Road Map to 1000 GS!

[JC]

Overview:
-Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10
-Offline: 30 (1000)
-Online: 0
-Approximate amount of time to 1000g: 5-10 hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
-Number of missable achievements: 7
-Glitched achievements: No
-Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No cheat codes

Introduction:

Welcome to the Road Map, that will guarantee you 1000 GS in Cabela's African Safari.

As always, this thread will layout an order in which you will get achievements, as well as advise you on tips/tricks and anything else noteworthy. I suggest you read the whole thing before beginning.

There are 30 achievements for this game and you only need to play through this game once. No collectibles either, which makes this sub-par game even shorter.

Put the disc in and off we go...

Step 1: Playthrough

Once you start up the game, choose Safari Hunt then Expert Mode, this means you only need to play through this game once.

Expert Mode is difficult, as there is no map. You know when are you are nearby game and objectives, as the 3 red rings around you gun reticule will slowly become red.

To make Expert Mode much easier, if you are getting attacked by an animal shoot it in adrenaline mode (LB) so you don't get penalized. This makes the "Ambient Guardian" achievement a walk in the park.

You can play the game twice, once on a lower difficulty and then again on Expert for the trophy animal achievements...but it is much easier and less tedious to just play through the game once on Expert Mode.

Start with the Tutorial by hitting Y at the main menu. Complete it to earn the first achievement.

Then after the tutorial, simply play through the game and you will earn the following achievements, probably in this order:

• First Blood
• .44 Custom Handgun Unlocked
• 12 Ga Custom Shotgun Unlocked
• .410 O&U Custom Shotgun Unlocked
• .300 Custom Firearm Unlocked
• All Game Modes Unlocked
• Black Rhino Expert Trophy
• .505 Custom Firearm Unlocked
• .243 Custom Firearm Unlocked
• .416 Custom Firearm Unlocked
• Leopard Expert Trophy
• Elephant Expert Trophy
• Cape Buffalo Expert Trophy
• Lion Expert Trophy
• Hippo Expert Trophy
• Crocodile Expert Trophy

Although you will probably have more than the above achievements after your playthrough, the above are what you should have at a minimum at this point. If you have more then good on you.

Now lets grab the rest of the achievements:

• Turtle Dove Perfect Wing
• Egyptian Goose Perfect Wing
• Spur Winged Goose Perfect Wing
• Red Billed Teal Perfect Wing
• Yellow Billed Duck Perfect Wing
• Rock Pigeon Perfect Wing

These ones need to be gained during Safari Hunt mode. As you go through this mode, you will get these bird shooting missions. You only get 1 mission for each type of bird. This achievement will not unlock on the boat missions where you shoot birds, you need to be on land for this achievement to pop.

Just keep retrying the missions of you fail them, and eventually the Perfect Wing achievements should unlock. They are really not that hard, I unlocked them all on my first go.

• Ambient Guardian

You should this when you kill the Crocodile for the Crocodile Expert Trophy and complete the game. Use the tip I give at the top of this post and make sure you do not move on to a new mission if you are penalized.

"To make Expert Mode much easier, if you are getting attacked by an animal shoot it in adrenaline mode (LB) so you don't get penalized. This makes the "Ambient Guardian" achievement a walk in the park."

Step 2: Mop Up

Now for the other achievements, that you need to do an extra bit of work to gain:

• Fast and Perfect
• Hunter Super Sense

The easiest way for these achievements is to choose:

Open Safari > South Africa > Hunt 4 Springboks near the Karoo Plateau!

Turn around and there will be a herd of Springboks running towards you. Hit RB and take down 2 of them. Easy achievements!

• Super Long Shot

For this one, go to:

Open Safari > Zimbabwe > Hunt 5 Springboks along the Zambezi River!

As soon as you start, take the shot. They will be crossing your path. Keep retrying until you get it.

• Super Adrenaline

On any Trophy Hunt, just use Adrenaline (LB) to kill the trophy. I did this on the Leopard Trophy. Simple as that.

• Dangerous Seven
• Wing Shooting Tournament

These 2 will probably be the last ones you do. The first one requires you to go through and complete Dangerous Seven mode from the main menu. Just remember where the trophy animals are and this will be easy. You could even do the Dangerous Seven Hunt for X animal if you have just killed X animal and unlocked it in Dangerous Seven mode.

For Wing Shooting Tournament, you need to be quick on the trigger and score 40,000 Points in Wing Shooting Mode by bringing down birds. Look for bushes, where birds spawn and this should be fairly easy.


You should now have 1000 GS in Cabela's African Safari, congratulations!
All feedback is welcome.

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This guide was created by JC for xbox360achievements.org and cannot be copied without my permission, thanks.

[Lebowski]

I love you JC!
This is my next Cabela's game to get [As they are my favourite games.]
Strange as Im HIGHLY against animal cruelty. :S
Anyway, Thank you so much man!

[JC]

Originally Posted by Lebowski

I love you JC!
This is my next Cabela's game to get [As they are my favourite games.]
Strange as Im HIGHLY against animal cruelty. :S
Anyway, Thank you so much man!

