About half-way through the Pure World Tour, you will have played through most of the tracks on offer, you will start to notice the lack of variation in event types, and the insipid opposition AI will leave you wanting. As a result, the World Tour tends to get a little stale and runs out of ideas around this point and even the pretty environs and awe-inspiring tricks don't quite make up for it.
The World Tour will take up about 6-7 hours of your playing time at most and it's quite easy to finish first in each of the 50 events. You also have a single event mode, where you can pick one of three difficulty levels to race against the AI on the track and event type of your choice. Then there's the trial made, where you can take to any track without opponents.
Once you have conquered the World Tour, you can head online with up to 15 other players. Here, besides the Race, Sprint and Freestyle events, there's a freeride mode where you and your buddies can just run wild on any track for the fun of it without track positions or scores coming into the equation. On the PC version, chances are that you'll never find enough players in any lobby to fill the 16-vehicle starting grid. The most players I could manage to find in a race were 12, and those races were lag-free; buttery smooth like an offline race. But while races are lag-free, it would have been nice if Blackrock had added a few unique online modes for those looking for something new after progressing through the World Tour. And while there is LAN support, split-screen is sadly missing. For a game that is all about having fun, split-screen support should have been a no-brainer.
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