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Version 1.0
Last updated: 12/14/03
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NOTE: This FAQ was written before any content downloads were released for the
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Table of Contents
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1. Playing The Game
1.1 - Controls
1.2 - Kudos
1.3 - Kudos Tokens & Medals
1.4 - The Garage and The Showroom
1.5 - The Types of Races
2. Kudos World Series Mode
2.1 - Compact Sports Series
2.2 - Sports Convertible Series
2.3 - Coupe Series
2.5 - Pacific Muscle Series
2.6 - Roadster Series
2.7 - Classics Series
2.8 - Sports Coupe Series
2.9 - American Muscle Series
2.10 - Super Car Series
2.11 - Grand Touring Series
2.12 - Track Specials Series
2.13 - Extreme Series
2.14 - Ultimate Series
3.
3.1 - Street Race
3.2 - Timed Run
3.3 - Cone Challenge
4. Car List
4.1 - Compact Sports Class
4.2 - Sports Convertible Class
4.3 - Coupe Class
4.4 - Sport Utility Class
4.5 - Pacific Muscle Class
4.6 - Roadster Class
4.7 - Classics Class
4.8 - Sports Coupe Class
4.9 - American Muscle Class
4.10 - Super Car Class
4.11 - Grand Touring Class
4.12 - Track Specials Class
4.13 - Extreme Class
4.14 - Ultimate Class
5. Multiplayer & Time Attack
6. Geometry Wars
7. Version History
8. Legal Stuff & Contact Information
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1. Playing The Game
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1.1 - Controls
Note: These are the default controls for the game
A: Handbrake
B: Shift up
X: Shift down/reverse (When you are not moving)
Y: Look behind
Black: Change view
White: Change view
L: Brake/reverse (When you are not moving)
R: Accelerate
Start: Pause
Select: Horn
D-Pad: Steer
Left joystick: Steer
Right joystick: Look around/Radio controls (When you press joystick, left and
right change radio station, up and down change volume)
1.2 - Kudos
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What Are Kudos?
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Kudos are like a point system. You get them for doing certain things in a race
such as sliding around turns and passing cars. You also get some at the end of
a race, how many is based on the difficulty you set for the race.
The only real use for kudos is to up your kudos rank. At first, you don't need
to get very many kudos to make your rank go up, you can do it by beating a few
races. Once your rank is much higher, it will take a lot more kudos to go up a
rank, you wont be able to go up in rank very fast then. When you go up in rank,
you get Kudos Tokens, which you can use to buy cars. Basically, you want to get
kudos so that you can increase your kudos rank, in order to get Kudos Tokens to
buy more cars with.
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Ways To Get Kudos
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There are many ways to get kudos, there are 14 different ways to get kudos in a
race plus one more for after a race. They are as follows:
Slides: When you do a slide, you will get kudos as long as the slide lasts
Good lines: There is a dark spot on all of the turns in every race, if you
follow this line with optimal speed through the turn, you get kudos
Two wheels: If you can get your car up onto two wheels, you get kudos for as
long as the car is like that
Air: When you get air from a jump, you will get kudos for as long as your car
is in the air
360: If you can do a 360-degree spin during a race, you will get kudos for it
Clean section: You can only get this when you pass a checkpoint. If you went
from the last checkpoint to this one without hitting anything,
you get the clean section bonus
Clean race: If you can get through the entire race without hitting anything,
you get this at the end
Overtake: When you pass another car, you get kudos for it
Draft: When you draft behind a car, you will get kudos for as long as you draft
Overtake (Draft): If you pass a car right after drafting it, you will get extra
kudos for the overtake
Time bonus: When you finish a race with a time limit, you get kudos for every
second left on the clock
Fast lap: If you get a faster lap time than your opponents at the end of a
race, you get kudos for it
Position: If you place higher than third place in a race, you get kudos for it
Cone gates: In Cone Challenges, you get kudos every time you go through a cone
gate
To further increase the number of kudos you get, you can do combos. Once you do
something in a race to get kudos, you have a window of about two seconds to do
a combo. You can start a combo by doing something else to get kudos. For
example, if you get a clean section bonus at a checkpoint and then start a
slide to get you kudos within two seconds of getting the clean section bonus, a
combo will start. Not only do you get the kudos you would normally get when you
do a combo, you get a specially combo bonus, based on the number of things you
did to get kudos during the combo. In that example, only two things were done,
so the bonus would be small. The more things you do to get kudos, the bigger
the combo bonus. This is very important to getting lots of kudos, since
eventually the combo bonus can become very large. You can't hit any barrier on
the side of the track or any cones in Cone Challenges when doing this, though.
If you do, you will lose all of the combo bonus kudos.
1.3 - Kudos Tokens & Medals
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Kudos Rank and Kudos Tokens
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Both online and offline, you have a kudos rank. The rank starts at one, and
goes up as you get kudos. You can always see how many kudos you need to go up
to the next rank. When your rank goes up, you get some Kudos Tokens. At first
you wont get very many, only about 2. Once your rank gets much higher, you will
get as many as 20 Kudos Tokens when you move up to the next rank. Kudos Tokens
are used for one thing: Buying new cars. At first, you will only have a few
cars in each class of cars. If you want more cars, you will have to spend your
kudos tokens on them. The cars in the earlier classes only cost a few kudos
tokens each, but the ones in the later classes are much more expensive.
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Medals
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Medals are earned after every race. The medals you earn are based on the
difficulty you choose for races. When you beat a race on expert, you get a
platinum medal. Hard gets you a gold medal. Medium is silver, easy is bronze
and novice is steel. After a race, you get a bonus amount of kudos based on
which difficulty you beat it on/medal you get. 5000 kudos for expert, 3000 for
hard, 1500 for medium, 750 for easy and 500 for novice. Medals easily show you
which difficulty you have beaten a race on. Next to each race, there is a spot
that shows the medal you got for the race. There is also a spot next to each
series in Kudos World Series so you can see the medals you got in it.
