Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10
- Offine: 44 (990)
- Online: 1 (10)
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 15 - 20+ hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 (you can replay events if needed)
- Missable Achievements: 0
- Do cheat codes disable achievements: N/A
- Does difficulty affect achievements: N/A
- Glitched achievements: None
- Unobtainable achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed: Kinect, Xbox Live Gold, another person and 3 other local profiles
Introduction:
Welcome to my Kinect Joy Ride guide. This is a collection of race inspired mini games where you have to complete various tasks and perform tricks to gain more fans. With more fans, come more tracks and cars to try out. The majority of the achievements can be obtained easily enough by just replaying each event 30 times. ALWAYS make sure you are signed in with the gamertag you want the achievements for. If you walk away it will sometimes view you as a “guest” when you come back. Use the “Add Me” button to sign back in. I recommend installing the game to your hard drive right away. The load times are a bit ridiculous even with the game installed. My suggested breakdown is as follows:
Step 1
Complete the tutorial and then get a friend and knock out the local multiplayer. You just need to play each event 1 time with a friend. This time spent will count toward your single player totals, so that is why I suggest to get it out of the way first to help minimize your total play time. Be sure to complete "Doubles Match" while you have a partner.
Step 2
Start the single player game. Now we will work on the majority of the game. You can still continue to play in local multiplayer if you wish but it is just easier to keep track of what you did solo. You need to play through each of the events a total of 30 times. This is cumulative and does not need to be done in 1 sitting. As you play you will gain fans which will unlock more tracks and cars. You need to race at least once on every track and every event. You also need to drive with each car type and variant. There are 40 total different styles of cars and they are not all available at the start. The game tells you how many fans you need to unlock each of the variants. Be systematical and select the cars in order so you don’t lose count of what you have driven. This can be done in any order you like or you can float around as you see fit.
While playing the events to reach your 30 total in each, be sure to try and knock out the specific tasks for each activity as you go. They are:
Pro / Battle Race – Race King, Rookie Racer, Veteran Racer, Stunt Driver, Pacifist Champion
Stunt – Rookie Stunter, Veteran Stunter, High Jumper, Superior Stunter, Bonus Collector, Bonus Bounty, Airtime King, Head in the Clouds
Dash – Rookie Dasher, Veteran Dasher, Clean Run, Dashtardly Good, Speed Demon
Smash – Speedy Assassin, Super Smasher, Smashing Drift, Rookie Smasher, Veteran Smasher, Smash High Score, Drift King, Drift Distance
Trick – Strike a Pose, Rookie Trickster, Veteran Trickster, Tricky Points, Perfect Match
Following the basic guidelines above, you should be pretty close to completing everything that you can do solo / local. You do not have to get the achievements in the order I listed them. I just arranged them in the order they are listed in the game menu by activity. Steps 1 and 2 will end up taking about 10 hours to complete.
Step 3
Xbox Live Multiplayer. Sign in and complete 1 race. You do not have to win.
Step 4
Mop up and replay any events you still need to complete. At this point the only major thing that you will have left to do is going for "Marathon" and "Super Marathon". There is a fast method to reach the total 10 hours of "game" time in the least amount of real time under "Super Marathon".
Conclusion:
The game starts out fun but repetition soon sets in and you will be hard pressed to complete it in 2 days straight. You really have to be "in the zone" to play it for any length of time. This game is best tackled in chunks, spreading out everything over the course of say 10 days or so. That way you are only spending an hour or 2 per day until the final 5 hour push to finish it up.
Thanks for reading.
x360a would like to thanks Scrapdaddy for this Road Map.