Man, it's Tuesday! I usually write this on Sunday morning, but my weekend was squarely focused on getting our New Super Mario Bros. Wii review finished and on the site. Now, it's onto my next two assignments, Buzz: Quiz World and Tony Hawk: RIDE, both of which require the use of peripherals that don't really work with many other games. Buzz, at least, is a series with other releases in it. Actually, Robomodo has gone on the record as saying that they've got another game in the works with Activision, so we'll probably see something else that takes advantage of the RIDE skateboard.
Achievementally speaking, this data covers the release week of Modern Warfare 2. Unsurprisingly, it's taken the top spot on the most popular achievements list, snatching the top spot away from the still-rolling Borderlands.
Top Sets
- Modern Warfare 2
- Borderlands
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Football Manager 2010
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Dark Void
- Forza Motorsport 3
- Assassin's Creed II
- Brutal Legend
- Halo 3: ODST
I hope the upcoming Borderlands DLC adds some more achievements. That's actually coming out really soon, which is nice, because I'm just about ready for some more Borderlands, even if I'm not the world's biggest zombie aficionado.
The new sets this week are all new releases, including the Steam version of Modern Warfare 2.
New Sets
Quick tip for you: don't buy NBA Unrivaled. It's $15 and it's terrible. As soon as I clear out some of the bigger stuff on my plate, I want to go back and review some of the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade releases we've had to skip this season. 0D Beat Drop is kind of neat and deserves a bit of attention.
OK, this brings us to the individual achievements. Modern Warfare 2 made some heavy inroads into our individual list, taking half of the spots away from Borderlands, which was running the show for the past couple of weeks. But Borderlands has held onto the top spot. It makes sense, really, that people would frequent the page of a secret achievement that isn't immediately obvious, rather than sink too deeply into the fairly plain achievements of Modern Warfare 2.
Top Individual Achievements
- Borderlands - You're on a boat!
- Borderlands - 12 Days of Pandora
- Modern Warfare 2 - Drive By
- Borderlands - Made in New Haven
- Borderlands - My Brother Is An Italian Plumber
- Modern Warfare 2 - Ghost
- Modern Warfare 2 - Danger Close
- Modern Warfare 2 - Look Ma Two Hands
- Modern Warfare 2 - Pit Boss
- Borderlands - Speedy McSpeederton
So, before I close things out, I've got some exciting news. This weekly article is probably going to change pretty dramatically before next week, because we'll have a new homepage on the site by then. That homepage is going to have some new gadgets and information on it, including some more-useful achievement data. This stuff I'm showing is purely traffic-based. But those dudes upstairs have been building stuff based on, like, the most played game for a given day or the most-unlocked achievement. Dave actually just IM'ed me a few things based on a 100-day old version of the database he's using for development purposes...
...did you play Fallout 3 100 days ago? Odds are you did, I guess. Anyway, we'll have to see if my most popular lists are still useful after the new page goes up. If not, well, then I guess I'll have to find a different set of information to use as a jumping-off point for what's essentially become a weekly column. No sense in stopping it now.100 days ago fallout 3 was the most popular game played
then halo 3
splosion man had the top achievement