This is the best demolition type racing game ever made as well as the funnest racer on the 360 to date.
You start out with old ugly demolition cars that are highly detailed. You can choose from several different modes, including race, carnage race, demolition derbys and several others. The races and demolition modes are where this game shines. There are mini games in carnage mode where you eject your driver out of your windshield and you score based upon the objective, such as skipping him on the water like a rock...these modes are funny and a nice little break from the hardcore racing action, but by no means are they the core of this game...not even close.
The graphics, animations, and physics are what help make this game so incredible. Beautiful country environments, excellent water, sunlight, smoke effects, and highly detailed cars with up to 12 cars in a race, ALL detailed superbly. The physics and damage modeling is some of the best I've seen in a racing game. Your car may look great at the beginning of a race, but it will have it's bumpers, doors, trunk and hood hanging by a thread by the end, if not scattered on the track already, not to mention huge dents everywhere on your fenders. Tons of objects that you'll hit throughout a race scatter everwhere all over the tracks and stay there the whole race. Fences, tires, bumpers, glass...you name it, and it's probably an object you'll see flying through the air. The most incredible part about this game, is the fact that the framerate is ROCK solid at all times, no slowdown, even when all 12 cars are creating a huge cloud of dirt and debry, you won't see slowdown...this game is just increbidle to see in motion, with everything that's happening on the screen at once. I don't think the graphics could be any better. Simply beautiful!
The cars handle like they should in my mind. Some complain they don't handle very good....well that's part of the gameplay. Think about it, your in an old beat up demolition car on a dirt track, it's not going to handle like a Corvette on asphalt. If you find it hard at first, keep at it b/c it's very rewarding and fun once you get the hang of it. You do have to use accurate breaking in the sharp corners and in the dirt. The demoliton derbys are a blast for sure. It's pretty straight forward, just hit the other cars and try not to get hit yourself, make them take the blow and not you.
If you are a racing fan, than you need to get this game! You can consider this a very credible review, I don't hand out high scores without good reason. I've played nearly every racing game for 360, and this game really sticks out as one of, if not the best, out of all of them.