The absolute hammer, very very good game !!

This is my first game of the Need for Speed ​​series, so I can not draw comparisons and rate the game a try in my opinion.
I'm really absolutely no racing game fan, but this game has made me so addicted that I could play anything else until I had played through it.
Unlike other racing games (Gran Turismo, etc.) is not here right modes (arcade mode, career mode, etc.) but the game starts "just so" and has a linear storyline (yes, even a bit of action with cutscenes ...).
It is (similar to the GTA games) in a huge, always nocturnal city (not a day / night cycle, but rain), where you can virtually do whatever you want - you can go anywhere, the city See, accept challenges and visit different stores. However, one does not figure, but always sits in the car. Initially, one looks for the merchants a "normal" car of (small cars from VW, Ford, etc.) and tunes it then gradually on. Of course you can have multiple cars simultaneously and tune and change at any time.
The game goal is to win races, which are spread throughout the city, and of the money that you get to tune his car faster and fancier. There are virtually no limits, from the color of the rear-view mirror to the chassis and the shape of the spoiler can absolutely change everything. There are hundreds of possibilities. In the course of the game more and more neighborhoods and tuning options to unlock and always gets a hotter car. One must also never save time (as in Gran Turismo), but can actually tune from the beginning after each race again something that money flies a formally and loose enough for two fully tuned cars. It has even really need more money than you.
Pretty awesome, the race itself, as it happens here very varied:
There are races where you have to go several rounds and must arrive first at the finish; Races which are run on very narrow roads (as at the racetrack) and that, where it matters most, by car to slide around the curve and to make as many points.
The game never gets boring, you will be quite encouraged or challenged and can no longer get enough of his great cars.
The soundtrack of the game is awesome, there is a good selection of Hip Hop, Rap, Hard Rock and a little trance.
Since it takes a long time to play through the game (approximately 30-40 hours) worth paying full price for this game.
The only drawback: you can (no matter how far you get) never a "really great" buy car (Porsche, Mercedes, Ferrari, etc.) because it arrives here just to tune a car and drive not right at the beginning a luxury model. The choice of cars is so pretty lean (the entire game) and there is as I said no cars in the luxury class.
So, each of the "Pimp My Ride" or Racing is genrell, this game is like !! The game is suitable for all, both the people for the first time to play racing games as well as professionals, as the game time will be increasingly difficult. The controls are really very, very good and beginner-friendly. (My first "real" racing game and could still with a lot of practice by playing).