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 The fast/lively car | |
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Available at start |
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Purple |
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La Vita Crab (named La vite Crab in Need For Madness?) is a Class C starter car introduced in Need For Madness?. In Need For Madness? TooOo!?, it is also a Class C starter car.
Overview[]
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La Vita Crab is one of the sixteen game cars in the Need For Madness series. It is one of the original eleven cars, as well as one of the five starter cars, introduced in Need For Madness?, and one of the eight starter cars in Need For Madness? TooOo!?. In both games, it is the fourth car on the Select Car screen, placed between Wow Caninaro and Nimi.
La Vita Crab is the second-fastest starter car available, behind Formula 7 by a small margin, and the fourth-fastest game car. Like Formula 7, it can turn corners easily, and it can recharge power easily through performing rollspins that are faster than most other game cars. While its high speed and good handling make it a better car for racing, it can also serve as a borderline waster—at nearly full Power, La Vita Crab is durable enough to survive at least one hit from the likes of EL KING and DR Monstaa, and its shape and high Lifts Others and Pushes Others values make it capable of sending other cars flying when it rams them at full speed. La Vita Crab sits very low to the ground, so it can squeeze through gaps with low height clearance.
Besides La Vita Crab's more obvious downsides, such as its low Endurance and poor Power Save, the car also performs slower forward loops and backloops. Its low Strength rating also means it is easily shunted by most other cars that ram it, especially when its Power is low. Another problem is that the car is pretty wide despite being short, so additional care must be taken when driving it through narrow gaps or tight corners, as it is more likely to catch its side on a wall, causing unnecessary damage. Finally, La Vita Crab, despite being a fast car, is not fast enough to match the fastest cars in the game, such as Mighty Eight and Radical One, and because of its poor Power Save, even statically slower cars like Drifter X and High Rider can perform faster laps by virtue of them being able to keep their Power up more easily.
In conclusion, La Vita Crab's performance, despite being more oriented towards racing, is not nearly enough to compete with the best game cars designed to race, and it will almost always lose races to them. On stages with an emphasis on wasting the competition, it is not one of the better options either. However, on easier stages where the emphasis is still on racing, La Vita Crab's greater endurance and offensive capability, coupled with its high speed and handling, may be a better choice.
AI[]
La Vita Crab's AI is the standard racing AI, usually preferring to race. However, it may attempt to attack the player on stages that have some emphasis on wasting, such as Do The Snake Dance, Twisted Revenge and The Mad Party, if they get too close to it. Similar to Formula 7, La Vita Crab's high speed and agility makes it a greater threat than it might seem, and in the right situations, it is capable of dealing as much damage as the likes of Sword of Justice from successive hits, rather than single, massive strikes. Its higher Endurance, compared to Formula 7, also means it can take much more damage than its looks might suggest. Standard AI behaviour dictates that La Vita Crab will head directly for the nearest fixing hoop if it is severely damaged.
Appearances[]
As a car that is available at the start of the game, La Vita Crab can be present on any stage except Four Dimensional Vertigo in NFM2 before DR Monstaa is unlocked.
Trivia[]
- In NFMM, La Vita Crab is often abbreviated as "LVC" or just "Crab".
- When NFM1 was in development, a screenshot was published showing a car that looks similar to La vite Crab.
- "La vite Crab" is a blend of French and English, which could be translated to "The Fast Car" or, more accurately, 'The Quickly Crab' which will come up in an actual translator. This is similar to EL KING being a blend of Spanish and English, translating to "The King". From NFM2 onwards, "La Vita Crab" can be translated as "The Life of a Car" or "The Lively Car", which is a blend of French and Spanish.
- In NFM1, La vite Crab had a higher Top Speed than Radical One.
- La Vita Crab appears to borrow several design elements from the Lamborghini Aventador LP-700-4 and Reventon, Ford GT40, and Honda HSC Concept.
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