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Xbox version guide, version 0.8
Written by Jose Jimenez
Started at November 11, 2005
Finished at November 20, 2005
Email:
[email protected] (send corrections and questions)
Copyright 2005 Jose Jimenez
Table of contents:
Legal note
Basic information
General info
Autosave feature
The goals of career mode
1. - Event types & Privileges:
Attend events
Race events
Sponsored events
Pink slips
Host races
Restrictions
2. - Race types:
Circuit
Point to point
Sprint
Showoff
Challenges
3. - Garage:
The cars in this game
Buying & selling cars
Visual mods
Performance mods
Repairs
Maintenance
Unlocking upper level performance mods (includes prototype cars)
Dynamometer**
4. - Respect:
General info
How to obtain it
How to loose it
Turfs preferences
5. - Your crew
Team races
Driver's stress level
Driver's skills
6. - Bets
When watching
When participating
7. - Mobile phone
The things you can ask for
8. - Game completion
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Basic info:
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Welcome to angel city and stuff, the objective of this game was to offer
a more realistic experience on racing than other racing games, starting
with the rather realistic handling, the car maintenance and damage, but
most of all 'cause sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you go on.
There's no restart on real life, and so there isn't on this game.
- GENERAL INFO:
In this part of the game you start as a newbie in angel city, where 8
different turfs meet to race. You start alone, but gradually some
drivers (3 specifically) will join your own turf. The game starts with a
race against the leader of urban maulers, you'll borrow one of his cars
just on this race, and he'll offer you a bet. For more info on bets,
check the respective section.
Once the race is finished, you start with some money, no cars and a
schedule with the races where you can or can't participate, that's where
it all starts.
- AUTOSAVE FEATURE:
Like I said, the game saves automatically the things you do, so if you
mess up, the only way to go back is turning off the console, and it
doesn't work on certain races like pink slip. However, you don't have to
win every race you get in to complete the game.
There's also no restart option on races, except turf challenges. If you
select quit on the pause menu, you'll be automatically classified as
last place on that race.
- THE GOALS OF CAREER MODE:
The goals of this mode are to reach 1,500 respect points from each turf
and complete all 24 challenges that the turfs offer (3 challenges each).
Like I said, you don't need to be in first place on every race you
accept; sometimes a second gives you some respect, although a first
helps more.
More info on challenges & respect on their respective sections.
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1. - Events types & privileges.
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To gain privileges with each turf, your respect bar has to reach a
certain level as follows:
100 points you can attend their events.
300 points you can race their events.
600 points you can race pink slips with that turf leader.
1000 you can host a race on that turf's territory.
- ATTEND EVENT:
Attending an event is to only watch the event without racing. You can do
this either to have an idea on the car you need to race there or to make
a bets on one of the drivers (more info on bet section). There's an
amount of money to pay to enter an event, showed on the lower corner of
that event add.
- RACE EVENT:
Means to race on a certain event. To do this you need a car of the
event's category (a certain hp) and comply with the event conditions
(sometimes only cars of a certain brand or country can enter an event).
There's an amount of money to pay to race an event, showed on the lower
corner of that event add.
- SPONSORED EVENT:
It's just as a normal event, but the entrance fee is higher, and so the
prizes. You can win prototype parts on some (more info on garage
section).
- PINK SLIP:
An unofficial race between you and another turf's leader, you can't send
any of your drivers to these races. The prize is your rival's car, if
you win you go back home with 2 cars, otherwise, you walk your way back.
To put a pink slip on the calendar, either you have to call a turf
leader on the mobile phone section, or accept them when they call you.
If they offer it and you say no, you'll lose a little respect. If you
say yes, it will be dated on the next empty day on the calendar, and it
will always be on the highest car category you had on that moment.
When you accept and select the pink slip on the calendar, your rival
will ask one last time "do you want to race for pinks?" if you say no,
the race is cancelled and you keep your car but loose a little more
respect. My advise is to say no if your car is much inferior to his or
hers, if you suck at that race type, or if he offers a car you totally
hate and don't need the money (even if you don't like the car you can
sell it).
