An essentially perfect balance of arcade and sim-y racer imo. The mid-game section gets pretty hard but I always kept coming back to see if I could clear it, and eventually I did! Racing well isn't the only thing you have to do to win, since you have to drive stylishly to earn kudos points in order to actually win events. Mixing the more grounded and weighty controls that you would expect in a more serious sim racer with a point system that favors combos in a very tony-hawk esque style results in a game I can't get enough of. This game could absolutely be perfected if they changed the way that kudos are actually accumulated in your total though, since it seems like it only counts the highest total from each event and adds it to create your total. If it were accumulative and even kudos from failed runs counted to the total I think that would help the pacing. Other than that, I think this is the best launch title on the Xbox. Yes, even better than Halo.