The potential....but haven't we heard that before.
Grip one, the difficulty, I like an exalarating race as much as the next person, but this game borders on ridiculously hard, you can run a flawless race, have a record lap time, and get 5th. And trust me, if you overshoot one corner, restart the race, and try again, you will not catch up.
Grip two, Multiple huge expansive maps. sounds great. Every hill, Every corner, every bit of it looks identical. Sure it's set in the baja, a desert...you can only do so much, but I dont care if you put 2 million miles of map in this game, there is still no variety. you unlock maps, and you feel like your playing the same one.
grip three the customizing of your cars is pointless, you get better cars, better tires, better engine, your placing is never affected, and quite often to afford the next class of car, you ahve to run the same races you've done over n over, not even playing every 3rd map, the other 2/3rds u feel greatful for 3rd place.
this game just missed. it's a little bit of uniqueness in the area of repeatedtive racing, but...it ends up being more repeatedtive then most. pure had more fun in the playing, and motorstorm looks like it implimented the ideas that baja tried to have, you'd be better off going with one of those.