I bought the Drive Club PS4 bundle, and had high hopes for the game. The menus are easy to follow, the scenery looks amazing and the detail on the cars is truly impressive. The handling isn't great, and there is no way to change suspension etc (Probably to keep the game simple) but I guess I could get used to it. So you get onto the road to race and the game ruining flaw is obvious, the A.I. (Or to be more accurate, the lack of!) You are driving in a straight line, and the car beside you turns into you for no reason other than to try to get onto the racing line, and before you know it you are facing the wrong way. If you manage to make it cleanly to the first corner, and the mini-map tells you that it is a tight bend, naturally, you hit the break! None of the computer cars do! They just pile into you and each other, and the exit of the first corner resembles the desert scene from the end of 'Smokey and the Bandit 2'. A road blocked by half a dozen cars bashing into each other to try to get back facing in the right direction, meaning the only way to succesfully navigate that corner, is to restart the race, deliberately drop to the back of the pack, leave them to their wreck, and pass half the field while their guide dogs try to sort out the insurance paperwork!
Such a shame that the developers wasted all the time they spent on the admittedly wonderful graphics, by making the gameplay so unforgivably shocking! Maybe it is difficult to program A.I. into such an unpredictable discipline as car racing, but they could have at least made the AI aware of other cars in the RACE!!!!!!
*I want to add, that since my review there have been a number of updates to the game. Adding weather effects does add to the challenge of driving and is visually impressive. But most of all, it seems that they have tweaked the AI behaviour which I have found (After returning to the game just to give it another chance!) has made the computer controlled cars seemingly more 'aware' of yourself and each other.
These patches, in my eyes, have raised the game from a 4 to a 6. By no means perfect, but at least playable now!