Latchkey was a series of nuclear tests in the late 60s. It’s a little funnier if you consider that you’re not even playing at an intersection of two roads — it’s a firefight on a dead-end street.
4) Names On Mailboxs - And who lives in Nuketown? Check the mailboxes — it’s your old pals Mason (in the teal house) and Woods (in the yellow house).
5)Welcome To NukeTown Sign- The population counter on the Welcome to Nuketown sign changes based on how many people are currently on the map. What’s more, the sign sparkles, as do a few other objects in this level (check the plates of fruit on the kitchen table in Woods’ house.)
6)Clock Tower- Nuketown’s clock tower is a little unusual — it’s a doomsday clock, and it accurately counts down how much time is left in the match. Of course, when it hits zero, Nuketown blows up.
7)RC-XD on the DL
There’s a bit of broken fence in each back yard — one hole next to Mason’s fallout shelter and the other near Woods’ shed. The openings are just large enough for an RC-XD to fit through — try it. You can take your remote-controlled car for a little offroad joyride, complete with ramp jump — a part of the map where humans cannot tread.
8. Moving Mannequins-This one’s just creepy. The mannequins that populate Nuketown change every time the level begins. For instance, over at the swingset behind Woods’ house, sometimes you’ve got a male standing behind a female seated on the swing; sometimes you get just one or the other. It’s the same everywhere else in the level; the genders and placement of the mannequins vary every time you play.
9)9. The Mannequin “Surprise”: A Suburban Legend No More! Apparently Treyarch’s David Vonderhaar stated in an interview that if you shot all the heads off the mannequins, you would witness a “surprise.” Some people say you have to shoot them off in 60 seconds; some say 30. Some people said the secret was that the nuke immediately went off; others have said the mannequins spontaneously generate firearms or turn into zombies, which then attack. If you get everybody working together, The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” plays from unseen loudspeakers. Both teams have to work to do this and you can't miss any of the mannequins.