Exactly. I take offense at people conflating these two games because Driveclub has fewer features than any of the modern PGR games, not to mention *any* city courses, which were the whole namesake of those games.
PGR games had strong photo modes, great replay cameras, fun offbeat single & multiplayer modes like cat-and-mouse, underpowered team leader, cone-challenge motocross, and infection. It had outstanding presentation that stood out among its peers, both in style and in technology, like Project Gotham TV. It branched out from its original focus on a wide variety of supercars into motorcycles as it pushed weather and time-of-day in ways uncommon in the genre. It let players create courses through its cities to share and challenge others. It let players fill out a literal garage you could walk through to admire your favorite cars, and play arcade games in your garage like Geometry wars, built into those games. It had a whole suite of music to almost every taste, organized though the in-game logic of radio stations you'd flip through in your car.
Driveclub is none of those things, and it has every advantage of technology, time and money, and years of hindsight on its developer's part. When someone invokes the name of this series, they had have a better sense of why that game was great. And no, it wasn't "good graphics and unrealistic handling."
