Week 21 (Month 5) - Double Platinum

That's right everyone two platinums in one month! Not only that, but in the same Week! On Tuesday I received my platinum in Mass Effect 2, and early this morning I received my second platinum in Killzone 3! Welcome everybody to my awesome blog of Trophy hunting where I try to reach my goal 2,012 trophies by the year 2012. This month I am super excited, because I have made my first move to gaining on my fifteen platinum trophies. All the way up til now I have been completing one platinum trophy a month, this month I have one uped that putting me closer to my goal! Like every post I've done so far where I have completed my platinum I give you my tips on the best way to platinum this game. I will start off with Killzone 3, and finish it off with Mass Effect 2 following with some Mass Effect 2 videos.

My Roadmap for Killzone 3 is to start off on the easiest difficulty, this is needed due to the Elite difficulty to be unlocked so you can get that trophy by going through the easiest difficulty. You can play at a harder difficulty if you would like it's up to you. Along this playthrough you want to get the story missions and some of the random trophies. This game did a real great job of making the trophies easy to get in one playthrough. Here's the trophies you should be going for broken down by levels.

Chapter 1
Ready for Battle - Complete weapons training: This is story related.

Chapter 2
In Your Face - First Brutal Melee: This will be available early in the level.
Frag Out - Kill 3 Helghast with 1 Frag Grenade: Mid part in the level after a cutscene you will be behind a Helghast that you can Brutal Melee. To his left is is a hill of rubble and over that are 4-5 Helghast that are bunched up. Throw your grenade over this rubble pile.
One Each - Kill 3 Helghast with Shotgun Pistol, no reloads: In the area where there is a giant door blocking the tank route, and you have to open it by turning the wheel. One of the enemies drops the shotgun pistol here. Next you just need to find 3 unfortunate enemies to blow a hole through.
No Witnesses - Destroy All Dropships on the Highway: At the end of level 2 you will end up on a bridge where you will have 4 dropships come down. They can be real hard to take down, but with the detachable minigun they are no problem. The first one comes down after the first bridge. once you advance a bit another one comes down and is hard to hit because he's usually behind some highway signs. Then 3 and 4 both show up at the same time a little further down the bridge.
Time For a Dip - Reach the River: Story Related

Chapter 3
Mopping up - Kill 40 Helghast Foot Soldiers: Right at the beginning when your in the turret R1 fires shells and R2 fires the machinegun but overheats if held down for to long. Try to take out the 2 dropships usually holds quite a bit of enemies.
Sawn Off - Destory All Chasing APC's: After the beach you roll up on land and over a bridge. You need to kill all the enemy APC's which look like what your driving. The will usually show up behind you, and it's about 6-7 APC's.
Smoking Wrecks - Destory all Tanks on Senlin Beach: Same as the APC's there are about 4 tanks. 1st Tank will appear behind the debris to your right. 2nd Tank will be on your left up on the highway. 3rd Tank will be after a dropship appears this one will be on your left. 4th tank will appear after the guy in front of you stops suddenly, the tank is right in front of him.
Eagle Eye - Every Sniper Rifle Bullet is a Kill: last section of the game you will split from you team to go in a building there will be 3 or 4 snipers in this building that you can grab a sniper rifle from, and the next part is the best for this trophy.
Save The Intruders - Arc APC's Destroyed: Story Related

Chapter 4
Spiky Personality - Kill a Helghast Using a Burster: a Burster is those plants with orange bulbs that explode when you shoot them. just pick you shot this shouldn't be to hard.
Never There - Sneak Past Helghast: You don't have to sneak by everyone. Just make sure your not spotted period. If you need to kill someone brutal melee or Shoot the guy in the head.
ISA TV - Establish Communication: Story Related
Turn the Tables - Melee Kill a Capture Trooper: a capture trooper is the bad ass looking Helghast that kill by melee. You just have to give him a taste of his own medicine. These guys will come after you make contact with the ISA.

Chapter 5
Minigunned - Destory all targets: when your on the ship with the minigun at the beginning you will fly by these oil tower structures. you need to aim and shoot at whatever looks like a blue cylinder or vessel next to pipes marked by blue stripes.
Areial Superiority - Kill 5 Helghast While in the Air: When you get a hold of a jetpack kill 5 enemies while boosted in the air.
Quick Exit - Escape the Oil Rig Quickly: After setting the 2 bases with C4 you have 4 minutes to escape... do it in 2 and get you'll get this trophy.
Excessive Force - Kill a Lone Helghast with the WASP secondary Fire: The wasp is the attached weapon in this level. The secondary fire is lock on with L1 and fire. try and hit one target.
Spread The Love - Kill 5 Helghast at Once Using the WASP's Secondary Fire: Similar to the last one just try and hit 5 enemies. There will be a drop ship after destroying a few gun nests. Wait until it drops of your buddies and lock on and boom this trophy should be yours.
Into The Lair - Reach the Cable Car: Story Related

