Shiny, but don't look below the surface...
But given that, you should know that just I wasn't interested in playing the game for longer. It's pretty fun at first, but I sorta lost interest and was glad to get back to my Xbox and Burnout 3!!! Go figure. No need to discuss graphics, etc, we all know they are gorgeous. I'm not nearly as picky as some people, I guess, I thought they were phenomenal and I don't even have HD! But after I got over that I just wasn't too thrilled with the game. The racing action is OK, but there's no damage modeling and I found I wasn't really interested in plowing through hundreds of the same race.
The cars weren't compelling to me, really. I had a fairly nice one from the start and I raced better with it than the top end car I got later.
In the end, I just kept wanting to go back to my less-attractive-but-more-fun Burnout and wreck stuff. Maybe that's just the kind of racer I am.
(Note. Where-o-where are the cops?! Whatever happened to the old days of NFS and maybe TestDrive (3 maybe?) where there were cops chasing you and you could even be one? sigh. The NFS demo has cops, but I wasn't thrilled about it, either. We need Burnout -- with cops!)