You have to risk a good car if you want to win. If you bet a crappy car
'cause you don't want to loose the good ones, you'll most likely loose.
Also consider that the car your rival has is a lot more important than
his skills (a medium-skilled guy with a fast car normally beat a high-
skilled guy with a slow car).
Once you accept the bet, the game auto saves so even if you turn off the
console during a pink slip you'll be considered as the loser and loose
the car, so don't even think of it.
- HOST RACES:
It means organizing your own events on a certain turf's territory, since
you don't have a territory of your own. It will cost you depending on
how many races it contains, the prizes, etc. Depending on the prices,
you'll attract more turfs to participate. To organize your events,
select an empty day on the calendar as you would select an event.
Once you reach 1000 respect points of a turf, that turf's leader will
call you for a host challenge that you have to win to get host privilege
on that territory. Say yes or he or she will get pretty pissed off and
you'll lose about 150 or 200 respect points. You can send one of your
drivers to race these challenges if you don't feel like going.
Although you acquire host privileges since the first victory, they'll
call you about 3 times for the same challenge, unfortunately you have to
say always yes or your respect bar will drop off.
For some stupid reason you don't get any respect for wining the races
you organize, so there's not much reason to host races, but you unlock
mods for the cars you race at them (more info on garage section).
WARNING! Something EXTREMELY IMPORTANT you need to know about host races
is that if you don't organize them on a certain territory once in a
while, the leader will get so offended you'll lose the privilege and
your respect bar will fall at some miserable 580 point, no matter if you
had 8000 or 10,000 or whatever. A couple days before that happens
they'll send you a warning but it might already be too late.
- RESTRICTIONS:
You have to comply with some requirements in order to race an event:
Category: The bhp has to be the one allowed
Brand: sometimes only cars of a certain brand are admitted
Country: The same, but for cars of a certain country
Prototype: Some races only admit prototype cars (more info on garage
section, prototype mods subsection).
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2. - Race types:
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These are all the kind of races you can find on events, pink slips or
host challenges:
- CIRCUIT:
It's just running around a circuit for 2 laps or more, like any other
game.
- POINT-TO-POINT:
The same but only one lap, these are short races where the head start is
important. Point to point races are raced on a certain track, only meant
for that.
- SPRINT:
Drag races divided on 4 sub races called heats, you get points on each
heat according to your position: 6 for first, 4 for second, 2 for third
and 0 for last. The driver with the highest score at the end of all
heats wins. In case there's a match, both get the respective prize. 4WD
cars have the advantage on these races.
These races are on manual mode by default. If you choose automatic
transmission, it will automatically change to manual, but only for these
races.
Now these are the type of races that can't be inside a big event:
- SHOWOFF:
You drive alone on the track; the objective is to reach the target score
indicated or the highest possible score by doing certain moves, which
are explained on the showoff tutorial, on the options menu, so I won't
mention them here.
There is something called multiplier which obviously multiplies the
score you make with a certain move, to raise it, make a consecutive
combination (the larger, the better) of different moves with a time
separation as small as possible (doing the same move once and again
won't raise the multiplier).
Also notice that if you crash, your multiplier will go down depending on
the strength of the crash.
- CHALLENGES:
To complete all 24 is one of the objectives of career mode, 3 challenges
for each turf. You need racing privileges and having made that contact
to call the leader of the turf (more info about contacts on mobile phone
section). These races have to be completed by you, you can't send any of
your crew members.
Each challenge has got to be completed with a specific car model, I
can't include a list since it varies depending on the console and the
version of the game (there's an American and European version, I think)
but these are the type of races you'll find:
Lap challenge. - Simply complete one lap on the allotted time; it
doesn't matter how you do it.
Clean lap challenge. - The same, but this time you can't hit the car,
not even a scratch.
Showoff challenge. - Just a showoff with a target score to beat.
Speed challenge. - Complete a lap always driving above the target speed
indicated; if the car ever gets below the target speed, you lose. You
also have 10 seconds to reach that speed.
When you complete each challenge your minimum respect value for that
turf will raise 50 points. That means it can't go under 50, 100, or 150
if you completed the three challenges.
