Was probably released too early

First off, the pros:

The game world is really crass. That was also the reason for me to buy the game. There simply is fun to drive from New York to Miami, to take a trip to New Orleans and then to drive through Monument Valley to the west coast, up to San Francisco, over the Golden Gate Bridge and then through the Rockies and the Yosemite Tal, madness. All the driving tests that are distributed over the innumerable Map and quasi can be done in passing, make the whole also very entertaining.

And just this road tests make much of the motivation. It's just a nice feeling, level up your car piece by piece and you can feel right as the handling, top speed, braking, etc .. be better. I was at the beginning a little disappointed by the very spongy driving physics, I see now that that was made specifically so that it shows progress.

The story I was able to divide themselves in this game, so obviously the ghost, I think that everyone has to decide for himself. I had a lot of fun through games, many new and partly surprising characters, it came to my mind, the creators have here already devised a beautiful story.

Now the downside:

First of all, the Micro Transactions:
For me, just a NO GO. I buy basically no games, in which one can gather together the content available only by money. I have now played 30 hours the story completely through gambled, completed a plethora of driving tests, am at the highest level (50), have almost all my car versions on Platinum and now have 300,000 Bucks. Some of the really good cars only start at 500,000, it goes up in the millions. I have two cars: The first car, what you get paid at the beginning of the game and a Mercedes SL, I have bought from the Community credits, from whom he gets to a point in the game 100,000. These two cars can be up or converted into different levels. So then you have for example from the first car, the road, region and rally variant and the Mercedes I have the performance and racing variant. These upgrades you got paid in the game.
This means that I bought not a single car in the game. A fast Lamborghini, I would like, I can even after playing through the entire story not afford to unless I invest REAL - and it MUST I just peel 2 stars. That's just not to offer audacity, audacity and insolence, as the honest buying players will now get ripped off. Well, I could have more detailed information, in my anticipation of the huge game world, I almost "blind" slammed. Will not happen to me again.

The Mission Design:
Most missions a lot of fun, but there are also a couple of levels that make no fun and there would be first of all the car chases a la "Unlock xyz". With a crass hochgelevelten racecar I barely manage to catch a bus, this can not be? I'm generally an enemy of the rubber band effect that eventually with Need For Speed ​​Most Wanted celebrated its debut sad with me; in this game it is installed even halfway acceptable in the normal race, it is supposed to be exciting and who is apparently too lazy to program a reasonably sophisticated enemy AI, has the elastic take effect halt. In the chase, it is however so severe that one, as previously described herein, the emissions must start several times, until one knows by heart the route of the enemy, and then to ram him off the road. Well.

The rally missions have I did not like, because the rally car drives itself to high levels for my taste much too vague. Perhaps this is due to the realism'm not off-road expert, but since this is an arcade racer, you would have but can program a little more generous.

Online mode:
Virtually does not exist. I played in the full 30 hours, a handful of missions against or in co-op with other players. Otherwise, no one is either online or there is none. When I'm playing time 2-3 hours at a stretch, I might encounter 3-4 other players. It invites them to a quick co-op, this usually reject. From the advertised MMO no trace, absolutely zero! At my internet connection it can not be, because first you have to anyway always be online (which I think is a bad habit in today's PC gaming world - and I've been in the early 90 games on the computer and have since The Need For Speed ​​1 gifted racing game Fan), and secondly, I have a very fast and stable fiber optic line.

I have not bought the game because the online mode, otherwise I would have given 1 star, so it's me rather matter, and it is a shame that a few missions that I could play with other players who, quite fun.

For further Cons addition to Micro Transactions I pull from another star.

Conclusion: if you can not see above grievances away, get a game that just makes fun. Perhaps we should wait until it is a little cheaper, then you can use the saved money in return for a few more cars. A pity, however, that there are hardly any games are now coming fully functional and at the same time without in-game purchase rip on the market. For questions, etc. Please write a comment.

Update:

As some also complain that they hardly get Level 50 parts, I have taken the time and times out some statistics. Background: If you grew up in the game at level 50 (a higher level, there is not), you can freely Platinum play parts in the numerous tests (tests of various kinds, which are rewarded with upgrades for the car). This gets you if you achieved a special result, eg when a jump very far flying, or driving in a particularly fast pace test. The "trick" is that a "random" will decide which stage gets the upgrade. It may be between 40-50 and how many have been criticized: that is not randomly chosen. I have now played various tests until I have received part of a level 50 and list here simply the distribution of the different parts-levels, so that everyone can make his own image in the number, as I have received it :

Level 40: 55
Level 41: 46
Level 42: 33
Level 43: 40
Level 44: 17
Level 45: 5
Level 46: 10
Level 47: 7
Level 48: 13
Level 49: 11
Level 50: 5

So you have to complete each test on average almost 50 times, to a level obtained 50 part. In a real random if they were statistically 11 times. That's annoying, especially if you PvP (more on that) and plays there almost every level has a 1299 car.

For the note to my review with the trick, how to get money: I have no truck. A full-price game should be designed so that you can get enough money without cheating, by normal play. And I have now found a way how to do it:

PvP tournaments: If after release of the game does not work at least for me, no matter what I wanted to lobby to register, never was even another player found. Meanwhile, it works and it even fun. One gets per race for the 16,000 bucks, so you can still earn a good amount of money by your patience. However, to get today is not always immediately in a lobby. Sometimes the game has to look for collaborators minutes, at least it works now mostly. But you should be sure to have a good car (min. Step 1200), otherwise it's no fun. It is also important that clashes are disabled, because many other players ramming an otherwise non-stop from the road, which can take care of frustration and aggression.

Those who wonder why some players create a level by 1299: You have to have all the parts on stage 50 and the points are distributed as in the HQ in advantages that you have, for example, braking or acceleration bonus, etc.. There you can also select the way the mobile mechanic.

I now give you a star more because the money now has become a little easier.