There is also one other use for medals. When you finish Kudos World Series, you
will unlock cars based on the medals you get.
1.4 - The Garage and The Showroom
The garage and the showroom are nothing like how you might think they would be
from the way ones in other racing games are. You can actually walk around your
garage and the show room to look at the cars. You can move around with the left
joystick and look with the right joystick. You wont start out walking when you
are in the garage, you have to press Y to go into walk mode to do so.
When you are at the car select screen in single player, you can go to the
garage or showroom. When any car is selected, press right and you will have the
option to go to your garage. Press right again and you can choose to go to the
showroom.
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Your Garage
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Your garage will show you cars you own. You wont be able to see all of the
cars, either. Only the ones in the class that you were in when you chose to go
to the garage. Cars that you do not own will be covered up, so you can't see
much of them. You can still see their stats and you can also press A to buy
them if you have enough kudos tokens. If you press A when you are next to a car
that you do own, you will select that car for the race that you picked before
entering the garage.
There are also a few bonus things in the garage. One is a boombox, which sits
on top of a counter. It will play a random song and you cannot change the song
that it plays. The other thing is the arcade machine that is on a wall. If you
go up to it and press A, you can play the mini-game Geometry Wars. There is
more information about that game in its own section in this FAQ.
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The Showroom
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The showroom shows you all of the cars in the game and not just the ones you
own in the currently selected class. The cars wont be all grouped together in
here, instead the will be in separate rooms. The rooms have a sign outside of
them that tell you what kind of cars will be inside, most of they rooms only
have cars from specific manufacturers. Note that there will be five cars in the
showroom that are covered. These cars are unlocked by beating Kudos World
Series, and will be uncovered when you unlock them.
There is also a very useful feature in the showroom. When you go up to any car,
even one that you own, you can press A to test drive it. There is a special
track for test drives, where you can get a good feel for the car. Before
spending Kudos Tokens on a car, you might want to test drive it to see if you
like it.
1.5 - The Types of Races
There are 7 different types of races in this game. Street Races, One on Ones,
Cone Challenges, Hot Laps, Timed Runs, Overtakes, and Speed Cameras.
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Street Races
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These are simply races against other cars. You will be against 3, 5 or 7 cars
in these races. The difficulty setting determines what position you have to
come in and the difficulty of the other cars. The higher the difficulty of
them, the faster they will be. Expert always requires you to come in first
place and hard always requires you to come in second. You always start in last
place in Street Races.
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One on Ones
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One on Ones are like Street Races, except there is only one other car to race
against. They are usually much easier than Street Races, because you only have
to beat one other car. The difficulty settings for these races determine how
fast the other car will be.
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Cone Challenges
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Kudos is the goal in Cone Challenges. There are no other cars to race against,
only kudos to get. You have to get a set amount of kudos that is determined by
the difficulty settings. To help you get kudos and to make the race harder,
there are cones on the track. Yellow cones and orange cones. Yellow cones are
just there to get in your way, avoid hitting them because hitting one will have
the same result as hitting a wall - you lose a kudos combo bonus. Orange cones
will also have the same result if you hit them, but they can actually help you
get kudos. Orange cones will always come in pairs, called cone gates. You get
10 kudos whenever you pass through the two cones that make up a cone gate.
Getting combos are very important in Cone Challenges. You wont be able to beat
any Cone Challenges on expert unless you have a combo that lasts through the
entire race. There is no other way to get enough kudos. On hard and medium,
combos are also important, but you don't have to have ones that are as big to
win.
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Hot Laps
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Hot Laps are the same as time trials. When you pick a difficulty, you are
picking the time limit to do the one lap in the race. If you can finish the lap
within that time, you will beat the race.
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Timed Runs
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Timed Runs are the same as Hot Laps, except there will be more than one lap in
the race. The time limit you get for the difficulty you choose is to complete
the whole race, not just one lap.
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Overtakes
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Your goal in Overtakes is to pass the other cars on the track. There will
usually be up to seven cars to pass, and every one of them starts in front of
you. They don't all start the race together, they start the race spread out
along the track in front of you. There is no set number of laps in these races
and the race ends when you run out of time. The amount of time you get, along
with how many of the other cars you have to pass, is determined by what
difficulty you choose.
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Speed Cameras
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Speed Camera races don't take place on a standard track that forms a loop. They
take place on a segment of a track with you on one end and the track's speed
camera at the other end. When you pass the speed camera, you have to be going
at the target speed or faster to win. The difficulty you choose determines the
race's target speed. To make things harder, the tracks Speed Camera races take
place on will never be straight. There are always a few turns somewhere in it,
and the key to winning each Speed Camera race is to master the turns in it.
Note, there is a time limit in these races, but it isn't very restrictive.
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This section gives you help in beating the races in Kudos World Series mode.
Some basic advice as given for every race, and I also detail every part of the
track that the race is on (Except in some cases where you race on a specific
track in more than one different race). In this section under each series (And
for each race) is a listing called 'Tier' or 'Tiers'. In every series, you
can't play any race in it at once. You have to beat the first ones to unlock
the next set, beat that set to unlock the one after that, and so on. I call
each set of races a tier. The tier listing under each series is how many tiers
of races there are in that series, and the listing under each race is what
tier that race is in.
As you go through this mode, you will earn lots of kudos and therefore, lots of
Kudos Tokens. When you are still in the first series of this mode, don't bother
to spend your tokens on any of the cars there. When you open the second series,
buy the car with the best stats before you do any races and then use that car.
When you open the next series and the ones after it, do the same thing.
