Trivia / Call of Duty: Black Ops III

• Actor Allusion:
  • Once again, Ben Browder has a malevolent AI contained within a neural implant controlling his actions and overriding his senses with trippy digital fantasies.
  • Katee Sackhoff once again plays a cybernetic-enhanced soldier who's gone rogue thanks to her implants; interestingly, the virus infecting her is named Corvus, which was the surname of her last corrupted cybernetic character. Additionally, both Sackhoff's cybernetic characters are named Sarah.
• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • The campaign stars Christopher Meloni, who voices the campaign's antagonist John Taylor, Katee Sackhoff who plays Action Girl Sarah Hall and Robert Picardo stars as the head of Coalescence Corporation Sebastian Krueger. There's also a blink and you'll miss it cameo from Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch.
  • The zombie mode stars Heather Graham, Neal McDonough, Ron Perlman, Robert Picardo, and Jeff Goldblum.
• The Danza: Rachel Kane is played by Rachel Kimsey.
• Follow the Leader: In the vein of Destiny, multiplayer characters have specialist abilities that are virtually identical to Destiny's Super attacks and abilities. While elements of Titanfall found their way into Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - namely jump-jets and Mini-Mecha - Black Ops III contains more Titanfall-esque elements such as wall-running and the integration of singleplayer elements into multiplayer, and vice versa.
  • On a more meta note, the success of the Destiny beta finally allowed a Call of Duty multiplayer beta for the first time since World at War.
  • Also inclusion of Character Customization in the campaign - specifically the ability to play the entire campaign as a fully voiced and modeled female protagonist - has drawn comparisons to role-playing games that allow more in-depth personalizations. In fact, the campaign director deliberately compared the inclusion of an optionally-female protagonist to Commander Shepard from Mass Effect, who can be played as both genders.
• Shout-Out:
  • One of the first allied soldiers that appears in the World War 2 sequence is named Patterson. It may simply be a coincidence, except the setting strongly suggests otherwise and the character has the same name on every playthrough, even though minor NPC soldiers usually have randomly generated names.
  • Some of the most Mind-Screwy parts of the games notably Sarah Hall's Dying Dream and the final mission, which involve things like swimming through rivers of blood, fighting monsters while surrounded by fire, and being haunted by a ghostly apparition are very reminiscent of First Encounter Assault Recon. It also bears heavy resemblance to many of the inner-mind sequences and abstract imagery seen in Neon Genesis Evangelion, complete with similar themes of transcendence and rebirth.
  • Several of the accolades that can be earned throughout the Campaign: Epic R.A.P.S. Battle, Way of the Fist, and I now know why you cry, to name a few.
  • One of the available pistols (the MR6) resembles the Lawgiver of the film versions of Judge Dredd (the frame from the Stallone movie with the digital display on the side from the Karl Urban film).
• You Look Familiar: Robert Picardo, who previously voiced Robert McNamara in the original Call of Duty: Black Ops and Erik Brieghner in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, returns to play Sebastian Krueger in the campaign and the Shadow Man in Zombies.

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