Total letdown
Also, the dust cars kick up when driving off road looks horrible, and the famous replay glitches...
2. Let me start last. Every single race (in the harder cla$ses). How do they explain that, am I punished for something in every race, so they place me in the back? How about a qualification lap before every race, and give me a placement based on how I perform compared to the others? That is how they do IRL, and after all, this is "the real driving simulator".
This gets extra annoying online, when I start close to the end, and know that no matter how well I drive, I have a pretty small chance of winning if the guys in front of me are decent. Stupid. Just add a qualification lap, let the opponents appear as ghosts.
3. The stupid "missions". What does having to overtake 15 oponents have to do with "real racing"?
4. Horrible penalty system, mostly because the AI-driven cars don't get punished. They bump into me and drive off, while I lose grip, hit the barrier, and get punished.
Also, a lot of the people with the fastest times bump into the barriers without getting punished..
And what is this penalty really? Once again, this is "the real driving simulator", do cars IRL suddenly become unable to accelerate for 5 secs if bumping into something or take a shortcut?
5. Stupid AI.
6. Probably the most basic multiplayer so far. Is it in any way possible to race a friend online?
In Motorstorm you could easily see which lobby your friends are in, and join them. In R6:V you could send invites. What do you do in GT5P? Keep joining games blindly and hope you bump into your friend?
I really hope they fix these issues in the final product, and if they do I'll buy it without a doubt. But if they don't.. We'll see..