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NEW DLC ACHIEVEMENTS NOW INCLUDED!!
Many of us look forward to the achievement feature the XBox 360 and XBox Live has brought to our gaming experience. As of this date, Crackdown offers us a total of 50 achievements and 1250 points to add to our GamerScore. Below you'll find a list of those achievements and the best way to get them. Click the link to go right to the achievement you are looking for or just scroll down to view all of the achievements.
** = New DLC Achievements
Again, this is self explanatory. Achieve a 4 star rating in agility. You do NOT have to max agility to get this achievement, only reach 4 star level. The quickest way to get this one is to collect the green agility orbs, obviously, but there are a few other ways to accomplish this as well. Killing gangsters while airborne will give a small amount of agility, as will completing the rooftop races. Hidden orbs also give a small boost to all skills.
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Achieve a 4 star rating in driving. You do NOT have to max agility to get this achievement, only reach 4 star level. A couple of recommended ways to raise this ability is to perform stunts and run over gangsters with a vehicle. The quickest way seems to be to run over gangsters although the gangsters can be quite slippery at times. The SUV is the handiest vehicle to accomplish these feats. Completing stunt rings also gives a small boost to the ability.
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Achieve a 4 star rating in explosives. You do NOT have to max agility to get this achievement, only reach 4 star level. If it's bad and needs to be eliminated, blow it up. Use grenades, the grenade launcher or either of the rocket launchers to do this. Shooting explosive barrels near gangsters also raises this ability. Without question, one of the most fun abilities to improve! |
Achieve a 4 star rating in strength. You do NOT have to max agility to get this achievement, only reach 4 star level. If it's bad and needs to be eliminated, beat the living shit out of it. Beating up gangsters with your bare hands or picking up objects and throwing them at gangsters to kill them will quickly improve this ability. This ability is probably the one you can get to 4 stars the quickest.
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Achieve a 4 star rating in firearms. You do NOT have to max agility to get this achievement, only reach 4 star level. Bullet wielding weapons are the key here. Pistols and automatic rifles are the route to this achievement. Grenades, grenade launcher or the rocket launchers will NOT contribute to this achievement. If it needs killin', shoot it with gun to build this skill. |
This achievement is pretty simple and can be accomplished at any point during the game (as long as your abilities allow you to reach the supply point) simply by unlocking every supply point in the game. I recommend doing this one as early as possible to make your travel around the map much easier.
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In order to get this achievement you must max out ALL of your abilities. This does not mean that you must reach level 4 in all abilities. It means you must reach a "level 5" ability in all skills even though there is technically no "level 5". You must reach 4 stars and 99 in the meter and then fill the meter one more time. Once the ability has maxed out and can go no further, the numbers in the meter will be replaced by "--". I've provided a picture of what your abilities will look like when you have achieved Master Agent. |
Unlock this achievement by locating all of the targets on Los Muertos dossier. (It's not "THE" Los Muertos . . .it's just Los Muertos. Saint's Row players will get that. ;-) You don't have to defeat each target, only locate each one so the dossier is added. There are a total of 6 targets to be found for Los Muertos: Juan Martinez
Here is a map (credit goes to crackdownhq.com for the map) of all the boss locations. Click it for a larger version. |
Simply eliminate all 6 dossier targets for Los Muertos and then look on the in-game map for the star indicating the "Final Crime". Once you have completed the "Final Crime", you will receive this achievement. You will find strategies for these targets in the Missions section of this site. For a list of these targets and their locations, see the achievement above.
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Unlock this achievement by locating all of the targets on the Volk dossier. You don't have to defeat each target, only locate each one so the dossier is added. There are a total of 7 targets to be found for the Volk: Igor Biragov
Here is a map (credit goes to crackdownhq.com for the map) of all the boss locations. Click it for a larger version. |
Simply eliminate all 7 dossier targets for the Volk and then look on the in-game map for the star indicating the "Final Crime". Once you have completed the "Final Crime", you will receive this achievement. You will find strategies for these targets in the Missions section of this site. For a list of these targets and their locations, see the achievement above.
