I’m 2/3 of the way through a 30 day GamerScore Challenge. The winner of which gets a 1 year membership to GameFly. There are 22 of us competing to get the most achievement points. As of a couple days ago I was in second place. I was about 500 points behind the guy in first. So, I did a little looking around and found out that the 2006 sports games have some of the easiest achievements (other than Avatar). So, I swung by my local GameStop and found used copies of NBA Live 06, NBA 2K6, and College Hoops 2K6 for $5 each. In the matter of about 2 hours I had 2960 achievement points. Yes, I’m short 40 points from the full 3000. The last achievement I’ve not gotten yet was for winning a game online in NBA Live 06.

So, here is a quick rundown on how I got them points so quickly. For both NBA 2K6 and College Hoops 2K6 I played just a single game with the difficulty set to easy and the length of the game set to the maximum. Then, in the game I raised all the sliders making my team nearly perfect and the computer team really lousy. These two games just have 5 achievements each. They are a little different between both games so read up on each one to see what they are, but basically it comes down to scoring a lot of points, getting a lot of rebounds, stealing the ball a lot, and getting a lot of assists. Both games I won with a score of 200+ to 20. Yes, it was that easy.

They key to NBA Live 06 is to go into the roster and give your team all stats of 99. It takes a little while to do this for each player in each stat category, but it is worth it because you can simulate one or two seasons and get the majority of the achievements. To get the rest you have to create a player and then win a game on each difficulty setting. Use your super team and and set the quarters to 2 minutes and you can knock out each of the 4 difficulties pretty quickly. No, the achievements for difficulty are not stackable, but with 2 minute quarters you can still get them all pretty quick. The last achievement in NBA Live 06 is for winning a game online. Since it is only worth 40 points and I’m terrible at basketball games I just decided to skip it. I probably could have found someone to let me win a game, but for 40 points it just was not worth it when I already had 2960 points and Mass Effect waiting for me.