Solid game though all the F3 and GT5 fanboys wont tell you

User Rating: 8.5 | Shift 2: Unleashed X360
Thought i would give my personal review on this game. Been alot of criticism about this game. Cant see why personally

The Good:

Alot of cars
Graphics are really nice (Xbox360)
Playing on Hard you will get a challenge in all game modes
Lots of things to do except just win (I play on hard and once you have it in the bag with two laps to go you can build up your XP and master corners
Career is a good length im about 46% and ive spent maybe 7 hours playing and the races i have left will be longer so alot of value
Alot of tracks i mean some are varients and short courses.
Online has Custom lobbies and different modes
The AI are good compared to some racing games.
Night races Are fun and scary on certain tracks
No rubber band AI

The Bad:

Handling was a bit dodgy until i changed my settings
Drifting is pretty much pointless and in my opinion nothing to do with Racing
No rewind if you crash on a long race (Not that i would personally use a rewind feature)
Probably the worst feature is online damage and no real penalty system.

Closing:

This game was never going to be a pure SIM but i wouldent call it an Arcade racer. Its an improvment on Shift 1.

For the hardcore racing gamers who wont somthing to compete with F3 it wont. For an EA game this is a good one...but it is an EA game and if you expect somthing groundbreaking you wont ever get it with EA

For reference on where it fits in on all the racing games of late in my opinion i would say its not as good as F12010 or F3 and its ten times better than Race Pro. It would be on Par with GRID