I really was anticipating this game and by the time it hit the shelves I collected my money and bought it. I started playing the game, 20 hours later I was done.. X_X I don't what the creators of this game were thinking releasing it as a brand new title, I guess NFS Most Wanted:Carbon would make it alot easier as this game is merely an extension of the previous NFS. It starts were MW ended. and of course you lose all your cars even the BMW and starts from scratch, A new "improvement" is the side kicks, sometimes they really come in handy, and sometimes you wish you could just eliminate them from the race. Maybe the creators were thinking that the players will be more interested in the unlockables than the story coz there sure is a lot of em but unfortunately some of them will get months and maybe years to unlock especially the 1,000,000$ card which is so hard to get. All in all this does not come as an improvement or even try to climb to the MW level it just goes down and down, you'll play it for a week, a month maybe then you will forget about it.