Best. Achievement. Ever.
by Richard Mitchell 
{ Jul 11th 2006 at 6:45PM }
This one ranks right up there with Dead or Alive 4's "Five Straight Losses" achievement (worth zero points, natch). Gastronaut, the studio behind the upcoming XBLA game, Small Arms, have created the first viral achievement. Four of Gastronaut's employees will start being the only ones with the achievement. Anybody who plays against one of these four will get the achievement. In turn, anybody who plays against those people will get the achievement and so on and so forth until the whole world is...er...infected with success. Pretty neat idea if you ask me. Which I'm pretty sure you did.
If you're not familiar with Small Arms, it looks an awful lot like Smash Brothers for the Gamecube, except with guns. Lets hope it's at least half as fun.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sam @ Jul 11th 2006 7:23PM
Small Arms looks more like that old freeware game Soldat than Smash Bros., really.
SUPERGHOST @ Jul 11th 2006 7:49PM
Want the real lowdown on this game. Check out K1lla's Xbox Domain. Thrills Killa did an interview with the dev's that you can read at this link. Super Smash Bros., not likley...
http://thrillskilla.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/small-arms-dev-interview/
Jacob @ Jul 11th 2006 8:06PM
I am looking forward to this more than any X360 game. Except for Halo 3 and GoW. But still, I think this will be awesome to the max forever. When is it coming out, or does anyone know yet?
Mr BoomStick XL @ Jul 11th 2006 8:27PM
That's a totally super cool idea!! That's the type of inovation that the 360 XBLA needs and opens the door for more developers to follow suit!!
AoE @ Jul 11th 2006 8:55PM
So... will this be called the Kevin Bacon achievment?
L Capitan @ Jul 11th 2006 9:13PM
"So... will this be called the Kevin Bacon achievment?"
LMAO!
x cram x @ Jul 11th 2006 10:00PM
the kevin bacon achievement it is!
Les Doodis @ Jul 11th 2006 11:16PM
Actually, I read on some other blog that it was called "Six Degrees from Small Arms." Don't know if that's legit or not.
pmpboarder @ Jul 12th 2006 12:01AM
A couple weeks late, guys.
http://www.xblarcade.com/2006/06/28/small-arms-innovative-achievement/
Mario Baumann @ Jul 12th 2006 12:46AM
This game looks awesome! YouTube has an great mayhem filled clip of the game.
Doc P @ Jul 12th 2006 9:02AM
Sweet Idea.
The linked article raises another issue that I think is more important, why have I only heard of this game from you guys and not MS:
"who's doing effective PR for independent XBLA titles? One of the things we're noticing is that there's not much info about a lot of the titles (videos, screenshots, press releases) before they go live, which is a shame, because then people don't get to know about them. Microsoft, appoint someone just to do that, immediately!"
If the XBLA titles are aimed at casual gamers, then why do only hardcore gamers hear about them before they go live? For instance the hold 'em poker game that is coming out, I havent heard a lick about it from MS, yet it was on the box art that surfaced a while back. You guys (X360F) should look into it.
matthew @ Jul 12th 2006 10:38AM
It is called the Six Degrees Achievement.
Chris Fant @ Jul 12th 2006 3:21PM
Here's an even better idea: Give the 4 employees the First Degree Achievement. Anyone who plays them gets the Second Degree Achievement. Anyone who plays them gets the Third Degree Achievement, etc down to the Sixth Degree Achievement (or down to whatever). If someone with a 6th plays someone with a 3rd, they get 4th degree achievement. This way, you know exactly how many degrees of seperation you are away from the employees who started it. Also, those having a 2nd or 3rd degree achievement are part of a more exclusive group than those having 4th or 5th degree achievements.