
This is a port of a racing game that doesn't properly support racing wheels, forcing you to play with a keyboard or, if the stars allign, maybe a 360 gamepad. Reportedly, at times it crashes even WITH a 360 controller. Simply put, if you plug in anything other than X360 controller, the game crashes on launch.

Barren options menus, crash-prone, no longer available on Steam (and if you already have it on Steam it launches Uplay anyway) and, most importantly, extremely poor gamepad/wheel support. I don't know if the game is any good on the consoles (it was well-received), but the PC version is a disaster. I don't know if the game is any good on In usual Ubisoft fashion, the game is a bad port of a console game that literally doesn't even work. In usual Ubisoft fashion, the game is a bad port of a console game that literally doesn't even work. I still had a lot of fun with this arcade-racer and if you are looking for a racing game that tries something different you should give Driver San Francisco a shot. The checkpoints sometimes forces you to replay needless bits, the environment is quite static and there is some invisible walls here and there, cinematic-views sometimes take away the control of your car in critical times, lack of customization, some gameplay bits in certain missions just doesn't work very well and the game does look kind of visually dated here and there.

I thought the driving worked well enough as an arcade racer but i seldom play racing-games so i don't know how it compares to other games in its genre. The conversations that occur when you shift both in free roaming and in narrated side missions also works really well and i found myself smirking from time to time. The story was actually surprisingly decent and it really fits with the shift-function. I completed the campaign in 12 hours but I had a lot of side missions left to do. It is also used quite frequently in the game in a lot of different ways making the game really stand apart from other racing game. The shift-function works really well and and feel like a core part of the gameplay and not just some stupid gimmick.

The shift-function works really well and and feel like a core part of the gameplay and not just some stupid I enjoyed playing this game.
