Unreal Tournament 3 is one of my favorite games on both the PS3 or the 360 because of a few important reasons. For one thing, the PS3 version still stands as the only console game to allow mouse and keyboard input. This type of control scheme would benefit any real-time strategy (RTS) or first person shooter (FPS) released on a console, but this is still the only game to be released that allows it. It also happens to still be the only console game that has allowed user-created mods (that don’t have to be created in-game) allowing for seemingly limitless possibilities that even if you ran out of mods to install, you could fire up the PC modding tools and craft your own video gaming joy. On top of that, it also happens to be a hell of a lot of fun.
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Here are a few strategies to help you along with your quest for the achievements of Peggle on the 360.
Ace of Adventure (30): In a peg defying feat, score 20 million points in a single play-through of Adventure mode.
Simply play through an adventure mode run and try to get the best score on each map that you can. You shouldn’t have too much trouble as long as you make sure you clear every level the first time, since you get a 100,000 point bonus just for that. Also, getting an ace will net you a huge bonus (an ace is getting a certain amount of points in a level) so make sure to go for trick shots every chance you get. The more free balls you can earn and have left at the end of the level, you get 10,000 points for so go for the purple peg if at all possible for a point boost and try to chain multiple orange and blue pegs in a row. A nice trick near the end of the level is to go for one peg at a time, bouncing the ball off the peg and straight into the bucket to remove another orange peg at no ball cost. One particularly cheesy way to end up winning this achievement even if you get to the last level and have millions of points left to get before you reach 20 million is to watch the videos of the best shot leaderboards. They’re almost all on the last level and they all follow the same strategy. You can get multiple millions of points in just one shot by following the same strategy they use on the leaderboards.
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Here are the achievements for Peggle on the 360 along with my impressions.
Sorted Alphabetically:
Ace of Adventure (30): In a peg defying feat, score 20 million points in a single play-through of Adventure mode.
Be Cool (10): Hit the last orange then the last blue to rack up a Cool Clear. (Except Duel)
Catch the Fever (5): Cure your need for fever with an Extreme Fever. (Except Duel)
Doctor of the Peggle Arts (30): Clear all pegs and bricks in every level in Quick Play or Adventure mode and gain explodious fame!
Free! Free! Free Ball! (15): Rack up the score or hit the bucket for 3 free balls in one shot.
Go ULTRA! (15): Clear all the pegs in a level. It’s pretty extreme, but you look up to it. (Except Duel)
Party Master (10): Winning a Peg Party is way better than playing with a ball of yarn!
Peggle Graduate (20): Complete Adventure Mode and earn your degree from the Peggle Institute.
Peggle Professor (25): Complete every level in Challenge Mode and even the Peggle Masters will be impressed.
People’s Ovation (10): Win a 4-player Peg Party by a whoppin’ 100,000 points to acquire everlasting coolness.
Rock Lobster (15): Win a Xbox LIVE Duel like a crustacean born. ‘Ave you tried ze flippers?
Stylish Project (15): Bust out all your Skillz, Bounces, and Slides for 1 million style shot points!
Impressions and achievement review after the jump.
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Here are some quick points, a “Quick Fix” if you will about Peggle on the XBLA for those of you who don’t like reading long, drawn out essays on such subject matter:
Good:
+ Extremely polished, faithful port of the successful PC game
+ The controls are as good as you can expect considering the transition from mouse to gamepad. Never need to fight to get a good shot position. Innate ability to lounge in bed while playing is great.
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Peggle came out on the PC a long time ago and most recently arrived on the xbox live arcade, much to the delight of my girlfriend and I. I had been waiting for it to finally arrive for quite some time, and Popcap delivered about as much as you could expect them to. But does it stand the test of time and the conversion from PC to 360? Is it still as fun as playing on a PC?
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Here’s a guide if you need some help getting the trophies on Burn, Zombie Burn!:
Friend of d6: All Developer medals.
Although I haven’t started working towards this trophy yet, to obtain it, you need to achieve a developer medal on every map/mode combo and challenge that is unlocked by first obtaining a gold trophy, then working towards the score shown at the top of the screen to earn a developer medal. Read the “d6 admires you” description to see a strategy to help you gain points.
Click through to see the rest of the guide.
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Here are the trophies for Burn, Zombie Burn! along with my impressions.
Altogether, sorted by value then alphabetical:
Gold:
Friend of d6: All Developer medals.
Silver:
Friend of Bruce: All levels unlocked.
Bronze:
Brain Surgery: 100 Brains sucked.
d6 Commends You: All Bronze medals.
d6 Respects You: All Silver medals.
d6 Admires You: All Gold medals.
Dynami-Te-He: 1000 Zombies blown up.
Extinction: 100,000 Zombies killed.
Graduation: Complete Zombie Academy.
Hot To Trot: Last 30 seconds with 50+ zombies on fire.
Murder On The Dance Floor: 1000 Zombies sent dancing.
Paint The Town Red: Fill the screen with the maximum amount of blood on any level.
Red Shirt: Kill the away team Zombie.
Texas Style: 100 Chainsaw Combos.
Tourist: All Arcade levels unlocked.
Now, onto my impressions after the jump.
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What is Quick Fix? Well I know you might want to know some good and bad things about a game I review without having to read the whole thing. So what I’m going to try to do is write down a list of the good and bad things about each game I review in a separate post, and if you want to know more about them, go to the detailed analysis part of the review. Anyway, here we go.
Good:
+Varied, original and funny zombies make for a great chuckle even when you get overwhelmed
+Each weapon clearly has strengths and weaknesses that show a lot of depth in game design
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I was excited for this PSN game since I first heard about it in late 2008, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it turned out pretty well as a final product. I have several issues with the game, however, that are frustrating enough at times to disappoint but largely the game stands tall as a fun way to spend some time doing the most fun activity of slaughtering hordes of zombies trying to eat your brains.
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