Obviously I didn't expect it to have the near-perfect handling and physics of the CMR series, but the primitive level of these aspects in this game could only be tolerated in an arcade racer, not a simulator. For some reason there's information about the next track, when there's no way to tune your car or even select different tires. Fittingly, they don't even tell you what surface to expect. You can actually tweak steering and breaking in the menu, which applies to all cars, further proving that all cars here handle pretty much the same. And the collisions are just horrendous for 2024. They're like something you'd see in 1998 in an arcade racer. The original CMR came out in 1998 and just completely blows this game out of the water.

Besides the somewhat similar visuals and sound, it is completely inferior to the game it's imitating in every aspect. But does it have anything else to offer? No.

But hey, look, you can turn on dithering and texture wobble, how cool is that? Except, not everybody played CMR 2.0 on PS1. I, for one, played the superior PC version, and my nostalgia is connected only to that. And, even if you turn off these features, you're still gonna be left with PS1-era blurry textures and poorly patched-together skyboxes. When I play PS1 games today, I often use Duckstation to get rid of the artifacts caused by PS1's technical limitations, I don't need them here. But worst of all, there's a horrible pop-in. And no, I'm not talking about the Xbox360 era pop-in, where you could see LODs change into proper models. This is a straight up full-blown PS1-era pop-in, where it looks like you're driving at the edge of reality. This shit is the number one problem I have with PS1 racing games, but there I kinda tolerate it because they couldn't do better. Why are we artificially adding this to games in 2024? Do you enjoy seeing the world pop into existence before your eyes? I don't get that.

In conclusion, I don't really see any reason for this game to exist. It's an utterly pointless creation. Just go back and play the original CMR, or its sequels.