Anyone who knows me will be able to tell you two things about me; I’m a huge Halo fan and achievement junkie. To me, Halo is the best game since pong; so imagine my excitement when I read that Halo 3 is getting more achievements, I almost wet myself!
Yes, Bungie’s masterpiece is adding a few new achievements to their list of already impossible ones. While they didn’t release all of them, they did announce a few that have set my achievement unlockage senses tingling. Some of these are going to be (like all things) easier to get than others:
- Double kill with a laser- seriously, why don’t they just ask you to split the atom?
- On a Legendary map, get two Double Kills during any ranked or social match
We’re also getting the oh so user-friendly one:
- Play a ranked game with 7 exp on the 7th day of a month – I think Bungie might have an issue with the number seven (Or a fetish ;) – Ed)
I’m not complaining, because you can bet the moment those achievements are added, I’ll be on Halo 3 revisiting multiplayer into the wee morning hours.
This is for stealing my cookie!!!
Here’s some additional challenges, with our running commentary:
- Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch (0 points) – Get to the rank of Lieutenant in any playlist in the new EXP progression system (OK so this one wont be the hardest to reach in the world and its worth 0 POINTS!! in fact all of the vidmaster ones are worth zero, thanks Bungie)
- Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 (0 points) – Enter into any ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month.
- Vidmaster Challenge: Annual (0 points) – After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts (!!??)
- Double Double (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get two Double Kills during any ranked or social match. (Does anyone else crave an Animal-style burger from In N Out?)
- Poor Yorick (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 Oddball melee kills during any ranked or social match. (Social Match being the key word in these.)
- Came…From…Behind (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 assassinations during any ranked or social match.
- Defend This (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a flag melee kill during any ranked or social match.
- Flag Dropped (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 2 flag carrier kills during any ranked or social match.
- Road Rage (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 5 Warthog chaingun kills during any ranked or social match. (Can anyone say… Sandtrap?)
- Look Both Ways (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a Splatter Spree during any ranked or social match.
Despite all my complaints about the ZERO points for some of these I’m still grateful Bungie injected some new challenges into the Halo 3 world. No doubt it will get those dusty copies back into the drive tray. I can’t wait to sink my teeth in!
Ed – The only thing that remains to be seen is if they’ll include more zero point achievements (ala Vidmaster challenges). Considering the current limit for DLC additions is 250, it’ll be interesting to see whether Bungie will be allowed to break the “norm” and add more than 250 Gamer points.
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