The Quest: At least 500 gamerscore points in every game I own.

This week I ended up revisiting games I’ve already beaten for the most part, and adding achievements along the way.

Saints Row: Unfortunately, I didn’t get to 500 in this yet as it can take awhile. I completed the Demolition Derby activity for 10 points, and also all the Escort levels for the Fluffer achievement which sadly only got me 10 points too. I’ve got 490 in this at the moment, and should have it all wrapped up next week.

Madden 2008: My nephew recently signed up for XBox Live and has been wanting to play some games with me, so I decided to use that time to go for some achievements. First up – Madden 08, and he went the stinking Colts, so I went the Chargers to work on the rushing achievements. Over the course of 3 games, I managed to rack up a ton of achievements. I did pretty much all rushing plays, easily earning the 40 rushing attempts for one player. During the course of that, I picked up the 200 rush yards and 250 rush yards achievements, got an 80 yard run, nailed 3 rushing TDs, 650 yards on offense, and 100 rush yards with two players. God bless LT. I also was a little bit cheap, as after doing so many rushing plays I threw him off with a pass in my own endzone….a pass that resulted in a TD for a 90 yard pass, and picked up the 100 & 80 percent pass completion achievements. To add insult to injury, I didn’t allow any sacks, and this added to my score, earning me 280 gamerscore points with relative ease. GG, will play again my dear nephew.

NBA 2K8: With March Madness, I was in the mood to play some basketball. As Ontario is currently buried in fucking snow, I resorted to playing on the 360 instead. I unlocked player achievements for Gilbert Arenas, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson, adding 125 points into my achievement score for this one.

NHL 08: Going back to my sports games got me in the mood to play this again. Me and Brando played a whole bunch of shootouts, and when we hit 25 I got the Shootout King achievement for 25 gamerscore points. We then played a couple of games, and in one of them I scored a goal against Brando while on the penalty kill, unlocking the Shorthanded, No Problem achievement for 25 gamerscore points.

The Outfit: Risto was at 495 in this so wanted to get an achievement to boost himself over the 500 mark as he’s been doing the challenge too. We ended up finding an extremely rare online game of the Outfit and so played in that for a couple of hours. During that I achieved victory in less than 2 minutes, captured 10 objectives in a single ranked game, got a score of greater than 350 in a game, got 20 enemy player kills(mostly Risto!!!) in a game, and got victories totalling 1000 Command Points. This got me the Clear Winner, Great Score, Feared, Lightning Victory and Master of Capturing achievements.

Guitar Hero II: While not on my list as it’s just a game that I borrowed, I might as well mention this. This is the first time I’ve played a game in this genre – pretty fun, but unfortunately lack of songs that I love means it doesn’t hold my interest as much as it could. Fun game though, and I went through Easy Tour beating that for 60 points, completed all tutorials, got over 100,000 points in a song, got a 100 note streak, and the easiest of all – failed a song on easy, ending my score currently at 120 points. I’m going to try out medium next, but I just can’t get used to the 4th button yet and using my pinky for it – and to be honest a game like this drives me nuts because I’m usually really good at video games, and there’s quite the learning curve to this so it frustrates me that after one day playing, I’m not able to get 5 star on all songs on the expert skill level.

Work was the main problem last week, as I kept myself very busy which left little time for playing. I’m hopefully going to focus this week more on video games.

CURRENT GAMES STILL TO DO:

(Current points in parenthesis)

1. Blitz: The League (0)
2. Burnout Revenge (115)
3. Call of Duty 2 (0)
4. Call of Duty 4 (50)
5. Cars (75)
6. Crackdown (0)
7. Dead Rising (0)
8. Far Cry: Predator (0)
9. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (0)
10. Kameo (0)
11. King Kong (0)
12. Perfect Dark Zero (90)
13. Rainbow Six: Vegas (395)
14. Saints Row (490) +20
15. Shrek The Third (0)
16. Splinter Cell: Double Agent (0)
17. Stuntman:Ignition (165)
18. Superman Returns (0)
19. The Darkness (0)
20. Tomb Raider: Legend (10)
21. Viva Pinata (120)
22. WWE: Smackdown vs RAW 2007 (360)

ACHIEVEMENT TARGET HIT:

1. Bioshock (910)
2. Fight Night Round 3 (1000)
3. Gears of War (520)
4. Lego Star Wars (900)
5. Madden 2008 (810) +280
6. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (830)
7. NBA 2K8 (630) +125
8. NHL 2008 (575) +50
9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1000)
10. The Outfit (655) +140
11. The Simpsons Game (830)

SIDEQUESTS:

1. Lego Star Wars: 1000/1000 (Currently 900/1000)
2. Madden 2008: Complete 2 seasons in franchise mode with the Browns. Reach playoffs. (Not started yet)
3. Madden 2008: Complete 2 seasons in superstar mode. Win some awards, or make pro bowl. (Not started yet)
4. NBA 2K8: Complete 2 seasons in franchise mode with the Lakers. Win the Championship! (Not started yet)
5. NHL 2008: Complete 2 seasons, probably with the Rangers. Win the Stanley Cup. [Completed]
6. Top 3: Get Top 3 in the NPP Forums Leaderboard, and retain it until end of year. (Currently 6th)
7. Halo: Defeat Halo(the first one) in single player mode.