Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10
- Offline: 44 [890]
- Online: 6 [110]
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 35+ [15+ Story, 20+ Collectibles, Misc.]
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Number of missable achievements: None
- Do cheat codes disable achievements: None
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed? None
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DLC: Toy Box
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
- Approximate amount of time to 250: 3-5 Hours
- Unobtainable/Glitched achievements: None
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DLC: Deluge
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
- Approximate amount of time to 250: 10-12 Hours
- Unobtainable/Glitched achievements: None
Introduction:
Welcome to Crackdown 2, a sandbox game created by Ruffian Games. Crackdown 2 takes 10 years after the story of Crackdown. The city has been over run by a gang known as Cell and the Infected known as Freaks. Get ready to climb huge skyscrapers, grab a massive amount of collectibles, and blow up huge amounts of Cell and Infected. You will be saving the city with your super agent, one more time.
Breakdown:
Since there is no difficulty based achievements, you can begin right away on "Fragile" difficulty (easiest difficulty). As you play through the game, whenever you see agility orbs, go for them as much as possible. Having a high agility early on helps you get around the city much easier. Always use a variety of attacks to level up equally in all skill levels.
Story Mode:
Playing through the story will net you a minimum of 350 for just the story. Play through the story destroying all the Beacons and Cell Strongholds as you play. You will obtain everything that is story related as you play through it.
Collectible Orbs and Audio Logs:
There are total of 925 Collectible Orbs found in Pacific City.
- 500 - Agility Orbs ("King of the World")
- 300 - Hidden Orbs ("Sixth Sense")
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45 - Renegade Orbs
- 30 - Renegade Agility Orbs ("Renegade Runner")
- 15 - Renegade Driving Orbs ("Renegade Racer")
- 80 - Xbox Live Orbs ("LIVE and let LIVE")
There are a total of 52 Audio Logs found in Pacific City.
- 52 - Audio Logs ("Closed Book")
These will take a majority of your time. Each Orb and Audio Log has a distinctive look and possible sound that you will become accustomed to hearing. Check each Orbs and Audio Logs(achievement name) in the guide for the best way to locate and get these collectibles.
Road and Rooftop Races:
There are a total of 30 Races found in Pacific City. Road Races and Rooftop Races are both distinguished with their different flags. Road Races have purple checkered flags, and Rooftop Races have green checkered flags.
- 15 - Road Races ("Street Racer")
- 15 - Rooftop Races ("Rooftop Racer")
Wingsuit Stunt Rings and Vehicle Stunt Rings:There are a total of 50 Stunt Rings found in Pacific City.
- 10 - Wingsuit Stunt Rings ("Wingsuit Racer")
- 40 - Vehicle Stunt Rings ("Stuntman")
They are found as either Green circles for Wingsuit Stunt Rings, and Purple circles for Vehicle Stunt Rings.
Miscellaneous/Clean up:
If you have missed anything it should deal with killing certain enemies or doing a single objective. Refer to the Achievement Guide for help on cleaning up whatever you have left over.
Toy Box DLC
Introduction:
This DLC introduces the jet boot thrusters, a fun addition to the game. These also make some of the achievements in the game much easier to obtain (such as finding Agility and Hidden orbs, completing Rooftop Races and makes climbing buildings much easier).
This DLC also adds a new multiplayer mode called Vehicle Tag. In this mode, you must drive around and obtain an orb and maintain possession for the longest amount of time. This is similar to Oddball in the Halo franchise, except that you are in a vehicle.
Please note that in order to unlock these achievements, you can’t be playing in the new ‘Keys to the City’ mode as playing in this mode disables achievements and you can’t save your game.
Solo Achievements:
There are five achievements that are unlocked solo (you can be playing with a co-op partner, but these do not require more than yourself to unlock). They are “Mile High Club,” “Hung Out to Dry,” “Burnt Offerings,” “Wing-a-Ding-Ding,” and “Rocketeer.” Four of these require the thrusters, so make sure you have them equipped.
Note: To unlock “Mile High Club,” you must be at least Level 5 in Strength. To unlock “Wing-a-Ding-Ding,” you need the Wingsuit, which is available once you reach Level 5 in Agility.
The final solo achievement is “Beyond the Infinite.” This requires you to get all five abilities to Level 6. Just keep killing, jumping and driving and you should have this in no time.
Co-op Achievements:
The next two achievements, “Run! Get to the Chopper!” and “Tac Loc Takedown,” while they can be unlocked solo, are much easier if you are part of a squad.
Online Achievements:
There are two achievements that require you to play online with others. They are “Never Give It up” and “One Careful Driver.” Both of these need to be done while playing Vehicle Tag.
Conclusion:
The Toy Box DLC is fairly easy to complete; just takes some planning ahead and timing.
Deluge DLC
Introduction:
Welcome to the Deluge DLC, the latest addition to Crackdown 2. This DLC introduces a survival mode called Deluge. You can play with up to four people and offers drop-in/drop-out. You begin with a set amount of time and your time increases as you clear waves of enemies. Each wave gets increasing more difficult with stronger enemies, strongholds and capture points. If your time expires, it’s game over.
Also in this DLC is the new Capture the Orb mode, Crackdown’s take on Capture the Flag. Play with up to 16 people in 6 different arenas.
Solo Achievements:
“Raging Bull” and “The Blender” can both be unlocked in the quarry in Hope Springs (although anywhere is good where there is a good concentration of freaks). It might take a couple of tries to get “The Blender” as your angle might not be correct for your helicopter blades to cut the freaks to shreds.
Co-op Achievements:
There are two achievements that can be done solo but is much easier if you play with a partner. For “15 Minutes of Maim,” just survive at least 15 minutes in each of the three arenas. For “Deluge Domination,” you must survive all 50 waves in one arena.
“Speed Scorer” and “The Big Score” require you to achieve a certain amount of points in a Deluge arena. “Earth Wind Fire” is unlocked for attaining a certain combo multiplier for ground, air and explosive killing. These three are attainable playing either solo or with a partner, but go much faster solo as you will be the only one killing. If you play through 50 waves with a partner, you should be able to unlock all three with relative ease.
“Decimator” requires that you kill 10,000 enemies in Deluge. This one is going to take some grinding as you will only get a few thousand kills by playing all 50 waves in one arena. There are waves that are good for farming kills, such as Zone 5, Wave 7 in South Unity Heights. You can potentially get 100 kills per minute of game time.
Online Achievements:
There are two achievements that require you to be online. For “Cartographer,” you need to win a Capture the Orb game in all six arenas. “Project Sunburst” is a viral achievement, so for this one you need to just play a Deluge game with someone who already has the achievement.
Conclusion:
This DLC is pretty straightforward. With dedication, you can unlock everything except “Decimator” within a few hours, but getting 10,000 kills will take some grinding.
Overall Conclusion:
Crackdown 2 is one game that doesn't get enough credit. It is great for coop game play that many may be looking for. But none the less, a enjoyable sandbox game among the ranks.
[XBA would like to thank SideDish120 for this Roadmap]
[XBA would like to thank bLaKgRaVy for the DLC Roadmaps]