My nickel ...
I was very excited to finallly get the game and had high expectations of it. Unfortunately, it let me down in many ways. Being chased by the police and crushing them with giant metal donuts is fun and all, but after a few hours, I just found the game to be tedious. Underground 2 had many negatives, but it also had a lot of positives to make the game interesting and worth playing.
Disappointing features or lack thereof ...
The lack of drift mode was thoroughly disappointing (I'm only up to 11th on the Blacklist, so if I haven't reached it yet, correct me). That mode alone kept me playing Underground for over a year with my friends and Underground 2 for several months (wasn't as much fun on U2) ... I'm confident every one of my friends would also say that was their favourite mode, as well ...
I can't believe they kept lanes for drag racing. That feature has always got my blood boiling in the previous NFS games and continues in this one.
No dyno tuning ...
That was a great feature of U2 that I thoroughly miss ...
No replays ...
I loved racing perfectly, pulling off excellent corners, drifts, jumps, and even flips and then watching them in 3rd person view in the replay. Also made it very easy to show off to my friends
Much less comprehensive visual tuning ... My creativity has been stifled ...
The AI is still terrible ...
Unrealistic prices ... Mustang costs more than a Lexus IS300 ? On what planet ?
To sum up: I played pretty every NFS game up to this one non-stop through to the end ... After 1 night, I'm fairly indifferent to playing MW again ...
Some people may say that it's not supposed to be like NFSU2, but I disagree. I think that with any gaming series, you should keep what's good in the previous games, fix/replace/remove the bad, and continue to add new features. With this most recent entry into the NFS line, I feel that they removed a lot of good that should've been left alone and left too much of the bad.
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