just go to edit campaign settings before you start a mission and you can now score on each chapter (turn on free for all)and turn on gold skulls to increase your score multiplier. there are 9 achievements for this - 1 for each chapter. you have to reach a certain amount of points on each chapter to get the ACH points. if you havent found the skulls they are in secret locations in each chapter. Have fun. hope this answers your ? if you do have skulls - an easy way to get the ACH points is to play on normal and turn on the following skulls:

tough luck - enemies dive more successfully from your granades and vehicle run down attempts

fog - you lose your radar

famine - enemies drop very small amounts of ammo

catch - enemies throw a ton of grenades at you.

go to bungie.net if you want a very detailed explanation on scoring and skulls.

[QUOTE="DarthKalo"]

MASS EFFECT!

amroe333

If they have a midnight sale for Mass Effect i will be there. I doubt it will happen though. Probably the next Mario Kart or Metal gear 4. Maybe Resident evil 5?? 4 has become a classic.

under: dead rising (ton of replay value), viva pinata (ton of fun)

over: the darkness - it was fun but it just didnt keep me coming back for more, multiplayer was laughable. 8.5??? not so much

[QUOTE="jayfi33"][QUOTE="carolynmichelle"]

[QUOTE="jayfi33"]And from a critical standpoint, they basically removed the opportunity to score the game a 9.8, saying it is the best of the series, or a 9.3 saying it is the weakest. I actually dont take much stock in reviews, i just find it curious as to why they altered a system that allowed them to make a distinction like i described above. carolynmichelle

Misconceptions like that are part of why they changed the review system. People would often look at a score for one game that got, say, an 8.4 and then at another game that got maybe an 8.6 and interpret that as if GameSpot was saying that the 8.6 game was unquestionably better than the 8.4 game, when that's just not the case. Both numbers were just GameSpot's way of saying that those are great games.

I understand that GS is saying that all Halo games are superb by having them all score in the mid 9's, but there is no way you can tell me that if you give a game a 9.4 and another game in the same series of games a 9.8 that the 9.8 is not considered a "better" game from a critical standpoint. I think by changing the review system it was a cowardly way out of having to make those kind of decisions. So from now on everything short of perfect will get a 9.5. Ittakes some of the luster/interest/spice (whatever word you'd like to put in there)away from the review system in my opinion.

Fair enough. Personally I just think this is a smarter way to do it. Reviewing games isn't a science and the numbers before were too precise and almost made it seem like it was being treated as a a science. Nobody ever says that movie critics or music critics or anything should rate things on a 91-point scale. A 19-point scale is still plenty precise enough to give a clearidea of a game's quality in my opinion.

I hear what you are saying. I think i was just a fan of the old way and i am just refusing to take my medicine :-)