If you are signed into Xbox Live while playing this mode, you can see
scoreboards. When you select a race, there will be a list of the top ten people
for that race (Based on kudos earned ) on the right side of the screen. You can
also select to see the entire scoreboard for the race. You will be added to the
scoreboard if you finish the race while still signed into Live.
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2.1 - Compact Sports Series
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Cities:
Tiers: 3
Races: 7 (3x Street Race, 2x One on One, 1x Speed Camera)
Since this is the first series, it is obviously the easiest. It is easy to beat
many of the levels here on expert and the rest can be beaten on hard without
much trouble. Don't bother to spend your Kudos Tokens on any cars in this
series. Save them up so that you can buy the best car for the next series right
after you unlock it.
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Race 1: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Duomo 2
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This being the first race, it is obviously very easy. You can beat it
on expert without much difficulty. The track itself is simple, too, with not
all that many turns.
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Race 2: One on One
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Duomo 1
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Like the last race, this one is also easy and you can beat it on expert
fairly easily, since it is only the second race in the game.
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Race 3: Cone Challenge
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Under the Bridge
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race can actually be pretty hard. Beating it on medium isn't that
difficult, but it gets harder on hard and is very hard on expert. If you want
to win on hard, you will have to keep a combo going for the whole race. To win
on expert, you have to do that and slide a lot to increase your combo bonus.
There is one spot in the race where it is very tricky to keep a combo going.
It is on the turn that takes you onto the street with the second checkpoint.
Before the turn, there is a cone gate in the right lane. After the turn, there
is a cone gate in the left lane and then the checkpoint. It's actually easier
to do this if you don't pass through the second gate. After passing the first
one, you will want to slide through the turn. Start the slide early to keep
your combo going and try not to make it end until you are past where the second
cone gate is. If you try to go through that gate, you have to slow down to get
to it and you need the extra speed to get to the checkpoint.
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Race 4: One on One
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Dawes Point Loop
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is a bit harder than the ones before it, except for the last
one. I had trouble with beating it on expert right away. In order to win on
expert, you will have to be able to take the first turn as fast as possible. If
you can do that, you will be very close to the other car after the turn and
will be able to pass it not long after that.
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Race 5: Street Race
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Gamla Stan Loop
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: It's hard to get in first place with one of the default cars in hard or
expert, but it's possible. To do so, draft as much as you can along the long
street that turns a little bit to the left at the beginning of the race. When
you get to the big left turn, you want to cut in front of all three of the
other cars. Hit them if you must. If you can do that, you only have to hold
your position for the rest of the race.
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Race 6: Speed Camera
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is easy on medium and below. Hard and expert are a problem if
you are using one of the default three cars. If you are, hard should be barely
possible to get and I don't know if expert is at all. You probably need a
faster car to do it. The problem with this track is the three turns. You start
on a straightaway with a sharp right turn after it. Just after that there is a
left turn. Then there is the final turn, a right. After that is a straightaway.
At the end of it, where the track ends on the map, is the speed camera. You
have to be going at your target speed when you pass it. What you really have to
do is master getting around those turns with as much speed as possible and then
use that speed until you get to the end.
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Race 7: Street Race
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Gamla Oval
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Like the past few races, the one isn't very easy on hard or expert. You
might not want to try either if you haven't gotten any new cars yet. The best
time to gain positions is at the beginning of the race. Draft as much as you
can along the long road at the start that slightly turns to the right. At the
end of it, if you can take the sharp right cleanly, you will get a big
advantage.
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2.2 - Sports Convertible Series
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Cities:
Tiers: 3
Races: 7 (1x Overtake, 3x Street Race, 1x One on One, 1x Cone Challenge, 1x
Speed Camera)
Before doing any races in this series, use your kudos tokens to buy one of the
better cars for this series. From now on, the first thing you should do when
you open up the next series is to use your saved up Kudos Tokens to buy the
best car.
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Race 1: Overtake
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Kremlin 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Don't start out on hard or expert on this race. Do medium first to see
how well you can do, and then if you did well and want to, do it on hard or
expert. I say that because this race is a bit more difficult that you might
expect. There are a total of seven other cars to overtake (Regardless of what
you set the difficulty to) and they all go surprisingly fast, so it isn't easy
to catch up to them. The track itself isn't a problem, since it is mostly a few
straight streets connected by wide turns.
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Race 2: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: On expert mode this race is very hard. The car that is usually in first
place is very fast, much quicker than the other cars, so it takes a lot of
skill to beat it. On the other difficulties, it isn't as hard to get into first
place (Or whatever position you have to get in to win).
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Race 3: Street Race
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Piazza della Repubblica
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This level is easy to get in first place in if you used Kudos Tokens to
buy a good car. If you didn't, you might only be able to beat it on hard,
because the car in first in expert is very fast. The track itself is very easy.
It's just a loop.
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Race 4: One on One
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Uffizi
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race isn't all that difficult, except on expert. There is one easy
way to win it on expert (Or any other mode), though. You start on a long
straightaway. At the end of it, you have to make a right turn and then two
small left turns in succession. It is very easy to hit the car you are racing
against in this area. If you hit it so that it runs into a wall or bump the
back side of it and cause it to spin, you greatly increase your chances of
winning. Doing that is up to you.
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Race 5: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Lenin
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This cone challenge is a bit easier than the last one. In this one, it
is very easy to keep a combo going throughout the entire level. To beat it on
expert, that is exactly what you will have to do. The hardest parts of this
race are the turns. There are no cone gates around any of the turns, so you
have to slide if you want to keep a combo going.
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Race 6: Speed Camera
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is a little bit easier than the last speed camera one,
because the turns are easier to take. There is one left turn in the middle of
the track and then a big, wide, right turn. You go up a hill at the end of that
right turn and then make a gentle left onto the straightaway that holds the
camera. Even though the turns are easier, it still requires effort to beat the
level on hard and expert. You will need a very fast car to do that.
