The jewel case touts their new Auto Paint System, but the cars are generally a solid color with no reflections or metallic look to them at all. Sound and music are excellent but only good enough to get this game the half a star it received. Infogrames apparently decided to follow in Grand Turismo's footsteps with the premise that great music makes a great game. Computer AI is a joke. If you do manage to catch up with the pack they are unaware of your presence and will smash into you like you aren't even there, leaving you cursing on the sidewalk while they recover almost instantly and drive away.
Police are present only as another annoyance.
That's fine when the game is about keeping away from the cops but not when you are trying to win a street race. And why on Earth would police be patrolling a closed-circuit race. There is no car damage so crashing only results in you losing time and often the race. Then you bet on the race and try to win money to buy more upgrades and bigger and better cars. Make sure to keep a stack of cash handy to pay off the cops that don't crash into you.