Older game, just means you'll get it for an even better price!
You start out with three decent cars at the beginning. But you are forced to do the first few tutorials before you get to do anything else. The tutorials are cheesy bits of info that you could figure out by yourself and that are really wierd. On the other hand, after you get through the first few tutorials you get to the cool stunt tutorials. They help alot through the collection of stars through the entire game.
There are a series of cups in which your car runs through to win. Instead of making you run the entire cup, like Mario Kart, you can get off in between all your races. The auto save saves after each event, so you don't have to worry about losing your file.
In the game the frames move smooth, and loading time is minimal. The graphics are what you would expect of a 2006 gamecube game.
The main objective of the game is to get an 'S' grade in every single race. The races are fun the first time around, but then when you have to race each race over and over, it gets very repetitive. Of course there are other mini games, but there are only three, and the objectives are to again reach the tedious ranking of 'S'. The first mini game is a gate challange that places gates along the track, that deacrease in the distance between them as you go along. The second one is a ring challange that requires you to go up ramps and fly through rings that have point values. The last one requires yout to smash other trucks.
One of my favorite features is the MP3 on your sd being played behind the race! It is great to get to choose the music.
The game is a good concept overall, but could have been given more thought, and especially in fine-tuning the controlls. I would prefer a gamecube controller for this.
I give this game a 9.0