Just a bad tie-in for 1 brand of car and offers little variety doing so...
The graphics in this game are bad..very bad. Even for a PS1 title its terrible. When you have terrible graphics on the PS1, oh boy does it show. The environments are flat and bland with little variety in them. The cars are blocky and the model of the driver is so poor that it looked like a bunch of monkeys were working on it. The pedestrians are on the side of the road at all times and seem to look like cardboard cut-outs rather than actual people.
The gameplay for this game is decent, but it's full of glitches. The car seems to merge and melt into the wall, which means that the developers really didn't seem to care about the game having any probable happenings in it. You can collide with objects before you even hit them and they can sometimes have you still accelerating even though they're right in front of you. The only good thing that I could possibly have to say about this game is the decent variety it offers in terms of game modes and race types. The cars are a completely different story, though as they all control basically the same and since the game is focused on one brand of car, it offers up very little variety. The other good thing that I forgot to mention earlier is that you can damage your car, but its a feature that is quickly cast in the shadows of bad game design and bland graphics.
Overall, this is one game in the NFS line-up that is better left forgotten and should not be played. Just pass this title up and go for the better one, and trust me, there are plenty of NFS games better than this one.