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2.96 average rating based on 413 ratings
I did not enjoy this game, but I did find it satisfying. I think that it served a good purpose, to help players get used to using manual transmission in videogames, as well as offer a comparison of first-person view and more realistic tire friction, compared to Need for Speed games of its era.
I played through this with a controller a long time ago, and it was pretty fun. Now I got a cheap wheel & stand and am playing this again as my intro to sim(cade) racing and it's super fun!
Overall if you are looking to kill some time, then it is not so bad. But if you are enthusiastic about racing games, especially one that claims to be a simulator - then you might be disappointed.
Coming from other NFS games, I felt underwhelmed even though sim genre is something I pretty much enjoy.
This may not be a bad game for mamy people but it most certainly is a horrible Need For Speed game. This franchise has never been about track racing or about haiving realistic handling models. Need For Speed has always been an arcade franchise and turning tables this time was a terrible choice. I coudln't even control the car, no matter how many assists or how easy the difficulty was, I just never enjoyed it and ultimately disliked it.
*Forcing the fisrt person view is an interesting concept for the NFS
*The effect of the damage in the driving performance isn't reallistic but in a game is enough in regulating the agresive behaviour of ramming each curve.
*width selection of vehicles more or less balnced in tiers
*Beautiful grafics
*Challenging but with a wide range of difficult tweaks