At the time of playing I thought it was just good, maybe great. But that came from me not playing racing games for several games. But after the gamepass trial ended (and I finished the main race) I was left with the itch for some racing. I played through almost all NFS from U1 to MW12 and Dirt 4. And the game greatness opened up to me. The atmosphere is awesome, the driving is so good and it is just fun to drive around, challenges and races are fun, the whole online aspect is pretty interesting. Overall, the game just feels like it was made for people (you can make it as hard as you want, you can spend on tuning as much time as you want, you can buy any car almost from the begining...). Even though ALL these features were present to some degree in other racing games (be it online features of Criterion NFS's or even such small details as sharable configurations (Prostreet) and findable vehicles) they were never made at this level and in this one great package.