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Wolf Like Me Matt Fowler Pokemon Legends: Arceus Matt Purslow Science Adele Ankers Jackson as Nick Fury, sans eye-patch. Secret Invasion Adele Ankers Knowing that Zhou won't consider Ray worthy to date his daughter, Ray attempts to gather presents and money so he can impress the mobster. You won't actually jump into a car and ride around looking for missions to take on; instead, before each job you'll consult a map that will provide you with a briefing on the task that's required.
Some of these are pretty simple, such as getting to a specific point before time runs out, while others can be somewhat complicated, like getting gang members to follow you to police headquarters so both sides can shoot it out while you get away. As you're taking on these jobs, you're supposed to keep an eye out for your heat meter surrounding the mini-map at the bottom right hand side of the screen.
This is supposed to give you a sense of whether or not the police are after you for vehicular or on foot crimes, for those moments when you jump out of the car and start attacking people. I say supposed to because the police in Driver '76 are quite possibly some of the stupidest AI controlled characters that I've ever seen. You quite literally have to perform something egregious in front of them to make them chase you, such as cause a head-on collision or fire multiple bullets at someone.
On the other hand, speeding, reckless driving or crashing through fences, lampposts or barriers literally receive a blind eye. However, once you've actually gotten them on your heels, it's pathetically easy to get them to drop their pursuit. If you can establish a lead of two blocks, the police will quickly decide that they've lost sight of you, even if you're immediately in front of them and they happen to have a police helicopter providing support above them.
How the hell are you able to confuse the copter which should be able to tell the cops on the ground where you are? This can be a bit more time-consuming with some of the earlier cars, but as you start unlocking some of the various sports cars, you can blaze through police chases in ten seconds flat. Anyway, regardless of the mission difficulty or cops that you leave in the dust, you'll receive a default vehicle that you will use to perform your crime, which is often added to your garage at the end as a reward for your service.
You'll also receive cash for your pains, which can only be used to upgrade your vehicle or acquire weapons and ammunition that you'll use in gunfights. Money has no impact on Ray's chances to impress Zhou, so you can easily collect more than you'll ever hope to spend, making it relatively worthless.
You won't be spending it on new vehicles, and the vehicle upgrades aren't particularly useful. For one thing, the handling of most of the machines doesn't radically change if you buy new shocks, springs, brakes or body work, so muscle cars and trucks will still be more unwieldy on the road compared to sports cars or motorcycles.
What's more, while you can boost the speed of your vehicles, you don't really need to, nor do you need to purchase nitro boosts either to accomplish a majority of job objectives. Even the slowest machine is good enough to get you from point A to B with enough speed. You won't constantly find yourself behind the wheel though. At any point in time, you can jump out of cars and hijack other vehicles, as well as get out and blast opponents with any of the firearms that you've acquired. To help you out, the game provides a target lock for opponents that you can use to pick off enemies.
The biggest problem here is that you'll rarely find that the weapons pack any serious punch -- it's possible to pour more than thirty bullets from an AK or Uzi knockoff into someone that's literally two or three feet away from them and they won't go down.
The ineffectiveness of the weapons are highlighted when you are trying to repel incoming enemies from the back of a car and you empty four or five clips on only two gunmen that appear to resist head shots and other targeted fire. Even worse is the fact that the majority of story missions that require you to kill enemies on foot will only throw three armed combatants at you.
This isn't a challenge; it's a waste of time as you see how many bullets miss you and how many you can fire before they fall. If you happen to get tired with flying through the main quest missions over the extremely short six chapter storyline, which can be beaten in less than six hours, you can take on some of the various side missions scattered around the city.
These include tasks such as delivery missions, checkpoint and lap races and demolition derbies.
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