This Week In Ch33v0z, The Brothers In Arms: Far Cry 2 Edition

So another week has passed us by. Honestly, I haven't been gaming all that much this week. I got my sweet cheevos over last weekend and I've been coasting off that high all week. I was able to get back to Far Cry, and finish up the cheev-fountain that is Brother In Arms: HH. So, get ready for the flow of ch33vz... let them rain down upon your face. That's right, take it all... bitch.




Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway

Focused-Played the game on seven different days-25G





Abandon All Hope-Completed Chapter Ten: "Tooth and Nail"-150G





Situation FUBAR-Completed Chapter Nine: "Hell's Highway"-50G





Weather the Storm-Completed Chapter Eight : "Black Friday"-45G





Tons of Fun-Killed 5 enemies with the hull of a tank-10G





Action Camera Hero-Triggered 25 Action Camera moments-40G





Anti-Tank-Destroyed an enemy tank-10G





Recon Bronze-Found six Recon Points-15G





Through the Looking Glass-Completed Chapter Seven : "The Rabbit Hole"-40G




Hellfire-Completed Chapter Six : "Baptism of Fire"-35G





Calling in the Cavalry-Completed Chapter Five : "Operation Garden"-30G





The Kloosterdreef Incident-Completed Chapter Four : "Written in Stone"-25G




Action Camera Veteran-Triggered 10 Action Camera moments-20G





Objective SNAFU-Completed Chapter Three : "The Five Oh Sink"-20G





Bunker Buster-Destroyed a sandbag emplacement with a bazooka team-10G





So I managed to buckle down and finish off Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway over the weekend. It's a mediocre game at best. The story is confusing, and the gameplay is a tad repetitive. Also, babysitting your stupid AI gets to be tedious and time consuming. However, when I look back at the experience it was relatively enjoyable. The best part of it all? The cheevz flowed like wine! This game is CHEEVTASTIC! So here is the breakdown:

Focused isn't a hard one to get, but it requires that you play the game for 7 days in a row. Who the fuck wants to do that? There is a site that explains a clever way for you to get this cheevo, with a couple of presses of a button. Click here to check it out.

Anti-Tank and Tons Of Fun aren't hard to get, but they are secret cheevz. Have at it.


Far Cry 2

Dawa ya moto ni moto-Broke the ceasefire and reignited the conflict-20G





I'm so sick of this game. I just want it to be over. I don't think I'm going to keep it for much longer. I'm actually getting angry just thinking about it.

So that's it! I'm getting a new game from Gamefly, which as of press time is: UNKNOWN. Hopefully I'll see some Prince of Persia or Tombraider. Tune in next week, same cheev-time, same cheev-channel! POW! BANG! ZIP!

This Week In Ch33v0z, The Battlefield Is The Bomb Edition

Another week brings another fresh crop of sweet cheevoz. I was able to round up some more in Geometry Wars 2, a few in Battlefield: Bad Company, and my final cheevoz in the crapfest that is Kane and Lynch: Dead Men.



Geometry Wars 2

Surf-Dodge 8 lines of enemies in Waves without firing a shot, or destroying any enemies-15G




Millionaire-Score at least 1,000,000 points in all single player modes-15G





Another week with the fun, challenging, and frustrating Geometry Wars 2. No real tips for these cheevz, just some patience and a little bit of luck. Damn you to hell GEO WARS!


Kane & Lynch: Dead Men


Return to Sender-Throw back enemy grenades-10G





Boomstick-Shotgun messiah-20G





Teflon-Avoid damage on a level-20G





Pushblade Symphony-Points for getting up close and personal-20G





Sun Tzu-Let your crew do the dirty work-20G





Damned if you do-Let them burn-20G





Iron Flower-Complete the game on hard-50G





Damned if you don't-No rest for the wicked-30G





This bad boy is on it's way back to Gamefly! Thank god! I had to take a week of from playing it, because it got kind of boring. Let me just say that for a third person shooter, it's mediocre. The online play and lack of online co-op make me hate this game. The controls do not lend themselves well to multiplayer.

Boomstick, Return To Sender, and Pushblade Symphony just require repeating the same action a certain number of times. Not hard, can be done on any levels.

Sun Tzu can be done on any level where you have a full crew, I did it on the Reyemoto level. Just push the Y button and make your crew do all the killing. Just to make it easy, set the level to "Aspirin".

Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't are rewarded for choosing one of the two endings. Instead of having to play the last level twice, just (spoiler alert) choose to abandon your comrades and leave in the chopper with Jenny. When the cheevo unlocks, pause the game and restart the scene, then choose to help them.

Battlefield Bad Company


Drive By-100 kills using vehicle-25G





Never Used a Door-Destroyed 1000 walls-15G





Staying Alive-Completed one mission without dying (any difficulty)-15G





Always get paid in gold bars-Completed 'Welcome To Bad Company' on normal-15G



The sleeper hit, I'm still having tons of fun with this game. So much fun in fact I bought the game from Gamefly. Which was pleasant and easy. My Battlefield case and new rental game are already in the mail!

All the cheevos are pretty self explainatory. Good times are had by all!

That's it for this week. Yes, it was a bit lighter than I'm used to, but all of my gaming attention is wrapped up in Battlefield. Stay tuned for new games! Frontlines: Fuel of War is my next Gamefly pick, and another unannounced game will be speeding towards my mailbox soon (crosses fingers for Civilization Revolution or Viking!). Next week also brings a newly released game, Too Human! I'll have my hands full for the next couple of weeks! Let the cheevz flow!

