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It's just a different discipline than many racers ask of you. If you game this mechanic hard, you can be boosting for half the race or more, and that makes a big difference to your times. A slightly confusing double-layered NOS boost system fills up as you do dangerous stuff-driving into oncoming traffic, near misses with traffic, drifts-and offers additional shots of boost for chaining these feats. The margins between decent and good driving are all about boost generation and management. Not that there isn't skill in going fast. And Criterion's handling model just doesn't have that play, that granularity. But when you're in a tight race and a low-speed corner does appear, you want to be able to edge ahead due to your superior control of the vehicle. It serves the style of racing Unbound offers: light on the corners and braking zones, focusing more on hitting top speed and holding it for as long as possible while snaking through busy urban tarmac. Most of the time that's enjoyable enough, though.
