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Thousands of Free Gamerpoints Now Available Through Easy As Pie Achievements

1000 gamerpoints only through Avatar: The Burning Earth

By Alexandru Stanescu, Editor, Gaming Reviews (Consoles)

20th of November 2007, 21:58 GMT

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I guess that you've pretty much figured what's all the fuss about, since every major Xbox 360 fan knows by now that the Avatar: The Burning Earth title allows gamers to score 1000 gamerpoints in just one minute. As if it weren't enough, the points will be earned by pressing one single

button. Now we show you that such an easy way of earning points is real through a video and you'll find all the details you need about this strange feature in this article.

The YouTube video below explains the entire process and it turns out that you'll unlock all 5 achievements from the new Avatar title and end up with 1000 gamerpoints. Of course, such a valuable piece of info will be exploited by all free stuff hunters, probably boosting the game's sales and creating some Xbox Live Arcade Lag.

Will Microsoft react to this unusual way of achieving gamerpoints or will they let it slide since they're still celebrating the Xbox Live and its five years of existence? I'm curious to see how many gamers will actually buy the new Avatar game for itself and not its unusual point achieving feature. Till now, gamers who wanted a high gamerscore usually played titles like King Kong, CSI or NBA 2K6, but "The Burning Earth" manages to top them all.

While others are shooting their way through hell playing Halo 3 or Gears of War, in order to achieve a couple of hundred gamerpoints, there are gamers out there who do it in just 60 seconds. Is it fair? If it's not, where are the protests? Have you played Avatar: The Burning Earth? How would you feel having a thousand more points without having to do anything notable? Would you just show your friends the number of gamerpoints you have, let them consider you some kind of god and never tell them that, actually, you did nothing? Hopefully, this is not the future of gaming - selling titles that only offer you an easier way of doing things others did before, but harder. It would be a shame.

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Comment #1 by: Fletcher on 08 Apr 2008, 00:19 GMT

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I seriously think that achievement whoring isn't bad, but when the game only involves 4 hours of gameplay, or in Avatar: The Burning Earths case only two minutes of of button smashing. That is completely different. I have little races with my friends to see who can beat each other at gamerscore, but so far none of my personal friends have played this game, and only one of my friends has played king kong. I think it is a true achievement for people to have a gamerscore over 10k, which I have yet to acomplish, but when their list is filled with sports games I can find no respect for them. That just makes me think they care more about the points than the actual games. I like to feel like I did something to get my points, and I feel that way with the games mentioned as hell to get them, for I have 995/1000 for Halo 3 and 1080/1250 for gears of war.

Comment #2 by: cam on 10 Aug 2008, 19:42 GMT	reply to this comment
what if you like the sports games, and arent just playing them for the gamer score.

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