It's very well done though, and effortlessly conveys the sense of being in a fully functioning, living city. Clearly, some kind of artistic licence has been taken, and what we have is a slightly compressed version of the real thing, comprising all the major landmarks.
That city is Chicago, Illinois, which to the less geographically minded is somewhere in America near a big lake. No guns, no gimmicks, just accurately modelled cars and a meticulously recreated city. Instead of pissing about inventing hover vehicles that race on the moon, or resurrecting some obscure sport, what they've done is to take a modern-day city and fill it with authentic vehicles. Not so Angel Studios, the talent behind Microsoft's Midtown Madness. And when it comes to racing games, you might as well forget it, with most developers showing about as much ingenuity as the average boy band. In these cynical days of 'reissue, repackage, reevaluate', an original game is about as rare as proverbial rocking horse shit.
