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Lego Racers Guide version 1.2a
Last updated: 30th of September 2000
Created by: Clement Chan Zhi Li
e-mail address: clementchan@pd.jaring.my
Website: http://www.sonicera.cjb.net
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
[1.1] About Lego Racers [1.2] Copyright Info
[1.3] How to Best View this Guide [1.4] Review

Bricks Guide
[2.1] White Bricks [2.2] Yellow Bricks [2.3] Blue Bricks
[2.4] Red Bricks [2.5] Green Bricks

Lego Racers Circuit Guide
[3.1] Circuit No. 1 [3.1A] Imperial Grand Prix
[3.1B] Dark Forest Dash [3.1C] Magma Moon Marathon
[3.1D] Desert Adventure Dragway [3.2] Circuit No. 2
[3.2A] Tribal Island Adventure [3.2B] Royal Knights Raceway
[3.2C] Ice Planet Pathway [3.2D] Amazon Adventure Alley
[3.3] Circuit No. 3 [3.3A] Knightmare Athon
[3.3B] Pirate Skull Pass [3.3C] Adventure Temple Trial
[3.3D] Alien Alley Asteroid [3.4] Circuit No. 4
[3.4A] Desert Adventure Dragway [3.4B] Magma Moon Marathon
[3.4C] Dark Forest Dash [3.4D] Imperial Grand Prix
[3.5] Circuit No. 5 [3.5A] Amazon Adventure Alley
[3.5B] Ice Planet Pathway [3.5C] Royal Knights Raceway
[3.5D] Tribal Island Adventure [3.6] Circuit No. 6
[3.6A] Alien Race Asteroid [3.6B] Adventure Temple Trial
[3.6C] Pirate Skull Pass [3.6D] Knightmare Athon
[3.7] Circuit No. 7 [3.7A] Rocket Racer Run

Cheats and Tricks
[4.1] Turbo Boost [4.2] Flying Car [4.3] Without Slow Down

Credits

History

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Introduction
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Hi! Welcome to Lego Racers Guide. This guide is designed for Lego Racers for
the PC. So, I hope this guide is useful for those who need it.

If you want to e-mail to me, feel free to do so at clementchan@pd.jaring.my
or my younger brother at eugenechan90@hotmail.com

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[1.1] About Lego Racers
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Lego Racers is a game designed for the PC by Lego Media. This racing game has
an excellent feature and that is the Build option.

With this option, a player can create its own car, design the driver and as
well the driver's license where you put you own name there.

There is also some coloured Lego Bricks in all tracks that can help to make
you the winner.

All together, there are 7 tracks to reveal which, of course, some are quite
difficult.

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[1.2] Copyright Info
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This FAQ is Copyright 2000 Clement Chan Zhi Li. You can distribute this FAQ
as long as its contents are not changed.

Only Clement Chan Zhi Li can make changes and updates to this FAQ. Any
unauthorized changes and updates without my permission is prohibited by law.

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[1.3] How to Best View this Guide
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If you view this guide of the Internet and noticed that some words are filled
in with spaces and etc., it's because your browser did not view it at the
right width. Save the guide and open it up with WordPad (recommended).

Click File, then Page Setup. At the section where they put Margins (inches),
look for Right and type 0.8" in it. That way, you could view this guide
neatly as it is meant to be!

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[1.4] Review
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Lego Racers. When someone mentioned the word, 'Lego', instantly, their mind
will say, ''Ah, it's only for kids.'' Yes, it's almost true what they
had
said but even some of the interactive games created don't even appeal most
users much, like one of the game Lego Loco. But fortunately, Lego Racers is
not one of the games that will die easily. As the name suggests, Lego Racers
is a racing game but a totally different matter that makes this game
interesting and fun to play.

Graphics - 9

The whole scenes are created with nice and detailed 3D graphics that pushes
out the 3D card capabilities. The tracks in the game are quite nice with
great backgrounds that you can see. The various colours scattered out to each
and every single thing makes the game look bright and attractive. That also
includes the lighting system which are used correctly that sometimes give an
eerie feel when the car you play enters dark places.

Furthermore, the car models are rendered nicely enough and every single car
give its own personalities feel to it. As how the intense graphics are built,
you'll know that the great graphics that are shown on your computer are also
based on how fast your computer is, whether you have a good 3D card or not
and other points that may lower down the graphics quality.

