Great technical achievement but something's missing to be a great game.
Unfortunately, you need something more to create a great game.
Although it is about driving, this game doesn't offer a notable enjoying driving experience (hey, remember Flatout ? - that's what I'm talking about). The missions you encounter in the game are very few and, as a consequence, boring. If you play one mission, you probably have no motivation to play another which looks the same. The races lacks any decent challenge. Speaking, all the characters encountered into the game are the same, except they are dressed different. The character's animations are hilarious sometimes. There are no characters interactions in this game. Maybe would have been great if there were people on the streets. This way, you won't have even the satisfaction of chasing peoples or wrecking your car or the surroundings in a desperate attempt to do something enjoying (not that I would recommend this in real life, but in a video - game this is FUN). By the way, would not have been great to play GTA San Andreas on this graphic engine? Because, in the end, this game, to me, looks like a technical demo of the graphic engine, for which, I must congratulate once again the developers.