The game may be good to look at it but that is about all this game offers, good looks.
Game play:This is where the let down is. First the story mode, its so random like who are you what am I doing here, nothing at all, just hey im here to race and need a car, you get said car and start racing...I know its a racing game so the story is never much but I would have liked something a bit better. Then we get down to the racing. You flash your high beams and you race to the start point if you get there first you get some rep much as is the same as previous midnight clubs, but if there is a cop near by you just the race straight away which is a bit silly you should have to get there and loss the fuzz at the same time. Then we have the racing and there the physics of it. You spin your wheels to get a head start and off you go, unless its a checkpoint race the checkpoints point you in the right direction anything else just hope your going the right way as there is no pointer or path to follow and is hard to get lost in this large city, then we have the physics the controlling is really bad, you car oversteers or understeers and when you move from lane to lane its almost like changing lanes in the drag races of need for speed and you constantly are hitting cars or walls and even a slight tap or side scrape or one of them will send you into a spin out and there goes buy the AI, which never seems to hit anything at all.
And last in this selection is well, the selection or cars and bikes and 38 or so cars 2 of which are the same car with a different paint job and 3 are bikes 2 ducati 1 Kawasaki it does not make a large list but probably be more through download content, but it does suck that we will have to pay for more money to get some more cars which should have been in the retail release.
Graphics: The visuals in the game are nice, from sunrise to sunset rain or shine it looks very nice, the cars are nicely detailed as the NPCs in the game, the buildings are aso very nice looking with 7-11 petrol stations to popular hotels, and all very nicely detailed up. The cars are smooth and the tires looking quite nice, not much i can say about the graphics to much being a race game just everything looks nice and polished. Similar to GTAIV but they probably have used the same graphics engine, i'm not to sure with that though.
Sound: Well the sound. Yeah it's like all other racing game, engine roaring engine screeching. Blow off valves going off you get the jist. The engine sounds, do sound good but don't change to much from car to car. And the tires will a tire screech is a tire screech. Not to much to say about the sound, its smooth but could have used more variety in the engine sounds.
Multi player:I didn't play to much of this but from what I did, it was to laggy. And seemed to have a good variety of game modes, only problem I can see is finding someone to play with as I cant see this game having many people playing online for long.
Overall: The game is fun and is defintly worth giving a spin. But I would be waiting for a price drop because at full retail price its defiantly not worth it.