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Race 7: Street Race
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Tier 3
City:
Track:
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is hard to win in the higher difficulty levels, even with a
fast car. Like in some of the other races like this, you can use a turn near
the start of the race to your advantage. You start in a very wide road that has
its sides blocked off and is very straight. At the end of it is a VERY sharp
right turn. As the first two cars take it (They should take it together), you
can run into the first car as it turns to cause it to spin and crash. If that
happens, you can pass it and get into first. That can also cause the other cars
to crash, giving you an even bigger advantage. You could also try to pass it
without hitting it, but that isn't as likely to get you into first place.
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2.3 - Coupe Series
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Cities:
Tiers: 4
Races: 8 (1x Timed Run, 2x Street Race, 1x Speed Camera, 1x One on One, 1x Cone
Challenge, 1x Overtake, 1x Hot Lap)
Now things are getting harder. You probably wont be able to beat any of the
races in this series on expert without trying many times and mastering the
track the race takes place on. Beating the races here on hard is also more
difficult than before, but isn't terribly difficult yet.
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Race 1: Timed Run
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Dawes Point Loop
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This is the exact same track as the one you raced on for the One on One
in the first series, though you have a faster car this time. Because of that,
you should remember how to get through this track and specifically, how to take
that first turn in it. Beating this level in hard can be done with a little
practice and a good car. Beating it in expert is obviously much more difficult
and requires even more practice.
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Race 2: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track:
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: As usual, you can get into first place at the start of this race. Draft
the other cars while you are on the long street that this race takes place on,
and when you get to the sharp left turn, you can pass any other cars in front
of you, as long as you don't screw up on the turn.
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Race 3: Speed Camera
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This speed camera race is even easier than the last two in some ways.
It has one big, long, left turn in the middle of it with straightaways at the
beginning and end. With a fast car, it is very easy to beat this race on hard.
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Race 4: One on One
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Tier 2
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This level is harder than the first ones in the series, mostly because
of all of the turns in the track. Getting in front of the other car isn't all
that hard, you can do it on the first turn, even on expert.
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Race 5: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Northern 2
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is a nightmare compared to the last cone challenge. This one
has lots of sharp turns onto narrow streets and on straightaways, gates that
are placed just a little bit too far apart for you to keep a combo going
through them unless you are going as fast as possible. Those sharp turns come
before the second checkpoint. There are three of them very close together, and
they are the only turns near that checkpoint. The first one is a right turn, it
is especially hard to take because you will probably be going very fast from
the last straightaway. Not far after it, there is a sharp left that is followed
by a sharp right.
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Race 6: Overtake
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Tier 3
City:
Track:
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This track is almost the same as the one for the
the first series. Like in the last overtake challenge, the cars you have to
pass are rather quick. If you screw up, you might not be able to catch up.
Unlike the last one, you get more time when you increase the difficulty, which
makes things easier.
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Race 7: Hot Lap
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Round the Riksdagshuset
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Unfortunately, this track goes through some of the same areas that the
cone challenge one did. The worst part of this track is that is has the same
very sharp turn onto a narrow street. Other than that, this race isn't horribly
difficult, since you still aren't very far in the game.
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Race 8: Street Race
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Tier 4
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This track is fairly complicated, because it has lots of turns. That is
good news for you, since turns are a great place to pass opponents. On hard,
you can get into first place before the first checkpoint by passing the other
cars on turns. On expert, you can also pass a lot of the cars on the turns, but
it will take much longer.
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2.4 - Sport Utility Series
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Cities:
Tiers: 4
Races: 8 (1x Hot Lap, 1x Speed Camera, 3x Street Race, 1x One on One, 1x Cone
Challenge, 1x Overtake)
Now beating races on expert will be damned near impossible and beating them on
hard will require lots of practice. Beating the races on medium still isn't
very hard at this level.
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Race 1: Hot Lap
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Tier 1
City:
Track:
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race isn't very hard, you an probably actually beat it on your
first try. You get a lot of time to beat it on hard, so you can even beat it
after making a small mistake or two.
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Race 2: Speed Camera
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Rain
Advice: Unlike the other speed camera races you've done so far, this one only
has turns at the beginning of the track. At the start the track angles to the
right and then there is a sharp left turn. After that there is another sharp
left and then two gentle turns. The first one is to the left and the second is
to the right. After that there is a straightaway with the end of the track at
the end. With a fast car, it's very easy to beat it on hard.
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Race 3: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track:
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: You won't be able to pass all of the other cars on the straightaway at
the start of this race, so you will have to pass most of them in the first
turn. You have to be careful when passing them in that turn, though. If you hit
one of them, you will be slowed down a lot and the car in first place will get
far in front of you. After you are through that turn, the next turn is the best
place to get in front of any other cars, especially on expert. If you can't get
in front of them here, try to on the next big turn.
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Race 4: One on One
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Grassmarket Eight
Laps: 2
Weather: Night (Clear)
Advice: On hard, it is really easy to get into first place at the beginning of
the race. You can do it on the first turn. If for whatever reason you don't get
into first on that turn, you can on the turns at the end of the winding road.
On expert, you won't be able to get into first on that first turn. When you are
on the winding road, just draft the other car. If you get the chance, pass him
on this road. If not, pass him when you get to the turns at the end of the
road. All you have to do after that on any difficulty is hold your position.
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Race 5: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This cone challenge is a bit easier than the last one. The cone gates
are closer together and there aren't any streets that are really narrow. There
are only two spots in this race that are a bit difficult. The first is near the
middle of the race, between the two checkpoints. After the first checkpoint,
you turn onto a long street. At the end of it, it has the turn where you first
make a gentle right and then have to make a sharp left. There is a cone gate
in the middle of it. After you pass that gate, you have to do a long slide to
get to the next cone gate, since it is kind of far away and this turn makes you
go very slow. The other difficult part is near the end of the race, on the same
street that the second checkpoint is on. That street is the one that turns to
the left at the end and then makes a right turn onto the last street. It's easy
to take this turn too fast and hit a wall, or too slow and have your combo end.
