Quixotic Bravado by Josh Babetski

If you’re playing Grand Theft Auto 4 on Xbox 360, here’s an easy how-to for getting the “One Man Army” Xbox 360 Achievement.

This achievement is accomplished when you’ve “survived a 6 star wanted level for a full 5 minutes.” This might be easy to do later in the game, but I’m a casual player and haven’t event unlocked the other islands yet. Of this writing, I’ve just finished the mission “Roman’s Sorrow” and stumbled upon this method by accident.

Since I haven’t unlocked the other islands, the bridges leading to them are still barricaded by the police. Here’s my quick “One Man Army” walk through:

1. Starting from Roman’s Place in Hove beach, walk north up Mohawk Ave a bit
2. Once you are under the Broker Bridge, navigate your way west between some buildings until you reach a support for the bridge
3. On the support, there are stairs leading up to a pedestrian walkway above the road and across the bridge
4. Go up the stairs and go about a 1/3 of the way over the bridge. You walk WAY beyond the police barricade set-up below you
5. I’m sure it’ll happen at some point across the bridge, but shooting a pedestrian worked for me to trigger the 6-star wanted rating.
6. Run back the way you came. Avoid getting shot.
7. Once you get back to the stairwell, go half-way down and position yourself in a corner to cover both the stairs coming up and going down
8. This will give you plenty of cover from cop cars and the helicopters; the position also seems difficult for the cops on foot to navigate. I only wound up shooting 4.
9. Survive for 5 minutes until you get the toast pop-up telling you the “One Man Army” achievement is bagged.
10. Run for it!

Not sexy, but an effective way to survive long enough to get the achievement. Hope it helps.