Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's Nuketown map - a small, close quarters map set in an artificial village designed for testing nuclear bombs - is returning in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Various retailers are offering the map as a pre-order bonus, suggesting it won't be available to consumers who don't pre-order.

"Multiplayer fans of Call of Duty: Black Ops LOVE Nuketown. Flat out, Nuketown was a blast to play before, and we're excited about the reimagined Nuketown 2025 in Call of Duty: Black Ops II," Mark Lamia, head of developers Treyarch, said in the press release.

Nuketown may have been the most popular map among Black Ops players - on the Black Ops blog, a poll among players put Nuketown as the most popular map with 27 percent of votes -, but whether it was the most well designed is another matter: the map was effectively a very small grid with two houses as bases, and players could go prone and shoot other players as they moved around. It promoted camping - where players sit in one spot and don't move - a consistent problem aimed at Call of Duty. Since instant respawns arguably remove the penalty for death, players were constantly moving around.

The press release also said that pre-orders will get Nuketown 2025 "at launch," suggesting the map pack may be available as DLC in the future. The Call of Duty Elite service is available for players who want to get all the DLC map packs at a discount, for a one-time $49.99 fee.

Call of Duty: Black Ops apparently was the "biggest entertainment launch in history" in 2010, which seems to be the case with every Call of Duty title recently, and will bring changes to the franchise. Two of those are a choice-based storyline, which seems to have multiple endings, and the new 2025 setting rather than the 1960s from the first Black Ops.

Undoubtedly the game will sell well; whether Halo 4, which releases November 6, will cannibalize sales remains to be seen.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 releases November 13 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.