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Race 6: Overtake
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Duomo 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race takes place on a track you've already raced on. The track
itself is rather simple. Since the track itself is easy, it isn't all that hard
to beat this race on the harder difficulties, especially since you don't always
have less time as the difficulty goes up. It's easy to pass all of the cars on
the hard difficulty, and even easier on expert since you get more time. Just
try to avoid going too fast through turns in this race, if you do and end up
hitting walls, you will lose a lot of speed and might have a harder time
beating the race.
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Race 7: Street Race
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Kremlin 1
Laps: 4
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This is the same track as the first overtake challenge, back in the
second series, was on. On hard and expert, you just have to get a good start to
beat this race. If you can't get into first or second in the first lap, the
cars in front of you will probably start to get a bigger and bigger lead on you
as the race goes on. The best place to get a good lead at the start is on the
first turn. If you can take it without slowing down too much from hitting the
other cars or braking to avoid hitting them, you can get near the front of the
pack of other cars right away and then pass any others on the next turns.
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Race 8: Street Race
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Tier 4
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The track this race takes place on is much more complicated and
obviously much longer than the last one. Because of all of the turns on this
track, most of your opponents will go very slowly. On hard, all of them but the
one that starts in first will end up very far behind you. While playing on
hard, you can pass most of them on the street you start on. When you get to the
turn at the end of the street, you can pass the rest of the other cars. On
expert, you wont be able to pass all of the other cars when you get to that
turn. You will have to try to get in front of them on the next few turns.
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2.5 - Pacific Muscle Series
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Cities: Hong Kong,
Tiers: 5
Races: 10 (6x Street Race, 1x Cone Challenge, 1x Hot Lap, 1x One on One, 1x
Speed Camera)
It can be very hard to get into first place on some of the street races in this
series. If you don't get into first place in those races right away, you
might not be able to at all, since the car in first will just get a bigger and
bigger lead on you.
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Race 1: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track: The Convention Centres
Laps: 4
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This street race is a lot harder than the others that you've done so
far. One of the most important things to do in this race is to take the very
first turn perfectly. Take it so that you get the good line kudos bonus. If you
do this, you can do a few things. First, you will be closer to the car in first
place. Second, you will block the car that starts in third place so that it
can't pass you after you've passed it (You should have passed it before getting
to the turn). You will also be able to to get in front of the car that starts
in second. If you can do this, you can get in front of the car in first by the
end of the first lap, even on expert.
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Race 2: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Wan Chai Run
Laps: 4
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race takes place on a track that is much more difficult than the
one in the last race, but you can pass the other cars sooner. You get a good
chance to pass the right on the first turn. They take it very slowly, so you
can pass almost all of them on it. You can then pass the rest on the next few
turns if you have to.
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Race 3: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Harbour Run
Laps: 4
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: The track in this race follows a similar path to the one in the last
race, except you race in the opposite direction and it is a little bit longer.
As usual, the best place to pass the other cars is on the first turn in the
track. On hard, you can then pass the rest of the cars some time around the
next turn. On expert, it will take much longer to get into first. It might even
take the whole first lap to get close enough to pass the first place car.
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Race 4: Cone Challenge
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Sakuragicho
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The track this takes place on is nice and wide and only has streets
that are straight on it. The race may even be easier than the last cone
challenge. The gates are mostly close together, except on almost all of the
few turns. You will have to slide through the first and last two turns on this
track to keep a combo going. The last turn is even trickier than that. There
are two cone gates that come after it before you get to the start and finish
line. One is right after the turn and the other is further back. When sliding
through the turn, it may actually be easier to slide past the first of those
gates and then only go through the second.
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Race 5: Hot Lap
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Tier 2
City:
Track:
Laps: 1
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race takes place on a track that has two parallel straightaways
with left turns that connect them at each end. That's all. Take a fast car for
this race for the straightaways, and practice taking the turns as quickly as
possible to beat it.
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Race 6: One on One
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Tier 3
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Like the other
roads and doesn't have many very sharp turns where you don't have much space to
turn. Before you get to the first turn on this track, draft the other car. Once
you are at the turn, you can pass the other car. You can also bump into the car
to make it crash, if you want to be cheap.
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Race 7: Street Race
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Tier 4
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race takes place on a
narrow roads. This first turn on this track can be a problem when you are on
the first lap. You will have to squeeze past all of the other cars while they
are turning, and if you hit one of them, there is always the chance that it
will slow you down a lot. If you can get through this turn without slowing down
much, you should be in a good position already. You may need the rest of the
first lap to catch up to the other cars, but once you are in first, you only
have to hold your position for the rest of the race.
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Race 8: Street Race
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Minato Mirai
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This is another
90-degree turns. The key to getting in first on this track is the first two
turns, which are a right turns. Try to get in front of as many cars as you can
on these turns, but go through them as fast as possible.
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Race 9: Speed Camera
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Tier 5
City:
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: The big turn in this track is on a hill in the middle of it. On that
hill there are a couple of left turns. After it there is a very long road that
is straight except for a gentle left turn in the middle of it. At the end of it
is the end of the track. You have to master getting through those turns with
optimal speed to beat this level on a higher difficulty.
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Race 10: Street Race
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Tier 5
City:
Track: Admiralty
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This track is very long and has a lot of twists and turns in it. That's
a good thing, because it means there are more turns in which you can get ahead
of your opponents. You can't get in front of them on the first turn, even on
hard, but you can on the turn following that. After that turn, there will be
one more turn where you can pass a lot of the other cars. You should be in
first or near it after that. Since there are a lot more turns on the track, you
can still use those to pass any other cars in front of you. Just don't screw up
on those turns and crash.
