Hi,
I recently bought R Racing and well, here are my impressions.
Just to sort out things, I'm using a madcatz wheel(170degree of rotation) and the steering was really hard because the cars react to the movement of the wheel at the near degree.
The game has smoke but, well, you cannot call it smoke since you just see some of it when you go off track. The physic is a bit mixed up, when you oversteer, you are absolutly sure to go into the wall or you push the brakes and just found yourself dead stop on the course getting rammed by cars. If you put TCS on, it's much easier to control since you won't oversteer, just UNDERSTEER! Their is also ABS, at first I was like :" hey I'm a big boy , I don't need ABS, I made a race and finished last so I put back on ABS and everything went fine.
Now the AI, they are way better than gt3 I'm telling you right now, you always have a tight entertaining(not frustrating) race agasint them, the fun part of it is when you get behing a AI and his pressure bar goes into the red, he'll make a mistake at the next corner(late braking or oversteer) and he'll end up in the wall letting you pass him easily.
The sound is so mixed up, they all sound like bees ! It hurts my ears everytime I hear it and if I want to listen to the music , well, some sort of japanese techno that I don't like much.
Their is a great variety of cars, from a small fiat to some LeMans racers. I read on the box that you could modify your car but it's in a form of : X credits for step 1 X credits for step 2.
The story mode is kinda short but entertaining due to his nice ....girls!
When you have finished the story mode their is still 70% of the game to be passed.
Event challenge is another mode where you can buy races and race in them to earn more credit and cars and the usual stuff.
One more point, their is drag races (500 meter) with nitrous but you can just hit it until 3/4 of the race, their is some old school cars, Charger R/T, Shelby.
That was my point of view of this game, for 59.99$ canadian dollars I think it was worth it but i'll go buy TXR03 and NFSU because I think they have more potential due to the tuning part of it.