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Unlock this achievement by locating all of the targets on the Shai-Gen dossier. You don't have to defeat each target, only locate each one so the dossier is added. There are a total of 7 targets to be found for the Shai-Gen: Dr. Baltazar Czernenko
Here is a map (credit goes to crackdownhq.com for the map) of all the boss locations. Click it for a larger version. |
Simply eliminate all 7 dossier targets for the Shai-Gen and then look on the in-game map for the star indicating the "Final Crime". Once you have completed the "Final Crime", you will receive this achievement. You will find strategies for these targets in the Missions section of this site. For a list of these targets and their locations, see the achievement above. |
Simply defeat any boss while playing co-op. This achievement isn't terribly specific. If you are playing co-op with someone and you are off collecting orbs or otherwise doing something somewhere else on the map and your co-op partner kills the boss, you BOTH get credit for having completed that boss on co-op. It doesn't matter whos game it is and it doesn't matter which one of you does the killing. If you have completed the game and still need this achievement, you can get it by playing a co-op Time Trial boss.
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To get this achievement, you must defeat ALL bosses while in co-op mode. Like "Double Trouble", this achievement isn't terribly specific. If you are playing co-op with someone and you are off collecting orbs or otherwise doing something somewhere else on the map and your co-op partner kills the boss, you BOTH get credit for having completed that boss on co-op. It doesn't matter whos game it is and it doesn't matter which one of you does the killing. This does not need to be done all in one sitting, nor with the same co-op partner every time. You just need to be in co-op mode while each boss is defeated at least once. Doing every Time Trial mission in co-op mode will also give you this achievement. |
This achievement consists of 6 "sub-achievements" that must all be completed. They do not all need to be done simultaneously and when the sub-achievement has been reached, you will be told on the screen. Please note that wherever I tell you to find a boss fight, all of these can be accomplished by doing Time Trials as well. The sub-achievements are as follows: Use explosives to kill 25 gang members in 60 seconds The "Hothead" rocket launcher or the "Firefly" rocket launcher are the keys to success for this sub-achievement. Pick any boss fight and go running in with rocket launcher blazing. If you are lucky enough to have both rocket launchers, put one in each of your weapon slots and you'll have plenty of ammo to go around. If your explosive skill is up in the 3 or 4 star area, you will quickly snag this sub-achievement. If you have completed all the missions, the just stand on a roof near a supply point (so you can quickly reload if you need to) and torment the local gang into sending out the "Hit Squads". Then you can pretty much just stand there and let the gangsters come to you. Blow up 25 gang-controlled vehicles in 60 seconds Very much like the sub-achievement above, pick a boss fight where there are a lot of gang vehicles around. Mrs. Timbol's fight in Shai-Gen comes to mind. In fact, you don't even have to do this during the boss fight. You can do it anytime after the area has been cleared as the cars are always there. As you enter her area, there are 8 cars parked just inside the door. Blow them up, run back out and up the street a short way and turn around and come back and all the cars will have respawned. Blow them up again, repeat until sub-achievement is unlocked. Instigating the gangs to send out "Hit Squads" will also bring a lot of gang cars in a short period of time, and if done this way, can very easily accomplish this sub-achievement and the sub-achievement above simultaneously.
Kill 15 gang members with your bare hands or thrown objects in 60 seconds The biggest challenge to this part is keeping your own ass alive while trying to pull this off. It helps to have your strength ability up (4 stars is preferred, but not required). I got this one by running into the Juan Martinez boss fight with a 4 star strength and smacking the living hell out of every body I came to. I had this sub-achievement with plenty of time to spare using that method. Again, the "Hit Squads" are always an effective method to bring on gangsters when you don't have any boss fights left. This one is a piece of cake if you have a 4 star driving ability. Pick any boss fight you can easily drive into and blast in with the Agency Supercar mounted guns blazing. I chose to do the "Hit Squad" method using the Agency Supercar and got this sub-achievement in less than 30 seconds. It's a little bit of a tighter squeeze, but you can also get this by running into a boss fight wielding the Harlington HMG-90 because of its high ammo capacity. This is probably going to be the first one you're going to get. Grab your SUV and head up into La Mugre and just start mowing down gangsters. It should be real easy finding 10 to run over, but if you're having trouble getting it done in time, get the gang mad enough to start sending out the "Hit Squads". The gangsters will start arriving by the carload and there will be more than enough for you to run over. Another quick way to get it (and the way I did it) is to take your SUV up to the Jose Guerra boss fight and drive down into the area behind the building he is in, then drive up the set of stairs that are back there. The gangsters come running down those steps in groups of 5 and 6 and you can have this sub-achievement before you even reach the top of the second flight of stairs. As with blowing up the gang vehicles sub-achievement, there are also no gangsters required to pull this one off either. Again, pick a boss area where there are a lot of gang cars. Mrs. Timbol's area or Diaz's area are good places to go. It's 20 tires, so you only need 5 cars. Line the cars up if it makes it easier for you, then just run up one side of the line popping all the tires and then back down the other side.
