Great driving game...but just that.
The main idea is great...you are left in Hawaii with enough money to buy a house and a cheap car, then you must race race and make some other missions to earn some money and, well, to earn some missions to make always the same, buying cars and houses.
The car list is very extensive and the recent car pack gives you more possibilities with a new set of cars, very suitable for the players bored of the old models.
About the visuals, the game looks nice and can be played almost by anyone, however, there some small issues concerning the graphical engine quite annoying, like the small possibilities offered to play the game at the maximum possibilities. The Anti aliasing is limited to 4 and you can't adjust the drawing distance, for instance, provoking small eventual crashes.
Probably, the best thing about that game is the freedom that bring you...you can go wherever you go and drive as fast as you want, however, in my opinion, the worst thing about that game is again that freedom. Sometimes you don't know what to do, missions are quite repetitive and some of them are even annoying, cause you have to repeat them constantly to be able to bring a car to their final destination without a crash cause the IA of this game is quite ridiculous. Traffic cars turn constantly without a reason or just because they saw you.
To sum up, the game is OK, probably more that OK, but the game play and the artificial intelligence make of that game a non recommended game for people without patience.