If any of you have played the Orange Box on 360, then you would noticed that achievements are tracked by bars and numbers, the more you progress towards an achievement the bar fills up and numbers keep increasing.

I think all 360 games should indicate your progress towards achievements where it's possible, some achievements where you do one specific thing can't be tracked so those don't apply. Either there should be a general system across all games that tracks progress in achievements or developers should try and include this feature in their games as much as possible.

For example, there's an achievement in Crackdown for running over 175 gang members in a car, I have no idea how many I've run over and can't go after the achievement because I don't know how long it'll take.

In Dead Space there are achievemnts for killing enemies with certain weapons a specific amount of times, these are not tracked either but the number is 30 so it's easy to count i suppose if you're actually up for counting enemies killed with specific weapons over many playthroughs.

In some games, achievements that involve doing a specific thing several times are easy to figure out (stats are kept) and in other games they're not, so a unified system would be ideal to keep track of progress towards achievements even when you're not in the game, but on your dashboard.

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. I loved how they did it in the Orange Box and Left Four Dead. Sometimes I think that I have reached a numer for something and it doesn't give it to me. And it makes me think that the game messed up

That would be interesting indeed. And for trophies too.

I agree they should do this for all games. It does get annoying tracking all your progress by yourself.

Yes, I think the Orange Box and Left 4 Dead are the best at tracking progress towards achievements of any game I've played.

I haven't had a PS3 since after trophies where introduced, but I think I've seen video of games tracking progress towards trophies in some games come up while playing, but I'm not sure. Do some games track progress?

I know Unreal Tournament 3 and Fat Princess have a statistic page where you can see your trophy progress. They should all have that system.

It would be great if it was implemented in the trophy list of the XMB.

Yup that's what I want on Xbox Live too, it tracks achievements across all your games but doesn't track progress in specific achievements within the games, you have to go into the game to check or in some cases even the game doesn't tell you your progress.

I am seeing more and more games do it. I just finished DiRT 2 and that has achievement tracking as well.

I vaguely remember being able to go into Crackdown's menus and see your progress for those things. I could be wrong though.