It doesn't really seem to have anything innovative that would make me buy it. I've got NFS:U2 already and this game is pretty much just like it.
Just about all the features in the game are already in NFS:U2
Open city
Occasional encounter with rival drivers who you can choose to run.
Check out car dealerships, tune your car at your garage or enter races.
Tuning engine, suspension etc
Body kits neon etc
Normal racing and drifting
To me the only thing that would excite me is if it has good, realistic drifting. The review talks about the different ways to innitiate drifts and a drift meter and coaxing the gas not to spin out. So the drifting may turn out to be fairly good. Everything else is more like a "been there done that."