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3. - Garage :
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You get new cars, sell them, test them, repair them, tune them, etc. on
your garage. Here's what you need to know:
THE CARS IN THIS GAME:
Some versions can have some different cars from the ones showed; this is
the list for the American Xbox version, ordered by class:0
CLASS 8:
Volkswagen Corrado VR6
BHP: 187
Drive train: FWD
Volkswagen Golf MKIV+++
BHP: 153
Drive train: FWD
Dodge Neon R/T+++
BHP: 143
Drive train: FWD
Ford 2003 Focus SVT
BHP: 170
Drive train: FWD
Ford 2004 Focus ZTS
BHP: 162
Drive train: FWD
Fiat Punto 1.8 HGT +++
BHP: 117
Drive train: FWD
Opel Corsa Sri 1.8i 16V
BHP: 120
Drive train: FWD
Peugeot 206 GTI+++
BHP: 119
Drive train: FWD
Renault Clio Sport 2.0 16 V
BHP: 178
Drive train: FWD
Honda CR-X+++
BHP: 152
Drive train: FWD
Honda Civic DX
BHP: 135
Drive train: FWD
Honda Civic Type R+++
BHP: 181
Drive train: FWD
Acura Integra Type R '99
BHP: 195
Drive train: FWD
Honda Prelude VT
BHP: 168
Drive train: FWD
Honda Integra Type R '02+++
BHP: 195
Drive train: FWD
Acura RSX TYPE-S
BHP: 195
Drive train: FWD
Honda Integra Type R
BHP: 195
Drive train: FWD
Toyota Corolla 1.6
BHP: 125
Drive train: FWD
Toyota MR-S
BHP: 179
Drive train: RWD
Toyota MR2+++
BHP: 179
Drive train: RWD
Toyota Celica SS-I+++
BHP: 162
Drive train: FWD
Toyota Celica SS-II+++
BHP: 176
Drive train: FWD
Mazda MX-5+++
BHP: 124
Drive train: RWD
CLASS 7:
Subaru Impreza 22B STi+++
BHP: 223
Drive train: 4WD
Subaru Impreza WRX STi+++
BHP: 270
Drive train: 4WD
Holden Monaro CV8
BHP: 280
Drive train: RWD
Dodge SRT-4+++
BHP: 246
Drive train: FWD
Ford Falcon XR8+++
BHP: 280
Drive train: RWD
Honda S2000+++
BHP: 238
Drive train: RWD
Acura NSX
BHP: 288
Drive train: RWD
Toyota Supra
BHP: 292
Drive train: RWD
Mazda RX-7
BHP: 250
Drive train: RWD
Mazda RX-8
BHP: 250
Drive train: RWD
Nissan 350Z
BHP: 286
Drive train: RWD
Nissan 300Z
BHP: 206
Drive train: RWD
Mitsubishi FTO
BHP: 209
Drive train: FWD
Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX
BHP: 212
Drive train: 4WD
Mitsubishi LANCER Evolution VI
BHP: 243
Drive train: 4WD
CLASS 6:
Nissan Skyline GT-R+++
BHP: 315
Drive train: 4WD
Mitsubishi LANCER Evolution VIII
BHP: 311
Drive train: 4WD
Mitsubishi 3000GT+++
BHP: 328
Drive train: 4WD
Chevrolet Camaro Z28
BHP: 373
Drive train: RWD
Chevrolet Corvette
BHP: 303
Drive train: RWD
Chevrolet Camaro
BHP: 308
Drive train: RWD
Ford 67 Mustang
BHP: 373
Drive train: RWD
Ford Mustang 99 GT+++
BHP: 363
Drive train: RWD
Pontiac Firebird
BHP: 312
Drive train: RWD
CLASS 5:
Chevrolet Corvette ZO6+++
BHP: 428
Drive train: RWD
Dodge 1969 Charger R/T
BHP: 445
Drive train: RWD
Dodge Viper GTS+++
BHP: 469
Drive train: RWD
Senseless to set a price on them since it depends on the condition of
the car when you buy it.
