Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 9/10
- Offline: 37 [845]
- Online: 5 [155]
- Approximate completion time for 1000: 40-50 hours
- Missable achievements: 13
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed: None
Introduction:
Welcome to Blood Drive, a racing game, where you have to square off against five other drivers in a series of events, over the course of a cup. Depending on your placement at the end of an event, you get a number of points added to your overall standing, which determines the winner of the cup at the end of it. Oh, and there's zombies trying to kill you the whole time as well.
Step 1 - Multiplayer:
Do this first. Not many people have the game, so finding a partner would be rather difficult. There are five multiplayer achievements, each are designated with "multiplayer:" in the description. Check the individual achievements in the guide for more info. All except "Crash and Burn" can be done with bots, but you are better off with the more people you can get.
Step 2 - Preliminary Cups:
There are fiveeliminary cups, each needing to be completed until the next is unlocked. I say start with Natalya, and begin on your ""O" Is For Overachiever" progress. This will get you used to the game, frustrate you, and get you very familiar with map layout and item placement. Each cup gets progressively longer and more difficult. After finishing your first cup without losing an event, you'll get ""W" Is For Winner." See ""O" Is For Overachiever" for more details in the guide. After finishing the fifth cup, you'll unlock "Full Tilt."
Step 3 - Blood Drive Championship:
With Natalya still, this is where things get really, REALLY annoying. The AI is much smarter, they make more use of their Rage abilities, and the zones contain more events. However, after your victory, you'll unlock three achievements for your trouble: "Ode to Mother Russia," "Undisputed," and ""C" Is For Champion."
Step 4 - Hardcore Cup:
This is it, the big one. The hardcore cup is very similar to the championship, with a few exceptions. The AI are slightly better, especially during objective based games such as King of the Skull. There are less Super Repair Kits on the maps. Also, it seems like Repair Kits restore less health. Otherwise it's pretty much identical, and equally as frustrating. However, victory will reward you with "Hardcore Cup Conquered" and ""O"Is For Overachiever." Everything from here on out is much easier.
Step 5 - Other Characters:
You now have to win the Blood Drive Championship and Hardcore Cup with all six of the remaining characters. Since you no longer have to place first in every single event (consistently top three, mostly) you won't have to keep constantly restarting zones. However, this doesn't make things all that much shorter. Each event is about four minutes long, and with a total of 30 events that leaves you with two hours per cup, equating to a total of four hours per character, giving you 24 hours of playtime for who you haven't done yet. It certainly becomes a grind. However, there are some ways around it. If you're doing well and are placing top three often, and see yourself leading the other racers by a large number of points, you can simply not move during Elimination events (Roadkill and Checkpoint Elimination). That ends the matches in 30 seconds, as opposed to waiting three and a half minutes. If you get very lucky and end up with two in every zone, it saves you a half hour per cup. For individual character traits, please see their specific achievements in the guide.
Step 6 - Challenges:
There are five challenges to complete, all of which are rather easy with the correct strategies. See "Legend, wait for it...ARY!" for details on the challenges.
Conclusion:
There you have it. I'm sure over the course of your journey, you've seen some things you'd never expect nor want to see in a video game. Cars spawning 50 feet in the air, Behemoths spawning directly into your path, zombies not spawning during kill events, getting stuck on countless walls, cars, ramps, you name it. You survived it all, so congratulations on completing Blood Drive.
[XBA would like to thank Vitiated1 for this Roadmap]