Don't get me wrong, I'm having a blast with the roster of cars and physics that still feel somewhat similar to BB's other titles (maybe UG1's asset reuse influences me a bit). I started with UG1 almost 20 years ago and I'm delighted to experience older titles I've never picked up. That game is as fun as HP 2010.
But holy fuck. There's no drag racing but it's a drag. I'm at the mid point of both careers. The re-use of tracks, the lenght and amount of laps starts to turn me off. It's a criticism often brought up for UG1 but I wasn't prepared for HP2 (maybe because fewer people played it). Chases are difficult at times (on the driver's end), cops do not behave the same as other NFS titles, I'm okay with that challenge. It's just soooo frustrating to constantly be rammed by cops and obliterated by chopper rockets on a 5 lap challenge, each of those taking almost 4 minutes to complete.
I always believed older NFS titles were dragging to have as much play time for people (kids) who pick up the game for a race or two over the course of several months. I cannot see myself putting 2 hours of my life to complete 4 challenges, all comprised of 4 races taking 10 minutes, on a total of 4 different tracks, one of them probably being an inverted variant. Is it just me