Call of Duty: Black Ops III achievements

There are 98 achievements in Call of Duty: Black Ops III worth 1950 (32 achievements for 1210 on Xbox 360 platforms) and 99 trophies (33 trophies on Playstation 3 platforms). The release of Zombies Chronicles involved the reintroduction of several Zombies achievements from the remade maps from Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

Name	Description	Points/Trophy	Images
Platinum	Awarded when all other trophies have been unlocked.	Platinum
Disavowed	Complete Black Ops on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
A Second Chance	Complete New World on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
High Tide	Complete In Darkness on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
Belly of the Beast	Complete Provocation on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
Into the Abyss	Complete Hypocenter on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
Blood for Blood	Complete Vengeance on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
Friends and Foes	Complete Rise and Fall on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
Understanding Madness	Complete Demon Within on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
Fly, Swim, Shoot	Complete Sand Castle on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
200 Stories of Sheer Adventure!	Complete Lotus Towers on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic.	20 Silver
Full Circle	Complete the campaign on Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic diffifculty.	50 Silver
No One Will Believe You	Complete the campaign on Realistic difficulty.	50 Silver
Another Side of the Story	Complete the Campaign on any difficulty.	20 Bronze
Hold Still!	Kill 6 enemies affected by one Blinding Swarm or Firefly Swarm.	20 Bronze
Rolling Heavy	Kill 5 enemies using one burst of Unstoppable Force.	10 Bronze
Sting like a Talon	In Campaign, kill 20 enemies while flying the same Talon.	20 Bronze
Decimator	In Campaign, kill 10 enemies in under 3 seconds.	20 Bronze
Curator	Discover all of the collectibles in the Campaign.	20 Silver
Gun Game	In Campaign, kill 5 enemies with 5 different guns in under 30 seconds.	20 Bronze
Personal Decorator	Earn all Decorations.	90 Gold
Doing Camo Right	In Campaign, unlock all camos for any weapon.	10 Bronze
Maximum Firepower	Take control of an ASP.	10 Bronze
Walking Encyclopedia	Discover all of the collectibles in any Mission.	10 Bronze
Crackshot	In Campaign, kill 5 enemies from over 100m away.	10 Bronze
Can't Hide	In Campaign, kill an enemy through a wall or obstruction.	10 Bronze
Biff! Bap! KaPow!	Kill three enemies in a melee combo.	10 Bronze
Inertial Distance	In Campaign, wall run over 250 meters.	10 Bronze
For real this time	Earn a Gold Rating in the training simulator.	10 Bronze
Foe To Friend	Use an enemy combat robot to kill 10 enemies.	10 Bronze
Throwing Flak	Kill 3 Talons with a single mid-air grenade detonation.	10 Bronze
Unlocked Potential	Fully upgrade a Cybernetics Core.	10 Bronze
Lock, Stock, And Then Some	In Campaign, unlock all attachments for any weapon.	10 Bronze
In Their Sleep	In Campaign, kill 5 stunned enemies in under 3 seconds.	10 Bronze
Silverback In Black	Hack the Data Vault and brace yourself for Cyber's Avengening in Dead Ops Arcade 2.	10 Bronze
The Beginning of the End	In Shadows of Evil, complete all Rituals.	60 Silver
From the Shadows	In Shadows of Evil, spot the Shadowman fives times in one game.	25 Bronze
Not out of Gobblegum!	In Shadows of Evil, purchase and chew every type of GobbleGum in your Pack.	25 Bronze
Sorry, we're DEAD	In Shadows of Evil, kill 10 zombies that are inside of a store in one game.	25 Bronze
