Showing posts with label Stuntman: Ignition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stuntman: Ignition. Show all posts

Monday, August 25, 2008

25th August: GS Update (2)

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

0 -> 570 of 1000
30 of 49 Achievements

With my love of guitar games, I just had to get GH:A. Well, that and my old GH3 guitar is a little worse for wear (the buttons stick). I got it with the guitar, and it's great. I completed GH:A on expert with no trouble whatsoever - If I recall correctly, I passed every track first time. Though looking at the achievements, I know there is one I wont get - 325k on Train Kept A Rollin'. I can get 230k, but I'm nowhere near that good.

Lost Odyssey

Lost Odyssey

360 -> 980 of 1100
35 of 42 Achievements

With so much time offline, I blitzed Lost Odyssey. Using my Prima Guide, I got all but one achievement of the original 1000 GS. Unfortunately the final achievement is 'collect all pickups' around the world - which the guide doesnt cater for. Bastards. Though even with the guide, I found Lost Odyssey one of THE BEST games available for the 360. Go buy it - buy it now!

ET: QUAKE Wars

ET: QUAKE Wars

0 -> 240 of 1000
17 of 50 Achievements

ETQW was on offer on Play-Asia, and after playing the PC version, I thought I had a good feel to what the 360 should play like. In the end, I prefer the 360 version - a lot more pick up and play friendly, even if online there aren't many people. It's your standard team FPS objective style fare - either build this or hack that, or if you're on the other team, defend against the others. Achievement wise, you have the difficulty achievements (complete easy, med and hard), get 3* on all classes on each difficulty, win all maps offline as both sides, play a lot online. I got the play offline ones, done easy on campaign, and one match online. An easy enough 1000 I reckon, just needs some time and effort.

Civilization Revolut'n

Civilization Revolut'n

855 -> 1000 of 1000
50 of 50 Achievements

I'm glad Civ Rev came to the 360 - this is the sort of game the 360 should have. The final achievements I needed were fairly straightforward with a little help from the x360a forums for the best way of going about it. Though the 'get the unique people' achievement took me about 8 or 9 games of culture farming. The final guy came on the last turn of a game. Lucky or what. 10/10!! Game Complete.

EarthDefenseForce 2017

EarthDefenseForce 2017

0 -> 150 of 1000
2 of 6 Achievements

I just blitzed EDF. Easy and Normal difficulties just required some power shooting and fell quite easy. I've been able to play some levels on the 2nd hardest difficulty, and as a result get some strong weapons that I can use on the easier difficulties. It's great. Still more fun on co-op though.

NFS Most Wanted

NFS Most Wanted

265 -> 1000 of 1000
15 of 15 Achievements

NFS: MW, in retrospect, was an easy game. Just races from A to B, no real big difficulty when you get the best cars in the game. I found a way to gain bounty other than my previous method which involves driving around the motorway in the bottom left of the map. What was great though, I got the final achievement, but that isnt the end of the game - you have to escape some extreme police. Well I did, got to the final jump... and then my 360 froze up. Haha. Game Complete.

Naruto Rise Of A Ninja

Naruto Rise Of A Ninja

0 -> 360 of 1075
11 of 37 Achievements

I love Naruto, but I'm not fond of fighting games. But I like platformers. Naruto is the ultimate mix of the lot - Platform style for story missions, but fighting mode for encounters. I jumped into it with fervor, and completed the story line (some battles I won by the skin of my teeth). Now the problem is that most of the achievements are now online, and I suck at online play, especially when you need 5 wins in a row with each character. Meh.

CM 2007

CM 2007

365 -> 375 of 1000
17 of 42 Achievements

Only one achievement of note - managed to sign a player for half his value. Didn't really play this much otherwise.

Stuntman: Ignition

Stuntman: Ignition

100 -> 225 of 1000
14 of 50 Achievements

Last time I played this was from BlockBuster, but HMV are doing this cheap so I picked up a copy. It's a 'meh' game - it could be fun but it's not my sort of thing. Trying to do a succession of stunts, and thus the achievements are dead hard. I got some related to being a tard, and some story mode ones.

FlatOut UC

FlatOut UC

135 -> 185 of 1000
10 of 45 Achievements

I last played this as a rental from BlockBuster, but now HMV are doing it cheap as well. Now last time I played, I almost broke controllers due to one mission on career mode (one mission out of like 120) which was the last one for me to do, and I couldn't even get the bronze medal. Well I picked it up and on my second go, got the silver! So I got the complete career achievement. Excellent :)

Guitar Hero II

Guitar Hero II

700 -> 760 of 1000
42 of 50 Achievements

Yep, I completed Expert career. A great achievement in my eyes after all the effort I've put in. Free Bird wasn't too hard - I had more trouble on Hanger 18 and it required some practice. Along with this, I also got the 400k achievement - I used Monkey Wrench on Expert. It's an easy track, but when the max possible is 454k you have to be right on the ball. I got 400232 points, with the last chord on a 4x, so basically only got it on the last note. Awesome.