This Week In Ch33v0z, The Arduous Ch33v0 Edition

This week has been a doozy. Do people still say "doozy"? Anyway, I was able to squeeze out some more ch33v0z in the final days of my time with Burnout Paradise, thanks to a boosting buddy. I also received Lost: Via Domus from Gamefly, and I've been trudging my way through that game... slowly. Let's take a look, shall we? This week in cheevz, the brutal harvest.


Burnout Paradise

Party Crasher-Completed 25 online Challenges-15G






Online and Kicking-Completed 20 online Events-30G






Notorious-Sent 50 Camera Shots-20G






Online Champion-Won 10 online Races-20G





Join the Party-Completed 1 online Challenge-10G





Happy Snapper-Sent 5 Camera Shots-10G





Flying Colors-Got your A Class License-50G





Shopaholic-Found all Drive Thrus and Car Parks-10G





Paid and Displayed-Found all Car Parks-20G





Explorer-Found all Events-10G





Ahhh, Burnout... you did provide those last cheevz that I had forsaken. Entertaining game, but alas, not good enough to stave off the return to Gamefly. The cheevo machine keeps on a rollin', you can't stop progress. Now, I was able to scoop up a couple of "find the location" cheevz and also boost some multiplayer cheevoz with Mike53414.

Shopaholic, Paid and Displayed, and Explorer(click one for it's map) all involve driving around and finding events, parking garages, and drive-thrus. I found some sweet maps that made this possible, and it doesn't take too long to get these done.
Happy Snapper and Notorious kind of suck, because you need the Xbox Live Vision camera attached. If you don't have a camera, you don't have these cheevs. Basically, you have to let someone get a take down on you 5 and then 50 times, respectively.

Online Champion and Online And Kicking are time consuming... more than they should be. You only need one other person, but actually setting up the events takes longer than said event. Quickest way to get these, set up a short race and just get it done. Make sure to edit the start of the race and the finish... get them as close together as possible to make this quick.

Join The Party and Party Crasher were actually the most fun I had in this game. This is the most fun mode of the game, if you have a buddy to play with. It involves you and the other players(up to 8) completing specific task. For example: head on collision mid air while jumping over a bridge! w00t to that. Anyway, complete 1 and 25, respectively.

Lost: Via Domus


Persephone-Discover all the memories in Flashback 5-30G






Into the hatch-Complete Episode 4-75G






Desmond's Past-Photograph: Kelvin's jump suit Medical cabinet with vaccines Desmond's mural-10G





A Turn of the Screw-Photograph A Turn of the Screw-10G






Radzinsky-Photograph bloodstain on the Swan ceiling-15G






Button pusher-Enter the numbers-15G






Identity crisis-Discover all the memories in Flashback 4-30G






Medical Station-Photograph Medical Station emblem-20G






Castaways' Treasures-Photograph: 1- Kate's plane 2- Charlie's guitar 3- Locke's wheelchair-10G





Via Domus-Complete Episode 3-50G






Beam of light-Photograph beam of light coming from the hatch-20G






4 8 15 16 23 42-Photograph numbers on sealed hatch-15G






Blackmailer-Convince Locke to help-15G






Behind the glass-Discover all the memories in Flashback 3-20G






Locate the cockpit-Complete Episode 2-25G






Sweet memory-Discover all the memories in Flashback 2-20G






Crash survivor-Complete Episode 1-25G






Save the castaways-Prevent the fuel leak from igniting-15G






815-Discover all the memories in Flashback 1-20G






Lost: Via Domus is... How can I put this? Crap. Hmmm, no... that's not it. It's total shit wrapped in bad gameplay, with some fucking stupid-ass story sprinkled on top. Seriously, it sucks. The graphics are ok. The character models range from "life-like" to "stick figure", but at least the environment is nice.

The story might make sense to fans of the show, but if you are playing this game as a new comer, it's retarded. Also, it's entirely possible to play through the entire game by doing the bare minimum, but in doing so key plot details get left out. So, it's like watching 10 minutes of a 2 hour movie. You'll know the title, and what the general idea behind it is... but you'll be completely LOST... I wish the pun was intended.

I'm slowly working my way through this game, one hour per night, which means I'll have it done in another 3 days or so. The only positive thing about this game? The easy and totally sweet cheevoz. I completely expect to get a full 1000 points. I should get an extra cheevo for actually putting up with this fucking shitty game.

Anyway, all I'm going to tell you about this game's ch33vz is that with each chapter completed the cheev score increases. So by the end, the final chapter is worth 200 points. If you need some help working your way through this fucking train wreck... plane crash... click this link and someone else will do all the work for me. Oh, and speaking of lazy, have you had a look at the picture tiles for the cheevos? There are 4 different cheevo tiles, THAT is LAZY! The pics for cheevs is half the fun! This game has a total of 4 that are used over and over. The silver suitcase, the gold book, and the gold or silver camera.

So that's it for this week. I've been really busy, but the ch33v0 work is paying off... that's right, I broke 25,000 points this week! w00t! Well on my way to 30,000 and beyond! With the departure of Burnout, be on the lookout for new Gamefly offerings. I'm hoping for Viking or Conan, but either way there will be cheevz. Also, keep an eye out for the conclusion of the Lost: Via Domus cheev-grab. I plan to have that fully completed and out of my life forever by next week. Keep your eyes on the prize people.