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Originally Posted by MikeJYWood
I played this game A LOT back in high school but now I just don't have the time to invest hours and hours into it.
Please, will someone tell me if the game truly had an "ultimate goal" and if so what was it?
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The end game is putting Mr. Big in jail. You can't get the quest until your reputation is high enough and you gather the elements of the password.
You start as an amateur autoduelist. YOu get 50 points to allocate to your stats: Driving, Marksmanship and Mechanic.
All your skills go up with use, your marksmanship goes up fastest and your mechanic goes up slowest BUT you can "buy" more mechanic skill by taking classes at the garage (it takes 5 days). I would recommend putting all your points into driving and marksmanship (30/20 is what I go with, YMMV).
Do amateur night twice, take an mechanic class then do amateur night a couple more times then get a clone and another mechanic class. Keep doing this until they won't let you do amateur night anymore (if you really want to, you can keep doing amateur by spending all your money on mechanic lessons cars and clone updates; trash your reputation by getting courier jobs at the AADA and selling them at Joe's bar. At some point you will be ready to leave amateur night behind for good.
The 5K and 10K arena tournaments are fairly easy, machine guns and spikedroppers should do the trick.
The 15K and 20K are more dangerous, some of the cars have lasers which will eat through your armor like cheese so get used to using your spikedroppers when your front armor starts running low.
The unlimited battles are tougher and have more opponents.
City Champioships are the toughest and have more opponents than any of the regular battles but you should have the skill you need by the time the chamionship rolls around.
The arena will train up your marksmanship very very quickly and it will likely approach 90 by the time you get to the NYC championship (*I think you get one point for every 2 kills).
At this point you will start to get clues to some quests that provide serious reputation boosts. This will catapult you to max reputation and the end quest.
I did a few courier missions to push up my driving skill (you get about 1 point for every 100 miles driven (or so)). My road vehicle has a laser and a bunch of oil jets and I drive right past everyone and leave an oil slick in my wake.
If you cheat don't cheat and do things the hard way, you spend a lot of time making ends meet and every achievement is very satisfying.
If you use the gambling cheat so that money is never a problem, the game gets pretty short (two evenings and I am done) but you still can enjoy the game.
BTW this image verification software is really difficult to read.