Blog: Rarest Achievement in Rockstar History

As you know, in September Rockstar will disable network support for some games for older consoles… This is a great excuse to (re) go through the same Max payne 3 and La noire… In my case – to finish off the first and take on the second. The third part of “Max” I have already overcome several times three and four years ago to get trophies for passing on different levels of difficulty. The last step to platinum remained – to knock out The Shadows Rushed Me, one of the hardest prizes in the world and probably the hardest in R * games. The day before yesterday I was still able to do it!

According to the condition of receiving an achievement, the player must complete the game in the “Time does not wait – Hardcore” mode. The usual option “Time does not wait” implies passing a certain level with a time limit (at the beginning, one minute is given, and additional time is given for effective actions), a number of conditions are added to the hardcore one:

• overpowering the whole game in one sitting,
• with a free sight (on consoles it is, of course, heavier than on PC),
• without deaths and save points (died – you start from the very beginning),
• without the ability to replay moments where you need to perform some action on speed,
• with the need to ensure the safety of another character, if there is one at the level.

Fortunately, there is an opportunity to pause the game. Nevertheless, you will still spend three to four hours to obtain this achievement, and this is only for a successful entry. And there can be many attempts …

My number of attempts reached about 20, including very comical ones, when at the second level I did not have time to eliminate the threat to Giovanna, or when, after the final skirmish and before leaving for the runway, I thought of firing at the antagonist’s grenade launcher, and not at the projectile he fired. This number included those attempts when the game caught bugs and hung. There are plenty of such moments – the most frequent ones are even described in the tips for obtaining a trophy. The main rule is to turn off the Internet before starting. And, of course, don’t be nervous about failures. The more you play, the better you get to know the game. Studying the levels, as well as the behavior and number of enemies is the main key to success.

The best guide for winning this mode was made by Dropeti (the video above is the first of four parts), recording the passage and providing it with comments. Here are just descriptions of ambushes made using annotations, a feature that YouTube has already disabled. In order to restore them, use the Google Chrome browser and install for it this extensionwhich returns the author’s notes to their original place (thanks for the hint this comment). But pay attention to the fact that the author of the video does not have a standard layout of the buttons – this is critical during rare but available QTEs.

If you want to challenge yourself or just love good and even hardcore action films, then be sure to try to knock out this silver prize (on the Xbox system, it is only 10G, but also the opportunity to classify yourself as a select club of masters).

Thank you, Max, for this furious mode! Please come back soon …