Strike!	In Shadows of Evil, use the rocket shield attack to kill at least 10 zombies in one burst.	25 Bronze
Beat CoP	In Shadows of Evil, summon the Civil Protector in every district in a single game.	25 Bronze
The Spider and the Fly	In Shadows of Evil, kill 10 zombies ensnared by a Widow's Wine grenade.	25 Bronze
Margwa Party	In Shadows of Evil, kill 2 Margwas in a single round.	25 Bronze
Parasite-Seeing	In Shadows of Evil, kill 5 Parasites while riding on the train.	25 Bronze
Welcome to the Club	Reach Sergeant (Level 10) in Multiplayer while playing online.	20 Bronze
Battle Tested	Reach Commander (Level 55) in Multiplayer while playing online.	20 Bronze
Tactical Specialist	Get 5 Medals based on a Specialist Ability in a single game.	20 Bronze
Deadly Specialist	Get a Specialist-based medal that requires 3 or more rapid kills while using any Specialist Weapon.	20 Bronze
Awakening
My Brother's Keeper	In Der Eisendrache, the one must be erased.	75 Silver
Der Meisterbogenschuetze	In Der Eisendrache, obtain all of the ancient bows.	40 Silver
None Left Standing	In Der Eisendrache, kill every type of zombie using a minigun.	20 Bronze
Take a Bow	In Der Eisendrache, upgrade the Wrath of the Ancients.	20 Silver
Not Big Enough	In Der Eisendrache, kill a panzer soldat with the ragnarok DG-4.	20 Bronze
Time to Slam	In Der Eisendrache, revive two players protected by the ragnarok DG-4.	15 Bronze
Quick Off Your Feet	In Der Eisendrache, wall buy the BRM.	5 Bronze
That's a lot of Jigawatts!	In Der Eisendrache, electrocute 121 zombies.	5 Bronze
Fling Me to the Moon	In Der Eisendrache, use every Wundersphere twice.	5 Bronze
Death From Above	In Der Eisendrache, kill a zombie while being flung by a Wundersphere.	5 Bronze
Eclipse
Seeds of Doubt	In Zetsubou No Shima, the one must be saved.	75 Silver
Sanguine Serum	In Zetsubou No Shima, drink fresh Widow's Wine.	40 Silver
Herbal Remedy	In Zetsubou No Shima, use a plant to return to life.	20 Bronze
The Ultimate Sacrifice	In Zetsubou No Shima, retrieve the Skull of Nan Sapwe.	20 Silver
Crop Duster	In Zetsubou No Shima, kill 10 zombies with a single shot of the KT-4.	15 Bronze
Iron Lung	In Zetsubou No Shima, stay underwater for one minute.	5 Bronze
In the Belly of the Beast	In Zetsubou No Shima, survive getting consumed.	5 Bronze
Assault with Battery	In Zetsubou No Shima, electrocute a zombie with a shield.	5 Bronze
Web of Defeat	In Zetsubou No Shima, remove webs in every possible way in one game.	5 Bronze
One Too Many	In Zetsubou No Shima, throw up.	5 Bronze
Descent
Love and War	In Gorod Krovi, the one must be freed.	75 Silver
Wield a Fist of Iron	In Gorod Krovi, wield the Gauntlet of Siegfried.	40 Silver
Time Attack	In Gorod Krovi, complete Time Attack:Round 20	20 Silver
Taking Flight	In Gorod Krovi, ride a dragon.	15 Bronze
Not One Inch	In Gorod Krovi, complete a lockdown event.	15 Bronze
Viktorious Revenge	In Gorod Krovi, complete all solo trials in one Zombies game.	15 Bronze
Vaporeyezed	In Gorod Krovi, use the Gigant Beam to kill 20 Zombies in one activation.	5 Bronze
Fire Mission	In Gorod Krovi, kill 8 zombies with a single Dragon Strike.	5 Bronze
Blown Away	In Gorod Krovi, kill 10 zombies at once with the Guard of Fafnir.	5 Bronze
Zombiepult	In Gorod Krovi, launch 10 zombies into the air at the same time.	5 Bronze
Salvation
For The Good Of All zm_genesis_ee	In Revelations, the Key must be opened.	30 Silver
A Better Tomorrow zm_genesis_super_ee	In Revelations, complete the cycle.	30 Silver
Pack-A-Punch-ectomy	In Revelations, recover the Pack-a-Punch machine from its abductor.	15 Bronze
Keep Close	In Revelations, assist a Keeper in defeating every type of enemy.	15 Bronze
