The Top 10 Most Frustrating Xbox LIVE Achievements

05. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter

Hindsight being 20/20 - and considering the massive amounts of anger that this one generated among the Achievement Hunting community, you might think that no game studio would every even think of putting something like this into a game ever again, but the thing about that is that it presumes that the game studio wasn't intentionally setting out to anger the gamers. We are not prepared to stipulate that qualification.

World Champion (40G)

Climb to the top of the universal leaderboard.

In terms of frustration levels this one is right up there, able to complete with any rage-inducing achievement in that while it was probably not too bad for the first say, 12 or so gamers to do it, with each new number 1 the bar was raised that much higher, and if they continued to play and score, then it would take that much longer.

When we say that much longer, the estimate runs somewhere in the area of 600+ hours of play in order to reach that level. Of course that assumes that the servers will still be online when you get to the point where you actually have a shot at it...