The game is a streamlined GT.
Jump into a race quickly, with individual challenges during rather than a seperate licence tests. Cars already tuned to make them fun to drive instead of googling tuning info. And some fantastic race tracks.
That's the thing, I don't want tuning of any kind, It overwhelms with choice and just makes me shit up my car for no good reason. In Burnout, I only drive about three different cars, one for race, one for stunt and one for last man standing so I just want good handling in the style that I like (usually drifty, high acceleration) and good tracks that I need to learn.
I've been dining out for years on a yellow Enzo GT and 15 tracks with Outrun C2C and it never gets tiring (no pun). I don't want too much choice, I want good design.
The AI are assholes. Every other race I get spun out in a corner or slammed off the road.
Oh you were gonna get all the stars for this championship? LOL nope. Restart the entire thing cause we ran you off the track and spun you out.
Just like the people sick of seeing the 3-second timer, I don't get this. If the AI makes a corner just before me they're going to cut in and take it, if I get there at the same time I have to sometimes give a little, if I'm way behind I take the corner well and maintain speed to get them at the next one. It's not about blasting through them, it's picking them off one or two at time and not getting greedy. It's also about staying on the road and braking as much as accelerating steadily. I mean, I'm shit at these games but I'm hardly seeing that countdown timer, and if I'm getting spun off by the AI I know why it happened, and it wasn't just sour luck.