Yet another episode of "Codemasters doesn't know what to with its franchises". Featuring decent visuals with an explosion of color that gets boring quickly, and cool audio design that gets rolled over by the annoying festival music.
Saddest of all is the gameplay, which can't decide whether it wants to be Dirt, OnRush, Motorstorm or an unholy combination of all of them. Oversteery cars, overly winding tracks and some of the worst fucking rubberbanding this side of Most Wanted. It's masterable, but dull.
Having two meh games in a row coupled with the EA acquisition leads me to believe this is the last we'll see of the franchise for a long-ass while, as Codemasters will probably just stick to pumping out F1 and WRC games yearly and nothing more.