E4

E4

80 -> 100 of 200
7 of 12 Achievements

Now E4 has a decent achievement guide, I decided to go after an achievement or two. I did, the 2000 beats one. The rest could be a bit tricky, and there's an online one left as well.

ACE COMBAT 6

ACE COMBAT 6

10 -> 40 of 1000
4 of 49 Achievements

AC6 has been on my list of games to get for a while. So I rented it from LoveFilm again and played the next few missions. This game is well worth getting IMO, so I sent it back after a couple of missions with a good mind to buy it soon!

DMMM:Elements

DMMM:Elements

0 -> 20 of 1000
2 of 49 Achievements

I've played Dark Messiah on PC, and the 360 port is done quite well. Imagine Half-Life 2 with a medieval theme. I didnt play this one long. The best bit of these ports from the Source engine is the interaction with the scenery and kicking enemies off ledges. Fun times =D

Conflict: Denied Ops

Conflict: Denied Ops

0 -> 10 of 1000
1 of 44 Achievements

Another short wonder, and to be honest I can't remember much. I have a distinct feeling that the first mission was weird and sent it back to LoveFilm.

F.E.A.R. Files

F.E.A.R. Files

0 of 1000
0 of 41 Achievements

I had FEAR for a night, played one 20 minute mission, wherein I died after 15 minutes and had to restart. The controls were poor on the 360 - I've played the original on the PC and loved it.

SHReK the THiRD

SHReK the THiRD

590 -> 1000 of 1000
22 of 22 Achievements

Rented Shrek from LoveFilm to get the final GS I didn't get the first time round. Just a couple of playthroughs on hard and easy, then a couple of collection achievements. Easy. Game Complete!

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GamerScore: 99,889 -> 106569
Zone: Pro

Completed XBLA: 25 -> 26 / 62
Completed Retail: 49 -> 53 / 214
GS Completion %: 46.34% -> 46.49%

Country Rank: 71 -> 66
World Rank: 523 -> 504
Completion Rank: 990 -> 1,049

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

4th September: GS Update

From my 360voice:
I thought maybe the power was out yesterday... imagine my surprise when borandi hit the switches! Gamerscore stands at 44,999. That is a profit of 195 points over last time! He rallied BioShock winning an amazing 10 achievements, Stuntman: Ignition adding an amazing 7 achievements, Guitar Hero II, and then he had to stop because we both couldn't take it anymore... we were spent.
And the games:

0 -> 205 of 1000
18 of 50 Achievements
480 of 1000
32 of 50 Achievements
0 -> 100 of 1000
7 of 50 Achievements
200 of 200
12 of 12 Achievements
15 -> 45 of 1000
5 of 43 Achievements
Bioshock is one of the games of the year, without a doubt. It's been a while since the story mode on an FPS has kept me interested, and Bioshock deserves all the praise it gets. So far I've been having fun, taking pictures and setting people on fire; as well as injecting myself with whatever shiny liquid is thrown my way :) Graphics are excellent, sound is great, storyline is way cool. Downside? Lack of a multiplayer mode, but then I suppose Bioshock is a work of art, whereas GoW is a long hard grind. If you haven't played Bioshock, go play it. Buy it, rent it (what I did), whatever. Just enjoy! (Warning to all those with a weak disposition.)

I'm now 30/48 in hard mode for GH2 - getting onto the really hard stuff. I've been stuck at 3 stars per song since song 6 or something, so I doubt any 5 stars are winging my way. My fingers feel almost fine getting to the keys now, though its a case of my brain putting them in the right order at the right time, and timing those hammer-ons/pull-offs just right.

I also rented Stuntman: Ignition. I've been told its a replica of a PS2 game (which I never played), in the same what that Flatout:UC is a replica of FlatOut 2. But besides this, the game looks very good on the 360 - basically each level is a scene you have to drive for in a film/commercial, with action and stunts that you have to do in order to pass. I've done 12 rounds so far, and it's getting a bit boring. Just the same sort of stuff - fail it three or more times, pass, then move on. Worth a rent, not really worth a buy, unless you love your driving games.

Played some T&F online - I heard that most people cant play T&F properly, so I wanted to win. Ended up playing a game for 40mins+ against one guy and we reached the 4th stage. I broke some of my records, but the lag was annoying - I had to pre-empt pressing the button at the right time on several events - long jump, javelin, hammer, high jump, etc. Good fun, shame I lost. Shouldn't really play it at 6am not having gone to bed.

Blue Dragon is still as good as ever! I'm getting into more of the non-linearity now, with options to do things and go places (sort of). I just got the thing to disable blue barriers, and I also found a room to get 10+ monsters in one encounter - actually I got 11 :D I have a picture, but not a camera cable to upload it - watch this space! That 10+ encounter took me around 20 minutes to set up (of getting mobs together, then running away from battles, etc.), and one spell each round to finish. Got that achievement 30GS, and the 'running away 50 times' achievement for 0GS.

GS: 44,774 -> 45,109

Completed XBLA: 10 / 27
Completed Retail: 21 / 100
GS Completion %: 40.44%
GS % (Non-Demo): 43.50%

Country Rank: 321/210009
World Rank: 1986/1529404

(woo! 100 retail games played :D)