Points? What are Points?

So here's the situation. You hung back at the Xbox 360 launch. You decided you didn't need one right away, but not long after, you decided it was time to take the plunge. Of course, the first part of the fight is actually finding the system for sale. But you took the challenge and found one. And now there's a new problem. All of your friends that got the system on day one are way ahead of you. In what? The only thing that matters, of course. Points!

Each Xbox 360 profile has a "gamerscore" associated with it that goes up when certain achievements are reached in all of the different games. Of course, not all games are created equal, and we're going to help you use that inequality to get ahead. I locked myself in a room recently and set out to round up as many of the easy points as I possibly could. What did I discover? That there are some ridiculously easy achievements in some of these games--especially the in the sports games. I'm not saying you need to buy any of these. You and I don't care about the quality of the game here. We just want the points. So get out and rent these games, and I'll show you how to quickly milk your score from zero to 6,000 without even trying.