NOTE: The cars with +++ marks are needed to complete one of the 24
challenges (on Xbox version at least). You should get them as soon as
you find them on sale. Once you completed the challenge, you can sell
the car.
- BUYING & SELLING CARS:
Buying cars isn't the way it would normally be on a common game. The
only store is like a car lot where cars come and go randomly, so if you
see certain cars one day, after racing some events there may be
different ones. Most of all, the list on sale will increase if you race
several events without turning off the console.
Also, you can find them new, used, or damaged. New cars are more
expensive, follows used, and damaged (you have to spend a little money
on damaged ones to use them).
Selling them is like in any other game. You lose a small amount of money
but no big deal.
- VISUAL MODS:
The only purpose of these mods is to call certain turf's attention (more
info on respect section). You have access to all of them since you get
your first car, there's no unlocking, but there aren't a lot of options
anyway.
- PERFORMANCE MODS:
Here's a brief explanation on how they will improve a car's performance:
* Tires, suspension: They ensure better handling; better cornering, grip
and stability.
* Brakes: Increase the stopping power of a car. Notice they can increase
over steering on certain cars.
* Nitrous: you know, gives extra power but just for some seconds.
* Gear ratio: Will change the transmission gears relation. Increasing
the speed bar will increase the top speed but diminish
acceleration. Increasing the acceleration bar will do the opposite.
* Ride height: This actually won't change the car's performance at all.
* Induction, turbo, exhaust: Well, they make the damn car go faster,
what else? These will increase a car's hp and so its class.
* Engine fine-tune: Gives the last adjustments to hp. In case it
slightly exceeds the hp for a certain class, for instance.
- REPAIRS:
For every hit your car receives, you'll receive a little damage. If you
hit your car too much, certain devices will be damaged like the neons,
nitrous, steering system and so on until tour car is totaled and out of
race.
First are the neons, nothing really important about them; then is the
nitrous leak, in which your nitrous will slowly drain; then follows the
steering, on that moment the car will be very difficult to drive, etc.
You can't enter a race with an already damaged car. How much money you
spend on repairing it depends on the damage it received, and the price
of its visual mods (whether it has neons, body kits, and their price.).
If you try to enter a race with a damaged one, the game will ask you if
you want to repair the car, you can't enter with that car if you say no.
- MAINTENANCE:
Some parts of your car will wear out each time you drive them,
specifically the brakes, tires, and the nitrous system. Its
deterioration depends on how much time you have driven that car (except
for nitrous, which spends when you use it only), and it will affect the
car's handling. You can give maintenance to a car on tour garage, or
before each race (when you're on the car selection screen on a race,
press "Y" to inspect a car, it will show you how deteriorated each part
is).
Some color circle indicates the part's condition: green, its okay and you
don't need to fix it; yellow, you can still drive a short race with no
mayor problem; red, you should fix it right away, although you can race a
car with all your parts on red, but its handling won't be friendly at
all.
The price of maintenance won't depend on deterioration level, but on the
part's level and price; I mean, level 1 tires will be much cheaper to
replace than level 3, and so on (replacing prototype level parts can
really be a headache because of this).
- UNLOCKING UPPER LEVEL PERFORMANCE MODS:
One of the rather annoying parts of the game is the performance parts
unlocking, I'll explain:
You unlock parts for each model each time you race them, how much
depends on your position. You'll unlock more parts if you get first
places than second or thirds, for example I got a piece for each race I
got a Clio into 'cause it finished always first, but only one for three
races I got a civic onto, 'cause I finished second, second, and third.
For this reason it isn't a bad idea to get several cars of the same
model, since if you race one, the parts will unlock for all of them, and
the ones you buy in the future of that same model. You don't lose access
to the unlocked pieces if you sell the car, if you ever buy another car
the same model they will all be available.
Prototype mods can only be unlocked by completing career mode, or by
winning certain races that give them as a price. They're normally
sponsored races, and show an image of the prototype part on the race
adds, on the calendar. If it's a various races event, only one or two
races give the part to the winner or winners (if it's a team race and
you win all cars your crew drove will receive that part).
The part will be automatically installed to your car, but other cars the
same model will only have it available for buying, not installed.
