My Rating: 9.2 / 10

an almost perfect racing game. AI is very challenging and selection of cars and tracks is pretty good also the graphics are some of the best ive ever seen in a racing game.

My Rating: 6.6 / 10

Its good i like the set up and all the different races, and the graphics are good. But gameplay wise this game falls very short. Cars handle very poorly. I mean for example if you accelerate  out of a turn you will end up doing donuts, or if you go more then 5 mph in the grass you end up doing donuts, I mean seriously I have counted plenty of times were I will go between 15-20 off road and you just spin in circles. Basically this game controls  horrible,  Its a huge problem in a other wise wonderful game. If you can play long enough to figure out that you can only accelerate when your car is perfectly straight and  learn never to go off road and also the other million little flaws in the controls then you might end up liking this game. 

When ever I come back to it I find myself having to relearn all the controls since  normal driving logic doesnt apply here. But after a few days of solid play when I learn the  controls AGAIN I still know  the car handling sucks and that it makes no sense half the time. My only guess to explain this huge control issue is maybe the game was play tested and designed around the force feedback wheel, and maybe somehow the feed back system of the wheel changes the feel that much that you actually feel like your driving something close to a car. But I dont have the wheel to try this out so its only a guess.

SO basically in the end if you can suffer threw this game long enough to learn how to drive, then you might think its ok and even fairly good. After learning the controls I would give this game  at most a 7.3, but the fact that the controls are still bad and take forever to get used to means I cannt give it that score. If they fixed the car handling and physics in the next one this would be an easy 8 or a 9 , so lets hope that happens.