the reason i started playing video games is because of the racing genre. i had my hands on brilliant and not so brilliant racing games. i have played racing games ranging from 1982 Pole Position, to top gear on the NES and drift out, to more simulator oriented games such as rFactor and live for speed.
And i have to say with out any shadow of a doubt that this game is not one of the good ones. i kept on telling myself that the game will get better as i progress, but it never did. i wanted this game to be a good one, i wanted need for speed to come back to it's former glory, i wanted to believe that EA has finally done something right. but guess what, they never did when the started to become a money hording publisher and they will never will. (making bad games WILL catch up to them eventually)
this game does not know what it wants to be, is it a sim an arcade or maybe even an advertising billboard, or maybe a combination of all together. if you don't drive the way the game tells you to you will be in world of pain. you either drive the line and brake and accelerate when it tells you to, or you will witness mind boggling handling that will make wish you never played that game. i have never experienced an under steer while going into over steer ending with something that i would like to call, and believe me such a thing does not exist but this game came up with it, it is called to the best of my knowledge INNER STEER. instead of the nose of the car pulling outwards like in an under steer it pulls inwards. now you might say that this is an over steer. well over steer will have the back end slide or at least the tires spinning, but not with this one. it's a doozy . such a game should be have a warning label: HANDLE WITH CARE, HEALTH HAZARD.
