Usually, game play is the most important thing for a game, and that is what's so good about this one. Single player mode is fun but multiplayer is 100 times better. Single player mode is only good to play through once or twice until it gets boring. Two player mode kicks all kinds of ass though. In single player games, you drive against cars that are far superior to yours, but in two player mode, the computer players aren't as good as you are. It takes a little while to get used to the controls, but once you do, all cars are pretty easy to handle. The game becomes a mad dash to get the contraband to your checkpoint before your opponent gets it. You have to plan your routes to deliver the contraband and if you want to steal it, you have to plan out a shortcut. You only have a few seconds on each pickup, so it's very high-paced. Most of the time it is so close as to whether you get it or not that it gets to very dramatic trying to chase somebody down or deliver your own contraband. You need to be lucky and good if you want to win. Every car is just about the same once they are being driven so it's always close even if its an SUV against a rally car. Unless you get so good that you dominate, you will never get tired of two player mode.

In the reviews I read, they focused more on there being inadequate graphics and sub-par audio. First of all, the graphics would blow you away on just about any other system. Something was said about there not being any shine on the cars. You rarely see large panels of the cars for more than half a second. The car coloring is so insignificant in this game that I don't know why it was brought up. The terrain was also poked at. Did you expect to see something different every two feet? The terrain is pretty plain but if there were all kinds more obstacles and things to crash on would that be better? These settings are in places that don't really call for a whole lot of extras. The desert, for example, is one of the settings it could be in. The desert they provide looks like a desert to me. While your diving all over, you're trying to pay attention to where you going, not if the ground looks exactly like it would in real life. The audio I'll admit is one flaw in this game. Just put on anything you like and turn the game audio all the way down.

Overall, I love this game and I'm trying to talk my roommate into buying it.