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This game is somewhat non-user friendly in terms of movement. For instance, strangely enough, when the car is on the lift, you can hold down left-click and movie the camera around the car. However, when you're out walking on foot, you cannot move the view around and it makes it very awkward as the way the camera follows the character isn't great / has a strange delay in perspective shift during turns. Also on foot, you're either moving ridiculously slow walking or running at a sprint, no in between. Also have no camera angle control during driving except for the various camera views which you can change between with a key press, but that's not as serious an issue. I'd say the main downside to the game is the on foot camera.
The race mechanics on this game aren't bad. I think most of my issues are from trying to use the keyboard so far. It's one of the most detailed games out there that I've seen as far as mechanics go. I've learned a little bit I think. It has tons of mechanical jobs you can do, from changing oil/minor service, switching out electrical components, to having to figure out what is wrong with a car from scratch. You can also buy cars from the newspaper and fix them up to sell or buy any of the parts and switch out for the ones you have on your vehicles. As you race, parts degrade and you repair or replace them.
I did look through the discussions and for a game with as non-intuitive an interface as this one (check out the Youtube videos, watching people muck through is hilarious), people are pretty rude to some of the obvious questions newbies will ask (correction - there were some questions I read before posting where the reason for the question was obvious and yet the community responded rudely even though many things you need to know about the interface are very non-intuitive to new players - I haven't experienced that with mine though, so I don't know why my questions were treated better than some of those I read - I received good answers from two or three questions. Had I not, I would not be able to complete some missions - of course I read absolutely everything available as far as guides before starting to ask questions...some of them would have been answered if I read deep into the discussion threads too, but oh well).
As far as questions that newbies might ask - for engine timing, after going into the repair mode, before lifting the car, turn the engine on (check the water level first, you'll lose thousands of dollars in engine quality if it's empty because the engine will blow) and then the icon for timing on the bottom right will become clickable.
For deliveries and other mission targets in the map, you have to check the map in the garage because it won't be on the map after you exit the garage. Be sure of the car you want to use on a mission before selecting it, there's no undo or selecting a different one later, you will just have to cancel.
For times when you have no idea what's going on, you can quickly get help from the guy who owns the shop when you're doing mechanic work for him by pressing N. For times during mechanic missions when you have no idea why some of the checkboxes aren't checking, you can go to the project status tab on the top then to the '?' button on its top right to see the next thing necessary.
I think this game might need a driving wheel because it is very hard to race without one.