SvennoJ on 27 June 2015
| LudicrousSpeed said: I think people are badly mistaken when they assume DC scored what I did because of server issues. A. Sony (or Evolution, one of them) said recently that the servers were functional for reviewers. B. A vast majority of the low scoring reviews I have seen either don't even touch on network issues, or barely mention them. It's not a situation where a 71 meta game would have been a 90 or something. Or even an 80. |
Some reviews lowered the score because of server issues. Many day 1 reviews did not indeed.
At the time of review many reviewers felt track racers were outdated and far inferior to open world racers.
Plus the long delay might have also played a part in reviews, together with the fact that weather was teased at E3 yet still not included at launch. Add low car count, no car tuning (which are both actually a plus for online competition and leaderboards based on driving skills) and DC simply didn't fit the image of what a next-gen racer should be.
Instead it's an amazingly polished track racer with old school addictive gameplay combined with endless online challenges. There is always something to try to beat.
