10 Video Game Achievements You Seriously Needed To Plan Out
6. Max Payne 3 - Slave To The Grind
Max Payne 3, whilst a beautiful game with solid gunplay and a decent story, is not a fun time for completionists.
Not only is there a trophy/achievement for finishing on the hardest difficulty, but there's an ante-upping one for doing it on the hardest difficulty, on a time limit, without dying. But that's not why we're here today. That's just more for the dedicated, the ones with the aim so true and aversion to being shot.
Instead I refer to the grind of... well, the Grinds. A set of in-game challenges, that vary in scope, but many in total. Some are pretty standard: X amount of melee finishes, the shoot-dodge kills, collecting golden gun parts. All par for the course, right?
Then there's the kills specific to how Max is positioned on the floor, for example. Even stranger, there's a Grind for destroying cars. In a game that only has cars at few points, no less.
It meant replaying chapters was necessary, which was all the more painful when you had to listen to Max monologue a fair bit before being able to skip a cutscene.
Grind indeed...