(There is no rewind mechanic here a particularly grave error will have you reaching for the restart option.) When your primary conflict is with the track and its complexities, Driveclub can induce the right kind of tension, the kind you feel when you're about to leave a straightaway and ease into a corner, carefully choosing a sensible driving line and applying just the right amount of brake pressure. Your initial races won't demand so much of you, but if there's one thing Driveclub's tour has a handle on, it's how to smartly and steadily increase the level of challenge, moving from hot hatches to sports vehicles to performances cars and beyond, all while opening access to serpentine circuits that won't forgive your silly cornering mistakes. It's a demanding race, funneling you and your hulking boat through tight turns that require intense focus and a light touch. The single-player tour includes a race aptly called "Punching Above Your Weight," pitting you and your 5000-plus-pound Bentley Continental against considerably lighter Audis and Aston Martins.
Of course, driving a shiny red Ferrari is its own intrinsic reward, and Driveclub introduces you to a variety of slick-looking vehicles and puts them to the test on a generous supply of intricate tracks. There is no under-the-hood tinkering, and thus less sense of ownership than you would feel in a game like Forza. Select your race, select your vehicle, and take to the track, unlocking new vehicles as you progress.
No, in spite of its attempts to drive competition by way of automated and player-issued challenges, Driveclub is a short-term game, one that gets you onto the track with minimal fuss and tests your command of the vehicle whose wheel you grasp. This is racing in its most straightforward and driest form, free of frills, free of celebration, and free of pressing reasons to invest your time in it for the long term. Such an analysis might be terribly reductive, but it's difficult to work up excitement over Driveclub, a simple racing game in which frustration is common and thrills are in short supply. It exists, it's pretty, and you race cars in it.
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