NFS Pro Street - The Good , The Bad and the Pro

At first there was disappointment. After, i got kinda used to it. Today, i played it a lot. This is how the new entry in the well known NFS series evolved in my life.

My first impression, driving the Nissan was very disapointing. The car camera felt out of place, the car felt too rigid and weightless, the graphics seamed ok, but not at all as impressive as in the pre-rendered trailers.

The cars look very good, not as great as they do in the trailers, but overall they look great. All the tracks lookalike. No variety at all. The game has nothing spectacular. In the end, you`ll end up playing the game because of the good looking cars, and not for the satisfaction of driving, as it should be.

The Good:

1. The cars look extremly good
2. The car - damage looks great.
3. No useless free-roam. GREAT! If i wanna "free roam" i play GTA , thank you.
4. The AI is overall OK. Some of them make mistakes, overall it`s a stiff challenge many times.

The Bad:

1. There are few good looking cars. The customizations for the exotic cars are very disappointing. You have to play with ordinary low budget city cars a couple of hours before gaining access to the nicer looking or some of the exotic ones. The cars don`t have a sense of weight. Just can`t feel the cars weight. The sounds are overall OK. The comments are ANNOYING, i turned it down to 0 after hearing RYAN`s name for the 1233123 time.
2. The tracks look overall all the same. I cannot think of the exotic places in NFS Hot Pursuit 2 or the great level design in the first NFS. And i don`t even wanna start with NFS Porsche, that was the greatest NFS game ever created.
3. NFS is not a classic arcade driving game, but it`s not a simulator neither. I think the developer guys wanted something like Gran Turismo or FOrza Series, too bad it didn`t even came close. So we are left with a 70% arcade/30%simulator game, featuring cars that are just too rigid, don`t have weight, and are not that enjoyable as they could have been.
4. There could have been more cars. I don`t think NFS series has reached 100, when games like Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport feature a couple of hundreds, i think at least 100 cars would be a good start.
5. Nothing spectacular. No rain/snow/weather effects.
6. Annoying soundtrack.