xBox360Achievements.org has published the leaked list of Achievements contained in the upcoming Halo 3 game. The achievements reveal a new “MetaGame”(a game inside a game) that rates you and gives you points based on “style”; that is, killing with combos and pulling off major stunts.

From 1up.com:

The Achievements offered tantalizing hints of the game’s structure, features and techniques, a welcome morsel of information for the faithful to contemplate and speculate about. The co-op news was greeted with even more warmth, because it put to rest ill-founded rumors that Bungie was planning to deliver a half-completed game. On the contrary; up to four players will be able to take control of the Master Chief, the Arbiter and two Elite warriors, N’tho ‘Sraom and Usze ‘Taham. (Don’t bother trying to pronounce their names; just appreciate the promise of joining up with three friends to conquer the game.)

And somewhere in the middle, these two topics are connected by something even more intriguing. Halo’s co-op game and its Gamerscore-grinding intersect at a point enigmatically referred to in the game’s Achievements as the “Meta-game.” While such a nebulous name could mean practically anything — a game about a game? A Metal Gear-style descent into philosophical pontification on the nature of gameplay? — its proper title, Campaign Scoring, is much more to the point.

The idea behind Campaign Scoring is as straightforward as the name would suggest. With this new addition, Bungie hopes to add the comprehensive — and totally objective — running totals of deathmatch gameplay to Halo 3’s solo and co-op games.

“Keeping score in multiplayer is easy, but in single-player it’s subjective,” says Sandbox Design Lead Jamie Griesemer. “You can play through and say, ‘man, I totally killed all those guys and you were dead weight,’ but there’s no way to prove it.” With Halo 3, though, bragging rights will no longer be built on empty boasts and flustered denials. Activate Campaign Scoring — it’s an optional feature — and a playthrough of the Campaign generates a running tally of points in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. In co-op games, each player’s score is displayed for all to see… and mock, should it come to that. Points are awarded based on “how many guys you kill, who gets the most kills, who gets cooler kills,” explains Griesemer, noting that style counts.

“You get bonus points for headshots,” he says, “or if you use the plasma pistol to take down their shields, or if you run them over in some cool way. Each character is worth a different amount of points, so you get a lot more for killing a Brute than a Jackal or a Grunt. At the end of the game you’ll be able to look at your co-op partner’s score, and figure out who was really doing most of the work.”

Click here for Xbox 360 Halo 3 Achievements Leaked Online [printable]

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