Death Ray	In Revelations, kill 40 enemies with a single activation of a Corruption Turret.	15 Bronze
The Grand Tour	In Revelations, visit every unique location within 2 minutes.	15 Bronze
Wardrobe Change	In Revelations, wear three different hats.	15 Bronze
Wonderful	In Revelations, kill 10 enemies in one shot with each wonder weapon.	15 Bronze
Controlled Chaos	In Revelations, override all of the Corruption Engines before round 6.	15 Bronze
Zombies Chronicles
It's a Trap!	In Shi No Numa, Kill at least one zombie with three different traps in a single round.	15 Bronze
The Eagle has Landers	In Ascension, escape on all three lunar landers.	15 Bronze
Chimp on the Barbie	In Ascension, kill a space monkey with a fire trap.	15 Bronze
Time Travel Will Tell	In Shangri-La, acquire the Focusing Stone.	15 Bronze
Small Consolation	In Shangri-La, use the 31-79 JGb215 on each type of zombie.	15 Bronze
Cryogenic Slumber Party	In Moon, complete Richtofen's Grand scheme.	15 Bronze
Ground Control	In Moon, prevent each excavator from beaching the base in one game.	15 Bronze
Little Lost Girl	In Origins, release Samantha.	15 Bronze
Overachiever	In Origins, complete all 4 challenges in one game.	15 Bronze
I said we're CLOSED!	In Nacht Der Untoten, do not let any zombies enter the building during the first 3 rounds.	15 Bronze
Acted Alone	In Verruckt, Head shot 20 zombies in the courtyard from the second floor of the Asylum.	15 Bronze
I've seen some things...	In Kino Der Toten, visit every location the teleporter can take you to.	15 Bronze
Playstation 3 & Xbox 360
No Mercy	In Shadows of Evil, kill 5 crawling zombies in under 3 seconds.	35 Silver
Crackshot	In Shadows of Evil, kill a zombie from over 50m away.	35 Silver
Welcome to the Club	Reach Sergeant (Level 10) in Multiplayer by playing in a Public Match.	20 Bronze
Tactical Specialist	In Multiplayer, get 10 Medals based on Specialist Abilities.	20 Bronze
Deadly Specialist	In Multiplayer, get 10 Specialist-based multi-kill Medals from any of the Specialist Weapons.	25 Silver
Wallcrawler	In Multiplayer, kill an enemy while wallrunning 10 times.	40 Silver
I Did It!	In Multiplayer, reach Commander (Level 55).	20 Silver
I'm Special	In Multiplayer, complete all Specialist Challenges.	75 Gold
Meat for the Grinder	In Multiplayer, complete all Boot Camp Challenges.	50 Silver
Highly Adaptable	In Multiplayer, complete all Game Mode Challenges.	75 Gold
Seen Some Things	In Multiplayer, complete all Career Challenges.	75 Gold
As You Were	In multiplayer, Prestige 1 time.	40
Now What?	In multiplayer, Prestige 10 times.	100
Bloodthirsty	In Multiplayer, earn 10 Bloodthirsty medals (5 kills without dying).	Gold
Strike!	In Shadows of Evil, use the rocket shield attack to kill at least 10 zombies in one burst.	35 Silver
Sorry, we're DEAD!	In Shadows of Evil, kill 10 zombies that are inside of a store in one game.	35 Bronze
Beat CoP	In Shadows of Evil, summon the Civil Protector in every district in a single game.	50 Gold
The Spider and the Fly	In Shadows of Evil, kill 10 zombies ensnared by a Widow’s Wine grenade.	25 Silver
Margwa Party	In Shadows of Evil, kill 2 Margwas in a single round.	35 Silver
Parasite-Seeing	In Shadows of Evil, kill 5 Parasites while riding on the train.	35 Bronze
Not out of GobbleGum!	In Shadows of Evil, purchase and chew every type of GobbleGum in your Pack.	50 Silver
From the Shadows	In Shadows of Evil, spot the Shadowman fives times in one game.	25 Bronze
Packing Early (secret)	In Shadows of Evil, complete the Pack-A-Punch ritual during wave 1.	90 Gold
Awakening (PS3 & Xbox 360)
My Brother's Keeper	In In Der Eisendrache, the one must be erased.	75 Silver
Der Meisterbogenschuetze	In Der Eisendrache, obtain all of the ancient bows.	40 Silver
