A great racing game that you'll still be playing for months to come.
The first mode is World Tour. It's a big, long series of championships that you race through to win points that can then be used to unlock bonus stuff (more on that later).
When you have completed the World Tour about 9-10 hours later, you can have a go at the Pro Tour. Pro Tour is essentially the same as World Tour, but the AI is better, the damage is more severe and you are forced to use a manual gearbox.
After that, we have Simulation. This mode allows you to have normal races against the computer, set your best lap times and try your hand at many challenges that involve driving through rings, reaching a top speed, overtaking as many cars as you can as well as several others.
Also, you can play some Multiplayer too. With just one copy of the game, four of you can race each other and the computer with a limited number of tracks and cars. If everyone has a copy of the game, you can all race using any car or track in the game. There is also an online mode so you can show the world your amazing skills. There is one problem though. This game doesn't appear to be very popular and so there aren't many people online. I have managed to get a few races going without any real lag, it just takes a lot of patience.
Speaking of online. This game also has online rankings for all the tracks in the game. The lists show the top ten times for the track and allows you to download any ghost you like so you can try and beat it. Race Driver also keeps track of EVERYTHING you do in the game. It knows and can tell you who you've raced in multiplayer, how many races you have won, what your favourite car and track is, how much time you've spent in each different mode etc. It even knows how much distance you've covered whilst racing.
Graphically, the game is quite good. It runs very smoothly and all the cars (and trucks!) look very real. The only downside is, as GameSpot pointed out, everything is quite grainy, which makes taking some of the corners a bit trickier than they should be. Also, if you look for it, you can see buildings and pieces of scenery pop in to view all of a sudden. It's nothing to worry about when your racing, it's just noticeable is all.
The only real problem is the sound. When you're in the menus there is an OK tune that never really gets annoying. It all falls apart when you're racing though. Whilst on the track there is no music, just a few rubbish "car" noises. Y'know, a few tyre squeals, a general brum brum noise and that's about it.
Does that matter? Not really. Just mute the sound, win the race, and take your winnings to the rewards shop. From here, you can buy bonus challenges, bonus championships, cheat codes, decals that you can use to customize cars for multiplayer and most importantly, track designer items. Yep, the word "create" is in the title for a reason. Race Driver on the DS has one of, if not the best level/track/park creator I've ever seen. You choose a starting point. From there you can select other pieces to put together in a scalextric sort of way. Or if you're feeling lazy, you can just draw out a basic circuit and then tweak it later. And thanks to the stylus, it's quick and easy to create masterpieces in only a few minutes. And with, all sorts of different straights, corners and scenery items to choose from, you are almost guaranteed never to see the same track twice. Also, it's possible to send created tracks to other people and download other's creations yourself so you can try creating and sending completely evil tracks that will torment your friends.
All in all Race Driver Create and Race is a brilliant racing game for the DS.It may not be the prettiest, and definitely not the best sounding game in the world, but the fun gameplay and almost insane amount of content is sure to playing for a long, long time.