Modern Warfare 3 achievement list revealed.

Modern Warfare 3 is out November 8 and for those of you itching to see what you need to do to get that gamerscore below is the complete list of achievements. Reading through the list there are achievements for both the single player campaign and Spec Ops mode but no multiplayer ones. Maybe Infinity ward are confident that players need no further encouragement to play online and I don't blame them.

*WARNING: SPOILER ALERT* The single player achievements go into quite a bit of detail about the games story line so if you want a spoiler free experience then just skip past the first 20 odd achievements on the list and read the rest.

• Back in the Fight - 5G: Start the Single Player Campaign on any difficulty.
• Too Big to Fail - 10G: Destroy the Jamming Tower. Complete "Black Tuesday" on any difficulty. 
• Wet Work - 10G: Take back New York Harbor. Complete "Hunter Killer" on any difficulty. 
• Carpe Diem- 10G: Escape the mountain safe house. Complete "Persona Non Grata" on any difficulty. 
• Frequent Flyer - 10G: Defend the Russian President. Complete "Turbulence" on any difficulty.
• Up to No Good - 10G: Infiltrate the village. Complete "Back on the Grid" on any difficulty. 
• One Way Ticket - 10G: Make it to Westminster. Complete "Mind the Gap" on any difficulty. 
• Welcome to WW3 - 10G: Save the US Vice President. Complete "Goalpost" on any difficulty. 
• Sandstorm! - 10G: Assault the shipping company. Complete "Return to Sender" on any difficulty. 
• Back Seat Driver - 10G: Track down Volk. Complete "Bag and Drag" on any difficulty. 
• We'll Always Have Paris - 10G: Escape Paris with Volk. Complete "Iron Lady" on any difficulty. 
• Vive la Révolution! - 10G: Reach the church. Complete "Eye of the Storm" on any difficulty. 
• Requiem - 10G: Escape the city. Complete "Blood Brothers" on any difficulty. 
• Storm the Castle - 10G: Discover Makarov's next move. Complete "Stronghold" on any difficulty. 
• Bad First Date - 10G: Find the girl. Complete "Scorched Earth" on any difficulty.
• Diamond in the Rough - 10G: Rescue the Russian President. Complete "Down the Rabbit Hole" on any difficulty.
• The Big Apple - 25G: Complete "Black Tuesday" and "Hunter Killer" on Veteran difficulty. 
• Out of the Frying Pan... - 25G: Complete "Persona Non Grata", "Turbulence", and "Back on the Grid" on Veteran difficulty. 
• Payback - 25G: Complete "Mind the Gap", "Goalpost", and "Return to Sender" on Veteran difficulty. 
• City of Lights - 25G: Complete "Bag and Drag" and "Iron Lady" on Veteran difficulty. 
• The Darkest Hour - 25G: Complete "Eye of the Storm", "Blood Brothers", and "Stronghold" on Veteran difficulty. 
• This is the End - 25G: Complete "Scorched Earth", "Down the Rabbit Hole", and "Dust to Dust" on Veteran difficulty. 
• Who Dares Wins - 40G: Complete the campaign on any difficulty.
• The Best of the Best - 100G: Complete the campaign on Hardened or Veteran difficulty.
• Strike! - 20G: Kill 5 enemies with a single grenade in Single Player or Special Ops. 
• Jack the Ripper - 20G: Melee 5 enemies in a row in Single Player or Special Ops.
• Informant - 20G: Collect 22 Intel Items. 
• Scout Leader - 35G: Collect 46 Intel Items.
• This Is My Boomstick - 20G: Kill 30 enemies with the XM25 in "Black Tuesday."
• What Goes Up... - 20G: Destroy all the choppers with only the UGV's grenade launcher in "Persona Non Grata."
• For Whom the Shell Tolls - 20G: Destroy all targets during the mortar sequence with only 4 shells in "Back on the Grid."
• Kill Box - 20G: Kill 20 enemies with the Chopper Gunner in a single run in "Return to Sender."
• Danger Close - 20G: Take down a chopper with an AC-130 smoke grenade in "Bag and Drag."
• Ménage à Trois - 20G: Destroy 3 tanks with a single 105mm shot in "Iron Lady.") 
• Nein - 20G: Kill 9 enemies with A-10 strafing runs in "Scorched Earth."
• 50/50 - 20G: Complete a Special Ops Mission Mode game with the same number of kills as your partner. 
• Birdie - 20G: Kill 2 enemy helicopters without getting hit in a Special Ops Survival game.
• Serrated Edge - 15: Finish a Juggernaut with a knife in Special Ops.
• Arms Dealer - 20G: Buy all items from the Survival Weapon Armory. 
• Danger Zone - 20G: Buy all items from the Survival Air Support Armory. 
• Defense Spending - 20G: Buy all items from the Survival Equipment Armory.
• Get Rich or Die Trying - 25G: Have $50,000 current balance in a Special Ops Survival game. 
• I Live - 10G: Survive 1 wave in a Special Ops Survival game.
• Survivor - 20G: Reach Wave 10 in each mission of Special Ops Survival mode.
• Unstoppable - 40G: Reach Wave 15 in each mission of Special Ops Survival mode.
• No Assistance Required - 20G: Complete a Special Ops Mission Mode game on Hardened or Veteran with no player getting downed.
• Brag Rags - 10G: Earn 1 star in Special Ops Mission Mode.
• Tactician - 20G: Earn 1 star in each mission of Special Ops Mission Mode.
• Overachiever - 40G: Earn 48 stars in Special Ops Mission Mode.
• Secret Achievement - 20G: Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement.

