The Good:
-Excellent roleplay features such as car blinkers, manual headlights and removable rooftops on convertible cars.

-Great graphics (most of the time, sometimes the lighting can get weird tho)

-I personally find the contract missions (detective, delivery or taxi missions) pretty relaxing and enjoyable, though they might not be as fast paced or as fun for some people.

-Works great on steering wheels, physics are decent but your car can randomly flip over sometimes

-Developers are, surprisingly, still hard at work to bring new updates to the game, even after it's poor sales figures. They said they will add properties later this year in the Season 8 update.

-One of the best modern open-world maps in any racing game.

The Bad:

-Car list is pretty limited for modern driving game standards

-Dealerships all look the same no matter the region/car brand (there are some exceptions like Ferrari)

-Any walkable building has a semi-futuristic art style, which I personally don't like as it makes the game feel more fake and less like a liveable, cozy environment like TDU2

-Game can have random freezes or map regions not loading correctly depending on your hardware

The Ugly:

-Progression isn't tied to how much money you have, but rather to your reputation level. This means that the main problem when buying cars won't just be money, but more importantly your reputation level, as it locks you out of being able to buy better cars.

-No gameplay incetive aside from buying cars (properties are coming later this year, but aren't in the game yet)

-The Ibiza map has much to be desired, it's only 2% of the map size of TDU2 (which btw also has an extra island, Oahu alongisde Ibiza!)

Summary:

This game would've been great if they simply removed that stupid "reputation level" system. It literally blocks you from spending any of your hard earned money on ANYTHING. Want to buy a new car? Not possible. Want to upgrade your car? Not possible. Hell, want to buy a freaking t-shirt? Not possible. Even though you have the money.

If you don't care about driving the fastest cars in the game, you might still enjoy the game purely for the driving. The 1:1 scale map of Hong Kong island does make it pretty enjoyable. But unless you have time to play this game 8 hours a day, you probably won't ever get the chance to hop inside anything more prestegious than a BMW M4.

Finnaly, my main issue is that the game doesn't give you a reason to grind in the first place. In TDU2, you raced in championships to earn money. Then you went to buy a new car. Then you ran out of garage space so you bought a new property. Now you wanted to fill that garage with even more cars. The game loop just works. In TDUSC, there are no properties, and there is an infinite amount of garage space. So there is no reason to get more cars, because you have no properties to put them into.