I played the first one alot and it was very fun and interesting but I eventually got tired of it. I discovered the second one and it is very much improved with the addition of other gamers. Makes each race unique, if sometimes annoying because even though it has all the exact same mechanics as #1 no matter how good you get at a track/level, you can never really beat the general public. There's always gonna be something different that's gonna kick you from being in first to being last in seconds