50 Fun Facts About Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Which Jurassic Park actor voices failed magician Nero Blackstone in the Black Ops III Zombies map Shadows of Evil?

Jeff Goldblum plays one of four strangers whom the Shadowman tricks into opening a rift that frees an ancient beast. The quartet must then banish the creature from 1944 Morg City.

Which animated purple camouflage unlocks in Black Ops III once every weapon class has earned Diamond?

Dark Matter wraps a gun in drifting purple and blue smoke, and the game keeps it off the camouflage list until it is earned. Reaching it means gold on every multiplayer weapon first.

What appliance came boxed with the $199.99 Juggernog Edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops III?

A mini fridge named after the Juggernog perk headlined the set, alongside Perk-a-Cola coasters in a custom tin and the season pass. The Zombies map The Giant was bundled in too.

Which actor narrates Seize Glory, the live-action Black Ops III trailer that also features Cara Delevingne?

Michael B. Jordan narrates the feats of Kevin, an ordinary player so skilled that he storms through a warzone of robots and the undead. Jordan was already a well-known fan of the series.

On the Black Ops III map Nuk3town, shooting the heads off all of what within two minutes starts an Easter egg?

Mannequins that lose their heads in time come to life and walk toward players like the undead for the rest of the match. Shooting off their arms instead makes them freeze whenever they are watched.

Which Black Ops III campaign difficulty, the hardest in the game, lets a single bullet kill the player?

Realistic leaves the player a single point of health, so one bullet or a nearby grenade is fatal. Treyarch's Jason Blundell said it makes a squad drop to the ground the moment gunfire starts.

Gorod Krovi sends the Black Ops III Zombies crew to which Soviet city, where dragons battle giant robots?

Stalingrad appears in a fractured 1945 where the Soviets have stolen Group 935 technology to build their machines. The dragons, bred by Division 9, fight on the German side.

In Black Ops III Zombies, Richtofen overrides an Austrian castle's defences and launches missiles to destroy what?

The Moon is blown apart together with the Group 935 base on its surface, killing Doctor Groph, who had tried to stop the crew reaching their test subject.

Which band wrote the instrumental Jade Helm for the multiplayer mode of Black Ops III?

Avenged Sevenfold were series regulars by then: the band plays a concert in the end credits of Black Ops II, with Frank Woods on drums.

The Giant, a bonus Zombies map in Black Ops III, remakes Der Riese, which debuted in which Call of Duty game?

World at War added Der Riese in a 2009 map pack, where it introduced the Pack-a-Punch machine. Its German name translates as the remake's English title.

Which actor plays John Taylor, the squad leader who appears to go rogue in the Black Ops III campaign?

Christopher Meloni's character pulls the wounded player out of the opening mission, oversees their cybernetic training, then becomes the man they are sent to hunt.

In the Black Ops III campaign, the 54 Immortals crime syndicate attacks a CIA black site in which city?

Singapore is also where a Coalescence Corporation facility blew up ten years earlier, the disaster that the whole plot circles back to.

Which studio developed Black Ops III, the second game made under Activision's three-year Call of Duty cycle?

Treyarch had three years, yet its creative lead Jason Blundell later said the campaign and Zombies were built in roughly nine to ten months once the team regrouped.

What is the name of the rogue artificial intelligence that takes over soldiers' minds in the Black Ops III campaign?

Corvus grew out of secret brain-implant experiments and caused the explosion that destroyed its own birthplace. Soldiers it infects become fixated on finding a frozen forest.

Which mode, unlocked by finishing the Black Ops III campaign, replays the levels with the undead as enemies?

Nightmares reorders the campaign levels and tells a new story in which a virus made from Nova 6 and Element 115 has raised the undead. Power-ups and a weapon box appear too.

Which Battlestar Galactica actress plays squad member Sarah Hall in the Black Ops III campaign?

Katee Sackhoff's character is hunted down in Egypt, and plugging into her dying mind is how the player first meets the intelligence behind the plot.

Coalescence Corporation's headquarters, setting of the Black Ops III campaign finale, stands in which Swiss city?