If you install three or more prototype parts on the same car, you'll
create a prototype car; certain races are for prototype cars only.
- DYNAMOMETER:
Makes a test on your car's performance. Shows max revolutions per
minute, max hp (transmitted to the tires, the instant your car uses max
hp, etc.
It will show a lower max hp than the one the engine has 'cause normally
a car's transmission wastes some hp on its way to the tires.
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4. - Respect:
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One of the two objectives of career mode, you have to reach 1,500
respect points from each of all 8 turfs, to get it, you have to please
or impress them; there are things that will get any turf get pleased or
mad at you, and things that will get only a specific turf impressed or
mad. Let's see the general things first:
- HOW TO OBTAIN IT:
- If they offer you a bet, accept it, or even better, raise it.
- If you offer a bet to someone, make it over the preferred bet
number: if they can't afford it, your respect will increase
More info on bets on the (not obvious enough for you?) bet section.
- HOW TO LOSE IT (uhm... you're supposed not to do this):
- If they offer a bet, reject it or try to lower them.
- If you offer the bet, set it under the preferred bet number, or
regret and choose to back out.
- Crash other turfs vehicles; you can hit them a little and cause no
problem, but if you exceed a certain limit, you'll piss them off.
- Reject the races they offer to you by phone (like pink slips or
host challenges or such)
Now here are the things that will impress only a certain turfs, and the
quickest way to gain respect:
- TURFS PREFERENCES:
URBAN MAULERS: Impressed by circuit performance (includes point-to-
point). To get it, finish on first place or second at least. To lose it,
simply finish on last.
AWB: Impressed by sprints. To obtain respect, finish on first or second.
Finish last to lose it.
BLACK SUNRISE: Impressed by showoff races. Get the highest score you can
to impress them, or finish with a shameful score to get them mad.
WILD CATS: Impressed by crew performance. Win team races or get your
crew to win races to please them, or the opposite to disappoint them.
OMEGA TAU: Impressed by best car. Race cars as expensive and tuned as
possible (installing visual mods to a car increases its value). Putting
a sound system to a car might seem just stupid on a game like this, but
omega tau will notice things like this. Otherwise, they'll get mad if
you race your cars with only some rims and a small time spoiler.
PUBLIC CHAOS: Impressed by car collection. Get a lot of tuned cars and
keep them in good conditions. If you keep your cars damaged or without
maintenance, you'll lose respect from them.
THE LORDZ: Impressed bi gambling. You can impress them in two ways:
When racing, always make a bet to another driver, always win, and set as
much money as you can on all bets; when watching, just bet a goddamn big
amount of money, it doesn't matter if you win or lose, they'll like it
anyway.
Do the opposite to lose respect: lower bets, reject them, or put them
below the preferred bet number.
LEGION: Impressed by pink slips. Simply win them to impress them or lose
to piss them off.
One last thing to mention about respect is that although your objective
is to reach 1,500 points for each turf, you can get a lot more, you can
virtually get unlimited points, but the bar will never go under zero, no
matter how "offensive" you are at them.
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5. - Your crew:
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Your own turf starts with you all alone, but on certain points of the
game 3 drivers will ask you to join your crew; it's critical that you
say YES, it's totally free, besides you can't race team races without
them, and so gain wild cats respect.
Also you can make them race all the races you don't want to be at,
except pink slips and challenges.
- TEAM RACES:
Can only be circuits and point-to-point, and can enter 3 teams of 2
drivers, or 2 teams of 3 drivers. The winner team is the one with the
smallest average time, so you can get something like a second, third and
fourth and still win first prize. You command them only by telling them
how fast they drive so they don't get stressed.
But what is stress? Well:
- DRIVER'S STRESS:
Drivers controlled by the computer (yours and your rivals) have
something like a stress simulation that makes them commit mistakes when
they're stressed; it works like this:
Computer controlled drivers can drive at low, medium or high speed, and
they have a stress indicator that shows how stressed they are. When they
drive fast, they slowly get stressed; when driving at medium speed, they
slowly lose stress; and when they drive slowly, they quickly lose
stress. When they're stressed, they can very likely lose control of the
car, so they're supposed to slow down.
