Forza Horizon Goes Online

Having reached 100,000 TA last night the next push is for 75,000G and 4000 achievements and as such I continued Forza Horizon and scored seven unlocks beginning with Notorious (30G) for becoming the most popular driver at Horizon. Exhibitionist (20G) popped up for completing every Showcase event. 

All Your Race Are Belong to Us (30G) unlocked for winning every Festival Race, Street Race, Showcase and Showdown event and swiftly followed by OMG (5G) for winning my first car online.

Playground Games (5G) unlocked for completing a game of Infected, King, and Cat and Mouse while Ding! (5G) popped up for reaching level five online.

To end the day, ZOMG! (10G) unlocked for winning three cars online and took me to 41/70 achievements and 845G overall.

Forza Horizon Pushes Over 100k TA

Another day on Forza Horizon and and early unlock in Win Diesel (30G) for winning all 30 Street races swiftly followed by Gettin' It Done (30G) for winning all Festival races.

Black Friday (20G) unlocked for the hard work done in finding and collecting all 100 discount signs and Killer Skills (25G) popped up for reaching 10th place on the Popularity Chart.

On a side note, I hit the massive milestone of 100,000 TA which has taken just shy of six years to reach but I am delighted that it has finally happened.

Forza Horizon Tidies Up Events

A quick go on Forza Horizon and two unlocks beginning with Close Encounters (20G) for challenging and beating ten Festival Racers successfully and swiftly followed by Almost Famous (20G) for reaching 50th place on the Popularity chart.

June Summary

June has done massively well in catching up on the shortfall from March-May and saw the unlocking of the 300th achievement and the accolades of 5000G and 7000 TA near.


June 2013 (2012 in brackets)

104 Achievements unlocked (42)
22 Games played (5)
2807 TA points* (1401)
1810 Gamerscore (805)
 
*includes DLC recalculation from March and is the total earned so losses not included.


A truly terrific month and has been the pull back needed from last month to put be back in contention for good results at the end of the year

Forza Horizon Challenges For the Championship

Forza Horizon continued into Sunday and saw three quick unlocks which began with Road Trip (25G) for driving on every road on the map and soon joined by The Next Big Thing (15G) for reaching 100th position on the Popularity chart.

Golden Boy (50G) unlocked for receiving the Gold wristband and then I went off for a break and on my return and after a lot of effort, Darius Who? (100G) unlocked for becoming the Horizon Festival champion.

After winning the final race which was a showdown against Darius in a lap around the whole map up popped Domination (10G) for winning every Star Showdown race.

Angry Birds Star Wars Adds Time While Forza Horizon Continues

Angry Birds Star Wars received an update and in turn more levels so as I played them up popped True Star Bird Fan (10G) for playing the game for fifteen hours.


Forza Horizon was in play for most of the evening but only two unlocks popped up before midnight beginning with what became the 300th achievement of 2013 - Rave Paint (10G) for creating and saving a paint job and was swiftly followed by Lawbreaker (10G) for setting a speed on five speed traps and zones.

Forza Horizon Moves Up The Ranks

A quick go on Forza Horizon saw me move up to just outside the 100th most popular achievement but in winning more races unlocking Purple Reign (45G) for collecting the Purple wristband and swiftly followed by Been There, Done That! (10G) for visiting the Paint Shop, Autoshow, Car Club, Marketplace, Race Central, and Workshop at the Festival.

Forza Horizon Gains Popularity

Forza Horizon continued with an early unlock this morning - Freshly Squeezed (40G) for receiving the Orange wristband.

Forza Horizon and Angry Birds Star Wars Light Up Sunday

Forza Horizon continue past midnight and before bed I unlocked Out of the Blue (30G) for receiving the Blue wristband.


 Angry Birds Star Wars in the afternoon saw two unlocks beginning with Jedi Knight (10G) for smashing 500 blocks with the saber while Force Learner (10G) popped up for moving 2000 blocks with force.

Back onto Forza Horizon and unlocked One to Watch (10G) for claiming 200th position on the popularity chart which was soon followed by #WINNING (15G) for dominating 10 festival races.

WARNING!!! DANGER TO MANIFOLD (15G) unlocked for winning 10 Street races and later on Racing For Pinks (35G) popped for receiving the Pink wristband.

Forza Horizon Speeds In

Forza Horizon was drawn as my next game to tackle and the final hours of Saturday, I unlocked two achievements beginning with Sellout (20G) for completing 20 Sponsorship challenges and My First Challenge (10G) popped up for earning my first medal in the 1000 club.

SSX Explores The Heights

SSX resumes with a test on Survival on Explore mode and saw a well earned unlocking of Heart of Gold (10G) for earning my first gold in an Survive event on Explore swiftly followed by The Bronze Survival Guide (10G) for collecting all Bronze Survive badges.

Just before departing for bed, Tag Team (10G) popped up for earning Bronze on a Trick Event with every member of Team SSX. the run included three golds and seven silvers.

SSX Tricks A Level Up

After a very successful XBOX 360 Weekender, I have decided to continue the format used in the event by playing a number of different games across the week and as SSX ended the weekend it continued into the next day and saw the unlocking of Playing Favorites (25G) for getting a character to level 10.

XBOX 360 Achievement Chase Weekender Final Day

Day 3 began with F1 Race Stars crossing over midnight and saw one unlock towards today in the shape of My House (25G) for owning the track on Sector Snatch.The final draw of the weekend saw GTA IV, Angry Birds Trilogy and SSX come out. GTA IV started with Sightseer (5G) for taking all of the Helitours.

Dial B for Bomb (10G) unlocked for having the ability to phone for a bomb and that was all before moving on to Angry Birds Trilogy which only had a single unlock - Completed The Big Setup (15G) for completing Classic Episode 4.

SSX next up and after a lot of effort just a solitary unlock in Überlesscious (20G) for  earning a Bronze Medal on a Trick Event in Explore without landing any Super Übers. 

As midnight rings so comes the end of my first XBOX 360 Weekender and what a success it has been with a total of 40 achievements and 715G earned and is the first of many such events to come.