Got potential but needs more improvements

Positives
+ Map with lots of terrain varieties (City, Highway, Docks, Mountain Road)
+ Good selection of customizations for each car. Lots of well known kits are available in this game
+ A garage system for storing your cars. This add a bit of immersion to the game

Negatives
- AI needs balancing, they stick to the racing line like a glue, when you race them and cross their racing line the AI will force you out of their way often making your car spin out. Catching up with them after a spin/crash is also out of question since they also sped up when you use nitrous. Forcing you to restart when it happened
- Lack of narrative/some sort of story. After the intro narrative there is nothing resembling something similar throughout the game. Not even in text form

It might just be me, but I get Midnight Club 2 nostalgia, like L.A. and Tokyo map combined, but with more modern quality of life. Just a classic meet up with a racer or a club, and beat them. I like the map design, from city, to highway racing, mountain roads with hairpins to the Raceway, there's a lot of variety.

The AI seems to be worst than before, they constantly want to kill you it seems, and they're like a brick wall. It makes it a little frustrating during Elite Races in the X2 multipliers. I'm hoping they can fix this.

I really don't like the snow added i'm guessing for winter, but i already live in snow so this is kind of annoying, mostly when you still see hot air balloons and typical L.A. atmosphere combined with snow, and the awful glaring affect and white sky box is depressing. Colours seem muted because of it.

Cars feel unique to drive, from one another, and feel great after some tuning. You can really change the characteristics of a vehicle feel. its a fun arcade sim with a growing car selection trying to meet every car sub-cultures from around the world.

You have to retry like 2 times a race because the AI cars have god mode and do not react to physics at all.