No problem mate. Glad you like it.

[o0 TommyGuns 0o]

ya great guide jc good work. I wish this guide was out when i played the game.

[billysidol]

I am a little bit confused.

You say play through the game to get the first large chunk of achievements, doesnt that mean Safari Hunt???

But then you say play safari hunt mode to unlock the 5 'Winged' Achievements. Yet there is 6 winged achievements, how do you unlock the Rock Pidgeon Achievement??

I am just wondering because I am up to Mozambik but only have the Leopard, Rhino, Buffalo, and Elephant Trophy achievements. As far as I can tell the Lion Trophy achievement finishes in Mozambik. But what of the two remaining trophies, how do I unlock the Hippo and Crocodile Trophy achievments???

Help would be greatly appreciated

[JC]

Originally Posted by billysidol

I am a little bit confused.

You say play through the game to get the first large chunk of achievements, doesnt that mean Safari Hunt???

But then you say play safari hunt mode to unlock the 5 'Winged' Achievements. Yet there is 6 winged achievements, how do you unlock the Rock Pidgeon Achievement??

I am just wondering because I am up to Mozambik but only have the Leopard, Rhino, Buffalo, and Elephant Trophy achievements. As far as I can tell the Lion Trophy achievement finishes in Mozambik. But what of the two remaining trophies, how do I unlock the Hippo and Crocodile Trophy achievments???

Help would be greatly appreciated

I mean Safari Hunt, I do say that in the road map.

All 6 winged achievements are gained in Safari Hunt too, don't know where I say 5...

The Hippo and Crocodile Trophy are both in the same level, the final one.

[JC]

Updated the guide to modernise it and make it similar to the new road map layout.

Enjoy!

[miguel56]

thanks, very useful

[Gunstar Red]

I would recommend against playing the game on Expert your first time through as you'll likely have a VERY hard time playing the game when you're unfamiliar with it and have no map. Use Easy mode to prepare you for the challenge of Expert.

One VERY useful tip I stumbled upon, was that you can switch guns quickly with the Y button when you are in hot pursuit of an animal and you run out of ammo and have to reload. Just switch to a gun that still has ammo and keep blasting to stop them from getting away. I also used this method on wing hunt missions and finished one in 6 seconds!

[JC]

Originally Posted by Gunstar Red

I would recommend against playing the game on Expert your first time through as you'll likely have a VERY hard time playing the game when you're unfamiliar with it and have no map. Use Easy mode to prepare you for the challenge of Expert.

One VERY useful tip I stumbled upon, was that you can switch guns quickly with the Y button when you are in hot pursuit of an animal and you run out of ammo and have to reload. Just switch to a gun that still has ammo and keep blasting to stop them from getting away. I also used this method on wing hunt missions and finished one in 6 seconds!

I found Expert pretty easy once you get the hang of it, again this is only a road map showing you the fastest and most efficient way to get all the achievements.

Some may prefer to play through the game twice, once on Easy.

[Gunstar Red]

Originally Posted by JC

I found Expert pretty easy once you get the hang of it, again this is only a road map showing you the fastest and most efficient way to get all the achievements.

Some may prefer to play through the game twice, once on Easy.

Expert Mode wasn't entirely too bad, of course, aside from the small animal missions everyone has lots of trouble with (Roan, Duiker, Dik-Dik, Klipspringers, etc). I likely would have had a much harder time though had I not played through Easy Mode first. I applaud those that actually played through Expert on their first attempt!

BTW, thanks for the guide. I am always appreciative of people's efforts in making them for the benefit of others!

[LReil94]

this is great. thanks. im having trouble with the kudu in damarland on exert. i just can't find any...if you can't explain where any are, does anybody here know of any online walkthrough vids?
once again this guide is great . good work

[Pippers]

Thanks for this great roadmap. I was worried when I only saw the "guide" up top at first (which was just a list of ach really).

[SWAGGART]

Thanks for the road map, i went through the game on expert and thinking i had no penalties but finished up being penalized 100 points no ambedient guardian ach for me lol,, i ran through the game again on easy throughly checking my points on my agenda and got it no probs, i figure i must of been penalized for one of the herd hunts anyway another 1000 points for me.

[TristamRaiders]

Thanks JC! People like you have saved me countless hours!

[pluckandgrit12]

I always love the help you get on these. You helped me get a very quick 50 points, 3 achievements I just couldn't figure out the best way. Adrenaline, long shot and heartbeat mode. Great job.

[Bango Stank]

Thanks JC. This game sat on my self for 2 years. Just wasn't that into it. read your roadmap and figured i would give it another try. I really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work.

[GHOST1986]

Nice road map made the game even easier.

[goothgone]

nice roadmap got my 1k easy

[Longhorns73]

Nice guide!! Got the 1000GS with no problems. Keep up the great work.

[bwfcskillsinhd]

cool good guide

[Luck/Hope]

Great guide. Expert isn't hard at all. Not a bad way to get a quick 1000 points.