Although hard on some part's, MCLA is still a great race game that gave NFS Undercover a worthy opponent.
Although car modifications abilities are by my opinion somewhat below NFS's they are more than satisfying. You can customize rims, engine, size of the wheels, interior, exterior, body kits, exhaust and other of the car parts.
The camera in the game is well made and it describes some of the G forces that affect you while crashes and turns, also while spinning and flying. Smoke effect's are well made as the damage to you're car. You can break you're windshield, bumpers, hood and what's really realistic you can scrape serious amount's of paint from any car or bike which even though you destroy or total you're car makes the impression of real life racing as so bumps and hits instead of head on crashes.
You can also drive bikes and modify them at you're will which in the hands of a good tuner make's them art pieces.
Bikes are faster than cars and can slip among some part's intense traffic in this game but also are more effected to hits and falls and falling off your bike takes a hefty amount of time to get back up.
In the game you have a 3D GPS map from where you go driving or skip to races, you can see where the cops are, other racers who can be from circuit to point to point and other races and their distinctive difficulty. The map and the city are full of detail and a nice innovation.
There are cops in the game, even though the chases are not as destructive and intense as for example NFS's they still give the pleasure to players that enjoy destroying some patrol cops and running away at high speeds.
You also have 3 special abilities like ROAR, AGRO and EMP which are upgraded the more you use them and more effective in different races.
You can customize you're car's and bike's and put them online for evaluation and selling. There are a lot of time trials and unlock items like rare car's, airbags and hydraulics.
Online multiplayer is also great and much fun to play with a lot of different racing and capture the flag games and free roam.
You also have access to convertible cars who's roof is under you're control.
As a conclusion although though this game is a new more self kind type of street racing with an extra touch to reality and details. It's more for experienced racers that seek and extra rush something new. If you are one this is one game made for you.