Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.
| Achievement | How to unlock
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- ...And You Want to Keep It? ( 20 points )
| - Collect a Cursed Artifact.
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- Aim for the Flat Top! ( 10 points )
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- Are You A God? ( 100 points )
| - Complete the game on 'Professional' difficulty.
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- Back Off Man. I'm a Scientist ( 40 points )
| - Obtain 100% PKE scans for every paranormal creature.
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- But the Kids Love Us! ( 20 points )
| - The children's reading room has a story to tell, but it will take more than your eyes to see it.
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- Egon's Guinea Pig ( 10 points )
| - Use one of every pickup (both power-ups and equipment).
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- Employee of the Month ( 10 points )
| - Be top earner in each Xbox LIVE job type.
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- Ghostbusters Drinking Game ( 40 points )
| - Quench your thirst wherever possible to avoid being scared spitless.
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- Gozer's Most Wanted ( 15 points )
| - Successfully complete each Xbox LIVE job in every location.
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- Heat 'Em Up ( 20 points )
| - Purchase all upgrades for the Proton Gun.
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- Hedgebuster ( 10 points )
| - The hedge maze is a real eyesore; do some Protonic pruning.
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- I Ain't 'Fraid of No Ghost! ( 10 points )
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- I Don't Want My Face Burned Off ( 20 points )
| - Purchase all upgrades for the Meson Collider.
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- I Feel So Funky ( 5 points )
| - Get slimed by a charging ghost.
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- I Looked at the Trap, Ray! ( 20 points )
| - Recover 20 of your own full ghost traps.
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- I Love You When You Rough-House! ( 10 points )
| - The tidy arcitectural office could use some Proton-based humbling.
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- I'm a Ghostbuster, Not a Doctor! ( 20 points )
| - Revive your teammates 20 times.
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- I'm Picking Up A Signal... ( 20 points )
| - Obtain a 100% PKE scan on a paranormal creature.
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- I've Quit Better Jobs Than This. ( 20 points )
| - Some ghosts had a real blowout in the Coat Room. Clean it up?
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- It's a Living ( 10 points )
| - Trap over 50 ghosts in your Xbox LIVE Ghostbusting career.
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- It's Slime Time ( 20 points )
| - Use the Slime Tether on 15 ghosts.
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- Loans Paid Off ( 10 points )
| - More than $100,000 earned in Xbox LIVE.
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| - Remedy a dubious food choice to make the bar mitzvah as orthodox as it can be.
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- Mother Pus Bucket! ( 20 points )
| - Purchase all upgrades for the Slime Gun.
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- Nice Shootin', Tex! ( 30 points )
| - Complete the game with less than $100,000 in property damage.
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- No Job Too Big ( 10 points )
| - Defeat all Most Wanted Ghosts.
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- On the Payroll ( 10 points )
| - Successfully complete one Xbox LIVE campaign.
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- One down, on the Ground! ( 20 points )
| - Airborne coffins are an affront to gravity; use your Proton Pack to avenge Mother Nature!
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- Overachiever ( 15 points )
| - Get over $2,500,000 in Xbox LIVE, over 30 post-job awards, 50 jobs completed.
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| - Be the overall top earner in each Xbox LIVE campaign setting.
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| - Slam dunk a ghost into a trap.
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- Slime Dunk! ( 15 points )
| - Trap a ghost using the Slime Tether.
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- Spores, Molds, and Fungus ( 40 points )
| - Collect all Cursed Artifacts.
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- Stasis Dunk! ( 15 points )
| - Trap a ghost using the Stasis Stream.
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- The Destructor ( 30 points )
| - Complete the game with more than $3,000,000 in property damage.
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- Total Protonic Reversal ( 5 points )
| - Knock yourself down with your own weapon.
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| - Defeat three Most Wanted Ghosts.
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- We be fast! They be slow! ( 20 points )
| - Purchase all upgrades for the Dark Matter Generator.
