XBOX 360 Achievement Chase Weekender Day 2

An historic day for this blog sees the 200th posting as Day 2 begins with the two games missed off from the previous day, Super Street Fighter IV and PES 10 and after both have been played the next draw can be done to continue the chase.

Just short of two hours on Super Street Fighter IV and three unlocks began with Oh! My Car! (10G) for earning 80,000 points on Car Crusher (I used Blanka) while It Begins (10G) popped up for creating my Xbox Live Profile Icon and Title.

Good Start (10G) unlocked for successfully completing 10 trials of which I did seven with Ryu and three with Hakan.Onto PES 2010 and I went on the Champions League mode as Liverpool and after a very intense and emotional two hours, I came out with three hard earned unlocks. The first was Made the Knockout Stage (40G) which came after successfully winning my group and
  qualifying for the knockout rounds.

The knockout rounds were fairly easy to negotiate through with Lyon and AC claiming home draws before being blown away at Anfield (4-0 and 6-0) but then came the might of Barcelona who again went into the Anfield leg tied but suffered a similar fate by losing 2-0 and meaning I had a place in the final.

Juventus awaited and other than the famous 'Istanbul '05' I have never been so nervous during a football match. the full game is on the following video......

An early goal by the Italians had me pressured and various misses dented chances of an equaliser but my luck came in the dying minutes courtesy of captain fantastic Stevie G who pushed the game into extra time which featured an agonising pinging shot off the post in the 12th minute before a mercurial strike from Torres sealed the win and the glory of two achievements - Come From Behind (10G) for staging a successful comeback and finally European Champions (70G) for winning the UEFA Champions League.

The next draw saw Shaun White Skateboarding, Hitman Absolution, NBA Ballers, Fifa 11 and Fuel come out with SWS continuing today's chase but with only a single unlock - Crossing The Beams (20G) for shaping rails 30 times. Next up is Hitman Absolution which began with the unlocking of Heavy Burden (10G) for infiltrating the mansion and killing the target.

One of the Guys (20G) unlocked for blending in successfully while Kingslayer (10G) popped up for fulfilling Birdie's contract and killing the target.

Under Wraps (20G) unlocked for successfully hiding a body then up popped Sandman (20G) for subduing someone correctly.


True Potential (20G) unlocked for unlocking a technique while Silent Assassin (20G) popped up for achieving the rank 'Silent Assassin'.


Finally before taking a break, Inconspicuous (20G) unlocked for remaining undetected for an entire checkpoint. Onto NBA Ballers and a single unlock in the shape of Respect (10G) for watching the credits movie in full.


FIFA 11 came next and scored four unlocks beginning with Safe Hands (10G) unlocked for playing a match as the goalkeeper with no assistance and was followed by Perfect Keeping (15G) for having 100% saving accuracy in a match.

Once in a Lifetime (10G) unlocked for scoring a goal as the goalkeeper while All My Own Work (10G) popped up for winning a match on manual controls.

Fuel up next and three unlocks began with Oil Rig (15G) for finding 100 oil drums in the field and was soon joined by Newton was right, after all! (15G) for falling 150m.

The third came instantly as Rocket science (15G) popped up for traveling 80m in a single jump. F1 Race Stars was drawn next as I tried to beat or at least equal my best ever day of achievements (27/3/11 - 27 achv) and started with Maple Highway (10G) for taking the locked shortcut in Canada.

Canada Expert (20G) unlocked for winning Canada on 3000cc while Trophy Hunter (20G) popped up for collecting 200 trophies in Canada.


Finally in what equalled the best day score of 27 achievements was Exhibition Rush (25G) for collecting 1000 points in five seconds so officially today is the second best day due to a shortfall in TA and gamerscore but still ranks as the best day since Apr 2011 but a bit sad only reached 490G rather than an illusive 500G.

 

XBOX 360 Achievement Chase Weekender Day 1

As I have fallen behind with the 2013 Achievement chase, I decided to devote my three day weekend off work to catching up by playing as many different games as I could while unlocking achievements.

The chase began with the selection of games for today which were randomly selected via a draw and the winners were Dead Rising 2 - Off The Record, Grand Slam Tennis 2, Fifa Street, Super Street Fighter IV and PES 2010.

Dead Rising 2 OTR was played on from 3.10-5.10pm and saw three unlocks beginning with Photo Journalist (20G) for getting back in the game and earning lots of PP while Out With the Old (20G) popped up for killing the motorcycling psychopath.

Instantly after the previous unlock, Card Collection (20G) unlocked for collecting 20 combo cards. Up next was Grand Slam Tennis 2 which was played from 5.30-6.30 and 7-8.10pm and saw four unlocks which started with No Set Lost (20G) unlocking by winning a career tournament without losing a set.

At the same time, Never Broken (20G) popped up for winning a tournament without losing a service game while Beat Serena at Australian Open (20G) unlocked for beating Serena Williams at the Australian Open.

As I went off for a break, Popular (20G) unlocked for downloading a player from the server and completed the afternoon's playing time. The evening went along with Fifa Street but only one unlock was added to the list for the day in the shape of Shopping Spree (10G) for wearing an unlocked item in any game mode.

So as Day 1 ends three new thresholds have been breached for 2013, the 250th achievement, the 5000th TA point and 3700G awarded. 

Fifa 13 Ultimate Team Seasons

A go on Ultimate Team on Fifa 13 and after a first win in the season unlocked Road to Promotion (10G) for winning a FUT seasons match and three more wins and a draw later, Silverware (10G) popped up for winning a trophy in a FUT competition this led to Promoted (30G) for winning promotion in FUT seasons.

Doritos Crash Course 2 Goes Online While FIFA 13 Goes Pro

Tuesday began with a go online on Doritos Crash Course 2 and the unlocks began with CC2 Community (10G) for finishing an online game and won my tournament with 30 points out of 35 and in doing so unlocked Star Power (15G) for collecting the most stars in a tournament.

The High Road (10G) unlocked for opening 15 split paths while Walk Like an Egyptian (25G) popped up for unlocking every trophy course in Egypt.


Cosmic (15G) unlocked for collecting 200 unique stars across courses and Shiver Me Timbers (25G) popped up for unlocking every trophy course on Pirate Island.


 
Road Less Travelled (10G) unlocked for opening all split paths on trophy courses.



FIFA 13 was next up and used my pro on career for two great unlocks beginning with Nice Form (30G) for achieving my match set objective and Impressive (50G) popped up for achieving my first season objective.