There is practically nothing note-worthy in terms of difficulty with the Single Player part of this list.
There are a generous amount of progression based trophies for beating each mission in the game, culminating in the "It Sucks to be Right" trophy, awarded for finishing Airbourne on Hard, which is the end of the games campaign.
If you want the slightly difficult method, you can just play the game from start to finish on the hardest difficulty and unlock all the campaign trophies in 1 fell swoop, and despite the hardest difficulty still being a pretty straight forward venture, there is still actually a much easier way to go about unlocking all of the campaign trophies.
The descriptions in the list only require you to beat the final mission on the hardest difficulty, meaning you can actually play the campaign right through to the final mission, beat the game and unlock chapter select, and then actually go back to the final missions via the menu and replay it on the hardest difficulty setting. You will still unlock the "It Sucks to be Right" trophy without actually having to play any of the other games levels on the hardest difficulty, and can just casually play through them at whatever sort of challenge you wish and still manage to unlock them all.
Due to this, the nature of the game is incredibly easy, and allows you to appropriately focus on the variety of other Single Player trophies available in the list.
Nothing really stands out, and it's a pretty standard fare for the most part. There are a small cluster of collectible based trophies to go through, surrounding the demolition of satellite dishes and collecting weapons caches throughout the games levels, and there are also a handful of trophies pertaining to the accumulation of kills with the different types of weapons in the game.
They're all very easy to achieve, especially given how easy the games campaign mode is in terms of difficulty, and you can even go back to chapter select if you've missed any collectibles or still need to farm some extra kills for a certain group of weapon, so there's still alot of flexibility and you don't have to worry about anything being missable and replaying the whole campaign to unlock certain trophies.
The Multiplayer side of the game is pretty much where the entire bulk of the difficulty rating is justified, with a handful of slightly more challenging trophies than those that are presented within the Single Player portion of the list.
The "Multiplayer Elite" trophy, awarded for reaching Rank 22 online, is a fair slog, and will see you plug at least 20-25 hours into the online mode, despite the fact that rank 22 isn't anywhere near the maximum rank in the game. You can focus on weapon challenges which will help you accumulate experience at a much faster rate, but even hitting rank 22 is a slow burner and does require a hefty chunk of experience to achieve, so a certain amount of dedication is still required, regardless.
The "Demolition Man" trophy, awarded for getting 20 demolish kills, is without question the hardest trophy in this list, and possibly one of the most frustrating trophies in any game to date. It requires you to kill 20 enemies through demolishing a house, and the amount of persistence and patience needed to fulfil all 20 is huge.
There are a couple of things that make this trophy tough. Firstly, it takes alot of firepower to take down a building, which means you're going need to equip yourself with a class that packs plenty of explosive based weapons. C4 and the RPG are solid choices, and you'll need to hover around buildings carefully planting C4 and waiting for the opportune moments to blow the building up, with the RPG being mostly there for insurance just incase you need more than the C4 to take down the building.
However, this brings across the second issue, which is the fact that enemies are always given way too much warning before a building collapses on them. The background noise rumbles and the screen shakes for a good 7-8 second period, and in the majority of cases, this is usually more than enough time for anybody inside the buildings to escape and thwart your efforts entirely, which is incredibly frustrating when you consider the effort it takes to finally take down a building that contains 1 or more enemies.
There's no solid concrete tactic, it's just a matter of patience. You will eventually stumble on enemies who get caught up in a building collapse, or just don't get away in time, but accumulating 20 kills isn't a short term job by any stretch of the imagination.
Apart from that, there's not much else that should give you any problems. The "Airkill" trophy, awarded for roadkilling an enemy with a helicopter, and the "Careful Guidance" trophy, awarded for destroying an enemy helicopter with a stationary RPG, are both tasks that might require a bit of trial and error, but not in the same way the "Demolition Man" trophy does.
This isn't really a hugely demanding list, though it does contain some tricky trophies. The Single Player portion is one of the easiest Single Player offerings you could find in any game, but the Multiplayer part is where pretty much all the difficulty of this game shines through.
The levelling up process is a fairly lengthy one, even for just hitting Rank 22, and the "Demolition Man" trophy is pretty much just a big game of trial and error. If you can get round those 2 trophies, then the rest of the list takes care of itself, but with the campaign, which is around 8-10 hours in length, along with the slight levelling grind, you're looking at a good 30-35 hours. It's hard to put a time valuation on the rest of the Multiplayer trophies, but the "Demolition Man" trophy could easily add another 10-15 hours onto the overall completion time, so you're looking at an overall estimation of 50+ hours.
Notable Trophies -
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| Multiplayer Elite - Online: reach Rank 22 (Warrant Officer I) Demolition Man - Online: Get 20 Demolish kills |
Demolition Man
Online : Get 20 Demolish kills
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