Defiantly worth the $39.99!
I will say I really enjoyed this game. I first bought the game only for the reason that I was in the military and was station in Hawaii, so I figured that I could drive in the video games some places I did in real life. I know that sounds corny but it is pretty cool.
The game play on this is great, I love how the cars handled for me, and I loved the lay out of everything. There are plenty of single player races and challenges. The achievements are somewhat easy to get, and some are a little difficult. But all in all game play is great.
The graphics are good, however; the repeated characters on everyone gets kinda dual, but easy looked over. I wished they had more buildings around. The roads are defiantly accurate from what I remember from 3 years ago.
The updates for this game never happen, but no big deal, you will get plenty of cars in the game to buy so purchasing more from marketplace would be a waste of money.
The value of the game is great, it cost only $39.99 and you get plenty of game play, I played just single player and got about 90 hours of game play out of it, that is not including multiplayer.
All and all its worth the $39.99 and your time!