Played it on free weekend; the game could be fun but locks too much away behind a progression system.

As an example: each track/event has a beginner/med/hard difficulty. On beginner difficulty, the AI opponents drive poorly, but medium difficulty expects you to have an upgraded car (all the AI opponents do) so you have to play for hours to upgrade your car via the random loot drops to even get to race against challenging opponents.

The whole game is grindy like this. Skip it

Played it on free weekend; the game could be fun but locks too much away behind a progression system. As an example: each track/event has a beginner/med/hard difficulty. On beginner difficulty, the AI opponents drive poorly, but medium difficulty expects you to have an upgraded car (all the AI opponents do) so you have to play for hours to upgrade your car via the random loot drops to even get to race against challenging opponents. The whole game is grindy like this. Skip it