Skip this one. I've played many racing games, including many Need for Speed games, and I can tell you this is by far one of the worst Need for Speed games I've ever played. Let's get the good out of the way first...it may actually have more positives than negatives, but as you'll see in a minute the bad will outweigh the good. The graphics are fantastic...I mean really the best looking NFS game to date. The soundtrack is cool and it really goes well with the Miami (or is it Tampa) underground racing scene theme the game is going for. You actually get to make your own character this time around, so you get to play as a plank of wood that looks how you want, rather than a plank of wood that looks the way the devs wanted. The driving at first is very wonky, but can be fine-tuned to fit your driving style, and it feels good then once you've got it tweaked. The car customization is great, though sometimes skins won't load if you're having connection problems. At least it's not Payback...ugh, Payback.... But as for the negative, we have, of course, the worst rubber banding AI I've ever seen. It actually goes both directions here. The cars in front of you will be sped up so that you can't quite catch them, and the cars behind you will be sped up to keep up with you, or slowed down to stay behind you if you're not doing very well. So every race...EVERY race plays out like this: rush to get up front near the beginning, first four cars get away from you, lead the pack on the last four cars and then you will stay there the entire race. Fifth place. You're going to get 5th place in every race. If you make a big mistake at some point, maybe you'll get 6th. But never 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th. This is an annoyance during regular races, but at least you still get paid well for those so you can keep upgrading and maybe eventually beat the race if you overpower your car enough. Where it completely breaks the game is when you try to do one of the campaign races. Yes, the AI performs pretty much the same in the campaign races. You either do them when your car is waaaaayy overpowered, or you get 5th place and tread water in the campaign. Skip it. I have no idea why this game has gotten praise from the NFS community. It was supposed to be yet another return to form I think, and it just failed at that because of the bad AI. I actually just returned to this game after several months of not playing it, because I wanted to see if they fixed the AI. This game could be a great casual racer if they did, but alas, it's still the same. Has been since the beginning. I didn't bother trying out the pursuits again this time around because after seeing the AI is still the same, I would guess they didn't bother to improve. The problem before was that cops are pretty much impossible to evade unless you go over a ramp. There was a ramp in downtown that jumped over the bay and if you just used it over and over again, you'd lose the cops every time, but it was the only consistent way to drop a pursuit and that just got old after a while. Why did NFS Most Wanted 2005 do this so well and yet they can't simply copy and paste that system. The pursuits are just busted, no pun intended. I own this game on Origin, so I couldn't drop a Steam review or I would have. This game sucks. Play Most Wanted 2005 or Rivals. I'm going back to Rivals.