Summary

  • Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare loves to add tight time trials.
  • Call of Duty 2 list is simple, the toughest achievement being to complete the game on Veteran. But it is ridiculously hard.
  • Online achievements are always tough, but Black Ops 4 has some really annoying ones for its Battle Royale mode.

When considering the hardest game series to 100 percent on your Xbox or PSN profile, a top one, for sure, is Call of Duty. With 19 main instalment achievement lists, not including remasters, completing the entire series could take a lifetime.

Related

Every Call Of Duty Game In Chronological Order

Ever wondered if the Call of Duty games follow a timeline? They do! Here are all Call of Duty games in order.

Posts 1

PlayStation has it a little easier with 17 trophy lists, but nevertheless, these games will test your perseverance when completing Veteran mode, test your teamwork when doing zombies, and even test your Battle Royal skills. You can also hurt your wallet because the DLC content needed for 100 percent completion is still wildly expensive, even for the 360-era COD titles.

All these games will be judged by the difficulty of getting every achievement/trophy in the title, including DLC content. Some games only have achievements on Xbox or have differences between the two platforms, and those will be pointed out when applicable.

10 Call Of Duty Classic

The Hardest Veteran Mode

Release Year

Platforms

2003

PC, Mac, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

While World at War has the most infamous COD campaign on Veteran, the objectively hardest campaign has to go to the original title. You don't die quite as fast as in later games, but that's offset by the fact that there's no regenerating health, and on PS3 and 360, there's no manual save system.

On PC, you can quick save and load, but you're stuck with the checkpoint system on consoles, making progression much harder. PS3 gamers have a platinum trophy on offer here, unlike the 360 version's 200 gamerscore. That's great, but unfortunately, on PS3, you have to beat the game three times since the difficulty trophies don't stack. Are you serious?

9 Call Of Duty 2

Dying Faster Than The Speed Of Light

Release Year

Platforms

2005

PC, Mac, Xbox 360

A launch game for the Xbox 360, Call of Duty 2 had one of the first achievement lists ever created. It's quite basic, as all you'll need to do to get the 1,000 gamerscore is complete the game on Veteran. However, that's far easier said than done.

COD2 introduced regenerating health to the series, and, as such, you can die faster than a speeding bullet. This adds a lot of tension to the point where you may not be able to handle it. Another issue with this list is that Veteran difficulty comprises 800 gamerscore. If you quit Veteran halfway through and play the rest on Normal, you can get just 380 gamerscore, which doesn't look good on your profile.

8 Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Time Limit Hell

Release Year

Platforms

2007

PC, Mac, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii

It's important to note that only the 360 version of Modern Warfare 1 counts here, as the remastered editions have an exploit for Veteran difficulty. You have to play legitimately on 360, and some levels are just brutal. There's the infamous Mile High Club mission, which has a time limit of a single minute.

It'll take a couple of hours, but it's not that bad due to its short length. What is bad is No Fighting in the War Room. A much longer mission with a time limit of nine minutes, you have to rush through, making good of your grenade launcher attachment. If you're too slow, checkpoints won't activate. The achievement for obtaining 15 intel items can bug out on you, and if that happens, there's no way to reset the tracker, and it's gone forever.

7 Call Of Duty: World At War

Grenade Of Grenade: Grenade At Grenade

Call of Duty: World at War

FPS Released November 11, 2008 Developer(s) Treyarch Publisher(s) Activision Platform(s) PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 Powered by Expand Collapse

Call of Duty: World at War has the most infamous Veteran campaign for a reason. The AI has ridiculous accuracy, you die super fast, poor checkpoint placement in certain levels, and, of course, the absurd grenade spamming. It may not be the hardest campaign, but you can argue it's the most frustrating.

Related

16 Most Iconic Quotes From The Call Of Duty Series

Remember, no bad lines.

Posts

On its own, WAW is already an all-time hard COD game, but exclusively on the Xbox 360 version are some truly devilish achievements. In two 0 gamerscore achievements, you must reach first level Prestige and highest level Prestige. This takes an absurd amount of time, and they are needed for the full completion, even though many in the community would disregard 0 gamerscore achievements.

6 Call Of Duty: Black Ops

Zombies Take Over

Call of Duty: Black Ops

FPS Released November 9, 2010 Developer(s) Treyarch Publisher(s) Activision Platform(s) PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, PC Powered by Expand Collapse

The first Black Ops game was when Veteran difficulty started to ease up. There's still some hard parts, especially Executive Order, but it's nowhere near the level of past games. What Black Ops 1 brought to the table that made it such a hard title is the zombies mode. While there were some zombies DLC achievements in WAW, Black Ops 1 made them significantly harder because of the introduction of Easter egg objectives.