When all 6 of the sub-achievements have been accomplished, you will be rewarded with this measley 20 point achievement. |
The misconception a lot of people are having with this achievement is that all you have to do is jump in 100 gang cars and drive them a short distance. This is NOT TRUE! In order to get this achievement you must PHYSICALLY PULL A GANGSTER FROM HIS VEHICLE AND GET IN IT! You don't have to stay in it long, but you must pull a gangster out. If you are so inclined, it can even be a dead gangster, so long as you have to pull him from the car. The easiest and quickest way to do this is by doing the Diaz Time Trial. There is a glitch in the game where several gangsters will just sit in their car and never move, which makes it easier to steal their car. Go into this arena, commandeer as many cars as you can, leave the arena, drive down to the barrier and back again and repeat with the respawned gangsters and their vehicles. I have illustrated this method by taking a YouTube video. Out of sheer chance, I just happened to gain this achievement while I was taking this video.
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Earned during the course of playing the game or in "Crime On" free roam. Kill, by beating up or throwing objects at a total of 150 gangsters while playing the game. There is no time limit. When you get it, you get it. No, there is no stats menu to see how close you are. |
Earned during the course of playing the game or in "Crime On" free roam. Kill a total of 500 gangsters with a gun while playing the game. (grenade or rocket launchers do NOT count) There is no time limit. When you get it, you get it. No, there is no stats menu to see how close you are. |
You can do this with a 3 star agility rating, and some have even accomplished it with a 2 star, but there really isn't much point in doing it with less than a 4 star rating mostly because of the Hidden Orb on top of the antenna at the top of the building. You can't get it without a 4 star agility rating. If you don't know to get up there, I'll include this video which shows how to climb up. The climb is done very slowly in this video so that you can see the path that is taken to get there. Perform the jump off the roof at the end of the video to get the next achievement.
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This has been described several different ways, but the one way that works every single time is to jump from the very top of the agency tower into the small pool of water at the bottom (the one with the 3 pipes in it). Rumor has it that all you have to do is jump from a very high place and survive the fall, while others say that it HAS to be done from the tower and it HAS to be into that pool of water, although several people from the IGN Crackdown board have stated that it isn't necessary to hit the pool as long as you hit any of the water below. The only method verified by this author is jumping from the tower into the small pool. On a side note, this achievement is apparently glitchy. I was playing on my alternate profile the other night in co-op with one of the co-authors of this guide. I was doing nothing more than driving around in Shai-Gen and suddenly I received this achievement. I have no idea how or why. It just happened.
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This one can be done at just about any skill level, but it is going to be the easiest at a 4 star explosives ability (by the time you get to this level, you will have probably earned this achievement by accident). Just go to an area that is heavy with gangsters or initiate the "Hit Squads". You need to kill 5 gangsters at once while you are airborne. Find a small group of gangsters, jump in the air, lock on with a rocket launcher and let it rip. When your feet touch the ground, you'll get the achievement. |
You get this achievement by throwing any object besides a grenade a total of 205 feet. There has been some confusion as to whether this was a horizontal or vertical distance, but it has been determined that the safest bet is vertical distance. Just get on top of something really tall and throw any nearby object off the edge. My personal experience with earning this achievement is that I got it by throwing Vladmir Golyak off of his platform on the oil rig after I killed him.
