From the moment you click on the game until the second you quit playing you’ll know that they really put a lot of time into this title. From the opening full-motion video to the cohesive graphics of the menus and the high-energy music it all comes together to pull you into the game.

But as with many driving and racing games there are steering problems. 2Xl gives you several ways to steer including on-screen touch interface and tilt. Neither was fully satisfactory for me. They do you give some fine calibration including tilt sensitivity and a tilt dead zone as well as steering sensitivity for the on screen steering. But I was just never able to find a very comfortable setting and so I was often off the track, careening wildly into the barriers and generally all over the place.

In a racing game, of course, this makes it extremely difficult to be successful. If you can’t control your character what generally happens is first you lose several times, then frustration sets in and eventually you put the game down and don’t go back. That’s about what happened here.