Black Ops 7's latest zombies map did nothing to revive interest in the game.

The latest Zombies map for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been released. It's not necessarily bad, but It's hard to get excited when Activision reheats the Nuketown leftovers.

Paradox Junction launched on March 11, and the launcher's player count peaked at 35,000, continuing to decline from 66,000 in February. SteamDB isn't a perfect metric because it only looks at peak concurrent players on PC, not the total number of players across all platforms, but it's often a good metric for broader attention.

Nuketown was reimagined and expanded as the Alpha Omega map in Black Ops 4, but Paradox Junction goes back to basics.

Considering 'Call of Duty' also includes Black Ops 6 and Warzone, it's not a good sign that the peak figure is only 35,000 on the day a new map is released. Of course, Black Ops 7 is also available on Game Pass, which may skew the Steam numbers, but considering the Call of Duty launcher hit 100,000 players when BO7 launched last year, it's safe to say that this third attempt at Nuketown Zombies won't be enough to bring people back.

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Online sentiment wasn't much better either. Outright hatred for the map is rare, as we've seen with maps like TranZit and Die Rise in the past, but as with the Black Ops 2 pre-order Nuketown map, there's not much to do here, so the general sentiment is almost cold.

Of course, Paradox Junction supposedly has as many mini Easter eggs as Liberty Falls. However, because this version of Nuketown is ripped straight from multiplayer, moment-to-moment gameplay is limited by how small the map is. And even though there are novel ideas to freshen up the experience, like being able to jump through time, the exorbitant point costs make it more boring than interesting.

Not to mention shock imitation. It would be okay to have a 1:1 recreation of Black Ops 2's Nuketown to bridge the gap between Astra Malorum and the next big zombie map. Could it be, at worst, an inoffensive but shocking imitation? hurry. Still, despite having up to 43,000 players, Call of Duty's rankings lag behind CS:GO's primary relaunch. Paradox Junction has its saving grace. Impressively, despite the map's small stature, it boasts the longest Easter egg hunt in modern Zombies.

Not to mention another amazing Kevin Sherwood song.

But after a strong start with Ashes of the Damned and Astra Malorum, another Nuketown map doesn't come close to fitting the armament that Black Ops 7 so desperately needed.