try not to cry, maybe we can go to the funeral and remember the good times of NFS.
The cutscenes explore an interesting new kind of animation, with real-world actors in a fictional environment, but never seem to clear up much of the story let alone make it more interesting. "oh boy i won, crap now i have to watch a ***** cutscene about poop i dont care about."
This game is really all looks. Autosculpt allows you to sculpt your car's body parts to further meet your requirements of a great ride. Photo mode is fun to take shots of your cool ride in. It's the getting and the doing with the ride that is the problem.
Career starts off easy. You are introduced to everything and anything you would want to know about controls, skills, etc. and as you progress through the first tier of cars you are faced with little resistance. When you reach the first boss, prepare for a beat-down. They are extremely merciless and will not hesitate to laugh at you if you crash or fall behind (seriously, try it). The first three bosses are all the same difficulty, so if you beat the first guy in your first car, it was hard. Next, you have a tier 2 car and beat the next guy, average difficulty. As you meet the 3rd boss with your heavily modded tier 2 car then he is easy. The fourth, which you should meet in a tier 3 car, is VERY HARD (yes i know its out of pattern).
The real let down is the recycling of many race styles, etc. from Need for Speed: Most Wanted, the best nfs game to date. The cops are organized into 5 "heats" and do not play any significant role whatsoever in the career mode. Crew members are fun, however they do not last long and sometimes suck. MP is just dumb. period.
Do not expect to gain anywhere close to 1000 G in this game. The online **** is hard as hell, and getting all reward cards is really, really stupid and hard. If you liked getting pink slips and other reward cards in MW, then you are out of luck. Pink slips seem next to impossible to get, and there are only 3 people you can get reward cards from. Not useful at all.
If you are hardcore and like NFS, you may want to see what happens to the main character after you complete Most Wanted. Playing through just winning races can be fun (125G for completing game and conquering all races). That's fine. Nobody plays online anymore, though. If you do not have Need for Speed Most Wanted then you should really get that instead.