yeah, and they've got the 'classic' nfs collision engine, clip the edge of a tree and almost stop dead, no spinning out, or very little.
to make it into a semi-challenging game, all they've done is scripted traffic to get in ur way.
here's a common household nfsu incident, you do ur six of seven laps... rack up a heap of style points... come over the last hill only to have a van 'coincidently' in the middle of the road
crap ending too