I am afraid I must disagree with the glowing review given here. If this series has been a mainstay of the Playstation platform, I wonder how the system has survived all these years because this game does NOT make 'driving fun'. The most fatal flaw is a lack of any opportunity for the user to take his cars out for a test drive separate from any race and without any other cars on the track. This would at least afford the user the courtesy of allowing them to learn the mechanics of driving before throwing them into the thick of a race. Also, the computer driven cars appear to have speed, acceleration and handling that is 5x greater than anything the users machine can muster. In every race, the user will NEVEr catch up to (much the less pass) another car and, within seconds, the lead car( as indicated on the course map) is already halfway around the track. I have never finished a race 'with the pack' and have, in every instance been lapped by them at least once in each race. There doesn't appear to be anything that can be done to keep up with the computer controlled cars. They are significantly faster.

As such, a game where you are guaranteed humiliating, last-place, never finishes the course, defeats in every case eventually ends up being an exercise in futility that is the complete opposite of 'fun'.

However, I am amazed that the system proports to show 'rankings' from users around the world. However, the point totals that they appear to have amassed is, frankly, unbelievable and I suspect that it is the result of skillful hacking rather than skilful driving.

I am sorry to say that the primary emotion that accompanies playing this game is the desire to smash the disc with a hammer and put an end to the pointless pain.

I agree , this game sucked.