Don't know why this keeps getting so many positive reviews, the game itself is terribly balanced around its completely arbitrary "Performance Index" system, managed by absolute greedy idiots and the competitive scene is rife with cheaters that never get punished.

The balance is atrocious, the Performance Index system is very poorly implemented to the point that there is little reason to use anything other than the top 3 of each performance score. I'm talking a difference of over 20 mph on straights and TONS of grip between two cars that are considered "equal". Not to mention that some cars are WAY overtuned compared to how they actually perform in the real world. (Authenticity issue at best) Supposedly the PI score is based on a simulation of how a car functions around a lap, but there's no way that's true when so many cars are way too overscored.

Performance between both Network and Client has been ass since release. FPS drops are common and Xbox Live constantly causes disconnects regardless of what you're doing. I don't think it's possible to maintain connection for more than an hour without being lucky.

So despite the game being set in mexico, it feels much more akin to Arizona. The music is so non-immersive save for like 3 tracks, it's just a bunch of american pop music with the occasional spanish track (of which multiple aren't even mexican, they're just songs from south american countries). It genuinely feels like whoever did the music choice for the game has the mindset of a white college girl talking about voter suppression in the U.S.A. (for the thick-headed: that means being racist while thinking you're actually very progressive (you aren't)).

Overall the core game is decent, but due to the incompetence of the buffoons at PGG it's been squandered. Read above for the already atrociously implemented PI system, but then pair that with the fact that physics for the game had been updated in the middle of the games life, causing everyone's muscle memory to be completely screwed and forcing a bunch of people to re-learn their cars' driving patterns. I don't know who the hell had that idea, but they need to be fired if they thought that was a good idea. Oh wait, they probably already are since the turnover at PGG is incredibly high.

You can buy the ultimate edition for $100, but you still don't get everything. As of the time of this review (May 30th 2024), there is still $55 of DLC cars and rising, not to mention that the rally expansion is an overpriced joke and that the hotwheels expansion just further exacerbated the problem of cars at certain PI brackets over or under-performing.

For some reason, Playground Games just can't help themselves from ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the bed when trying to police the community. PGG has been caught ignoring cheaters, banning people for ludicrous reasons and have been actively undermining their own competitive scene at almost every chance they get. People have been banned for innocent livery's while egregious ones roam free, while others have been banned for the mere idea of using a livery editor. People have been banned because PGG doesn't know how to play their own damn game , while actual cheaters stay at the top of the leaderboards regularly . Not to mention that a bunch of competitive players have direct ties to people inside PGG, cheat in their own hosted events (that PGG endorses) to keep the prize "in house" and attempt to get others banned despite it all.
Overall, a poorly moderated game policed by absolute ape-brained idiots that listen to F1 wannabes that are also has-beens of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ car racing game series, how pathetic can you get?

Overall the game itself is poorly designed and could otherwise be good but it would've required actual effort (a rarity in this era of the industry) and a team that's both consistent and competent at their jobs. The nepotism and cover-ups that go on between "competitive" players and PGG employees are disgusting as well.