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At the Observatory in the Volk territory, there is a giant globe in front of the doors. There are some explosive objects at its base. Blow it up and the globe will come loose and roll freely. When it does, use it to kill 15 gangsters. To make this even simpler, the Observatory is the scene of the boss fight with Natalya Gryzunova. Grab the globe when you go there for this battle and use it to kill the gangsters until you get the achievement. You can throw it, or kick it into gangsters, either way it counts, but you must have at least a 2 star strength to pick up the globe.
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There are probably more places to do this than I have found already, but there are two that I have personally verified. Both are at the beach near the pier in La Mugre. At the end of the pier (this is probably the easiest way) there is a round building, and that building is surrounded by 35 explosive barrels (yeah, I know, it's dumb, but I really did count them). Shoot a rocket at one and they will all blow up. Run just a very short distance up the pier and then turn around and go back and all of the barrels will have respawned. Shoot them again and repeat. About 20 seconds later you will have blown up 105 barrels and earned your achievement. (This method is demonstrated in the video below) You can also do this at the other end of the pier. Between the pier and the 4 buildings at the end of it runs a boardwalk and it is lined with explosive barrels. Run from one end of the barrels to the other exploding everything in sight. When you get to the other end, turn around and go back and everything will have respawned. Do the same thing running the other way. 3 or 4 back and forth passes this way and you'll have the achievement.
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A 4 star explosives ability, a "Firefly" and a sly grin and you can get this achievement practically with your eyes closed. Target a gangster with the "Firefly" and blow him to Kingdom Come. HOLD the target on the flying body and keep firing until the body just won't stay up any more. When it hits the ground, it has hopefully been more than 10 seconds and you will gain the achievement. If you'd like to get this achievement earlier than 4 stars, fight your way to the roof of Zuang Lun Wang's tower in Shai-Gen territory and detonate a guy right over the edge of the building. By the time he hits the ground, you should have the 10 second flight.
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This one is only slightly more challenging than the body juggler achievement, but if you're just in it to get the achievement as easily as possible, get your explosives ability up to 4 stars and put a "Firefly" in one of your weapons slots. Put yourself on La Mugre and look for one of the little tiny bubble shaped convertible cars. It doesn't matter if anyone is in it or not. Get behind it, lock onto it with the "Firefly" and shoot. HOLD the target lock and continue to shoot it, keeping it up in the air. By the time it finally hits the ground, it will have been up there for more than 7 seconds and you will have unlocked this achievement.
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This was one of the first 3 achievements I got, so this is possible to do with basically NO abilities. To get this achievement you must kill 200 gangsters without dying (regenerating) yourself. You can choose to wait until you have a better strength ability so that you have more health, in which case you will most likely get this achievement by accident. |
To get this achievement you must complete all 12 Rooftop Races. See the Rooftop Races section of this guide for race locations and strategies.
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Topping the list of the many vehicle based achievements is this one which is accomplished by performing a jump that keeps you in the air for no less than 6 seconds. A 4 star driving ability and an SUV are highly recommended to accomplish this. Place a ramp truck near the edge of a cliff where you can get a dry-land landing. Get as much speed as possible and bunny hop at the top of the ramp. You should spend plenty of time in the air to get this achievement. There are other places and ways that this can be done, one of which will be displayed here shortly in an upcoming video.
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The idea behind this achievement is to get a height of 115 feet in a vehicle, but the game has a glitch that allows you to get it without ever leaving the ground. Go to the "Garcia Point" supply point in La Mugre. Just behind the building where the supply point is there is a giant statue. Grab any vehicle sitting around the area (there is one of those Geo Tracker looking things just above the building that is closest to where you're going). Drive the vehicle up between the statues feet. Achievement Unlocked. That's it! Yeah, it's a "gimme achievement". See the video if you can't seem to find it. NOTE: THE STATUE WILL NOT BE THERE IF YOU HAVE ELIMINATED LOS MUERTOS!! In this case you're just going to have to know where the statue was.
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This achievement is best earned in a 4 star SUV. If you got the "Hazardous Hangtime" achievement, then you are pretty safe using the same spot you jumped to get that one. You need to accomplish 2 full forward flips in a vehicle to get this achievement. Again, speed and a well timed "bunny hop" are the keys to getting this achievement.
