I Found it Fun
You are offered well done courses set in exotic locations, you can choose to race on them day or night, or fowards or reverse. You first have a few, but once you get far, you get them all. You have the tough Canadian Rockies, and the dark and long Black Forest. Then there is the snowy wintery city of New York (the Viper models from Test Drive 5 can be seen frozen on the Brooklyn Bridge, plus 2 shortcuts, one that maybe I only found). The perilous hills of Mt. Fuji, the ruins of Yucatan, and the autumn rural areas of Vermont. Then there is the tough bayous of New Orleans, and the sandy deserts of Egypt, and the really hard and long Tibet.
Then there's the cars, still no color change like the previous games. You still have some good machines. The Hummer is seriously much better than dull, slow one in TDOR 2, and the other default cars are kind of ignorable, there is the Nissan Xterra, the Subaru Outback (which is surprsingly decent), the Chenowth DR1-V (which is extremely slow and can't climb hills) the Ford F-150, the Nissan Frontier, the Dodge Ram, the Jeep Cherokee, and the Wrangler (the weakest vehicle in the entire game).
The locked cars are a pain to get, but they are worth it. The Wrangler Sport is fun and fast, much better than the default Wrangler. The Pathfinder is an okay SUV, the Hummer Wagon is awesome, the Chenowth DPV is less exciting than the one in TDOR 2, the Humvee is amazing, the Ram V8's an okay pick, the Rover Ambulance is extremely slow, the Defender 90 (which is surprisingly a locked car) is cool, the Isuzu Vehicross is awesome and wicked fast, the Humvee Carrier is interesting, the SA-9 Gaskin looks like fun, but it's really slow. The Ford and Saleen Explorers are cool, and so is that Shelby Durango, and the wicked Racing F-150.
Good course selection and car selection, and a decent career sum up this great game. I think the negative reviews are wrong, I had so much fun with this game. The graphics are bit worse on this though, and the game style acts like Test Drive 5 (for instance, the camera pan when you start and win a race). And the soundtrack is not my flavor, and the sounds are less interesting than TDOR 2. But it is still a fun game. It should please hardocre fans of the Test Drive or Test Drive: Off-Road series.