Starting with the Escalation add-on, your group of four players had to complete a wildly lengthy task list requiring up-to-snuff communication, coordination, and general zombies skills to get by. Getting these Easter eggs is tough as nails but damn satisfying once you complete them, especially the final one in Moon.

5 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)

Spec Ops Turns The Tides

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)

FPS Released November 8, 2011 Developer(s) Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games Publisher(s) Activision Platform(s) PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC Powered by Expand Collapse

Once again, classic Modern Warfare 3 doesn't have that hard of a campaign, and going forward, campaign difficulty just isn't the brutal monster it used to be. While MW2 introduced Spec Ops, MW3 focused more heavily on it with more game modes, like survival. You'll have to reach wave 15 in all the survival maps, and it's quite tough but definitely more doable with a co-op friend.

You'll have to get all the stars in mission mode, requiring you to beat every mission on Veteran. Co-op's a must here, and these levels bring back that old-school COD Veteran toughness that was gone for quite a while. To add insult to injury, you'll have to do all the DLC missions on Veteran, too.

4 Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3

Zombies Return With A Vengeance

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

FPS Released November 6, 2015 Developer(s) Treyarch Publisher(s) Activision Platform(s) PS4, Xbox One, PC Powered by Expand Collapse

As Black Ops 3 has the most well-regarded and acclaimed zombies mode of the series, you should know where the difficulty is coming from. Not only will you have to get the trademark Easter eggs for achievements, but there's also several annoying miscellaneous ones.

Web of Defeat forces you to remove webs in every possible way in Zetsubou No Shima, which requires quite a bit of RNG to do them all in one game. The Zombies Chronicles DLC adds a ton of maps from earlier titles, but many of the same achievements return as well. If you distatic.aayyy.com/topic/dn/'t like getting them the first time, well, you'll have to get them again.

3 Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4

A True Battle Royal Master

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

FPS Released October 12, 2018 Developer(s) Treyarch Publisher(s) Activision Platform(s) PS4, Xbox One, PC Powered by Expand Collapse

Since Black Ops 4 is the only Call of Duty to not include a campaign, the entire achievement list focuses on the multiplayer, a recipe for disaster. Zombies mode remains tough as nails, but the worst part has to be Blackout, the Battle Royal mode.

Related

Greatest Call Of Duty Characters Of All Time, Ranked

From Modern Warfare to Infinite Warfare, we remember the best and greatest characters in the history of Call of Duty's campaign mode.

Posts

You'll have to unlock 22 characters, and most of them feel like a one-in-a-million shot to obtain. Take Reznov, for example. You'll have to first obtain and keep a randomly placed hat, then get a 200-meter shot kill, plus get top five in solos, top three in duos, or top two in quads. The odds of all of that happening in one game is astronomical.

2 Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Mamaback Is Waiting For Your Challenge

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

First-Person Shooter Released November 13, 2020 Developer(s) Raven Software, Treyarch Publisher(s) Activision Platform(s) PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC Powered by Expand Collapse

Out of the entire achievement list for Cold War, only one poses a big problem: Reunited with Fidolina. In Dead Ops Arcade 3, you'll have to defeat the huge endgame boss of the mode, Mamaback, and she's waiting for you all the way at round 64. That's wildly deep into the mode, and at release, this had to be one of the hardest COD achievements ever.

Doing this in one run without failure required expert-level play, but months later, an update allowed you to use a game type called Dead Ops Arcade Solo Advanced Start. This essentially gives you a checkpoint system, starting you close to your highest completed round. It's still tough as nails, especially as you have no co-op partners to back you up.

1 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023)

Keeping Six People Is Harder Than You May Think

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023)

First-Person Shooter Released November 10, 2023 Developer(s) Sledgehammer Games Publisher(s) Activision Platform(s) PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PS4, Xbox One Powered by Expand Collapse

Technically, the recent Modern Warfare 3 (2023) is DLC to Modern Warfare 2, but as MW3's achievement list is significantly harder, it'll have its own spot. The campaign's surprisingly more difficult here for two reasons. One, the devs added a truckload more collectibles than all the other games, which makes the completion journey more tedious.

Second, many of the recent COD entries had an exploit for Veteran difficulty, but it was finally patched in MW3. The hardest achievement has to be the one for killing Orcus in a six-person squad. Doing this naturally is a total crapshoot, and you're best off getting together six people through TrueAchievements or PSNProfiles.

Next

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Achievement/Trophy Guide

Completionists should have no trouble earning every achievement in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Posts