After about 90 mins play yesterday I'm not overly impressed, I'll be lazy and copy/paste what I said to Jack about it in MSN:
I've not played any previous ones so I'm comparing it to past GT's and Forza, so probably a bit unfairly comparison but I'm not overly impressed, don't like that fact you don't upgrade your cars, you just earn kudos points and buy packs of cars which just seems silly to me, so far I've only raced on street tracks which I don't like very much, prefer more open tracks for example those in GT with space and greenery around you, also the UI is just shit, half the text I simply cannot read on my 28" CRT (for example the car stats in the car selection screen before a race)
I only tried 1 bike that I started with ( you start with like 5 cars and 1 bike), but it was so shit I was well behind very quickly and I had trouble controlling it, the first race I had was me v 1 bike and 2 cards and the bike just thrashed us which was also annoying, so far I'm only racing against 3 other cars in career mode races which is shit, think it's just cos I'm on an amateur career at first?