This is such an awesome game, and I don't even like racing games. The crash factor makes it so so cool, and I can't even begin to tell you how much fun this is online when you are racing 5 other people at 200 miles per hour.
To give an honest assessment, one should also put the downsides of it, and I have only one: The game tells you at all times what place you are in during a race, and every here and then it tells you how many seconds you are behind the immediate next person. This is flawed in many respects, because you have no idea how you stand against everyone else, and this kinda sucks. A picture of a track on the top corner with dots representing each player would have been much better, and I've seen that on countless other games serve its purpose well.
Besides that, though, an amazing game that is actually fun and has beautiful graphics. Must buy.