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2.6 - Roadster Series
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Cities:
Tiers: 4
Races: 11 (3x Street Race, 2x Cone Challenge, 3x Timed Run, 1x Overtake, 1x One
on One, 1x Speed Camera)
This series is a little easier than the last one, but then again, it doesn't
have as many street races as the last one did. It's not even that difficult to
beat some of the races in this series on expert.
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Race 1: Timed Run
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Opera House View
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The track this race takes place on may look somewhat difficult, but it
really isn't. Except for a street near the end where there is a narrow street
that goes up a hill, most of the streets are wide. Because of that, this race
isn't very hard.
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Race 2: Cone Challenge
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Under the Bridge
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This is the exact same race as the cone challenge from the first
series. The track is the same and the position of the cones is the same. Other
than you obviously having a different class of cars to use this time, the only
real difference is that this time there are two laps instead of one.
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Race 3: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Downtown Short
Laps: 5
Weather: Sunny
Advice: There may be a lot of laps in this race, but that is because the track
itself is very short. Not only as the track short, but it is pretty easy, with
only a few big turns in it. If you are in a fast car, you can easily get into
first and then get a lead of around 7 or more seconds on the second placed car
in medium or hard modes. In expert, you wont be able to get much of a lead, and
you will have to race without making very many mistakes to get past the car
that is in first. The place where you are most likely to make mistakes is on
the first turn. This turn is a very sharp left turn. You have to be going very
slow through it to avoid hitting the outside barrier on it.
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Race 4: Timed Run
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Tier 2
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: It'll require a lot of practice and a perfect run through the track to
beat it on expert. Hard isn't as difficult, but you still wont have much time
to spare on it. The track itself doesn't have very many straight streets on it,
in fact, you start on the only one that really is. You've actually raced on
this track once already, so hopefully you remember it.
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Race 5: Overtake
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Hickson Run
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: It's not too difficult to beat this on hard or expert, because you get
more time in those than you do in medium. Still, you will need all of that
time. There are a lot of places where it's easy to crash on this track, and you
will want to avoid any crashing if you are trying to beat it on expert. There
is a turn on this track that seems to come out of nowhere. After you go down a
hill and make a sharp left turn at the bottom, you will be on the street that
that turn is on. It obviously comes at the end of that street that is at the
bottom of the hill.
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Race 6: Timed Run
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Tier 3
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This track has a lot of turns near the last third of the race for you
to screw up on. To beat it on expert or hard, you will have to be able to go
through them without making any mistakes. You might have to practice going
through it once or twice before you can beat it.
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Race 7: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Grassmarket Eight
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The track that this cone challenge is on is very long and has a lot of
narrow roads on it. There are two places on it that are specifically difficult,
and that is because of speed. At the beginning of the race, you go onto a long
street with lots of cone gates on it. At the end, there are two left turns in
a row and the first checkpoint is in between the. It is very easy to go too
fast for the first of those and hit the wall, which will screw up any combo you
have going. After those, you will be on a street that has a sharp right turn
onto a narrow street at the end of it. You might have the same problem with
going too fast to make that turn as well.
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Race 8: One on One
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Grassmarket East
Laps: 2
Weather: Rain
Advice: It isn't that hard to beat the car you are racing against in this race,
even on expert, but it is raining, so it is much easier to make mistakes than
usual. You will have to get used to braking earlier for turns. On hard, you can
pass the other car on the straightaway that you start on. On expert, you
probably wont be able to pass it until the first turn.
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Race 9: Street Race
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Ponte Vecchio
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race actually isn't very hard, because you can get in front of
most of the cars, even on expert, on the first turn. The race is also very
long, so you have plenty of time to catch up to any cars in front of you and
plenty of time to get a lead on the cars behind you. That first turn on this
track is a very wide left turn. In it, there is plenty of room to drive right
on past the other cars. The next turn after that is a wide right turn. You
should be able to pass any remaining cars by the time you get here.
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Race 10: Speed Camera
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This speed camera track has one turn near the beginning and one turn
near the end with a big straightaway between those turns. The first turn is the
turn where first you have to make a right, then you have to make a sharp left.
At the end of the straightaway, the turn is a very wide right turn. If you take
it too fast and go too far into it, you will end up going slow when you pass by
the speed camera, which isn't very far past that turn. Take it slowly, like it
isn't a wide turn, to end up going faster after it.
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Race 11: Street Race
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Battistero 2
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race takes place on a track that is the same as the one in the
last street race you did, except you race this one in the opposite direction
and at the end of it (What was the beginning in the last race) there are a few
extra turns. These turns actually make the race easier, since they are wider
than the ones in the last race. Like in that last race, by the first turn in
this track, you should be able to get in front of almost all of the other cars.
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2.7 - Classics Series
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Cities:
Tiers: 4
Races: 11 (3x Hot Lap, 1x Timed Run, 2x Street Race, 2x One on One, 1x Cone
Challenge, 1x Overtake, 1x Speed Camera)
Most of the races in this series are surprisingly easy. You should be able to
beat all of them on hard without trying too many times, except for the last two
hot laps. Those are a bit difficult to do on hard.
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Race 1: Hot Lap
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Las Ramblas
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Some of the streets on this track are a bit on the narrow side, and the
turns here are sharp. Still, it isn't the most difficult of tracks. You should
be able to beat it on hard without much practice.
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Race 2: Timed Run
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Catedral
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is harder than it looks. Beating it on hard is enough of a
challenge, and beating it on expert is even harder. The hardest part of this
race is the first turn. You don't want to take it too fast, since you will
obviously hit the barrier, but if you take it too slow, you will lose too much
speed. The pairs of turns that come after it are also difficult, since if you
don't slow down enough for the second one, you wont be able to cut straight
through those two turns.
