Time to step up and become the drift king.
The game has no major story to tell of, the world xplorer mode see's you race through arount 200 races in multiple vehicles. The aim is to unlock all the cars and all the different sponsors for those cars which total to over 100.
The game is played very differently to other driving games because this game relies on drift, the way yoy drift is you turn into the corner, let go of the accelerator and tehn reapply it and control your drift, This is a new style of turning in driving games and i have to say i prefer it to others. I don't think it would suit racing simulations liek Grand Turismo where the aim is about realism but it works well in this instance. I also like the addition of nitrous in this game, the way you get nitrous is by doing drifts and the longer teh drif is and the more speed you get whilst doing that drift teh more nitrous you will accumilate. With the nitrous you have 3 bars which you have to fill and you can use them 1 at a time are all at once. Using them 1 at a time will save the rest for when you need it later but using them all at once will give you unreallistic speed whic leaves your opponents in your dust. I feel the nitrous bring a new element of statergy to the game, deciding when yo use it and how much to use. The races are against 1 -14 cars and it is your standard 1st to the finish race, this is teh only down point i see in this game. I would have liked a little more variety, you know some extra modes liek elliminator or some type of mode where you get points for drifting and the person with the most points wins. All the cars are unlicenced but teh sonsors of the cars all seem to be old konami games which is pretty cool. The cars have also got all their own statistics ranging from what their max speed is to what type of drift they do. There are 3 types of drift which tells the driver how many points you get from the drift and how easy the drift is to control. The online mode is pretty cool too, you can play upto 13 opponents but i have to say after around 8 cars on one track online the game does tend to get a little laggy and loses all fun. The Graphics are pretty smooth for a release title and there seems to be no lagg even though the game is very fast paced which i am very impressed with. The game doesn't quite look as good as Project Gotham 3 but the visual is in the sam quality. The sound of the game is pretty impressive too, the cars sound realistic and where necesarry very powerful. I also liek the guy who talks to you thoughout the race, he give you tips and tells you things like when other players are using their nitrous. The music is not to my taste although there is an option that lets you use the music from your 360's harddrive which is prety cool. Too bad i can get music from my mp3 player or pc to work with the ingame tracks but i guess i could just play it though my xbox and turn the ingame music off.
So in short this game is a great, fast paced arcade racer where the main aim is to outdrift your opponents. I think it is one of, if not the best racer i have played and would reccomend it to any one. Also this game has been out a long time is you should beable to find it very cheap.