The modern warfare games (as much as I have bitched about them in the past ) I reckon are the best in the Call of Duty series. Then again the Modern Warfare games have had to compete with World at War and Black Ops. Which are good in the same way you praise a toddler for using the potty. So I'm really looking forward to MW3.

Red Dead Pre-Order Bonuses Available for Download

Rockstar has announced this week that the items you got when you pre-ordered the game are available for download to everyone on the PlayStation Store for about a dollar and the Xbox Live Marketplace for 80 Microsoft Points each. The items available and the description provided by Rockstar are below:

The Deadly Assassin Outfit: John Marston's Deadly Assassin outfit causes your Dead Eye meter to regenerate at twice the speed.
 
The Golden Guns Weapon Pack: Available for use in single player, the player who wields the Golden Guns receives more Fame for each kill. 
 
The War Horse: There are countless horses to be found in the massive world of Red Dead Redemption, but none is stronger, faster or tougher than the War Horse.

I'm glad this is happening. It really annoys me that if I buy a regular copy of the game I don't get the whole game. It also gives players with more money an advantage in game. Especially when it comes to earning achievements. I don't mind that I don't get an art book or a figurine when I buy the normal version of a game just in game content annoys me. It's like because you can afford it you get an in game leg-up.

Next week I'm posting what I think of Red Dead Redemption.

Till then Peace.

Rockstar reveals L.A Noire's Achievement List

Rockstar has released the achievement list for its upcoming title L.A Noire which will be released in May this year. I'm really looking forward to this game and I can't wait to get my hands on it.


The list seems pretty straight forward and nothing on there strays from the kind of achievements that you would see in any other Rockstar game. They mostly consist of get the highest rank in this and complete these tasks during certain missions and gamerscore you shall receive. One achievement I found interesting was the Auto fanatic achievement which asks you to drive every car in the city. It encourages you to explore the map and take advantage of the open world style of gameplay.


The list of achievements is below. 