Music - 9

The internal music that comes together is really pleasant to here. I don't
know how I'm going to describe the music in this game but they're just really
cool. What makes me feel that the game is good enough is the sound effects.
The funny talks by the Lego characters are really comical and other real-to-
life sound effects are like the boost sound when you use it, leave a trap
behind, and almost every single thing that should give out some are not left
out.

Gameplay - 9

You'll be happy to know that the game has lots of features that will last
Lego Racers for quite a long time. The best mode of all is the build mode
which you can create your own license (put your name on it), put your picture
by selecting various Lego characters and change their looks and emotions and
lastly, how many trophies that you successfully get by winning all the tracks
(get first, obviously).

There are usual modes that you might find in other racing games similar to
this. The main one-player mode allows you to unlock other tracks together
with winning your track's enemy's car set (cool!) and collect your rightful
trophies if you get first. The incredibly fun two-player mode allows you to
race against your friends and your friends can also create their own license
and build their own car (there is the automatic option if you're too lazy to
build one yourself).

Then, the time-attack mode allows you to race against Veronica Voltage, some
sort of 'ghost' (not real ghost, mind you) that will race together with you
and you must try to win against her. There are also shortcuts for you to find
so that you can actually get ahead past your enemies. Not only good control
as well as good speed allows you to win, but good shortcuts will make you
triumph through. These shortcuts are all very well hidden and sometimes, you
need to shoot your weapon in order to access through.

One unique kind of thing in this race is that you can collect five kind of
different coloured bricks that can help you together in the race. The first
one, red brick allows you to shoot your opponent, the yellow brick will let
you leave a trap behind so that opponents behind you will get a good taste of
it. The blue brick will activate a blue force shield that will protect you
against enemies' red brick attack and the traps left by your opponents. The
green brick will give you a boost of speed for a short time so you can get
ahead of your enemies (if you succeed). Lastly, the white bricks are used to
'upgrade' your other coloured bricks and the maximum of white bricks that
your coloured bricks can be upgraded are three.

Example, if you have a red brick and you collect three white bricks later on,
instead of having a normal shoot power-up, you'll have two guided-missiles
that will target and shoot enemies ahead of you. This is an extreme
collection of items but while collecting white bricks, if you accidentally
take other coloured bricks like green, your red brick will be 'kicked out'
immediately.

There are also lots of hidden shortcuts which allows you to get past one
point quickly. Every characters that you fight against have their own
personalities and favourite. Example, King Kahuka (a tribesman) may use red-
brick always to shoot the opponents (you!) and if you're bright enough,
you'll spot their weakness and abilities. Always keep a strategy running in
your mind and you'll find yourselves getting past one hard track!

Replay Value - 8

Racing games don't fancy me really, as I don't like racing games at all. But
this one is really fun to play with and will give you excitement running down
for months! Heed my warning: After you had unlocked all tracks, you'll find
this game a real bore to you because it will be the same always but use the
multi-player mode and it'll hooked you up the screen with your friends!

Overall - 9

Lego Racers is simply a unique racing game and a totally different matter
than boring games like Sega Rally Championship and a couple of others as you,
as the player, will have to race through boring tracks with nothing to do
except to win the whole championship level. Boring, isn't it? So take Lego
Racers as a new change to your life, once and for all.

Racers
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- Unique with the coloured bricks system!
- You can build your own car!
- Lots of tracks to race in!

Lego
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- Boring to play if you don't use the multi-player mode.
- Play too much and this game is a bore.
- Some tracks are too hard!

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Bricks Guide
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In all races, you'll see coloured bricks scattered everywhere. Each one
contains power to make you win the race. I'll explain more below.

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[2.1] White Bricks
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White bricks has the power to make the other coloured bricks much more
powerful. Example, if you take a red coloured brick and then the white brick,
you'll notice that the picture (bottom-left) has changed.

That's the power. The more white bricks you get, the more powerful the other
bricks will be. Below is the chart of what the white bricks can do.

Yellow
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Yellow Brick = A slippery oil is left behind.

Yellow Brick + 1 White Brick = Bomb Barrel is left behind.


Yellow Brick + 2 White Bricks = A yellow and green thing is left behind to
prevent opponents to move forward for a while.

Yellow Brick + 3 White Bricks = A mummy will be left behind to confuse and
slow down the opponent for a while. If you are confused by the mummy, your
control will be the opposite. Pressing left will make you move right and so
on.

Blue