Geometry Wars 1 - impossible to get certain achievements individually?

[migo]

So Geometry Wars 1 gets more difficult as time goes by, multipliers reset once you die, and the achievements are the likes of 250,000/500,000 points without dying and collect a multiplier of 10. It strikes me that you're not going to hit some of those higher ones, particularly 500,000 and up without nailing a 10, and the moment you die it's going to take too long to crawl back up before you run out of lives. Also, once you've nailed certain achievements, if you die early it's pointless to keep playing, you need a certain lead to have even a chance at getting them, and occasionally it seems based on luck. The enemies usually are pretty consistent but I had one round where all the blue trapezoids spawning out of the corners just kept repeating, which was an easy pattern to beat and had me racking up a lot of points.

Has anyone actually successively gotten one achievement after another, or has it been having almost no achievements and then having a really good urn and unlocking 6 at once?

 

[Snork Maiden]

I'm almost certain I've *never* gotten up to a 10x multiplier and my high score is about 1,600,000. That said maybe its either the 10 lives or 10 bombs one I don't have, but I'm fairly certain its the multiplier one - once you get to 200,000 the enemies are coming so thick and fast that even once you've died you get back up through the multipliers fairly speedily since they're based on enemies killed.

Incidentally I know what you mean about the annoying randomness of the spawns - I *hate* the snake things so bad, and I've lost count of the times they've spawned "on top" of me and killed me instantly. Its really rough when this happens 3 or 4 times in a row.