Overview:

Estimated achievement difficulty: 5 out of 10
Offline: 34 (700)
Online: 11 (300)
Approximate amount of time to 1000: 18-20 hours (This is mainly for the online achievements and the card achievements)
Glitched achievements: None
Does difficulty affect achievements?: It does for certain achievements. Most of the in-game achievements have to be done on Pro difficulty or higher and the no-hitter achievement has to be done on Legend difficulty.


Introduction:

MLB 2K8 is the only baseball game out on the market for the 360 at the present time since 2K owns the MLB License. While this game is good it could certainly be better, and I mean achievement-wise. MLB 2K8 has a total of 45 achievements worth a total of 1000. Overall most of this games achievements will be obtained in Franchise Mode and in-game. But there is a whopping 300 for getting all the online achievements. Look at Step 3 for hints on the online achievements.


Step 1 (In-game achievements):

If you can try to play the games with the advanced controls so you can get the achievements for using them. Also, if you need some extra help with the in-game achievements check out the Achievement Guide for MLB 2K8 written by Stuckey from 3. That guide can be found HERE. The only two in-game achievements that should cause you any problems is the no-hitter achievement and the win a game on Legend difficulty achievement. If you follow exactly what is says in the guide you will get these two achievements in the same game and it’s actually pretty easy to do.


Step 2 (Franchise achievements):

These achievements are the ones that might give a tad bit of trouble since some of them are mostly luck achievements. There are 9 Franchise achievements worth a total of 135. Now before you actually start up a real Franchise, start up one to get the “What’s your Fantasy achievement”. Simply complete 25 round of a Fantasy Draft and that achievement is your. Now you can play with that team or you can back out and start an actual Franchise. To get 4 of the Franchise achievements will have to play at least 20 games in the season. That should not be too hard though. Put the Innings at 1. You don’t have to win the games just play 20 of the 160 regular season games. Now to get the Minor League & Major League Player of the Year achievements you should once again check out the Achievement Guide as there it will tell you what players to trade for. That guide can be found HERE. Now just make sure your team makes the Playoffs and that your team wins 105 games (Play as the Yankees or Red Sox and boost up your players stats) and you should be able to get all of the Franchise achievements within 1 to 2 seasons.


Step 3 (Card achievements):
There are 4 of these achievements ranging from completing a card team to unlock 100 different types of cards. You will get baseball cards by playing games and for playing the Franchise Mode. Getting most of these cards like the Platinum ones are just pure luck and could take you hours to get certain cards. You can trade cards with other people though online. If you want to do that please post in the Achievement Trading Thread found HERE. Besides playing games and trading cards online getting other cards will be luck and could take you some serious time to get. I seriously suggest finding somebody with all the cards and trading with them to get these achievements.


Step 4 (Online achievements):

There are in total 11 online achievements worth a total of 300. Most of these should be easy to obtain now with a friend since this games online community has kind of disappeared in the last few months. Have you and your friend go to Custom Match and search for Strikes Only at the same time. If you end up in the same match start the game and pitch one time. Once its called either a ball or a strike quit out of the game and it will count as a win. (That tip is from Stuckey From 3’s MLB 2K8 Achievement Guide, which can be found HERE.) If you would like help please post in the Achievement Trading Thread, which can be found HERE.

Conclusion:

Well there you have it, the Road Map to 1000 for MLB 2K8. Hopefully it helped you out or at least pointed you in the right direction. After playing around 3 games you should have at least a couple hundred GS if not more. The only achievements that are actually time-consuming is the card achievements and the online achievements but you should get most of them within a few hours.

[x360a would like to thank Bishop24 for this road map]