A racing game that anyone can pick up.
Graphically this game is very stunning. You get cool motion blurs and the surfaces on the cars are very reflective. Also the interiors of the cars look awesome, since they're fully rendered and accurate.
Sound is also amazing if you're running 5.1. You can pin point every effect, from tires screeching to the car coming up behind you.
The roster for the game is quite small compared to the GT franchise, but there's so really big labels in this game. McClaren anyone? When was the last time you saw the McClaren F1 in a game (the road version) besides besides one of those Need for Speed games back in the day.
The career mode isn't that hard at all if you're trying to complete on Silver or lower. When going for Gold, it really helps if you've memorized the track, mainly for the time attack modes. The lap time challenges for career probably confused me the most in this game. You have hot lap, timed lap, and breakthrough (essentially try to get to the check point before time runs out). Why wouldn't they all just be hot lap or timed lap? It's exactly the same concept, try to complete a lap before the allotted time runs out. The only difference is, in one challenge the time goes up and in the other the time goes down, go figure. That's my only problem with the online mode. What to love however is the garage mode. As you buy cars you can to be a baller and store them in high class garages. What's cool is you get to pick where to put the car and you can walk around the garage to admire or show off your acquired collection.
Where you're probably going to spend most of your time though is playing online. Either in the online career mode where you're ranked or games made by other users are you. In online career you can try your best to drive clean, but a lot of the time you either get smashed into the wall on the first corner or you find someone on your racing line, and let's face it, it's either you or them that's going to eat it. So please try to drive clean and just out drive your opponent, for my sake. But if they put you into the wall and you have the chance to get them back, let em have it!
Overall this is a stellar game, and is worth the buy if you look at as a launch title must have or a game to add to your racing library. So light em up and I guess I'll see you on LiVE.