-Voice acting is cheap, cheerful and really annoying. The urge to skip cutscenes is a constant. -Menus feel cheesy and bloated, I wish there was a real 3, 2, 1, GO! instead of the viewing my car from various different angles -Graphics are pretty but nothing to shout about. The world mostly feels open and empty and I could achieve the same levels of fun from GTAV or other open world games that include racing. -Sound is very mediocre. The backing tracks to most of the game are frankly annoying as hell and warrant instant turning off in the settings. Overall the game is actually quite fun, though the race mechanics feel quite dull, you can't really do "tricks" in any of the vehicles except maybe the plane, the game has everything you would expect from a car game, you press one stick to go, the other to brake and one button for turbo. Something mario kart did better nearly a decade ago. Really, i don't understand Ubisofts directions with games in recent year, they seem to be constantly churning out mediocre half finished and boring crap then selling you the other half of the game for 33.99 in a "season pass" I would say this is a "good" game but not at the current price points. This is a huge cash grab from Ubi to reap back profits on a pretty mediocre product.
I wanted so much to love this game, the beta was almost perfect. Then the game released and EA took it's preverbial crap on it like it does with everything else. This is a company that's far more bothered about pleasing investors than creating popular and loved results from it's customer base. I will never buy another EA product again, completely done with this company. It's like a bad relationship where the partner lies constantly but you just can't believe it. Well, the rose tinted glasses are gone. Never again.