None Left Standing	In Der Eisendrache, kill every type of zombie using a minigun.	20 Bronze
Take a Bow	In Der Eisendrache, upgrade the Wrath of the Ancients.	20 Silver
Not Big Enough	In Der Eisendrache, trap and kill a Panzersoldat using the Ragnarok DG-4.	20 Bronze
Time to Slam	In Der Eisendrache, revive two players protected by the Ragnarok DG-4.	15 Bronze
Quick Off Your Feet	In Der Eisendrache, wall buy the BRM.	5 Bronze
That's a lot of Jigawatts!	In Der Eisendrache, electrocute 121 zombies.	5 Bronze
Fling Me to the Moon	In Der Eisendrache, use every Wundersphere twice.	5 Bronze
Death From Above	In Der Eisendrache, kill a zombie while being flung by a Wundersphere.	5 Bronze
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Playing For Keeps	Help the others.	50 Bronze	N/A

Notes

• It is possible to earn the A Better Tomorrow achievement by completing the Revelations easter egg with another player that has completed the previous easter eggs.^{[citation needed]}
• A Widow's Wine Grenade can be used instead of a Frag Grenade for the Web of Defeat achievement.

Trivia

• Several achievements use Roman numerals in their images, mainly "II", "V" and "X" for two, five, and ten respectively.
• The High Tide achievement is a reference to a high tide, the highest sea level experienced by a body of water during the day.
• The Into the Abyss achievement is a reference to the line uttered by Hendricks in the mission "Hypocenter", "Hey, You know what they say about staring into the abyss?", itself a reference to the phrase "If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you".
  • The achievement image is identical to the HUD icon shown when entering the Nova 6 room in "Life".
• The Friends and Foes achievement image is that of a sacred scarab beetle, a sacred simple of ancient Egypt, whereas the related mission takes place in modern Egypt.
• The 200 Stories of Sheer Adventure! achievement is a reference to the film Die Hard, where its advertising poster refers to "40 Stories of Sheer Adventure!".
• The Sting like a Talon achievement is a reference to the famous phrase by Muhammad Ali, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
• The Maximum Firepower Xbox One achievement image showcases Hounds, instead of the titular ASP.
• The The Beginning of the End achievement image showcases the words for Envy, Greed, Lust and Pride in Apothicon, the sins that each character in Shadows of Evil is guilty of.
  • The name of the achievement is a reference to a cut quote from Samantha Maxis for the map Origins where she says "This is the end of the beginning, the beginning of the end". The quote is later referenced in a radio on the Black Ops III version of Origins in which Monty says "It really was the beginning of the end... or, the end of the beginning..."
• The Sorry, we're DEAD! and I said we're CLOSED! achievements are puns over the phrase "Sorry, we're closed". Both achievements requiring players to kill zombies out of the maps' bounds.
• The Strike! achievement is a reference to the bowling manuever of a strike, meaning to knock down 10 pins in a single bowl.
• The Beat CoP achievement is a combination of the abbreviation "CoP" meaning "Constable on Patrol", and a beat cop, an officer that regularly patrols the same area in a community with purpose of cooperation with residents.
• The The Spider and the Fly achievement is a reference to the 1829 poem by Mary Howitt, The Spider and the Fly.
  • The spider in the achievement image is identical to the one shown on the Widow's Wine machine.
• The Parasite-seeing achievement is a combination of the phrase "sight-seeing" and "Parasite".
