Oops I Purchased Need For Speed Shift 2 Unleashed

So today I pick up NFS Shift 2 Unleashed on Steam and it was a mistake. I read some reviews and they were all good, it got a Metacritic score of 85 but the game just came out so there is not that many reviews to base the score on. I should have spent more time on the various forums and I would have made a different choice.

NFS Shift 2 is a racing sim with really good graphics, good car models but the problem is car control. To start the game begins with you in a 2 lap race to judge your skill and it's like driving a boat, you have to turn way before the corner and wait for the car to turn in. This can be fixed by changing the sensitivity of the steering that can only be changed from the options screen on the main menu and it's not accessible from the options in the start menu, that means you have to wait for the first race to finish.

The biggest problem with this game is that every car has 4 wheel steering, every time you turn the front of the car in the back of the car turns out like there's a pole in the middle and it makes it look like the car is drifting on every corner and even when changing lanes on a straight away. When you go into a corner next to an AI car your rear end turns outs hitting them while the AI car tracks nicely thru the corner.

That is the other issue any contact with the AI cars in the game causes them to stick together and turn 90 degrees. At speed on a straight away you touch a car in the back and both cars turn 90 degrees, but at leased the crashes look good or they would if NFS Shift 2 would not change to black and white every time your car hits anything.

The good thing maybe is you are able to sell all purchased cars for the full value of the car and it's upgrades, so you can buy a car try it out then sell it and buy another one I think a tryout feature before you buy would be better. I hope they are able to fix these issues quickly but I don't think the car control is something that will be fixed anytime soon if at all.