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- We Came, We Saw... ( 50 points )
| - Complete the game on 'Casual' or 'Experienced' difficulty.
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- We Have the Tools! ( 40 points )
| - Purchase all available equipment upgrades.
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- You Gotta Try This Pole! ( 5 points )
| - Slide down the fire pole.
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- You Never Studied ( 10 points )
| - Keep your ears open to learn everything you can about the Civil War.
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Complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding entry at the "Options" menu.
| Entry | How to unlock
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- Equipment Strength Upgrade
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| - Complete the game under the Gozerian difficulty. This outfit will allow you to be immune to sliming.
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| - Scan 50% of the ghosts and scannable objects.
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| - Complete the game with all art collected and scan 100% of the ghosts and scannable objects.
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| - Scan 100% of the ghosts of scannable objects.
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Easy "Nice Shootin', Tex!" achievement
Use the following trick to unlock this achievement without having going through Story mode a second time. A memory card and a hard drive is required. Have a completed saved game file on your hard drive. Start a new game on your memory card. Play past the training mission and save the game as soon as you get into the hotel mission. Then, quit the game. Load the saved game file from the hard drive and go to the final Boss. Go into the "Options" menu. Go to the "Game Play" setting and change the "Memory" setting to the memory card. Defeat the Boss and the achievement will be unlocked.
Go upstairs at Ghostbusters headquarters. You can find a drawing by a child on pink paper hanging near some electrical equipment. The text "To Uncle Egon, from Ed." Appears on it. This is a reference to the fan fiction Ghostbusters videos "Freddy vs. Ghostbusters" and "The Return Of The Ghostbusters" which features Egon's nephew Ed Spengler.
Fountain 1: At the firehouse. You only need to drink from this fountain once (even though you revisit the firehouse many times).
Fountain 2: At soon as you enter the Sedgewick Hotel, the soda machine room to your right.
Fountain 3: After the water drains from the hallway (at the Sedgewick) but before you reach the Sargassi Lounge, check the corner of the elevator lobby for the fountain.
Fountain 4: In the laundromat Zeddemore breaks into at Times Square. It'll be by the cursed artifact, pushing bone - in the back room - so to speak.
Fountain 5: After the cut-scene of Hoss and Stanz and the two office workers in the elevator at Times Square, you will be at the architectural office. The fountain is at the corner of the hall.
Fountain 6: Public Library. The hallway leading to the juvenile reading room will have this water fountain.
Fountain 7: After the Egyptian and Mummification exhibits at the Museum, Venkman will spring out to surprise Hoss and Zeddemore in a maintenance hallway. The fountain is there, right next to the Azatoth Head artifact.
Fountain 8: When revisiting the Sedgewick, you need to turn the power back on at the generator room. The fountain is in the generator room.
Ghostbusters II reference
In front of the water fountain in the firehouse is a window looking back into storage. You can see the "Ghostbusters II" sign and some doors from Ecto 1A.
When you are in the firehouse just before returning to the closed-up Sedgewick, play through the phone messages. You will hear a woman asking for the number to Ray's Occult bookstore.
When you are in the hotel ballroom with Slimer, press [Action] by the piano to sometimes hear the same notes that Peter played in Dana's apartment in the first movie.
In the Sedgewick Hotel level, you will pass room 1204 while hunting for Slimer. Inside you can hear the original Ghostbusters commercial from the movie. This is also a reference to Dana Barrett, who had a habit of leaving her television turned on too loud.
One of the messages on the answering machine is from a Professor Jones who is trying to locate the Vigo painting, stating that it belongs in a museum.
Madame de Pompadour reference
The portrait of Ivo Shandor's mother we see on Shandor Island, is in fact modeled after Francois Boucher's 1750s portrait of Madame de Pompadour, courtesan to Louis the XV of France. Though a political and historically significant figure, she was essentially a prostitute.