Before a race, on that screen where you see your rival's names and cars,
below their cars there's a skill and a recovery bar, the second bar
indicates how fast they recover from stress. Also, the bigger the bar
is, the longer they can drive at fast speed before they stress out.
On a team race you can only order your team races how fast to drive, an
indicator on the lower left corner of the screen shows how high their
stress is and when a driver's name starts blinking, his or her stress is
at max and you have to tell them to slow down, or they can have an
accident at any moment. They should always drive fast and you should
only tell them to drive medium when their stress is at max, never tell
hem to drive slowly.
Their recovery bar will improve as they acquire skills, there's an
explanation on the next section.
- DRIVER'S SKILLS:
Each driver controlled by the game has a skill, aggression and recovery
level. Respectively they mean their driving ability, their likelihood to
hit someone else's car, and their stress response.
Your crew's drivers will be total rookies when they join your crew, but
it takes them few races to get more skilled, and it won't take them too
long to become superior to all your rival drivers (my drivers now drive
better than me).
You can see their skill and recovery bar at the start race screen; their
aggression bar is only shown when you're betting to a rival.
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6. - Bets:
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You have two different ways to bet on the game:
- WHEN WATCHING:
When you're not racing an event, you can make a bet on one of the
competitors. On the start race screen, you'll see the drivers that
participate, their skills, cars, and their odds (how probable is that
they win). The reward depends on the driver odds: drivers with low odds
will mean a high reward for you if they get to win, and drivers with
high chances to win mean a lower reward. However, I've never seen a guy
with low odds winning, so always bet on drivers with high odds.
On start race screen, below the car's name there's a set of numbers like
this "number:number" those are the winning odds; the higher the right
number is in comparison to the left one, the more chances that driver
has to win, and the lower your reward will be. For example, a car with
1:1 odds will give you 1 credit (or dollar) for each credit you bet; a
guy with 7:1 odds will give you 7 credits for each dollar you bet; one
with 8:13 odds gives you 8 for each 13 you bet and so on.
Remember that the car is more important than the driver's skills. Fast
cars with dumb drivers will most likely beat slow cars with good
drivers.
- WHEN PARTICIPATING:
When you drive on a race, you can offer a bet to a turf's leader. It's
you against him or her, and the one to beat the other gets the money, no
matter their final positions. On the start race screen, select a rival's
car and press "A", a screen will appear that shows the skills,
aggression level of your rival, and the preferred bet. The preferred bet
is a suggestion on how much the rival is willing to bet: If you make a
bet way over that number, he'll most likely say no but you'll receive a
little respect; if your bet is below the preferred bet, again it's very
likely that he says no and this time you lose a little respect.
If you regret making the bet and decide to back out, you'll lose even
more respect, same happens if they offer the bet, but you'll receive a
little respect just for accepting a bet someone else offered to you.
Since other drivers like to win, if you win a bet their preferred bet
will be lower the next time, and go up if they win the bet to you. The
lowest it can go is 2,500 credits.
One last thing: you can only offer bets to a certain turf if you've
already reached racing privileges with it.
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7. - Mobile phone:
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You use this to call a turf's leader you have a contact with. To make a
contact, first reach racing privileges and offer them a bet on a race,
then you make the contact and you can call them later to ask for certain
special events.
You can't just skip a special event like other common meetings. There
are specific ways to cancel them, also know they'll be placed on the
next empty day on the calendar.
Pink slips: you need 600 respect points to ask for one of these. More
info on its section.
Challenges: You need 300 points and the specified car.
Check the car list to see those specified cars.
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8. - Career completion:
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The reward for completing career mode is access to all levels
performance mods for all cars, and permanent access to all racing
privileges. Time for payback.
From now on you can lose all the respect you want without losing any
privilege or reward: crash them, reject them, insult them, and let your
frustrations go on them. If your respect gets under 1,500, the
completion status will show less than 100% completion, but you keep all
privileges.
Sorry that I didn't include anything about arcade mode, but the other
FAQ by Rathee includes some brief information about it, it's not that
complicated anyway.
