- Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
- Offline: 21 (1000 )
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000 : 5-10 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2
- Number of missable achievements: 12
- Glitched achievements: No
- Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No, 1 cheat - weapon code [101987]
Introduction:
Welcome to the Road Map, that will guarantee you 1000 in Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 09.
As always, this thread will layout an order in which you will get achievements, as well as advise you on tips or tricks and anything else noteworthy. I suggest you read the whole thing before beginning.
There are 21 achievements for this game and you need to play through this game twice to get the full 1000 because the difficulty achievements are not stackable. There are no collectibles either, which makes this terrible game even shorter.
Load up the game and off we go, on a magical journey to slaughter the meek of the earth...
Step 1: 1st Playthrough:
On your first playthrough, you will want to start on Normal difficulty. This makes it much easier, as you can get the majority of the achievements on Normal. Playing through on Normal first will also allow you to glitch the "Rabid Completionist" achievement. You need to complete all objectives on your first playthrough, including optional ones.
As you go through your first playthrough on Normal, you should pick up the following achievements:
- Mane Event
- Bear-ing Straight
- Rumble in the Jungle
- You're Grrrreat!
- Nice Shooting, eh?
- Buffalowned
- Bear Necessities
- A Spot of Luck
- Bear Shoots You!
- Experienced Hunter
You can also get:
- Apiphobia
- Snakes on a Plain
- Apiphobia - In Tanzania, start the level and walk towards the log that crosses the river, see GPS Map for help, then walk north from the log, shooting the two beehives in the trees alongside the river. Then restart the level. Rinse and repeat four more times, on the 5th time, complete the level and the achievement will unlock.
- Snakes on a Plain - In India, once at the tiger hunting point, go straight to the Temple, tranquilize the tiger, then kill the five poisonous snakes in the Temple, restart the level. Rinse and repeat two more times, on the third time, finish the level and it will unlock as you would have built up fifteen snake kills.
- Perseverant Award - Finish all 5 Bonus Missions
- Bronze Sharpshooter - 6 Badges
- Silver Sharpshooter - 6 Badges
- Gold Sharpshooter - 6 Badges
- Platinum Sharpshooter - 6 Badges
You can go to Extras > Statistics, to check your progress.
Step 2: 2nd Playthrough:
Start a new save, and select Difficult. After the first intro mission, you should unlock Rabid Completionist, you MUST have unlocked Completionist on your first playthrough for this glitch to work.
Then, play through the game again, though this time you can only focus on the main objectives and ignore the optional ones. After you beat the game, you will unlock Pro Hunter Award.
Step 3: Mop Up:
The Skilled Hunter Award achievement is your last achievement. You can get it only in Action Zone. Most of the power ups you will have gained already, the hardest one is Thermal Vision. Here are some tips by forum users:
- xRogue 5x - Stage-Choose Thailand-Gold
Gun-Fully upgraded .475 (the topmost pistol I believe)
The first section will pit you against three Asian black bears. All you have to do is drop the three bears within 20 seconds from a distance of 7 yards.
Note: you won't get credit for it until after you successfully complete the stage.
The bears are slow and tend to stand up a lot. Just dodge them back-peddle and plug away. It doesn't have to be a one-shot death just needs to be from a distance and all three within 20 seconds. Each bear takes two shots to down. - Creech - Alaska Silver is another good one, also has three bears. One thing to update is that if you get the power up and fail the level, you can repeat the level, not get the power up on the second try, but pass the level and it will give you credit for the power up
If you have the PAL version of this game, please read below!
Patmaster said, the glitch does not work on the PAL version, so do this:
1. Play through on Normal with every optional objective -> Experienced Hunter (50 )
2. Do 100% -> Perseverant Award, Platinum through Bronze Award (200, 150, 75, 50, 50 )
3. Start new Save on Difficult, do EVERY optional objective -> Pro Hunter Award (100 )
4. After doing ALL Bonus Missions, I got Rabid Completionist (120 )
Congratulations, you now have the full 1000 in Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 09!