In the opener of the game, during the Ghostbusters commercial, Peter is wearing the Proton Pack straps, flashlight, and radio. However in the next scene of the commercial he is not.
Most wanted Ghost Locations
Successfully complete the indicated tasks in the following locations:
Any level except for Slime Dunk
Rotten Slimer: Capture 10 Slimers.
Wee Slimer: Capture Rotten Slimer, and win at least three Slime Dunks.
Polar Slimer: Capture Wee Slimer, and achieve twenty Slime Dunks on each of the Slime Dunk maps.
Glutton Slimer: Capture Polar Slimer, and successfully complete 60 jobs.
Cemetery (Graveyard, Altar, Lost Temple)
Mad Mad Minimo: Earn $50,000 in any Cemetery job. Must be in a single match (survival recommended).
The Darkest: Capture Mad Mad Minimo, and kill fifteen Black Slime monsters.
The Clawed Menace: Capture The Darkest, and kill fifty Cemetery crawlers (spider like tombstone creatures).
The Uprising: Capture The Clawed Menace, and successfully complete ten survival jobs in the Cemetery.
Library (Reading Room, Basement Stacks, Twisted Stacks)
The Book Of Pain: Successfully complete any job in any of the Library levels.
Captain Of The Guard: Capture The Book Of Pain, and kill twenty paper enemies.
Olga The Terrible: Capture the Captain Of The Guard, and successfully complete five jobs in the Library.
Dredge: Capture Olga The Terrible, and successfully complete ten Library thief jobs.
Museum (Rotunda, Mayan, Egypt)
Grundel: Successfully complete five Museum protections.
Sharpshooter Bailey: Capture Grundel, and capture fifteen civil war ghosts.
The Maestro: Capture Sharpshooter Bailey, and successfully complete ten Museum survival jobs.
Grand Pappy Sargassi: Capture The Maestro and successfully complete fifteen jobs on the Museum levels.
Times Square (Streets, Office, Rooftops)
Smelly Ned: Successfully complete five containments in the Times Square maps.
Dolnasky: Capture Smelly Ned, and collect fifty power-ups.
Grimgreave: Capture Dolnasky, and kill twenty gargoyles and/or cherubs using slams.
Binky: Capture Grimgreave, and successfully complete ten survivals on the Times Square maps.
NES Ghostbusters reference
Look at one of the monitors on a desk upstairs at the Ghostbusters headquarters. You can see the ending screen from Ghostbusters on the NES.
One of the messages from the Vigo painting is a reference to the O.J. Simpson trial. It reads, "I see the evil in the times to come. The glove won't fit."
Look at the wall behind Peter's desk. Some of things found there are funny.
Newspaper clippings: "Teacher's Death was Natural", "OMG Ten Ghostbusters They are Gonna Blow Your Mind" , "Beware Central Park at Midnight" (good advice), "Vigo Painting Melted: It was awesome when it exploded"
Degrees: "Your Name Here", "Hey", "The Big Apple: To the Cause"
Complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding award.
| Award | How to unlock
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| - Least amount of knockouts.
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| - Most ghosts turned into good guys with Pink Slime.
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| - Most Artifacts returned to the safe zone.
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| - Most ghosts eliminated by destroying Evil Relics.
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| - Least cash earned in the match.
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| - Trap 3 ghosts in "Sudden Death".
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| - Highest ghost defeat to player knockout ratio.
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| - Most ghosts hit with the Shock Blast (including the Stasis beam).
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| - Most ghosts hit with the Meson Collider (including alternate fire).
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| - Most ghosts damaged in a single explosion.
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| - Most Evil Relics destroyed.
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| - First knockout of the round.
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| - First player to destroy an Artifact thief.
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| - Most ghosts frozen with the Stasis Beam.
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| - First person to perform 5 Slime Dunks in the match.
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| - First Person to shoot in the round.
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| - Longest period of time in PKE goggle view.
