Get over 20,000 Gamerpoints without breaking a sweat

Achievements and Gamerpoints are your chance to show the world you're good at gaming. It doesn't matter if you earn the points with easy games or hard ones - your total is forever attached to your Gamertag.

Feeling under-equipped in the pointage area? Don't fret: there are plenty of games with easy Achievements to rinse through. Games on Demand titles alone have thousands of 'gimmie' points. Point-and-clicks CSI: Deadly Intent, CSI: Fatal Conspiracy, CSI: Hard Evidence, Lost Via Domus and Sherlock Holmes give up 5,000 total points in mere hours if you tackle them with the guides available online.

XBLA titles The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Special Edition, Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures: Episodes 1-4, Axel & Pixel, Sam & Max Save The World, Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, and Sea Life Safari dole out another 2,000 in total for much the same thing. Point 'n' click Gray Matter is another easy 1,000 points if tackled with guide in hand.

Other Games on Demand titles that cough up the goods in record time include Alaskan Adventures, Cars, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, FIFA Street 3, the insultingly-simple Fight Night Round 3, MegaMind: Ultimate Showdown, Monopoly, Open Season, Surf's Up, Trivial Pursuit (disconnecting your controller pauses the game, letting you search for answers online...) and WWE: Legends of WrestleMania.

Kids' games usually hand out the Gamerpoints like sweeties, although gone are the days of games that give out their full 1,000 total within one minute (ah, Avatar: The Burning Earth...). Still, there have been plenty of games this year that like nothing more than to bump your Gamerscore total to obscene new heights. If you're keen to boost your total, try some of these...