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I keep dying and my friend just unlocked every ship, 10/10

What a pack this is! Have seen a few people comment on the price of the expansion, to me it's definitely worth the price. The GTO Audi is an absolute beast to drive, and Ruapuna is fantastically done. It's probably the best track in the game in my opinion.

This is definitely THE racing sim to have on Steam.
Grab yourself a good wheel, start the game and lose hours, and hours... and more hours trying to chase that perfect lap :)

What... A... Game.
First off, I'd like to mention that I do understand a lot of people are having issues with playing the game. Including lag, stuttering and crashes. These are being looked at by Ubisoft and will hopefully be resolved soon. In the meantime, do NOT assume that just because you have what's to be considered a "good PC", that you can play this game with everything maxed out to Ultra.
My settings are 1080p, with all a mix of Ultra/High details, SMAA Temporal, v-sync off and frame buffer set to 2.
GTX670, FX-8350 CPU, 8GB RAM, W7 64bit.
Now onto the actual review.

The game starts with a scene that sets up the story. It's very beautifully done, looks great and really shows off the games style really well.
The game absolutely looks stunning, really, truly stunning. It's great. Player models are very nice, and textures are crisp. What really amazes me is the shaders, they really make the game pop to a whole new level.

As for the storyline and campaign mode, the story sets itself up nicely at the start as I mentioned, and gets really heavy really quick. Some might find it a bit cliche and bland, but I personally thing it's rather good.

The shooting mechanics can be a little awkward, with aiming and recoil present to throw your aim off as you shoot. There are perks to combat this though and as you progress through the game and unlock these you'll find yourself shooting straighter.

The driving mechanics are a little quirky when played on a keyboard like myself, they don't seem as fluid as they did in, for example, Saints Row. But after a while I found myself getting used to them rather quickly. It's still not amazing by any means, but it could be better with a gamepad.

Hacking is where this game excels, it's an incredible addition to the game and really changed how I play this compared to playing GTA or SR. You can press Z and bring up the "Profiler", this will highlight every person you look at and show their name, occupation as well as a little blurb about them. Some of them can be quite funny and found myself chuckling at a "Religious conservative" who's occupation was a prostitute.
Hacking is your main weapon in the game. During car chases you use it to turn traffic lights green and block an intersection to wreck your persuers, or lift blockers behind you for the same effect. It really makes chases interesting when you notice and alleyway to go down that has blockers, timing your hack perfectly and taking out the chaser.
Hacking is also useful in missions, during one mission in Act II I managed to take out all the enemies without them even seeing me and only shooting 2 of them. The other 9 or 10 were taken out from hacking the environment and causing things to explode.

Overall, I'd say this game will keep me playing for a while, the story is solid enough if you can let yourself get into it, and there's plenty of side objectives to take part in to pass the time. The world itself is beautiful and engaging.
I'd give this game either an 8.5 or 9 out of 10. It's really worth it in my opinion.
But, as I said at the start, it has some issues for some people, so if you're worried about it not running, you might want to hold off. Other than that, buy it and try it. If it works, you wont regret it.

This game is hilariously incredible... Every time I thought I was getting to an ending, it would do something completely different.
I honestly started playing this game expecting certain things from it, I figured I knew what was going to happen... Boy was I wrong. It keeps managing to surprise me each and every time I make a slightly different decision, and even when I tried doing the same thing again it somehow changed YET AGAIN!!
I'm still in a state of glee at how amazingly charming this game is. Graphics may not be Battlefield or Bioshock levels, but they are good enough to tell a very particular story in an impossibly amount of different ways.

Forget Dear Esther, this story game is the only one you'll need, and I guarantee you'll love it. The voice acting is great and the entire storyline... Or storylines?... Are all hilarious in their own way. The voice acting really, truly brings out the charm in this game, as well as the hilarity.

Easily worth $15-$20, 9/10.
I can't wait to play it again :D

NOTE: This review includes notes on expansions aswell.
With 800+ Hours played, I think it's safe to say that this game and it's expansions is one that will last the test of time.
It may not have the following of other racing simulators like rFactor or iRacing, but this is easily up there with some/all of the best.
It has a great racing community if you find a relaxed group of racers (RaceDepartment are great for clean racing and no lock-in racing series). The choice of cars across all the expansions is perfect for online racing.
There really is something for everyone, from slow and nimble Mini Coopers, to high powered open wheel racers, to classic and modern muscle cars (Race On expansion).
My favorite part of this game though is it's single player section though. It's ability to play and create championships makes this a great single player game, along with the fact that the AI is actually rather smart to race against compared to other games.

Modding is also fairly popular with this game as is evident by sites like NoGripRacing and RaceDepartment, with various add-on cars and tracks all waiting to be played.

Since this is a racing simulation, it is definitely a greater experience to use a wheel. I highly recommend getting yourself a wheel if you don't have one yet as it will change your experience entirely.
If you don't play racing games that often it's more than acceptable to use a gamepad, it's still good fun but not as good as with a wheel. The game is drivable with a keyboard as well, but that's a last resort.

In short, it's definitely worth getting the whole package: Race Injection, GTR Evo and Race On. It's perfect to me...
For games as a whole, it's easily 8/10.
For racing sims, it's 9/10.

Absolutely addictive.
Easy to pick up and play even if you aren't that into strategy games, it's probably the best strategy game I've ever played.
Easily 9/10 for the base game, with the expansions it's easily 10/10.