It actually even surpassed my expectations so far. The graphics and especially lighting are incredible, even without HDR on base PS4 (was a bit disappointed with the Rallye track though). The menus are slick as fuck, the new electronical menu music is sophisticated and modern, racing music is great too, AI seems really good and challenging. Physics feel great as well, best in the series by far...sadly I don’t have a wheel yet. The whole menu presentation, replays, videos, little informations and infos on cars and everyday life, music etc feels incredible...could watch it all day. Best screensaver ever! The scapes mode is something I as a photographer myself are going to spend days in. Didn’t touch the livery editor yet.
I can’t wait to try online (servers are down atm sadly) and especially VR at a friend's house.
So glad to say even the sound is great this time, would you believe it.
And yeah, the rally track is hard as fuck. The only complaint I have is they still didn’t include an option to turn down the tire screeching separately! Wtf PD, how hard can it be?!
I was sceptical about the new career mode myself, but it seems I understand their new approach now. Copied from another thread...”all your single player races, time trials, drift or VR races, and especially online races earn you money, experience and other factors which make you level up, win cars and enable you to buy them in order to progress in the new personal career. Every player can chose to create his own personal career in the way he wants to progress. It’s a new way of thinking and pretty incredible once you’ve wrapped your head around it”