Overview
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 2.5/10
- Offline: 10/12 (175/200)
- Online: 2/12 (25/200)
- Approximate amount of time to 200: 5-6 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 3+ (One for normal mode, one for survival mode, and one for co-op mode).
- Number of missable achievements: Two, but level selet easily remedies it.
- Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No Cheats
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: No
- Glitchy achievements: None
- Unobtainable achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed?:A friend to help, no one is on anymore.
Introduction:
Elements of Destruction is a arcade game released in 2008, The premise deals with a mad scientist who, through his experiments, created a giant metalic ord, capable of controlling 3 types of disasturous elemental powers (Earthquake, Lightning and Tornado).
The four modes to the game are: Normal Mode, basically a single player story, Survival mode, the same story, but your health constantly depletes, Co-op mode, the same story, available through online co-op, and online matches, basically, trying to cause more damage than your opponent.
Step #1: Normal Mode:
First up, the idea is to simply go through the game, moving around destroying things in level 1, trying to get enough points to medal (hopefully gold) will net you the first achievement ("Use the force, Edgar").
After which continue until you reach the end of the USA challenges, the last being "H.Y.D.E.E." the boss of the USA challenges. After beating it the achievement "Dumb Flying Stingray" will unlock. Continue through the game, beating the nest two bosses unlocking "Monkee Facktory" and "Cry W.U.L.F.E" in the process.
After you complete the game, go back to each level and destroy as much as you can to try and get gold medals in all of the levels. Remember to go as fast as you can, destroying as much as you can. After you complete this task "Gold Farmer" will unlock.
Before or after you complete the "Gold Farmer" achievement, you can continue onto the next set of achievements, all dealing with random levels throughout the story. The first and easiest is probably "2 Fast, 2 Serious" which deals with lots of timing. Simply go to the first level and select level. 1 lightning. Keep spawning lightning bolt trying as hard as you can to get into a grove of maximum charges. After you complete 20 in a row "2 fast, 2 serious" will unlock. In the same level, go around trying to destroy EVERY SINGLE tree on that level. there are a total of 241 trees on that level so if you do not get any houses, your total would be $241,000. If you get all the trees and end the level, the achievement "Hippy Intimidator" will unlock.
Next up, go to the last level (Bermuda-Downtown), right before W.U.L.F.E., destroy as much as you can, including the 3 main buildings as tasked. if you do that, your total should be close to 9 trillion. Do your best to destroy as much as you can, and in the process, do the "Cute Overload" achievement. This would definetly help increase your score. Once you reach 9 trillion dollars of damage the achievement "Search & Destroy" will unlock.
Step #2: Survival Mode:
After finishing normal mode, "Survival mode" will unlock. Simply go through and beat the challenges again, only with a time limit an constantly depleting health. After you complete Survival Mode, "Survivor Man" will unlock.
Step #3: Co-op Mode:
Get a friend to help you through this, simply go to xbox live and start a co-op game. Remember to invite your friend for every new level. Go through the game again with a friend and "Everyone Does It" will unlock
Step #4: Online Matches:
The goal of these matches is to earn more cash from destruction than your opponent. I suggest having a friend with this game for this one also, because it is rarely played. Just win 10 online matches, ranked or private and the achievement "Terrorize This" will unlock.
Conclusion:
This is a great and highly underrated game. It is also a rather easy 200 is you have a friend willing to help you. Therefore, I highly suggest this game if you're looking for mindless fun.
[x360a would like to thank tweak4ever for this Roadmap]