Condemned 2: SKX Achievement
by SynRaptor on Jan.17, 2011, under Ridiculous Achievements
Upon reading this achievement you are only told “Kill the killers”. Right. So what does that mean? You play through the game. Achievement doesn’t pop up. But I’ve completed the game and without throwing in any spoilers, there is no way you can accommodate this into your playthrough. Then you realise this is Multiplayer achievement.
So how do you kill the killers? Well I asked my friend Mr Google for some help. Upon browsing the forums you learn that this is done by killing 9 unique players who have the Serial Killer achievement in a multiplayer match. Just to backtrack, that’s kill 9 completely mutual exclusive IPs which have killed over 1000 people in multiplayer. What!?!
Can I remind you that the online community is almost completely dead for this game?! There’s a few players on it at the moment which I can only deduce that they have got it as a Christmas present from the Gamestation bargain bin, but nevertheless, if getting the 1000 kills achievement took ages, you then have to find 9 people who have actually done this and kill them in multiplayer?
It’s almost as if they were banking on this game being a monolith in multiplaying like CoD or GTA. It IS good in multiplayer, don’t get me wrong, but come on. Find 9 of them? And what’s the significance of 9 anyways? 7 deadly sins, 12 tasks of Hercules, 40 days of rain? Nope not a single 9 pops into my head apart from Dante’s 9 circles of Hell, which technically had 3 in circle 7, and 8 in circle 8, oh and 4 in circle 9, which makes 21. Well anyways, this achievement is a bit crazy and fair play if you’ve got it, it’s just finding 9 people with the serial killer achievement is like trying to Man Utd fan in Manchester.
(And a side note a serial killer is defined as having killed 3+ in a period of 30 days, so making you kill 1000 is a little steep!)
September 21st, 2011 on 4:08 am
excellent post
January 13th, 2013 on 11:03 am
Haha, old post, I’m sure you figured it out by now but if you had played the first game you would get it – SKX, as in Serial Killer X, killed 9 other serial killers in total throughout the story.