Why don't people like it? Also can you drive a Mustang?
I thought the first time I played it it was bad... o m g I was wrong; it is utterly terrible.
I don't care if you want to call a racing game a simulator, an arcade or a pinky damsey doodle up your ass, this game is pure shit.
Controls:
Who on God's green earth thought that even arcade racers, wanted to try and steer a boat that feels like it's hydro-planning across tarmac? Seriously? Your options are :
Keyboard - I seriously chuckle at anyone that tries to 'drive' with digital inputs...moot point.
Gamepad - The sensitivity is off the charts, and the majority of controllers have an analog pull, that sends the car either left or right constantly while in motion. You spend more time trying to keep your car straight then actually playing. Combined with super sensitivity and one correction adjustment leads to your face in the wall. And the so called 'sensitivity' 'adjustment' in the options does not work. At all!
Steering Wheel - IF it works, it's apparently the one control interface that's enjoyable, but that's IF your wheel works. Fat chance.
Difficulty:
Surely you jest? If you thought Grid was easy...look out.
Visuals:
Sub par...pretty much sums it up.
HD pack is a laugh. They make it sound like it's some 4096 resolution eyeball buster - ..hardly. The anti-aliasing is awful and the shadows are almost as bad as GTA IV.
Story:
I'm really tired of 'you/avatar is in your mid to late twenties, you somehow are tied up in things from the shadier side of the law, and you find yourself arriving in a new city with shady contacts who want you to do shady things so you can make money.' <---Haven't heard that one before ..;yawn;
Upgrade/Car tuning:
It's definatley not dynamic. It's just the same old tripe : 'Race' easy races, load up on virtual cash and then click a bunch of 'upgrades' in a wattered down customization menu and roll out of the shop with a super car!
I seriously am beginning to believe that EA has hired a bunch of fifteen year old whiz kids, who's favorite movie is the Fast and the Furious.
Sound:
Luke warm, simply put.
Replayability:
None.
Miscellaneous:
I am soooo tired of games without car cockpits. I hate third person view when racing. How in the world can you possibly drive with precision and accuracy, when your car constantly has a fish tailing aspect to it? I seriously belive that people do it, because they like to see the ass end of their car(in a video game...) more than they want to actually enjoy the art of driving 'clean.' And that they are on the brink of a constant 'drift' effect, which they think is 'cool' because imports and drifting is 'cool.' It really irks me that these type of people are what make up the large percentile of racing game players, who manage to keep influencing developers to include MULTIPLE shitty third person view camera angles, or 'cinematic' cameras, yet they can't manage to give you the camera that helps you experience the INSIDE of the car, the place where your seated, in an automobile, because that's what you do with them, you DRIVE them, you don't FOLLOW them.
It's one thing to have an opinion about whether the NFS franchise went downhill with the Underground games, trying to emulate the 'street' vibe and import market; however there's no way to deny that this game looks like they spent more time with the cutscene movies than they did actually coding it.
You seriously don't want to buy this.
And speaking of opinions...anyone who finds rebuttal to any of these comments, is either medically insane or a perfect example of how ignorance in the consumer market, has let developers get away with shipping out such horrendous products at ridiculous prices, and wondering why people who are against piracy, are now pirating their software.
1/5 rating <--I am not kidding.