• The Silverback in Black achievement is a reference to the song Back in Black by AC/DC, which was used in the trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
• The cut Playing For Keeps achievement is a reference to the phrase "playing for keeps", meaning to play for a real consequence or benefit, and Keepers, the faction the player teams up with to defeat the Shadowman.
  • The achievement is also present in the Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Strategy Guide by Prima Games, but was replaced by the Apocalypse Averted Dark Ops challenge.
• After the release of the PlayStation 3 version of the game, the Now What? achievement was replaced with the Bloodthirsty achievement.
• The I've seen some things... achievement is a reference to a Richtofen quote from Der Eisendrache; "I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Things.. you couldn't even imagine."
• The It's a Trap! achievement is a reference to the popular meme originating from Admiral Ackbar in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
• The Chimp on the Barbie achievement is a pun on the popular Australian tourism phrase, "Shrimp on the barbie".
• The The Eagle Has Landers achievement is a reference to the phrase said by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 1969 Moon Landing when Lunar Module Eagle landed on the moon, "The Eagle has landed".
• The Time Travel Will Tell achievement is a pun over the the phrase "Time will tell" and the time traveling that occurs during the easter egg.
• The Ground Control achievement is a reference to the colloquial name for a Mission control center facility that oversees space flights.
• The Little Lost Girl achievement is a reference to the Little Lost Girl episode of The Twilight Zone. In the episode, a young girl has accidentally passed through a worm hole into another dimension and her family and friends try to save her.
• The Pack-a-Punch-ectomy achievement is a reference to the surgical suffix -ectomy, referring to a removal of an object or organ from an organism, in this case, the Pack-a-Punch Machine.
• The A Better Tomorrow achievement is a reference to a quote by Primis Richtofen in the intro of The Giant after killing his original self; "I am no fool. What I do, I do only to secure a better tomorrow."
• The Zombiepult achievement is a portmanteau of the words Zombie and a catapult, a device used to launch objects large distances.
• The Vaporeyezed achievement is a portmanteau of the word "eye" and "vaporized".
• The Viktorious Revenge achievement is a reference to Viktor Reznov, as well as the tombstone with the trials present brandishing the words "Vengeance is MINE V.R.".
• The Wield a Fist of Iron achievement is a reference to the Little Lost Girl easter egg step in Origins, and one of the steps of breaking out of Vorkuta in the campaign of Call of Duty: Black Ops, both named "Wield a fist of iron".
• The Love and War achievement is a reference to the phrase "All's fair in love and war", meaning that certain events are so important one cannot be faulted for acting in their best interests.
• The One Too Many achievement is a reference to the phrase "having one too many", meaning to become intoxicated and throw up after having too many alcoholic drinks.
• The Herbal Remedy achievement is a reference to the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where pods containing copies of people are prominent in the film.
• The Fling Me to the Moon achievement is a reference to the Frank Sinatra 1964 cover called "Fly Me to the Moon".
• The That's a lot of Jigawatts! achievement is a reference to the Back to the Future franchise, where 1.21 Gigawatts are required to power the DeLorean time machine but it is pronounced by Emmett Brown as "Jigawatts". The Roman numeral on the achievement image is CXXI, or 121, referencing this Gigawatt number and the amount of zombies to kill for the achievement.
• The Take a Bow achievement is a reference to the act of "taking a bow" after finishing a performance.
• The Der Meisterbogenschuetze achievement is German for The Master Archer.
• The My Brother's Keeper achievement is a a reference to the story of Cain and Abel from the Bible. In the Bible, after Cain kills Abel, God asks Cain, "Where is Abel thy brother?", to which Cain replies, "I know not: am I my brother's keeper?".
• The Acted Alone achievement is a reference to the John F. Kennedy assassination, in which conspiracy theories about the perpetrators of the event arose about whether Lee Harvey Oswald was solely responsible, with news reports stating he "acted alone" in the president's assassination, by using a scoped rifle from a higher elevation to the president.