Red Faction: Guerrilla

When going for the Wrecking Ball achievement, I recommend you use these settings:

Mode: Total Chaos
Map: Complex
Weapon: Thermobaric Rocket
Building Collapse: High
Barrels: On

Players, Backpack, and Rounds to Win are insignificant.

Right when the game starts, immediately begin shooting rockets at the nearest building, aim at the lowest level to get the most points. You can easily rack up to 100,000 to 150,000 every round.

Every players score counts towards this achievement.

Here are the settings I'd recommend:

Mode: Total Chaos
Number of Players: 1
Map: Complex
Weapon: Singularity Bomb
Pack: Rhino
Building Collapse: High
Rounds to Win: 5

Your main goal is to attempt to destroy the entire Complex map. To do so, run around the outside of the map following the edges of buildings, leaving a singularity bomb at each building corner. Use the Rhino Pack when moving along from corner to corner and between buildings.

Drop a bomb at the edge of the stack when you run by as well. If done right, this nets 150k to 190k points each time.

This achievement is not difficult, but is extremely tedious. Using any other map besides complex means a much lower score and a much longer time to net the achievement. Also, setting the number of rounds to 5 means less loading time to start the map in between games.

As a side note, you might want to first do the achievement Can't Get Enough, which involves playing all modes on all maps in Wrecking Crew. This will not get you that far along, but will save some of the tedium at least. Expect to spend around 200 minutes (around 3 hours) of doing the same thing, minute by minute to get the achievement.

If you have the DLC for Wrecking Crew use the following.

Map: Expansion
Mode: total chaos
weapon: Thermobaric Rocket
pack: jetpack
collapse: high
barrels on

If your player starts on the ground you can easily get 280-325000
if he starts on the bridge you can get 250000 easily

just start by shooting all the braces at the ground where they meet. I started on the far ends then shot the ones in the middle and the bridge pretty much collapses on its own. You may need to shoot the bridge where it meets the cliff to help the ends fall.

Abridged Version: Do it on the map COMPLEX. Use THERMOBARIC ROCKET and TREMOR PACK. Soften up the buildings with rockets and be sure the tremor finishes them off. Other settings don't really matter.

Some people recommend different tactics, most of whom suggest the mighty THERMOBARIC ROCKET because of its big explosions. However, it seems you get more points for letting the building collapse on itself, and that the SINGULARITY BOMB, ROCKET LAUNCHER, or NANO RIFLE are the best.

In my opinion, and I tried all of these, the thermobaric rocket is the best, and easiest to use. I scored decent points with everything else, but (this is most previlient for S.Bomb) I had trouble taking down all the buildings within a minute. The thermobaric rocket may not yield the BIGGEST scores, but you'll consistently score high.

As for the backpack, most people say it doesn't matter. However, a good amount of people suggest the TREMOR PACK. Since you score bigger for making the buildings fall down instead of go BOOM, this is true. If you weaken the supports on the building(s) and leave one or two, then finish it with a tremor, you'll get (on average) 10-20k more than you normally would.

With a combination of THERMOBARIC and TREMOR, I was consistently getting scores around the 130k range, with 150k tops. Not nessissarily as high as some of the others, but a decent score that's very easy to reach.

Lastly, even if you set it to 4 players @ 5 rounds, it counts EVERYONES score to the achievement. And if you quit out before it ends, it counts everything up to that point as well. It unlocks after the round where you surpass 25 million.

I know most of the solutions for this are very similar, but I'll offer my take anyway and add a few more things.

Mode: Total Chaos
PLAYERS: 4
Map: Complex
Weapon: Thermobaric Rocket
Backpack: Tremor
Building Collapse: High
ROUNDS TO WIN: 5
Barrels: On

Each round will take about 5 minutes, with each player I was averaging between 115K - 125K for score while firing the rocket and using the tremor backpack as frequently as possible.

So every round, this will gain you 460K - 500K give or take. It is possible to do less and more per round.

All players scores in this count towards the progress of one's gamertag.

If you're smart doing it this way, you can have each player win 4 rounds each, making the longest game at max, 17 rounds.

460K X 17 rounds will score you: 7.82M
500K X 17 rounds will score you: 8.50M

This should take roughly 1.5 hours to run through completely to achieve these scores in one game.

If you can achieve the higher scores on the spectrum, this might take you 3 games to complete the objective, if not then it should take no more than 4 games.

Time wise, you should be grinding this one for at least 4.5 - 5.5 hours to get this achievement.

Hope this helps!

Since this game was free now and I just unlocked this achievement, I think I should add my way of doing it too. As already mentioned in other solutions, you can set the game to 4 players with 5 needed wins, but in the end, it doesn't change anything (except you having less loading times).

Of course, most settings are pretty generic:

Mode: Total Chaos
Map: Complex (You could also pick Vista if you want to mix things up, it can yield the same scores but it's more difficult to achieve them and relies more on your spawn)
Weapon: Thermobaric Rocket
Building Collapse: High
Barrels: Off
Backpack: Tremor

Buildings give more points if they collapse, Barrels destroy more parts of the building, i.e. less points. Thus, if you want the tl;dr variant: Make sure to keep as much of a building intact but make them unstable enough so they'll collapse on its own at some point.

What you want to do is to shoot a Thermobaric Rocket at the corner of the buildings and then simply keep pumping rockets straight through the hole you just opened until the rockets hit the opposite corner (you start shooting the lower left corner, you shoot rockets from that hole into the building until you destroy the upper right corner and everything that was in the way, for example) and then move on to the next building to repeat the same. Try to keep the rockets at ground level. Usually destroying most of the "indestines" and two corners of the building is enough to make them collapse with the setting at high. In case the building still stands after you let it be for a bit, pump more rockets into it or finish it off with Tremor (it doesn't really matter, just watch out that you don't get hit by the collapsing ceiling). Also, don't forget to pump a few rockets into the pipe behind the largest building and finish it with more rockets/Tremor. Collapsing buildings during the 10 second break still give points too.

I rarely dropped below 140k points/character, with my highest score being 170k. This would accumulate to a minimum of 560k each round if you play with four characters. You'd score 9.52m in a 17 round game this way, while having a pretty much failsafe method.

The achievement fill pop immediately after you finish the one-minute rampage which bumps you over the desired 25 million.


If you have any questions or negative feedback, just ask/give me said feedback in the comments!

This video details one of the most efficient ways to unlock this achievement.

Match Settings
Mode - Total Chaos
Map - Complex
Weapon - Thermobaric Rocket
Building Collapse - High
Barrels - On