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| - Lowest accuracy with the Proton beam (including the Boson Dart).
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| - Longest total distance traveled in the match.
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| - Most revivals of teammates.
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| - Most times revived by a teammate.
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| - Most points in Slime Dunk.
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| - Most ghosts trapped in your own trap.
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| - Highest accuracy with the Proton beam (including the Boson Dart).
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| - Fewest power-ups collected in the match.
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| - Shortest period of time between destroying two Evil Relics.
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| - The player who destroys the most Artifact thieves.
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| - Most cash earned in the match.
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| - Most wrangled ghost slams.
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| - Most shots with the Slime Blower (including the Slime Tether).
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| - Least number of times knocked down by Slimer.
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| - Longest amount of time wrangling Slimer.
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| - Shortest total distance traveled in the match.
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| - First player to destroy 10 Evil Relics.
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| - Longest run without getting knocked out.
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| - Revived each teammate at least once.
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| - Most power-ups collected in the match.
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| - Most ghosts trapped or destroyed.
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| - Trap 3 ghosts in a row while the active PKE Disruptor remains undamaged.
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| - Be the first to destroy or capture a ghost after it has damaged a PKE Disruptor.
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| - First person to trap 10 ghosts.
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The player ranks in order are as follows.
Intern Ghostbuster
Rookie
Greenhorn
Supernatural Investigator
Novice Ghostbuster
Paranormal Examiner
Slime Collector
Spook Spotter
Spirit Trapper
Ghostbuster
Proton Slinger
Slimer Snagger
Phantom Blaster
Ecto Exterminator
Elite Ghostbuster
Wraith Wrangler
Soul Hunter
Specter Slayer
Defender of New York
Ghostbuster of the Year
Check your messages when you get back from the Stay Puft Marshmallow level. The new person's father or friend says "You're doing adequate work out there Luke, keep it up!". This reveals that his name is Luke Hoss.
| Achievement | How to unlock
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- Disaster of Biblical Proportions ( 20 points )
| - Complete the 'Central Park Cemetery' level.
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| - Complete the 'Checking Out the Library' level.
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- Ghost Fever Grips New York ( 20 points )
| - Complete the 'Museum of ( Super)Natural History' level.
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- Let Me Guess, Gozer Worshippers ( 20 points )
| - Complete the 'Lost Island Rising' level.
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- Once S'more into the Breach ( 20 points )
| - Complete the 'Panic in Times Square' level.
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- Somebody Saw a Cockroach on 12 ( 20 points )
| - Complete the 'Return to the Sedgewick' level.
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- The Flowers are Still Standing! ( 20 points )
| - Complete the 'Welcome to the Hotel Sedgewick' level.
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- We Have the Talent! ( 20 points )
| - Complete the Firehouse training level.
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When using your PKE Meter to track Slimer, go up to Room 1206, to the right of the vase he is hiding in. The sounds coming from the door are of a man and a woman arguing (or doing something else).
Slimer disappears from his small cell, with no damage to it, before Shandor releases all the ghosts from the containment unit. However, after the Ghostbusters return from Shandor Island, Slimer's cell is all torn up.
Back in the firehouse after the "Shador Island" level, there are Spanish newspapers thrown all over. The headline reads "Un Cubano En El Cosmos," which means "A Cuban in Space."
When hunting Slimer, you will find room 1221, the Spider Witch's room. Looking through the Paragoogles at the lower left decoration will reveal a glowing spider.
The Extreme Ghostbusters reference
When you are in the firehouse, go down by the containment unit. Look on one of the work desks to see a circular ghost trap that was used in the late 1990's cartoon called The Extreme Ghostbusters.
The Real Ghostbusters reference
In the basement, on the far work station there is a PKE meter modeled after the one from The Real Ghostbusters.
All the upgrades cost $166,500.
When listening to the answering machine messages, one will be of a man talking in a gruff voice asking, "Who busts the Ghostbusters?"
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