![]() Christian Donlan 'Apparently this is the hardest Achievement in the game.' Such nonchalance! Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - Mile High Clubġ2th April 2007 is a date I'll remember forever because it was on that day, after weeks of trying, I finally earned the Mile High Club achievement in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Once you can climb the tallest building, what else is there for you to do? But as with the best Achievements it's also where the game begins: you have learned to speak Crackdown. And then at the top actual soundtrack music - a real rarity in Crackdown - started to play, strange melancholic chords that never quite came together to form a theme. Slowly as I climbed, the city sounds dwindled. Late in the evening, a quick play session that, as is so often the case with Crackdown, had gone deliriously awry. ![]() I can still remember the exact moment I unlocked this one. You're a supercop, sure, but the Achievements are largely about the kind of stuff that would, at best, get you landed with an ASBO.Īnd the very best of the best: High Flyer - Make your way to the top of the Agency Tower. The best designers of the 360 era seemed to understand that Achievements were about encouraging you to play across the general rules of the game rather than just ticking off the story highlights. Here's where you'd find the real keys to unlocking fun in Pacific City. (Where we refer specifically to Xbox 360 Achievements, we capitalise the word, but otherwise we mean achievement to include Trophies and every other kind of award.) Crackdown - High FlyerĬrackdown had an excellent campaign - it was just hidden in the Achievements. Question is, which of them are the best? Happy Friday! Today there are hundreds of thousands of Achievements and Trophies out there. Soon straightlaced awards for reaching milestones were only the half of the picture and awards were used to tell jokes, encourage wayward behaviour, or entice you off the beaten track. The more common they became, the more creative developers got. A prize, and who doesn't want to be given a prize? They caught on like wildfire and pretty soon, PlayStation 3 had a Trophy system of its own. Do you remember the first time you received one, that little pop-up opening to tell you what you'd been awarded? Bewitching, wasn't it. Your collective memory has never failed to amaze us - don't let that stop now!Īchievements or trophies! Achievements arrived first on Xbox 360 of course. Various Eurogamer writers will share their memories in the article and then you - probably outraged we didn't include the thing you're thinking of - can share the thing you're thinking of in the comments below. ![]() But there are always more.įive of the Best works like this. We've talked about so many in our Five of the Best series so far. Details like the way a character jumps or the title screen you load into, or the potions you use and maps you refer back to. Five of the Best is a weekly series about the small details we rush past when we're playing but which shape a game in our memory for years to come.
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