Talk:Test Drive 6/Walkthrough

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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +ELLER'S FAQ FOR TEST DRIVE 6 ON DREAMCAST+ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Version 1.0 9/21/2000 E-mail domain: ufl.edu E-mail address: eller

Legal notice: I suppose this document is inherently protected by copyright law, but come on now, let's not take ourselves too seriously. It's just a FAQ for a video game. If you wanna put it up on your site, fine, if you wanna steal it and give yourself credit for it, fine. As long as the original is at GameFaqs under my name... but that's the thing. Nobody's going to do any of this, and that's the assumption under which I grant these rights. Heck, if you seriously think that you can make money by selling a piddling FAQ for a forgettable game, then be my guest. More power to you. I hereby waive my rights of protection as author of this document. I urge fellow writers of less-than-memorable FAQs to do the same. I mean, have you seen some of these legal sections out there? They're half as long as the FAQ itself! It's a waste of space anyway. Come on, admit it, you liked reading my legal section more than any of the pseudo-legal ramblings of those other FAQs. The way I see it, if you're going to blow a big fat paragraph at the top of your document, you should at least make it somewhat appealing to the 2 or 3 people who may eventually read it. Anyway, on with the FAQ...

---FAQ INTRO---

This is a pure FAQ. It will only be answering questions and compiling information that may be of some use to players of Test Drive 6. You WON'T find reviews, opinions, play instructions, or anything else that can be answered by the game manual/a Dreamcast web site/common sense. I wrote this FAQ because apparently someone requested it at GameFAQs, not because I felt the need to rehash the instruction manual. The idea is that this document should cover all the info about Test Drive 6 that you may not be able to find anywhere else, including the Internet. Now then...

6.) Why didn't you cover X? --- As I said at the beginning of this FAQ, my goal was not to give a review of this game, or to summarize the controls, or to offer what may or may not be helpful advice. The purpose of this document was to answer any questions that is a compilation of all of the concrete data regarding TD6, and hopefully it saved a few people some time or clarified for some people why the game acts the way it does. If you want a summary of the controls or of the different play modes, read the manual. If you want a review, go to dreamcast.ign.com (or don't, the review might scare you away from TD6). For those of you who think this FAQ is incomplete without some sort of "driving tips" or course walkthroughs, come on. To tell the truth, this game is hopelessly easy. Practice a couple of races, and then play through a tournament. It's not that hard. Even the toughest parts of the game, like getting all the Stop the Bomber chases completed, can be done if you just keep trying. Even if I did feel like holding people's hand through a subpar racing video game, I wouldn't have any strategic wisdom to dispense. The aforementioned Stop the Bomber missions all seem to come down to luck anyway. For races, buy the most expensive car and upgrade the heck out of it. Even if you spend half the time careening into walls, you can usually win if you have the most powerful machine and know how to tune it for each track. That's another thing: tuning. I was thinking of including a section on how to best set up your car for particular situations, but then I sat down and swept through Tournament 4-2 with all my GT-One's settings at dead center. My conclusion: Racing strategy doesn't play a role in Test Drive 6. Just stand on it and steer. For everything else I that could have included, it's just not stuff that belongs in a pure FAQ.
 * could not be answered anywhere else*, at least without tedious research. This

9.) A final note

If anyone out there reads this FAQ and has a question, correction, point of discussion, etc., go ahead and e-mail me. My address is eller and my domain name is ufl.edu. If you don't know a.) why I did that or b.) how to turn that into a working e-mail address, then you're probably the kind of person that I don't want to hear from anyway. Have a nice day!

-Eller