May 10th, 2011, 09:01 AM
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Real life drag-racing and this game are of course two different things, but with a little effort you can figure out the gameplay mechanics and necessary strategies to succeed. On average most of the little launch in 2nd gear and hitting the nitrous in either 2nd or 3rd works pretty good, but not all the cars work the same. The heavier top-end sleds as I call them, while powerful but heavy they tend to like the nitrous in 3rd only and launch with 1st gear with minimal wheel-spin. Then there is the Bugatti Veyron SS, the world guiness record holding 268mph 1202 bhp beast, stock for stock against the Ultimate Aero in Drivers Battle the Aero smokes the SS most of the time, frusting and bad programming on Creative's part, it's just a game as they say. LOL so I decided to test something, sold the Bugatti Veyron SS and bougth the Aero...well guess what, stock for stock the Bugatti SS smoked the Aero time and time again. I'm consisten too, while this is a game I do drag race in real life and I built my last two cars, the latest which runs high 10's 1/4 n/a (no power adders). So I determined along with some friends and a little bit of testing that either the online mode is altogether just fake/prettend programming to display their ads and make money or just inadequate game programming. I'm waiting on a reply on this from Creative, we've been communicating back and forth on some other bugs of which one they fixed the following day I notified them. They do seem to care and are working supposedly on a full blown online with username/etc option, we'll see.
Bottom line I decided to sell the Aero, bought another Bugatti SS and am just satisfied knowing this car bone stock has the best grip of any car. This was an expensive purchase of a Bugatti SS, sold it, bought an Aero @$2mil, sold that bought another SS..sheesh...but here's a tip, just do the Drivers Battles, for one it helps you learn the best launch/shift techniques per car, which are all a bit different and two it's the quickest way in this game to earn money/respect.
Now the Henn Venom GT, well I had doubts, but pulled it up online, sure enough it's a real deal vehicle, 1 mph slower @267 and 2 bhp less than the Bugatti SS. I personally think it's an ugly car the Venom GT but I think less of John Hennessey (the Viper guy) due to his former crooked business practices. He lost a lot of respect and has become a bad name in the business, how he has remained in business is amazing to many. 
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