i tried this too, after that horrible formula fusion.
the game feels overall better in handling, controls and interface, but it still suffers from the same retarded formula "keep grinding the first race until you can buy upgrades and then win everything", there's no failure, you can keep losing until you are objectively superior and can't lose anymore. damn, in wip3out i got my ass handed to me regularly until *I* got better, and until i got better i couldn't advance through the game. that was why and how the game kept me hooked, something this mobile mentality aimed at the average retard doesn't allow anymore.
edit: oh, yes, i forgot: sooooooo muuuuuuuuch bloooooooom. i can't see shit on some track because of these coloured hazes everywhere. i don't care if it was for technical limitations, wip3out was perfectly clean, it was you and the track, nothing else other than some opponent here and there to fire a missile at.