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A 4 star SUV is recommend for this achievement, but not required. Your skill with the SUV will determine how quickly you can get this. You must perform 6 stunts in 60 seconds. You can do any combination of flips or rolls, or if you must, do the same stunt 6 times. If you are playing solo, the two best places to do this are at the beach on La Mugre using the ramps on the lifeguard shacks or in the arena in the northern part of La Mugre where you defeated Diaz. On the beach, just drive back and forth on the beach hitting ramp after ramp as quickly as possible and doing your easiest stunt off of each one. At the arena, find the "sweet spots" on each ramp and continuously circle the arena alternating flips and rolls until you manage to get 6 in a row. (If you are in a 4 star SUV in the arena, you MUST back off of the gas when you hit the ramp or you will hit the cross beams on the roof of the arena. An alternate method for getting this achievement is to have a co-op partner with a 4 star strength ability repeatedly throw you while you are in the SUV. The throw has a tendency to give you a barrel roll (with a little help from you, of course), and your co-op partner can easily throw you 6 times in 60 seconds.
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This is another achievement that has sub-achievements. You must perform 5 DIFFERENT stunts in a vehicle. They are: front flip Most of these are pretty simple stunts, especially in a 4 star SUV. The only one that seems to give some people issue is jumping a distance of 200 feet. The task itself isn't all that difficult, but the game can be glitchy about whether or not it's going to cough up the sub achievement. I will post videos here of each stunt.
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To get this achievement you must jump, hop, fall or be thrown through all 39 stunt rings spread throughout the map in a vehicle. For sunt ring locations and strategies, please see the Stunt Ring section of this guide. |
To get this achievement you must complete all 14 Road Races. See the Road Races section of this guide for race locations and strategies.
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This achievement and the "Orb Hunter" achievement are, without question, the two most time consuming and frustrating of them all. When you have found all 500 of the green agility orbs you will unlock this achievement. I am searching for a good map of the locations of these orbs and as soon as I have found one or made one myself I will post it here. After 3 days of searching and being stuck at 499 orbs, I finally came across the stupid thing just a couple of hops away from "The Block" supply point in Shai-Gen. My good buddy Tom (GamerTag: NeonInVermont) is there with me when I claimed this rather anti-climactic achievement (It was the only achievement I had left) and is also the victim of my celebratory Firefly round after I found it. Thanks also to my son and step-son, Anthony Waechter and Remington Jackson for helping me find this last orb.
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This achievement and the "Free Runner " achievement are, without question, the two most time consuming and frustrating of them all. When you have found all 300 of the blue hidden orbs you will unlock this achievement. There is a very good map of the locations of these orbs available on Wikispaces. Click the image below to see it. After two days of searching (using the above map) I finally found the ONE damn hidden orb I was missing (on my second run through that map). Apparently I had checked the wrong cliff the first time through around the quarry in The Den. Here ya go:
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You may have noticed that now when you go to the Agency garage to pull out a car, you have a whole new menu of vehicles to choose from, only many of them have been grayed out and you can't pick them yet. This means you haven't impounded these cars yet. Search Pacific City for the needed cars and bring them back to the garage to turn them in. A couple of important things to note while doing this: 1) The condition of the car when you turn it in is completely irrelevant. If the car is blown up, had no wheels and is undrivable, pick it up and carry it in. Throw it in the door and you get credit for turning it in. 2) If you are in co-op and NEITHER of you has the car, only ONE of you needs to turn it in. You both get credit for it. 3) If one of you already has the car and the other one doesn't, the one that has it can not pull one out of his inventory and give it to you. It won't work. HOWEVER, if the one with the car does have it, he can pull it out and you guys can drive it to search for another one, which will make them spawn much easier and make them easier to find. 4) The "Baggage Handler" seems to be the bastard child of the list, but there is one very reliable place to find one. One must have eliminated Golyak on the oil rig in The Volk territory. Go back to the oil rig and climb up to the Helicopter Pad up near where you killed him. There should be two Baggage Handlers parked there. If