It's a very challenging move for Need for Speed to make such a different type of racing game then they used to make. And I love what they did here, there is actually real challenge in this game, since the hard difficulty is really difficult in my opinion and I love that. The corner mastery (don't know if thats how it's called, I played the game in my own language, Dutch :P) mechanic is really cool and gave me extra motivation to drive as good as possible through the corners, instead of drifting through is and be a dirty driver like it normally is in a Need for Speed game.