Overall the game is great.

The visuals are awesome, and the city through which you race is very impressive. The graphics really serve to immerse you in the game. There is some use of blurring in the game, but this only happens when traveling at incredibly high speeds, which helps you to really feel that you are going 191 miles an hour.

There is a great selection of vehicles from which to choose your car, and all of them are upgradeable. One of the motivations you sill find to try to advance through the rankings is to unlock the next level of parts. The engine, transmission, suspension, brakes, tires, and nos are upgradeable on all cars. Some cars have an added feature of a turbo, which ups the power of the car. The cars found range from an Eclipse to a Supra to a Mercedes to a Corvette to a Viper, etc. There are also 32 other cars you can buy, though some are locked until beating certain ranked racers.

The handling of the vehicles is great, the controls are responsive, and you have to smile when you manage to take a turn at 180 mph, feeling the car try to drift off the road and spin out of control. Occasionally this does happen, but it is realistic in that it only happens because you are traveling at such high speeds.

The soundtrack is something else that is wonderful. All of the songs fit into the adrenaline-filled world of the street racing.

With all of these details, I have to say that I would have loved the game to no end, if it wasn't for the glitch. When I was playing, I made it to Blacklist #4 out of 15. My roommate had played through the entire Blacklist before I was able to race #4, so I don't know if that was the cause, though on two separate save files, it shouldn't have changed anything in any other ones. Anyway, when I before I completed all of the race requirements to race #4, it said that he was defeated. At that time I just thought it was a minor glitch, but no big deal. Then I took the car I was driving to the auto shop to see if I had all of the available upgrades, and I found that I could purchase some parts that previously said that I had to defeat #3. At this point, I was beginning to be worried, and when I finished all of the requirements to race #4, I found that my worries were justified. I could not race #4, as it said that he was already defeated by me. This meant that I also could not race #3, #2, or #1. This means that I could not complete the game. I was furious at this, but I thought that occasionally glitches happen.

Yesterday, I started a new game, under a different name, and began the races all over again. When I made it to #11, I checked back through the list and found that the game had glitched away the races I had done for #13, saying that I had not done any of them. After redoing all of those races, I looked back at #11, and it said that I had defeated him. I completed all of the requirements to try to race him and it would not let me.

My roommate completed the career mode before me, but I do not know if this had anything to do with the glitch or not.

I hate to say not to play the game, because I loved playing it when it worked, but with the glitches making it unplayable, it definitely interrupts the gameplay.