I think carheads would really dig this game, but I'm not one of them.
I feel like a lot of its DNA was later carried over into Hot Pursuit 2. At least mechanically and in terms of track design, it felt very similar to me. And I like HP2.
But I really hated this game's presentation. I can't stand sunsets most of the time, and in this game like 70% of all races take place at sunset. And I rarely care if the music isn't good, but here I found it so annoying. I actually ended up turning it off and driving in silence, which is something I rarely do.
Also not a huge fan of the whole "drive all Porsches through the ages" thing. The old ones are very slow and hard to control. I get that for carheads this is a great opportunity to try out cars you rarely see in video games, but for me it just felt boring and sometimes frustrating. And you have to play the old cars to unlock the new ones.
The career mode is essentially progressing through the history of Porsche, unlocking new cars as you go along. You can't play newer cars in single races either, until you unlock and buy them in the career mode. There is also a sort of secondary career mode, where you're just doing stunts, and I'm not interested in that at all.
This game just wasn't made for me. It's like every creative decision they made (other than the core gameplay mechanics) was designed specifically to annoy me.
I feel like a lot of its DNA was later carried over into Hot Pursuit 2. At least mechanically and in terms of track design, it felt very similar to me. And I like HP2.
But I really hated this game's presentation. I can't stand sunsets most of the time, and in this game like 70% of all races take place at sunset. And I rarely care if the music isn't good, but here I found it so annoying. I actually ended up turning it off and driving in silence, which is something I rarely do.
Also not a huge fan of the whole "drive all Porsches through the ages" thing. The old ones are very slow and hard to control. I get that for carheads this is a great opportunity to try out cars you rarely see in video games, but for me it just felt boring and sometimes frustrating. And you have to play the old cars to unlock the new ones.
The career mode is essentially progressing through the history of Porsche, unlocking new cars as you go along. You can't play newer cars in single races either, until you unlock and buy them in the career mode. There is also a sort of secondary career mode, where you're just doing stunts, and I'm not interested in that at all.
This game just wasn't made for me. It's like every creative decision they made (other than the core gameplay mechanics) was designed specifically to annoy me.