they aren't there, swim back to shore and back out again and they will soon spawn. The next trick is getting one to shore. Pick one up, jump down to the next part of the rig, and then the first. Now walk the car across the pipe to shore. When you get to the end of the pipe, jump and THROW the car onto the rocks to the left. Just pick it up and put it on the street from there and drive it home. 5) Some of the gang vehicles can be hard to find if all the bosses are gone. Try playing in co-op with someone that has the crime on (Gangs Ressurected), and many times the vehicles you are looking for will come to you. This is especially true of some of the Los Muertos vechicles that have a tendency not to spawn if all the bosses are eliminated. In either case, always look near where boss fights were located for parked gang cars you can grab to turn in. |
Of the two high scoring achievements the DLC gave us, this is definitely the easier of the two. Simply complete all the Time Trials on the 'Psychotic' difficulty. If you're doing this in co-op (which you should be anyway because everything about this game is better in co-op), and both of you are well leveled up agents, you'll have no problem taking out most all of these bosses in just a few seconds. Remember, the Firefly is your friend! |
This achievement lets you play with one of the new mini games, Stockpile. In the Stockpile game, you must collect 100 white agency tokens before the timer runs out. Collect all 100 orbs in less than 2 minutes and 30 second and you'll get this achievement. The quickest way to get this achievement is to play the Stockpile game just west of Pacific City Bank supply point in La Mugre with a co-op partner. You'll be competing against each other to see who gets the most tokens, but for the achievement it doesn't matter who wins, as long as all the tokens have been collected in less than 2:30. One of you start at one end, the other at the other end (the tokens line up in very distinct lines) and meet in the middle. Playing this game with NeonInVermont the other night, we met in the middle, finished the game with a score of 50 to 50 and had completed the game in 1:57. Plenty of time to spare. |
This achievement simply takes the "Front Flipper" achievement and kicks it up a notch by adding in a third forward flip. This doesn't take long at all to accomplish if you use the Dune Buggy as the icon for the achievement suggests. I'm sure there are two dozen places to easily accomplish this feat, but I picked it up right away by using the triangular shaped rock in La Mugre right outside the entrance to Rodrigo Alavarez's compound on the southwest side of the island. In fact there was enough height there to probably get 4 flips out of it if you hit it right, but I got to about 3 and a half and had to reverse the flip so I could get the buggy to land on its wheels. |
This one takes advantage of your new Harpoon gun, and this is without a doubt, the funniest of the new achievements. Your goal is to attach 5 bodies to the same vehicle. The good part about this task is that the game really doesn't care what kind of bodies you attach. Pedestrians, gangsters, Peacekeepers, it really doesn't matter. We've found the easiest way to get this is to get together with a co-op partner and pull the new Peacekeeper APC out of the garage mostly just because it's huge. Then just drive slowly up a busy street while your co-op partner walks beside you and staples pedestrians to the vehicle. You can pick this up in just a couple minutes this way. You can pile up dead bodies next to the vehicle and try to staple them on that way, which works, but bodies that are standing are much easier to hit. |
Now you get to play with the new Street Races found in the main menu. There are 6 races to get through and you get to choose from 6 different car options for each race. In order to get this achievement you have to win each race ONCE. It doesn't matter which car you choose for each race, as long as you win each different race once. As soon as possible, we'll be putting together a "Race Strategy" page, in the meantime, please visit and sign up at the Skull Boards to meet up with people that can help you out with the strategies. |
This is the big daddy achievement of the game. This is just an extension of the "Street Racer" achievement and requires that you complete all 6 races in all 6 of the cars provided for each race. 36 races in all will give you this challenging achievement. We'll get the race strategy page put together for you soon, but again, in the meantime visit and sign up at the Skull Boards to talk to some good people about methods of getting through these races. Update: We've discovered a glitch that can be used so that you can drive the Agency Supercar in EVERY race, no matter what car is chosen. Thanks to MadRoX from the Skull Boards for figuring it out. Here ya go: Start a race . . .any car. As soon as the race starts, drive to the Agency and pull out an Agency Supercar. Drive it back to the track and continue the race. You may lose the first time, but it doesn't matter . . . just finish the race. All 3 laps. Cross the finish line and GET OUT OF THE CAR! |