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Race 3: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Place de Jaume
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Like in all of the other street races that you've done recently, the
best time to get into first place is right at the beginning. After the first
turn, you should be in second or third place. On the turn after that, you can
get in front of the rest of the cars.
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Race 4: One on One
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Catalan Challenge
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: Your opponent in this race isn't in the fastest of cars, so it is
really easy to win (Even on expert) if you are in a faster one. You can even
get into first on the long straightaway at the start of the race.
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Race 5: Hot Lap
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Grassmarket West
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This hot lap challenge is more difficult than the last few you've done.
It will take a few tries at least to beat it on hard, and it will obviously be
even more difficult to beat it on expert. You will only be able to beat it on
hard if you know the track well enough to not make any mistakes, so that's
why it will probably take a few tries. Expert obviously requires that you make
no mistakes and are able to get through the track even faster.
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Race 6: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City:
Track:
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This track is very long and it has quite a few areas where there are
long stretches between cone gates, making it difficult to keep one combo going
for the whole track. Other than that, there aren't any turns that are sharp or
anything like that, so it isn't all that hard to beat this race on expert.
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Race 7: Overtake
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Terrace Sprint
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: There isn't much to the track this race takes place on. There are two
main stretches of road, and they both have lots of gentle turns in them. There
are a series of streets with sharp turns in them at each end of the track that
connect the two main roads. Those sharp turns are the most difficult part of
the track. They can slow you down a lot, and if they do, it will be harder to
overtake more of the other cars. If you want to beat this race on expert, you
will have to master those turns to keep as much speed through them as possible.
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Race 8: One on One
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Tier 3
City:
Track:
Laps: 3
Weather: Rain
Advice: This race takes place on the same track as the timed
run in
in the last series. This time, it is raining. That makes this track much
harder. That is the biggest problem here. You can get in front of the car you
are racing against by the time you are through the first turn on any
difficulty, but you wont be able to stay in front of you crash in the turns
because of the rain. Get in front of that other car right away, brake for turns
early to avoid crashing and don't let the other car pass you and you should be
able to win this.
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Race 9: Hot Lap
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Barri Gotic
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Like the last hot lap, this one is pretty difficult on hard, and
obviously much harder on expert. If you make any mistakes while trying to beat
it on hard, you will probably have to try again. There are a few turns where it
is very easy to make those mistakes, too. Most of those mistakes can come from
not slowing down enough on turns where it is hard to judge how fast you should
go. You might have to go through the track a first time to see how fast you
should go on all of those turns and then play to win.
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Race 10: Speed Camera
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The turn on this speed camera track is right at the beginning. It is a
wide and long left turn and it goes onto the very long straightaway in this
city. At the end of the straightaway is the speed camera and the end of the
track. There really isn't much else to say about this race.
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Race 11: Street Race
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Las Ramblas
Laps: 5
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is on the same track as the first hot lap in this series, so
you will have been through the track recently. As with any other street race,
you can get into first place right on the first turn. After taking first place,
hold it until the end of the race for an easy win.
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2.8 - Sports Coupe Series
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Cities:
Tiers: 5
Races: 13 (2x Timed Run, 2x Overtake, 5x Street Race, 2x One on One, 1x Cone
Challenge, 1x Speed Camera)
This series seems to be a little bit more difficult than the last one. Some of
the races in this one are much harder to beat on hard than the races in the
last series.
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Race 1: Timed Run
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Gamla Stan Loop
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: In this race, there is actually a surprisingly high amount of time to
beat it on hard. But still, it doesn't make beating it on expert any easier
than it is on any other timed run.
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Race 2: Overtake
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Northern
Laps: N/A
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: In this overtake race, you don't get more time to complete it on the
higher difficulties like in some of the other overtakes. That makes it a lot
harder to beat it on hard or expert. There are only five cars to overtake on
this track no matter the difficulty, and the fourth and fifth cars are always
very close to each other, so if you can pass the fourth one, you can probably
also pass the fifth one. Keep that in mind when choosing a difficulty setting.
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Race 3: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track: Bridges
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race is a real pain because of all of the turns on this track.
Many of them are sharp turns onto narrow streets. It's easy to take them with
too much speed and end up crashing. Because of that, it can be very hard to
stay in first place once you get into it, since your opponents wont mess up on
the turns. Passing those opponents is easy at the beginning of the race. You
can pass most of them on the street that you start on and then pass the rest of
them on the first turn.
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Race 4: One on One
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Northern 3
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This track has a lot of turns in it, but it isn't nearly as bad (Or as
long) as the last one. You should be able to pass the other car on the first
turn in this track. If you don't, you defiantly should be able to by the time
you turn onto a second bridge.
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Race 5: Overtake
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Warehouse
Laps: N/A
Weather: Rain
Advice: This race is surprisingly easy for an overtake race. On my first try, I
was able to pass all of the cars. You have the same amount of time to beat it
on hard or expert, and the fourth and fifth cars (You need to pass four on hard
and five on expert) drive very close to each other. Instead of playing on hard,
just skip it and go straight to expert, since if you can pass four cars,
passing the fifth is easy. For the track itself, there is rain, but if you
remember the races in
are wide and straight, and the turns are also wide. Because of that, you don't
have to take the turns here too slowly and don't have to worry about slipping
into the barrier of a windy road.
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Race 6: Street Race
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Kishamichi
Laps: 2
Weather: Rain
Advice: At first glance it might look like this track is almost the same as the
last one, but it really isn't. You start on the same long straightaway as the
last one, but you go much further on it on this track. When you get to the end
of that straightaway, you will have a very good chance to pass the other cars
as they take the sharp right turn.
