Not as good as I hope it to be...
And the time to check actual game has cometh... It was really fun, music creating neat mood, fine graphics, once again cool actors on CG backgrounds and so on. But something wasn't quite good. The game is easy. But when you will get used to it, Carbon attacks you with quite unbalanced cars and AI, they still aren't better than you, but too fast for your car even if your monster is upgraded to max performance. Weird one.
I've noticed few minor graphical glitches but... It really doesn't matter.
Autosculpt is really fun but it appears to me as some kind of detail, not much of a revolution, but still very good add-on.
Wingman? Haven't used them much, they were pretty useless. It's a matter of opinion but I haven't found them useful... Worth mentioning is that you can use one wingman, but your oponents are driving in teams of three. It doesn't matter if you attack territory or defend. Well it matters a little. When you defend you ride solo... But not your opponents. How can we name it?...
But let's not drag about it. Last but not least thing I want to mention is really weird situation...
When you own three districts, gangs will attack you from time to time. Not really often, and it's not too much of a problem. But when you start to get to Darius' rear bumper they get some kind of morale boost and attack you almost every single race. It's quite boring and force players to sit in front of screen repeating over and over some races. It's isn't as bad as it appears but the next one is...
Surprisingly, even if you beat some of them earlier, right now they got really high performance boost on their cars and skills. Like... Bruce Banner -> Hulk.
After few races it started to irritate me. Really not fun at all.
And what about Palmont City? It's damn small... Too small and some places are similar to Most Wanted.
But it isn't bad game at all. It has neat graphics, fine music, canyons are pretty sweet and have great mood. Gameplay is fast paced, dynamic, flashy, elegant and in overall leaks with honey but flaws I mentioned are forcing me to post score no more than 7. But if you don't care about them, add about 1 up to 1,5 to score cause it's not worth more than that no matter how much you love it, don't get blinded with your love.
Cheers.