Same old stuff, been there and done that but not quite, as the game places you in the same seat like before.
As for the graphics, well, ive seen better, even the game does use almost the same graphics capacity like the past games, but the only things that keep coming is those nasty effects that developers think they are nice and neat and mostly clean, who knows where their heads are, since blurry effects, over rated flare reflections out of the floor and other stuff aren't normal, those 2 things if we see them in the real world, we do need to check out eyes in the eye doctor. Plus later in the game all of the sudden the game start to suffer of some serious memory leaks but specially with my video card, sometimes it get fixed but is like a cycle, the i start seeing that the cars start to change color and to show the problems with the rendering system for the textured.
The music not much to say but is ok...
The game play hasn't improved over the years but at least i can do pit maneuvers to the cars that are close to me as in the past games for some unknown reason i had to force the car to do it. The start of the game tend to dissipate but at least later on things get more interesting in its way. Plus i could say but know knows if its only me, the A.I. if brought all together, they can be serious animals hitting each other and creating a mess as ive been in various problems lately. Hey, they could have done a car derby destruction while you race across the city, that would be more interesting that being undercover and do missions like Need for Speed Mayhem of some sort.
The replay value might depend but for my taste ever since NFS:Underground 1 have become low, one play and im done for. Since the story tends to be vague at some moments and to do the same thing with few cars.
My final opinion is that the game should be rented instead of paying 50 bucks for it. The game is so squeezed on the franchise that it fails to give me another round.