Friday, June 19, 2009

BioShock Achievements Maxed Out

Yes, I finished playing BioShock on the hardest difficulty setting about a month ago, so it might seem that I wouldn't have much of a reason left to keep working on the game, right? Well, actually, Xbox cleverly created these awards they give you called Achievements which you earn whenever you accomplish a certain predetermined goal within the game. For example, one of the BioShock Achievements that took me the longest to finally earn was one that required you to collect all of the in-game archives (in the form of audio logs) scattered throughout the various levels of the game. Every time you earn an Achievement, the console alerts you to this and checks it off on your Gamer Profile's Achievement list, thereby letting you keep track of your earnings with each of your games.

Well, the entire reason I played BioShock again over the last couple weeks was to get the last two or so Achievements I had left to earn in order to have the full set for the game, and thankfully, I was able to pull it off, making BioShock the first game on Xbox for which I've been able to collect ALL of the available Achievements (which is an achievement - lower case - in and of itself). Apart from this though, the only games I've even gotten close to maxing out their Achievements thus far are Mass Effect and Dead Space, both of which are only a couple awards away from being complete...the sort of thing which should be feasible with one more playthrough on each game.

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