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Originally posted by jeni
but...during quite a few timed missions, it is important to be quick. if i can handle the banshee perfectly well while driving it quickly, it's a better car for me. you know the mission where king courtney makes you go from one payphone to the next? would have been damned near impossible for us without the banshee. infact, we only beat that mission with about 2 seconds to spare. of course better planning on a map or something would have helped the case, but it gets to be a pain to try missions 3 times before you can actually complete them.
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I can't argue with the "for me" logic -- we all have our quirks.
I think you're thinking of Payday For Ray as the phone-checkpoint mission (Courtney doesn't have one like that), and yeah, that one does require a moderately fast car. On the other hand, I've been through the game three times now; I finished that mission once in a Yakuza Stinger, once in a Cheetah and once in a Borgnine Taxi, the latter of which has a slightly lower top speed AND acceleration. It's all about knowing the mission -- if you don't know the route, you could be driving a Wile E. Coyote Rocket Car and have major problems. Nobody should be finishing that mission on the first try, unless they're clairvoyant.
Case in point -- the first time I faced Big & Veiny (the last El Burro mission), I must have tried it three dozen times before I finally cleared it. I continued through the game, started over, and by the time I reached it the second time, my driving had improved to the point where I finished it on the first attempt with five seconds to spare.
The reason I went to the stats to support my argument is that it's not as if the Banshee's the _only_ car that's quick. The Stingers, Mafia Sentinel, and Police Car are precisely as fast at top speed as the Banshee is, and the Infernus and Cheetah are faster; the Cheetah, Stingers and Police Car are in the Banshee's class for acceleration, and the BF Injection is faster. That doesn't mean I'd recommend the Police Car or Mafia Sentinel for checkpoint missions, because they steer like a cow; there are a lot of other variables involved.
Anyway, we're drifting from the point a bit. I still say that the Yakuza Stinger is _much_ more approachable for a novice, with the way it hugs the road -- hence I recommended it to a newcomer, instead of telling him to spend the hours necessary to master the Banshee. The Cheetah has all of the advantages of the Banshee and a higher top speed -- have you tried that?