Zürich is where a stockpile of Nova 6, the nerve gas from the first Black Ops, leaks and kills CIA handler Rachel Kane as the player looks on.

The Black Ops III campaign opens with a mission to rescue Egypt's prime minister from captors in which country?

Ethiopia is where the rescue falls apart and a combat robot mauls the player, which is why they wake from emergency surgery with cybernetic upgrades.

In the Black Ops III campaign, soldiers control machines by thought through an implant called the DNI, short for what?

Direct Neural Interface implants can also be linked soldier to soldier, which is how the story's mind-corrupting infection passes from one squad member to the next.

Which Black Ops III Specialist leaps up and slams Gravity Spikes into the ground to kill nearby enemies?

Ruin can trigger the spikes in mid-air and slam them down on landing, and the shock wave also damages enemy scorestreaks. Zombies players get a similar tool, the Ragnarok DG-4.

Which Black Ops III Specialist is a prototype combat robot rather than a human soldier?

Reaper is officially Experimental War Robot-115, built by the Coalescence Corporation, and one of its arms transforms into a rotary cannon called the Scythe.

Which high-calibre revolver is the specialist weapon of Seraph in Black Ops III multiplayer?

The Annihilator holds six depleted-uranium rounds that punch through cover, and Zombies players can earn one by finishing the Easter egg on The Giant.

Which Black Ops III submachine gun, the first unlocked in multiplayer, becomes the Crocuta when Pack-a-Punched?

The Kuda is listed in the game as South African-made, and it is also the weapon the player carries into the campaign's opening mission.

Which Black Ops III assault rifle becomes the Anointed Avenger when put through the Pack-a-Punch machine?

The KN-44 is also the rifle carried by the Civil Protector, the robot bodyguard that players can call in during Shadows of Evil.

In Black Ops III Zombies, the MR6 starting pistol becomes which grenade-firing pair when Pack-a-Punched?

Death and Taxes fills the role older maps gave to Mustang and Sally: a dual-wielded pistol firing grenades whose blasts can hurt the user as well.

The slow-firing Man-O-War assault rifle in Black Ops III Zombies becomes which weapon when Pack-a-Punched?

Dread Armada keeps the naval joke going, since a man-of-war was a sailing warship. The upgrade brings a bigger magazine and more reserve ammunition.

Which currency, earned by playing Black Ops III multiplayer, buys Supply Drops at the Black Market?

Cryptokeys are paid to Blackjack, a dealer from the 54 Immortals, who charges 10 for a Common Supply Drop and 30 for a Rare one.

Which Black Ops II map set on a superyacht returned in Black Ops III's first map pack as a police airship?

Hijacked came back as Skyjacked, its superyacht swapped for a futuristic police airship, with new spots for wall-running and an extra way into the lower deck.

Which Black Ops III feature lets players build and save cosmetic variants of a weapon with chosen attachments?

Gunsmith launched beside Paintshop, which lets players paint their own designs onto a weapon, and the name has returned in many later Call of Duty games.

Which Black Ops III Zombies map, set in an Austrian castle, lets players upgrade a bow in four elemental ways?

Der Eisendrache means The Iron Dragon, and feeding zombies to the three dragons around the castle is how players earn the bow in the first place.

Which map is the only one from Black Ops II among the eight classics remade in Zombies Chronicles for Black Ops III?

Origins was the lone pick from its game, sitting beside four maps from the first Black Ops and three from the title where Zombies began. The pack was sold outside the season pass.

Which tentacled monster in the Black Ops III map Shadows of Evil dies only once all three of its heads are destroyed?

The Margwa can only be hurt while one of its mouths is open and glowing, it speeds up after losing a head, and a Parasite flies out of each head destroyed.

Which Black Ops III Zombies perk, new in Shadows of Evil, traps zombies that hit the player in webbing?

Widow's Wine also turns grenades into sticky web bombs, and in Zombies Chronicles it took the place of PhD Flopper because players can no longer dive to prone.

Zetsubou No Shima has the Black Ops III Zombies crew hunting which member's double, held captive on a Pacific island?

