Journey To Platinum - Call of Duty: Black Ops [Part 1 ~ Single Player Trophies]

I'll be honest, when I first played the campaign for Black Ops, I found it pretty boring. I don't know if it was because the plotline just didn't interest me or if it was because the previous CoD title was Modern Warfare 2, which was pretty high octane. As you'll know by now, I always read the trophy list after completing a game, just to see what the demands are for the platinum trophy and even though I thought Black Ops was doable, I just didn't have the will power to go for it at the time. Fast forward a few years and I'm in the mood to clean up my virtual trophy cabinet, so I figure it was time to finally put this trophy list to bed. As I mentioned, I didn't think the trophy list would be too demanding and having now earned my platinum trophy, I think that was a fair initial assessment. There are more single player trophies than there are multiplayer trophies but depending on how lucky you get, the multiplayer trophies could end up taking you longer to complete [I'll explain more in that article].

Single Player Trophy Guide

Death to Dictators - Take down Castro with a headshot. 

I would’ve thought that everyone will do this during the mission; I mean after all there’s really no reason why you shouldn’t go for the headshot. It’s a slow-motion room breach and the best shot to take, is the one where you place a bullet in between his eyes. If you fail to get it first time, just come back after and try again using mission select.

Journey To Platinum - Medal of Honor: Warfighter [Part 1 ~ Single Player Trophies]

If someone had said to me I'd eventually go on to plat Medal of Honor: Warfighter when I initially started playing the game, I'd have laughed in their face. But here we are, nearly a year after first loading up the disk, I'm now writing my second Journey To Platinum article on it! :O I'm not really sure why I decided to go back to the game, lord knows I've got enough un-played (and many un-opened) titles in my game library to get stuck into, I guess it's just in my nature to see things through to the end. I did play the previous MoH title and it was fairly enjoyable, so I decided to give the sequel a whirl. I think I prefere the SP in MoH than MoH:W but that isn't to say it was bad, it just wasn't as refreshing as the first, the multiplayer however I think is improved in MoH:W but I'll speak a bit more about that in the multiplayer trophies article. Anyway as SP trophies go, the ones in MoH:W are pretty hard, so if you're going for the platinum, you should be prepared for some considerable effort and numerous re-tries.

Single Player Trophy Guide

Warfighter - Completed the campaign

Journey To Platinum - Tomb Raider [Part 1 ~ Single Player Trophies]

Welcome guys and gals, to the first ever Journey To Platinum article! Today I'll be discussing the trophies that can be completed in Tomb Raider, now to avoid making this post insanely long, I've decided to split them between two posts: single player (this article) and multiplayer trophies. I'd heard a lot of good things about Tomb Raider before I got around to playing it a last month and I'm glad say that it lived up to the hype, initially I thought the multiplayer was crap but as I played it more, there were moments where I actually had fun. It was at this point that I decided to go for the platinum trophy, it took a few weeks but I enjoyed the process and now I'll be sharing what I learnt along the way, so that you may do the same :)

Single Player Trophy Guide

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A Guide On How To Complete Solo Matches On ME3 MP (Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum) - Part 1 of 2

Welcome to my second guide for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, while I'm still not quite fully rested from writing my very lengthy A Beginners Guide To Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer earlier this year XD, I've decided to create this article to help those that are contemplating doing solo runs. Despite being called a "Beginners Guide", there's lots of information in that other article, which I acquired many months after I started playing, so seasoned veteran or not, I think it'll be worth checking out before continuing with this guide. I personally don't find solo matches all that fun to be honest and the only reason I made an effort to complete them, was so that I could check off the 'Solo Mastery' section in the MP Challenges list. I don't think the default version of the banner is the greatest looking one available (though the Fem-Shep alternative is pretty decent) but some people do view it as the ultimate achievement in MP, unless of course you achieved the 'Best of the Best' banner as a result of completing it. Like all the MP Challenges, the 'Lone Wolf' banner is something that can eventually be achieved if you spend enough time playing the game, how much time you need to spend playing, will of course depend on your level of ability. If you're reading this article, the chances are you're here because you need Solo Mastery in order to obtain the BotB banner or like me, you just wanted to complete the ultimate test of your Mass Effect 3 multiplayer skills. Well, whatever the reason you're here, I hope this article provides you with the advice and guidance that you're searching for :)

A Beginners Guide To Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer [Part 1/2]

- Introduction

I've been playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer for a little over half a year now and as with any game where there is an MP that I enjoy playing, I've spent many an hour on the title. Until ME3 I wasn't really aware of what the Mass Effect franchise was about nor did I have any reason to learn more about it, that however all changed when a friend of mine (who I played a crap ton of Uncharted 3 Co-Op with), recommended the game to me. I started off by downloading the demo and if I'm being honest, my first impressions were more or less "meh, can't see what all the fuss is about" but I decided to stick at it and play around with the various classes, while also testing out the different powers. It took a pretty long time for me to get to grips with the demo and when I eventually bought the retail version, I realised that this was merely the tip of the iceberg, despite this I decided to forgo the single player and dive straight into MP (in hindsight, even I think this was a crazy move!). 

Being an absolute noob to the whole ME franchise there was soo much that I had to wrap my head around, never before did I have to build entire character kits via skills points as well as selecting and modding weapons. These weapons would then create an additional "cooldown" time for my powers and could be further enhanced via equipment. Don't even get me started on all the classes, I mean what the heck is an "Adept"? "Vanguards" can do what now? The powers themselves had alternative evolutions and each one had odd names (what is "Reave"?!) and provided equally bizarre benefits ("Weaken Armour"?!), I mean my mind was literally reeling from the data overload (speaking of which, "Effective against barriers"?!).