Many here give negative reviews from because they had false expectations. This is not a racing game with conventional cars. This is a racing game with glides in the future. In this game you can with full Geschwindgkeit glide through each curve. And if you say, "Hey, that's unrealistic," which also plays well no games like Half-Life, Quake or World of Warcraft. It flaunts also no big Logo "Simulation" on the package. But there are cars that look like cars. Only it is necessary to become detached. And who plays the game more than one hour, will get the game progresses cars that actually look like gliders; ie they are off the ground and have no wheels. Unrealistic? Exactly! And why this is good is simple: SPEED! In addition to Burnout Revenge (which is also unrealistic), this is the fastest game I know. To have to play through it to the later stretches almost perfect drive (Crinale duel was the hardest race). We (myself and a friend) have determined played over 50 hours, alternately, and were when we played through it at the same level. And after you could free spins nothing was clear to us: Now we drive a duel!
This is also the point of the game, the auffält really negative: In splitscreen game jerky so strong that you can not drive. Couple on a console gaming so you can forget (2 star deduction).
Another negative point is that you can (for me: Techno) the awful music can not stop in and can also integrate any own music. Ok, stop it already, but the setting is not saved and you have to make at each race anew. But they do have a workaround: Simply adjust the volume of music on 0 :-)
The graphics of the game is so mediocre, but also not important once you get a few hundred kilometers per hour on the speedometer.
Conclusion: Everything but a simulation! Super-fast race where every millisecond counts, and where it is not rare that one screaming traveling toward the finish line, while trying to overtake the first, and then to win even with 2ms lead. Pure adrenaline. But not in the split-screen mode, because there jerky. The controls are used to, so it does not put the same out of your hand, give the game a try, and you will have fun with it have. At first I had doubts. But the purchase was worth it.