• A Cop On Every Corner - Complete a single street crime case.
• Johnny On The Spot - Respond to 20 street crime cases.
• The Long Arm Of The Law - Complete all street crime cases.
• The City Of The Angels - Reach 100% Game Complete.
• The Up And Up - Complete a story case with a five star rating.
• Shamus To The Stars - Complete all story cases with a five star rating.
• The Brass - Achieve maximum rank.
• Not So Hasty - Stop a fleeing suspect with a warning shot as an LAPD Detective.
• Asphalt Jungle - Chase down and tackle a fleeing suspect on foot as an LAPD Detective.
• Traffic Stop - Disable a suspect vehicle with help from your partner.
• The Straight Dope - Use evidence to prove a lie as an LAPD Detective or Investigator.
• One For The File - Find and inspect a clue as an LAPD Detective or Investigator.
• Golden Boy - Clear a case finding every clue as an LAPD Detective or Investigator.
• The Plot Thickens - Find and solve an inspection puzzle.
• Lead Foot - Keep the needle above 80mph for more than ten seconds while driving.
• Miles On The Clock - Drive more than 194.7 miles.
• Wooden Overcoats - Bring down a total of 30 bad guys with head shots.
• Dead Men Are Heavier - Shoot and kill a total of 100 bad guys.
• Roscoe And Friends - Kill at least one bad guy with every gun.
• Magpie - Find and inspect 95% of all clues.
• The Shadow - Tail a suspect without being spotted, in a single case.
• The Third Degree - Correctly branch every question in every interview in a single story case.
• The Hunch - Use five intuition points in conversation with a single suspect, correctly branching each question.
• Star Map - Discover all landmark buildings around the city.
• Public Menace - Rack up $47,000 in penalties during a single story case.
• The Moose - Tail Candy Edwards from the parking lot to her destination without using cover or going incognito.
• Keep A Lid On - Complete a brawl without losing your hat as an LAPD Detective or Investigator.
• Auto Enthusiast - Drive 5 different vehicles.
• Auto Collector - Drive 40 different vehicles.
• Auto Fanatic - Drive every vehicle in the city.
• Hollywoodland - Find and inspect all gold film canisters.

Source: http://www.rockstargames.com/lanoire/features/achievements//

Real life achievements list

I posted this as a note on my facebook some time ago and it was popular so I thought I'd put it out there for everyone else on the internet to take a look at. 

I find that sometimes life can be really boring, which is why I usually escape into video games. But even these can lose flavour after finishing the game many times (the exception to this being Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, I can play that over and over again). Which is why the people at Microsoft searched the world and stole or bought the idea for achievements and in turn Sony stole from Microsoft and thus trophies are born.

Achievements are challenges that bring some life back into a game that either was losing its appeal or had none to begin with. They serve no other purpose than to provide bragging rights to those who for the most part don't care. Even Microsoft had a hard time selling achievements to the gaming public in a video that can be freely viewed on Xbox live. However should you find yourself in a real spot of boredom chasing achievements of 'Achievement hunting' can be a good time killer.

This brings me back to my first point, life can get boring. So why not have achievements (or trophies I'm not Sony-ist, but I'm going to call them achievements because I can) for life! Each one has a gamerscore that gives at a glance how difficult each achievement is. If you want to show them off you can post your scores on your facebook page or on your Bio on xbox live and wherever the hell Sony lets you do that you can post it there too. Coming soon will be a facebook page where you can post your achievements, organize meetings for the multiplayer achievements and to discuss ways and means of getting achievements. Below are the list of achievements for your daily life that you can do when life gets boring.

30G    Reach out and touch someone

• Hold or participate in a Halo Reach LAN party (minimum of four xbox's)

50G    I think I saw a 2!

• Write an essay in binary (minimum of 300 words)

10G    Look ma, no eyes

• Spell a difficult surname correctly without looking at it (surname must have a minimum of 11 letters)

10G    I wish to engage in sexual relations with your spouse

• Translate the title of this achievement into another language and say it

50G    Did he just run in there?

• Announce your presence in a room by shouting "Leeroy Jenkins" for a day

5G    Don't eat the dinosaur Daddy!

• Consume a Milo Godzilla

20G    Never gonna give you up

• Publicly Rick Roll a stranger

100G    Rollin' Rickey

• Rick Roll Rick Astley

20G    All your flags are belong to us

• Dress up as a character from either Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 or the Halo series and play capture the flag outside with at least 3 other players present

50G    I just did the world a favour

• Publicly burn a Twilight book (any)

5G    At least I got some chicken

• Walk out of a KFC shop without purchasing anything

10G    Geek pride

• Wear a game related T-shirt outdoors

5G    Follow the yellow brick road

• Hold hands with another player and sing "We're off to see the Wizard, the wonder Wizard of Oz!" while skipping

30G    Cake Call

• Get a persons number by saying a video game related pickup line

40G    Look ma, too much free time!

• Spell a difficult surname correctly backwards without looking at it (surname must have a minimum of 11 letters)

10G    I'm singing in the rain

• Go outside and sing when it is raining with at least two other players present

Well thats the list so far. This list will be updated with more achievements as I and my comrades come up with them. But these 16 should tide you over for a while.