Colin McRae series turned into Need for Speed. And that's not good. Disappointing and funless career mode. Here's why...
Second, handling sucks. When first two CMR came out it felt so realistic at the time (Richard Burns Rally hadn't been released yet), you were driving sometimes for 25-30 minutes per stage. Now it's all short, career is a mixed bag of too many cars and stages where you can't focus on one's car handling - plus handling itself is horrible, does not feel like a car at all. Like they did it for people that can't spend time to learn to drive, but thats the thing with rally games they get fun once you learn how to drive a bit! Interestingly using camera from inside of a car gives much better feel for the car. I don't know why but it feels different - better. But view area is too limited so its very hard to drive like that.
Career mode sucks so gameplay is not fun. I played until i finished career but didn't feel fun. Sound is ok. Ahhh the menues - OMG i almost forgot how incredibly irritating the menus are. Too console like! What ever happened with PC like menus. PC gamers like to get through menus quickly but here everything takes couple of seconds, there's always some saving/loading when going through menus (i really don't know what for!) and after all saves you get a message saying saving was successful which takes 3-4 seconds every single time. IRRITATING LIKE HELL. And game didn't allow going through menues using gamepad but only using keyboard. How sick is that? Sitting comfortably in your chair but having to lean forward everytime you need to move through the menus?! Very bad. Multiplayer is boring. They need to completely change the direction or cancel Colin McRae series altogether.