Just picked up the game for Christmas and I'm having loads of fun with it so far. Finally "beat" Enthusia Life (although I plan to keep going...) today, which led to a favorite, if not interesting moment.
Look out, really long summary ahead.
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So year 1 I get through with 3 cars- the 2 Cooper's and the Audi TT (uh, the not Sline version). Great fun, but guess what? I'm only rank 32
No King of Year race for me.
Having heard horror stories about getting to the KoY race and getting wtfpwned by RUFs, I decide to spend the beginning of year 2 getting the fastest road car I can think of- the Mercedes SLR. After 3 months of shuffling around, I get the SLR...and get dumped to rank 500-something.
I jump back into the TT and race it's freaking butt off (so many 1000 pts...managed to level myself to Driver Lv. 40 too). I'm really glad that I like Lowenseering (or whatever it's called)
Eventually I end up rank 1 at the end of year 2. Funky music plays and I enter the King of the Year Grand Prix (*cough* it's only one race) with my SLR. The field consists of 4 slow cars about on par with the Subaru WRX, and the M3 GTR. By the time I hit T3 on lap 1, I realize 2 things:
1) The M3 isn't falling behind that much
2) I can't drive
I'm pretty sure I would've depleted that crappy Enthu bar 5 times over if I could. But I don't really care, all I want to do is win.
Unfortunately, I manage to lose a 9 second lead over the course of 1.5 laps and by the time I get off the gigantic final straight there's this big silver thing right on my tail.
Oh, and did I mention
3) I really suck at slowing from 200 to 50 mph
Hello wall! I shuffle around in the dirt for a bit before realizing...crap,
he passed me. But wait, there's more! He's really only a little bit ahead of me: the game says I'm 2nd, I just can't see his car though- so we're neck and neck coming out of the final turn. I cannot really express how glad I am that my car outpowers his.
Final result: 1st by 0.372s after a 16-minute race!
That's probably the most intense race I've ever been in in my life!