Takeo learns that the Emperor he served betrayed his other self out of jealousy and sent him to the island, where Division 9 made him a test subject.

Which currency do Black Ops III Zombies players spend in Dr. Monty's Factory to earn new GobbleGums?

Liquid Divinium drops at random as points are spent during a match, and using three vials at once raises the odds of a rare GobbleGum.

Which buildable wonder weapon in Shadows of Evil fires a black hole that drags zombies in and kills them?

The Apothicon Servant is a living gun: reloading means feeding it a glowing morsel, and its purple vortex kills zombies outright whatever the round.

Which British actor voices Doctor Monty, the godlike figure in the later Black Ops III Zombies maps?

Malcolm McDowell's Monty appears as an old man in a red scarf who created the Mystery Box and the power-ups, and the next game reveals him as a villain.

Which voice actor plays Edward Richtofen, the scheming doctor of the Black Ops III Zombies crew?

Nolan North, also the voice of treasure hunter Nathan Drake in Uncharted, plays a Richtofen who kills his own double early in the story. The other three voice his crewmates.

Which Hellboy actor voices boxer Floyd Campbell in the Black Ops III Zombies map Shadows of Evil?

Ron Perlman's up-and-coming boxer shares the map with a burlesque dancer voiced by Heather Graham and a corrupt cop voiced by Neal McDonough.

Which first map pack for Black Ops III, released in February 2016, added the multiplayer maps Rise, Splash and Gauntlet?

Awakening reached PlayStation 4 a month before Xbox One and PC, the first pack sold under Sony's new deal with Activision. Its Zombies map sends players to a castle in Austria.

Which final Black Ops III Zombies map is built from fragments of earlier maps such as Shangri-La and Kino der Toten?

Revelations is set in Agartha, where the freed Shadowman merges pieces of other dimensions into one arena before the crew finally defeats him.

In Black Ops III Zombies, Richtofen takes the crew on a detour to which real island prison to collect vials of blood?

Alcatraz had been a Zombies setting in Black Ops II, and the blood taken there later lets the crew remain in Agartha without fading from existence.

Which artifact does Richtofen steal at the end of Shadows of Evil and later use to collect souls?

The Summoning Key is first used by four tricked strangers to open a rift, and the Shadowman ends up trapped inside it until the final map.

Which Star Trek: Voyager actor plays both Sebastian Krueger and the Shadowman in Black Ops III?

Robert Picardo plays the chief executive of Coalescence in the campaign and the villain of Shadows of Evil in Zombies, a major part in two of the three main modes.

Which partner of the player kills John Taylor late in the Black Ops III campaign, then turns rogue himself?

Jacob Hendricks is infected after linking minds with a dying squadmate, abandons the player to hunt Coalescence's chief executive, and is finally killed by the player.

Which top-down shooter from the first Black Ops returns in Black Ops III with a sequel subtitled Cyber's Avengening?

Dead Ops Arcade II was at first reached through a secret input on a computer in the campaign safehouse, and a later update added it to the main menu.

The KT-4 wonder weapon in Black Ops III Zombies takes which famed Japanese swordsmith's name when upgraded?

Masamune cannot be made at the Pack-a-Punch machine: players brew a blue ammunition from three ingredients found around the island and load it at a second workbench.

Which Black Ops III scorestreak is a hovering aircraft whose spare turrets can be manned by teammates?

The Mothership costs 1,700 score, and its owner fires a main turret that never overheats while two teammates take the side guns. It also appears in the campaign as a boss.

Which pump-action shotgun in Black Ops III kills with one hit at close range and costs 750 points in Zombies?

The KRM-262 was the only pump-action in its class at launch: the 205 Brecci is semi-automatic, the Haymaker 12 fully automatic and the Argus a lever-action.

Which mutated enemy on the Black Ops III Zombies map Zetsubou No Shima can devour a downed player in co-op?

The Thrasher has to be killed before a swallowed teammate can be revived, and it will also eat nearby zombies to heal itself and regrow its spores.