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Race 7: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Downtown
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: You don't get very much time on this race, so keep an eye on the clock
at the end of the race. If that wasn't enough of a problem, you still have to
worry about getting kudos, which isn't that difficult in this race. There are
a lot of places where the cone gates are far apart, but it's easy to go fast
enough on this track to get between them quickly. Also, there are a lot of
turns that don't have any cone gates in them and there aren't any close to
them. Just slide through them to keep a combo going.
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Race 8: Speed Camera
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The big turn in this track is right at the beginning, so you have
plenty or room after it to get up speed. The turn is a very sharp right. After
it, there is a gentle left onto a straightaway that has the end of the track
and the speed camera on it.
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Race 9: One on One
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Tier 4
City:
Track: Warehouse
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race takes place on the same track as the last overtake did, but
this time there is no rain. Since that overtake was only a few races ago, you
should still have this track fresh in your memory. On hard and below, like in
any other race, you can get into first place by the first time. On expert, you
should be able to by the time you get to the second turn.
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Race 10: Timed Run
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Tier 5
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This is one of the harder timed runs. It will take a few attempts at
least to before you can beat it on hard, and as you should know by now, a lot
more to beat it on expert. The track itself isn't that bad, but there are a few
tricky turns on it.
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Race 11: Street Race
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Tier 5
City:
Track: Admiralty
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is kind of easy, especially compared to the next one. On
hard, you can get into first place after the first couple turns and as long as
you don't screw up, get a very big lead on the rest of the cars. On expert, it
can take much longer to get into first place (It might take a good portion of
the first lap to do it), but it is easy to keep up with the car in first when
it is in front of you.
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Race 12: Street Race
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Tier 5
City:
Track: Wan Chai Run
Laps: 5
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is actually kind of difficult. It is hard to get into first
place at all on hard, and of course it is even harder on expert. At the
beginning of the track there is a sharp left turn followed by a sharp right
turn. On the first lap, you can pass by most of the other cars here. There are
more turns where you another good chance to pass some cars after that, but they
aren't until you are closer to the end of the first lap. Any cars that you
don't pass by the end of the first lap will probably end up too far ahead of
you to pass.
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Race 13: Street Race
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Tier 5
City:
Track:
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The hardest part of this race is at the very beginning of it. There are
a total of seven other cars, and the beginning of the track has a freeway with
a sharp right turn in it. The part of the street leading up to the freeway is
narrow, as narrow as the freeway, and you have to squeeze past all of the other
cars in this narrow section. Try to stay to the right until you get to the
actual turn, most of the other cars seem to go on the left side of the street,
meaning the right is mostly clear. Once you are past that sharp turn, you
should be able to get up to second place (Assuming you didn't lose speed by
hitting any of the other cars). From here it will probably take awhile to catch
up to the car in first, so you might be close to finishing the first lap when
you do.
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2.9 - American Muscle Series
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Cities: Chicago,
Tiers: 5
Races: 14 (7x Street Race, 2x Cone Challenge, 2x Hot Lap, 1x One on One, 1x
Timed Run, 1x Speed Camera)
This series has some easy races, and some that are very difficult. In many of
the street races, all of your opponents will be very close behind you, so you
wont be able to afford to make even the smallest mistake. If you are having
trouble with a race, you can always lower the difficulty.
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Race 1: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track: The Miracle Mile
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Finally, a race in
streets here are nice and wide, and so are the turns. Of course, there are
some roads that aren't wide and some sharp turns. In the race itself, the best
place to get into first is right at the beginning on the first turn. I say that
for every street race, but it is more important in this one. If you don't pass
the other cars on this turn, there wont be another good spot to pass them, so
you might not be able to do it at all.
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Race 2: Street Race
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Tier 1
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: At the beginning of this track there are two turns in a row. The first
one is a right turn and the second one is a left. Of course, these are where
you will want to pass the other cars. The car that starts in first is too far
ahead to pass on the first turn, but you should be able to pass it by the
second one.
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Race 3: Cone Challenge
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Tier 2
City:
Track:
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: There are a few places on this track where cone gates are far apart,
making it difficult to continue one combo through the entire track. There are
four major streets like this. After the third turn, there are three long
streets that run east to west or west to east. The gates are far apart on
these. The gates are also far apart on the last street, right after you cross
a bridge. You might have to slide a little bit as the road makes a gentle turn
when you get off that bridge. Also, the first bridge you go across in this race
is divided in the middle. There are the same number of cone gates on each side
of the divider, so it doesn't matter which side you take.
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Race 4: Hot Lap
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Wells & Lake
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: You can probably tell that this track wont be easy just by looking at
the track map. There are a lot of turns on this track, and a lot of them come
after long straightaways, so it is easy not to brake enough for them. In order
to beat this level on hard, you will have to do very good. If you have too much
trouble beating it on hard, just try it on medium.
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Race 5: One on One
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Tier 2
City:
Track: In The
Laps: 2
Weather: Rain
Advice: This race starts on a long straightaway with a left turn at the end.
You can catch up to the other car on the straightaway and then pass it on the
turn. Then you just have to avoid letting it pass you for the rest of the race.
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Race 6: Street Race
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Tier 2
City:
Track: Wells & Lake
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race takes place on the same track as the last hot lap did. You
have to get into first place as soon as possible on this track to win. After
awhile, the car in first place will probably start to get a big lead on you if
you don't. You wont be able to get into first place right away, but you should
be able to somewhere around the tunnel straightaway on this track. The cars
other than the one are much easier to get in front of. You can get in front of
all of them on the first turn and since there are so many other turns on this
track, they wont go very fast and you can get a huge lead on them.
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Race 7: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City:
Track: Northside Slide
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This is the first race in
in this city, although not as wide as in
sharp turns. On this track, there are a few places where it is hard to keep a
combo going due to the distance between cone gates. In fact, almost all of the