Chapter 6
Jail Break - Liberate Narville: Story Related
Shattered - Destroying All Glass in the Labs: This is a difficult one... in the first room there is 10 pieces of glass, 4 in the refrigeration room, and then 64 in the last room. This last room is tricky, STA14 or whatever the single shot rifle is that zooms in. easiest way to get the top floor.
Frazzle Dazzle - Kill 3 Helghast With One Shot From the Sta5x Arc Cannon: This is the weapon you start out with in this level, most likely the easiest to get somewhere in this level just keep it in mind
Go Down And Stay Down - Destroy ATAC: Story Related
Iced - Destroy all Ice Saws and Dropships: this is the last part of the level where your in some jet-ski vehicle. You must kill the 4 Ice Saws and 6 Dropships before the level ends.

Chapter 7
Power Spike - Nail a Helghast to an Exploding Object: You must pick up the Nail gun from a weapon rack and look for a exploding barrel then pin a helghast to that barrel. Not easy to find a helghast in front of a barrel. there is one to the far right of an area when you get to the huge tower and a bunch of miniguns. He will be on the minigun to the farthest right, if you position yourself just right you can nail him to the barrel to his right.
Pinpoint - kill the Heavy With an StA-14: The single shot rifle makes the heavy's a lot easier. Make sure you pick this up from a weapon rack. I believe there is one right when he shows up, but not 100% sure. Shoot him in the head and then shoot the pack on his back when he turns around.
You Drive - Drive the Mobile Factory: Story Related

Chapter 8
Completist - Destroying Everything on the MAWLR: Biggest pain in the ass here is a video for you :D

Bring It Down - Defeat the MAWLR: Story Related

Chapter 9
Let's Go Home - Destory Stahl's Cruiser: Story Related

After you beat the game, play through it on your new unlocked difficulty (Elite). After that you can co-op with a buddy or plug in a second controller and replay the first 3 levels. Then you have your online trophies. You can get the Infiltrator trophy with the brutal melee kill trophy. Also revive someone, repair a turret/or bot, and capture a spawn point all while trying to win a round in each gametype (you'll know this when the xp bar goes up) and playing a game with a friend (Squad)

That is the way I did it and was able to complete this in about 2 weeks of gameplay while working on Mass Effect 2 as well. Speaking of Mass Effect 2 Lets move on to that...

Unlike most other games you dont need to unlock the hardest difficulty, but honestly it's faster and easier if you hold it off to the second playthrough. In the first playthrough your looking to recruit every member, purchase every Normandy upgrade, do every loyalty mission, High paragon/renegade rating, and have a love interest. Really that's all you have to worry about in your first playthrough.

To unlock the Loyalty missions you must talk to every teammate on the ship between each mission until you exhaust there dialogue. The high Paragon/renegade rating is to prevent from losing members loyalty from the fights on the ship, so when playing through the game make sure to choose paragon or renegade everytime.

I found that Thane is the easiest to have a love interest in. Jacob just wasn't getting any closer and I didn't even try ?Jack or whoever else she could go with.

Play through the game, recruit, max Paragon/Renegade, Loyalty, Upgrade, and love interest are what you need if you would like more info on this playthrough I suggest going here.

All you should need after that is to hit level 30 and beat the game on insanity. get to level 30 will be along the way to beating insanity. Beating insanity is the hardest thing to do in this game, so I took the fastest route.

Tutorial and Freedom's Progress
recruit Master Thief
recruit Mercenary
Recruit Professor
recruit krogan
recruit convict
recruit archangel
Horizon
5 missions (loyalty or side missions)
Collector Ship
Reaper IFF
Suicide mission

Don't bother with saving loyalty or keeping your team alive it's not worth it the pain that will be in your ass. Lucky for you guys I'm releasing videos and commentary for my Mass Effect 2 Insanity walkthrough. All I could get down this past week (takes a lot of time up just to edit and commentate these videos) is my recruitment of Zaeed (mercenary) and Mordin (Professor), and it takes place after my last 2 videos. here's your 5 part series of the recruitment of the two

Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Zaeed & Mordin 1/5 (Insanity)


Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Mordin 2/5 (Insanity)


Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Mordin 3/5 (Insanity)


Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Mordin 4/5 (Insanity)


Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Mordin 5/5 (Insanity)


That's it for this weeks blog! Thank you all for tuning in! Hope you join me next week for some game updates on Socom 4 and Brink, as well as some more Mass Effect 2 videos! Follow me on Twitter @Majorpain2587 hit me up talk to me I'm actually quite a cool guy and love to talk anything nerdy (mainly video games, comics, and movies). Please tell your friends about me and my super awesome goal!

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