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Reviewed by:
Gerasimos Manolatos

The Skinny: No real mind-blowing story here: Take control of more than 45 of the world's slickest cars and prove your worth on the track. C'monnn, prove your worth! Please? You know you want to.

The Good: Probably the best vehicle game play on a console, managing to be arcadey and fun while maintaining some degree of reality—meaning, if you hit a wall seven times, your car may explode. Plus, when you crash on Lap 1 and lose your bumper on the track, it doesn't magically disappear by Lap 2.

The Bad: With predecessors like Forza Motorsport 2 boasting over 200 cars and Grand Turismo 5: Prologue claiming 70 unique selections, 45 vehicles is comparatively ghetto. Also, multiplay isn't integrated as seamlessly with single-player mode as games like Test Drive Unlimited and Burnout Paradise, which threw you into races without the need to press 11,000 buttons.

Everybody Deserves a Second Chance: You get a certain number of do-overs (depending on difficulty level) that allow you to rewind the race up to five seconds. Oh, what we'd give to have that in real life.

Buy, Rent, or Disembowel? It's certainly worth the purchase, but be prepared to hate the first 10 minutes spent adjusting to how cars really make left turns. (We're looking at you GTA IV.)

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