Finished, run time 2 hrs 25 mins. Normal mode.
This is the most unstable game I've ever played. In places it was awesome that nothing can beat it, and in some places it's very kiddish and irritating. Some bugs were there too, like KB controls got reset sometimes, Game crashed twice, at the last race don't know what happened Fraps got exited by it's own from the game!
The last race was meaningless too, you just have to keep the car running and survive the train lines and the shipping dock(or whatever that is) and you'll be closed down to the rival automatically and all you have to do is just keep accelerating for last less than 1 km.
The thing which I hated most is the Reset time limit and Try Again options. How nonsense it is that you can't restart a race more than five times, yes it will be needed hardly but still. And that Try Again pop up and cracking sky sound along with it is pretty weird and stupid, kiddish obviously. As usual this is the smallest game I've played this far.
Overall I liked it, especially the dodging of helicopter bullets, cars and that ice falling stage was awesome. The music environment throughout the game was very good too, as Sam said it was like Hollywood movies. And I also like the man to man/police chases, it was pretty fun in intervals.
I'd give this a 6.5/10.
My favorite remained the HP anyway.
BTW- Whatever you do don't take that idiotic Pagani for the last race, the controlling of the car is disgusting, even when it's say Normal, IMO it felt like Challenging. Don't know why I couldn't take some cars, got said, needed Limited Edition or Signature Edition! Oops, what edition did I run?