The absolute worst. A game with a mediocre core and some genuinely bad aspects.
The mediocre:
- Limp, featureless handling
- Blurry yet obnoxious graphics
- A career which sort of pootles along and 'climaxes' with a jaunt around a damp Norwegian village in a Volkswagen Touareg at speeds of UP TO NINETY MILES AN HOUR!!!!!!!! and then another race after the credits?
The awful
- The worst implementation of vibration in any game I've played for a very long time, culminating in a 'big patch' where they made it even worse and forced me to turn it off entirely as it was making my hands literally numb. Hilariously that also pretty much deactivates the active triggers.
- Obnoxious audio, from the awful podcast 'banter' between races to the actual sound mix which seems to be set to "make the user think his receiver is broken" dynamic range setting, with your engine veeringly wildly from barely audible to max volume. I've got a menu up with music playing, in the 'home cinema' setting and the volume is fluctuating.
Glad to get the drive space back.
The mediocre:
- Limp, featureless handling
- Blurry yet obnoxious graphics
- A career which sort of pootles along and 'climaxes' with a jaunt around a damp Norwegian village in a Volkswagen Touareg at speeds of UP TO NINETY MILES AN HOUR!!!!!!!! and then another race after the credits?
The awful
- The worst implementation of vibration in any game I've played for a very long time, culminating in a 'big patch' where they made it even worse and forced me to turn it off entirely as it was making my hands literally numb. Hilariously that also pretty much deactivates the active triggers.
- Obnoxious audio, from the awful podcast 'banter' between races to the actual sound mix which seems to be set to "make the user think his receiver is broken" dynamic range setting, with your engine veeringly wildly from barely audible to max volume. I've got a menu up with music playing, in the 'home cinema' setting and the volume is fluctuating.
Glad to get the drive space back.