So the story is throwaway and some of the modes repetitive, but the venues themselves are detailed, varied and luscious. While voice talent includes Nolan North, your rivals are too shallow and after a while, I found it difficult to care. While you are progressing through each stage, the folks from the popular podcast and YouTube channel Donut Media talk you through a storyline filled with witticisms. Neither would be making use of Smash Attack events that can be found in the Playgrounds mode. Some time trial events or rallycross with a joker lap wouldn’t go amiss. While it’s possible to blast your way to the end of the career mode in around four hours, completionists will want to finish every event and it’s in doing this that the rebranding of races really starts to hit home. The aim is to finish first, earn cash, level up XP level, all helping to unlock more events.

Buggy, a Ford F-150 Raptor pick up truck and the classic 90s Subaru Impreza rally car. A concoction of the aforementioned events, it taps into the wonderfully varied car list – including the Aston Martin DBX, an electric VW ID. The career is where you’ll spend the bulk of your time. I’m not really sure why they have different names, other than to create faux variety. Some tracks are on ice instead of gravel. Event types with the names Stampeded, Land Rush, Ice Breaker and Ultra Cross are all variations on the same regular race.

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