Like... Bruh... It's legendary, i know, but without nostalgia this game is aged pretty badly. Tuning is poorly existing, game long as hell (and repetitve races there, yeah!) and forcing me to mess up with cops, than just removes all my heat level on the new car (and a bit after visual tuning) so i can suffer with this idiot AI again, and protecting this little baby 1-2 heat cop, so he will not execute himself, or miss me in a straight road. Many laps races with crazy robberband also here)))
But game has this magical charm and vibe in it, also soundtrack obviously banger and always has been (but "i will rock" kinda annoyed me after hearing it this much). Overhyped, in total. In general, if you like tons of stupid AI cops chases and grind repetitive races it's for you. Not bad, but not that good as people with strong nostalgia saying.