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I'm not usually into this type of game, but since there was a free demo to download, and I wanted to play something new, without having to purchase another game, I decided to put the demo on. For a demo, it's amazing, four different modes of game play, my favorite was dodging roadblocks, and evading the police.
After playing the demo for SEVERAL hours, I decided that it was worth purchasing.
The full game is completely worth the price paid. The graphics are STUNNING, it runs in up to 1080i. The cars are beautiful to look at, and the surroundings you drive around in are very realistic. Even the physics of the world you are in are pretty accurate. If you saw the movie "Gone in sixty seconds" the game parallels this movie closely, instead of stealing cars, you're racing them.
The game play is great, it breaks down like this:
You're a street racer, you know, in those pimped out cars with huge spoilers (sometimes stacked spoilers even...lol), gawdy rims, and tons of viny to complete the 'rice' effect. You have no respect for public safety, law enforcement or your own vehicles for that matter.
The game starts off with a few minutes of narrative and video cut-scenes. You go up against the street's best racer, a guy named Razor. In the video scene, you're about to beat him, but he has tampered with your ride, and you lose the race, he takes your car.
You meet this girl named Mia, and she becomes your coach, she sets you up with a safe place to store your cars, and explains what you'll need to do to find Razor. You have to defy the law, reak havoc, to gain the attention of Razor's guys, when you've impressed one, you get to race them.
There are 14 'henchmen' and you have to beat each one, with Razor for the end.
The game play is amazing. The feeling you get from speeding down a cramped 2 way street at over 120MPH is amazing. There are some cool features to the game, like being able to slow down time (when you're traveling at a high rate of speed, trying to squeeze through a roadblock, you can hit a speedbreaker, which brings game play to slow motion, allowing you to surgically strike weak points in a roadblock), and being able to completely customize your vehicle down to the smallest detail like tinted window color.
I started off the game trying to keep my cars 'cool'. I quickly found myself going for neon green paint, with bright red and yellow vinyl flames! It's hilarious... 
The city you play in has three areas, the first area is unlocked by default and it is HUGE. As you progress in the game and beat your oponents, other areas get unlocked, and the best thing is you can freely move between all three areas. You can drive for hours and not feel like you're seeing the same thing over and over.
The game has nice features like GPS navigation, so if you know where you want to go, set it in your GPS, and you're directed how to get there. This is good for gettng to races, your safe house, or more importantly the shop - where you customize your ride, both visually, and mechanically.
The cut scenes and introductions to new oponents is done very impressively. The whole game is 'overdone' in such a way that makes it feel right. The attitude and feeling you get from playing through the story is crazy how quickly you get into the game.
Each time you beat an opponent, you get an achievement. So you'll be bumping up your Xbox live gaming score almost every time you play.
The game also allows two player local, as well as xbox live play. I have not tried either yet, but will be doing so for sure in the future.
Hands down, check out the demo, at least, I bet you'll end up purchasing it.
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