Update: 20,000 gamerscore challenge

My monthly points total belies the amount of time I’ve spent gaming these past few weeks. Despite my best efforts to keep the momentum going after an impressive start to my challenge, I fear my target is growing even more daunting and elusive. I can’t understand it considering the time I’ve invested on my Xbox of late!

Having consigned Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to the shelf after getting all 1,000G, I thought I’d dabble in a bit of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. Fun though it is, the achievements weren’t exactly freeflowing. And just as I got to grips with the controls and co-op play, my friend and I rediscovered the delights of old favourite Crackdown.

While I enjoy leaping tall buildings and have managed to find all but 25 of those blooming green agility orbs, it wasn’t exactly a great source of gamerscore seeing as I’ve completed it countless times already and snaffled most of the low-lying fruit. Nevertheless, Crackdown again kept me thoroughly absorbed and resulted in me only picking up 40G for completing the missions in co-op and a few other accolades for improving my driving abilities!

Assassin’s Creed II soaked up most of my hours this month. I wasn't that taken by the original but the sequel rights pretty much every wrong. It looks, plays and sounds fantastic - and it's great fun too. Got about 500G to date and there's plenty more to do - hopefully, by my next update I'll have covered every square inch of renaissance Florence and Venice and have gathered a few more points.

Undoubtedly though, the highlight of the month has to be my first few hours playing zombiefest Left 4 Dead 2 with old pal and fellow blogger Ibwib. Both of us were huge fans of the first game but this just about tops it. It has to be one of my favourite multiplayer games of all time... and having completed just one of the campaigns so far (gaining a miserly 65G in the process), there's plenty more fun to be had...

My aim is to complete both of these in the coming weeks and then I’m hoping that I can redeem myself with some decent scores from Wet and King Kong, which are waiting in a pile next to my console… I’ll bring you an update this time next month. Wish me luck!