EU Bigpoint/7Games Edition = Butchered with dysfunctional community.
The game is centred on an island, with a unmanned vehicle threat which becomes harmful for the resident and inhabitants of this island. The solution is to import drivers from aboard to battle this threat. One of these drivers is you.
For a typical GT game, the game has it's own classes, customization of parts and performance options.
For those that have played the Ijji version, will notice that the selection has been switched. Firstly the vehicle selection has been changed, this is solely based on American trends and what players love, so it's more pricey here. So if you want the AE86 inspired 'Panda', you have to work EXTRA hard for it during a time trial, compared to American Coupon system and easy work.
A convertible has been downgraded during a patch, to the lowest spec vehicle, so tuning this vehicle would require in game money and LOADS of it.
A few items which were G coins, have found themselves for ingame money and a few items which were ingame money items have been switched to G Coins. These are the paint, stickers for your custom vinyls and bodykits. Bodykits in Ijji are ingame money. EU version is real money.
The coupon system is removed, making this game alot more un-rewarding, despite having the license reward system. Doing drift, oncoming trafffic combos and boosts isn't worth anything during your lifetime in this game, despite the Ijji having this rewarding mechanic.
You never have a chance to use the part you are rewards when you do the city patrol missions, solely because the game gives you advanced items.
One set of stats has been removed, which inbalances some of the story based missions. While the story missions are unfair in the Ijji version, it's alot WORST in this game, considering that your first attempt will always result in failure in the later missions. To fix this, you have to wait until the time runs out or crash, to add another 3 seconds to the clock. Sometimes you have to do this 30 times in order to get the desired time you want.
On the positive note, the game maintains the graphics of the big open world city and the vehicles that make the MMO worth it's eye candy, however in the case of the EU edition, that's all you get to see. So even if you complete the story, you may want to keep your account and await the latest patches for the new content of the game.
Finally It's the mods and community that make this community and MMO into a joke. With the license system offering a good oppotinuty, players from higher levels, with 300 hours of in game time will enter low level races with fully kitted vehicles. You get alot of players wanting to kick out other players due to this, despite the game being designed for EVERYONE! Noobs get mistreated as a result.
GM events are set up, however many players are over level 80 or 90. Definatliy not MMO and the mods are voluttors and encourage other players to gang up on innocent players, who also just want to play the game. This always results in 'kick players out, answer questions LATER!', where many players have little or no clue to what they've done and having to ask the mods, when the mods have KICKED them out in the first place.
They preach the term 'This is bigpoint, NOT Ijji', whenever someone brings up Ijji, like players never knew that, which results in a spammy one liner in the community.
I suggest playing for Need for Speed World Online or CTRacer or finding a way to go to play the advanced, free to play Ijji version.
I give the European version a 5, solely because there already an advanced North American version, which makes you wonder why Sevengames could of taken that version with easy tweaks!