Tuesday 21 May 2013

DLC #65 - Shift 2 : Unleashed - Legends Pack

Take on a new Career branch, using classic
cars from the 60's and 70's
The Legends Pack DLC adds 2 trophies, attached to the new Legends career branch, with a series of events to beat, culminating in the Legends World Championship event.

The "Rock Hard" trophy, awarded for winning an online event in a car from the Legends pack, is simple enough, and in truth, so is the majority of the new Legends Career branch too.

There are 17 new preliminary events to complete, but only 12 podium finishes are needed to unlock the final event. This is where you can eventually unlock the Gold "Mattley Crue" trophy, awarded for beating Matt Powers and winning the Legend Championship series.

The selection of new events is vast, but even on the hardest difficulty, they're still relatively easy. The only point at which the DLC becomes a challenge is during the Legends Championship itself, simply for the reason that Matt Power's Porsche Carerra 911 is a much more powerful car than anything you have access to. The Championship series is still a 6 race event, which gives you plenty of opportunity to win the series and unlock the trophy, but margin for error is incredibly small if you want to win enough races to win the league.

Overall, this is still a fairly easy DLC package. Winning the solitary online event might require some co-ordination, since you won't be able to race anybody using the Legend cars who hasn't bought the DLC, but is still an easy silver. 

Beating all 12 events needed to unlock the Championship series is easy to the point where it just feels like you're tying up formalities, especially when you consider you only need to podium finish the event to officially complete it. This ensures the branch will take anywhere between 2-3 hours to unlock the Championship, with the series finale (and the subsequent Gold trophy) itself requiring at least another hour on top, with a slight peak in the difficulty of the package when you face off against Matt Powers. 

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