Mafia II
67 Achievements
1,500
51-63h
Millionaire
Earn 1,000,000 points in "Jimmy's Vendetta."
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How to unlock the Millionaire achievement in Mafia II - Definitive Guide
This is the spot on the map. Credit goes to HeroedeLeyenda for finding this.
EDIT: You need to get 1,000,000 million points total in your city score. It is not a combination of mission scores so you must definitely get the full 1,000,000 million though your city score.
Edit #2: Seems the link to the spot on the map is no longer working. So I updated the Youtube video, credit goes to Josh Sheehan. I will leave original solution in place and update with a new link.
Playing on Easy you earn just the points per mission.
Playing on Medium will net you a 50% bonus on top of mission score.
Playing on Hard will net you 100% (double) mission score.
It's possible to 1,000,000 on all difficulties, but you'll really have to bring your AAA game to stand much of a chance for the casual/average player on Easy.
Tips for completing the millionaire:
String combos. That's the best way to do it. By headshots, killing, or blowing up cars (demolition bonus). Try your best to keep that bar and multiplier active (top right, next to the green mission clock.
The best advice I can give is this; load up on ammo before car missions, then after you've got the car at the destination DO NOT press X, but get out of the car and blow up the cars around you, stringing them together, you can net a very tidy bonus doing this, I've improved all of my scores using this method, and I'd suggest finishing off as many missions as you can by 'car demolition'. The cops will come, but they don't shot AT you until you either kill a civilian by explosion/shooting, or a cop, then it gets messy, but you can kill them anyway. They don't add to the multiplier though, so bare that in mind if you start going all cop killer :)
Leave yourself a safe 5 'minutes' on the green clock to get back into the car and hit X straight away.
The last 2-3 story missions should net you a tidy amount, in the region of 150-250,000+. I consider myself as an about average gamer, I played through on Hard and finished the game on 854,000. Just using the car multiplier method on the car jacking ones, I'm now just 21,000 short. So that really does make a massive difference, if you do that for story missions as you go, I'm sure you'll get the Millionaire achievement without this need of replaying missions.
The Lost in Transit mission is a gold mine for car destruction, but I'm just not good enough to not die/blow myself up. You can go off, do the initial bit then when you're at the safe point, don't press X on the silver house, go blow up cars trying to maintain your multiplier. There's a handful of players with well over 150,000 on that mission alone.
The Don seems to have high scores too. I was just pleased to finish them on hard at all, let alone attemptint anything 'fancy' to boost my score :)
Hope that helps, any further tips posted in comments, I'll add to this.
Edit: probably very late to this party, only just turned on email notifications, but here's a vital inclusion from MitoticActivity
"Good guide. I would suggest editing the last portion about the city score. If you have 1 million individually in either the story score or city score the achievement will pop. But the scores from story and city cannot be combined for the 1 M"
You can see your score total on the map screen in the lower right corner. Either earn 1,000,000 points in "Mission Score" or "Bonus Score". A combination of the two scores will not work, you have to earn the full million in one score or the other. To maximize your "Mission Score", play on Hard difficulty and try to chain head shots together. There are several good missions to focus on to rack up huge scores, like "Kill the Accountant" or "I Got the Stones", which can make up almost half a million between them if you maintain your chains. You can replay missions to improve your scores, but only your highest total for that mission will count towards your score.
unwraper1 has discovered a glitch that currently allows you to exploit the "Bonus Score" to get this trophy by falling through the map. Getting the trophy via this method will take roughly 3.5 hours of falling, depending on your starting score. See the video below and this post by AJ1127 for details. This can be done while working towards your Explorer trophy as well. See that trophy for details.
Thanks to M00nkey and Guttsu-87 for the tips. Thanks to AJ1127 for pointing out Bonus Score can unlock the trophy.
After completing the story, you CANNOT replay missions in order to increase the coefficient.
You need to score a million from the current game.
I am adding information - as of April 28, 2016. The glitch with a car flying over the city works. I don’t see the point in tormenting myself with this “trophy”.
We are going to the same place where the car falls through the textures, when the car starts falling you will be awarded points in yellow numbers in the middle of the screen, their total number is indicated in the upper right corner. Approximately 249 points are awarded in 2-3 seconds, when the value in the upper right corner reaches 1,000,000, the achievement will open, it took me 3 hours, the main thing is to start right away and score the required amount, if you restart the game or start from a checkpoint, you will have to re-type this value, and not from the one you left off.