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.

Angry Birds Star Wars Continues

A quick go on Angry Birds Star Wars saw the unlock of The Birds Will Be With You (10G) which appeared after completing ten levels using only one bird in each.

Angry Birds Star Wars Stellar Morning

An hour on Angry Birds Star Wars saw six unlocks for the achievement chase beginning with Walking Carpet (10G) which unlocked when a turret gun hit Chewbacca six times in succession while Star Bird Fan (10G) popped up after reaching five hours playing time.


Magnificent Grumble (10G) unlocked for hitting 300 blocks with Chewbacca, Imperial Entanglement (10G) popped up for hitting a Storm-trooper with a Tie-fighter wing.


Pork Side of the Force (10G) unlocked for failing a level ten times with a a solitary pig remaining and finally Ultimate Laser Shooter popped up for hitting 1000 blocks with a laser.

Win 8 and Doritos Crash Course 2 Hit Back

Another good afternoon saw seven unlocks while playing alongside my girlfriend beginning on Monsters Love Candy  with Sugar Sands (5G) for reaching the Desert World and followed by Galatic (15G) on Doritos Crash Course 2  for collecting 100 unique stars.

Next up was I Stunt 2 and Grabs Unlocked (5G) for unlocking all of the available grabs and ShowOff (5G) popped up for performing five stunts in a single combo.

Angry Birds Star Wars began with Lack of Faith (10G) for restarting a level 100 times while Target Shooter (10G) popped up for shooting three pigs with a single blaster shot.

Finally, Skilled Pilot (10G) unlocked for smashing 500 blocks with a Pilot and that completed a good afternoon of achievement chasing.

Doritos Crash Course 2 Continues

An afternoon on Doritos Crash Course 2 with my girlfriend began with Stellar (15G) for finding/collecting 25 unique stars while Crash Course 1 Style (10G) popped up for completing a level without ledge grabbing.

Shocking (10G) unlocked for being shocked five times in a row and Let It Snow (25G) popped up for unlocking every Antarctic course marked with a trophy.

Hit the Road (10G) popped for unlocking five split paths and was the final achievement of the afternoon.

June begins with Team Crossword, Jetpack Joyride and Doritos Crash Course 2

A poor total in May meant June needed to start well and within two hours of the new month, Team Crossword posted two new unlocks.

Community Leader (10G) unlocked during a multiplayer game for completing a word affected by a Community Hint while Power User (15G) popped up for utilising each power upon the game at least once.


In the afternoon, I went on Jetpack Joyride and after a good hour of effort on the collecting based achievements I was able to unlock six in quick succession beginning with James Who? (15G) for purchasing two jet-packs while Fuzzy Locks (5G) popped up for dying 99 times.


Pretty Woman (10G) unlocked for purchasing a matching set of clothing while Class Act (15G) popped up for flying over 1km while wearing the Classy Suit, Top Hat and Traditional Jet-pack.



For Science (5G) unlocked for knocking over 1000 scientists and finally Veteran (15G) popped up for completing 40 missions.

Doritos Crash Course 2 with my girlfriend and we unlocked Jungle Fever (25G) for unlocking every course marked with a trophy in the Amazon Jungle. 

May Summary

Due to spending most days off work with my girlfriend out an about as well as redecorating and renovating my bedroom for a good period of the month the 360 achievement chase suffered a big blow.


May 2013 (2012 in brackets)

13 Achievements unlocked (79)
3 Games played (7)
162 TA points* (2362)
135 Gamerscore (1690)

*TA points exclude losses due to score re-calculation but more losses than gains this month.


A truly horrific month for gaining any progress in the 2013 chase - June has to be massive to pull back the lack of current progress.