The game aparetly installs while you play. As for the licencse, they are insanely easy to gold. Or at least the National A and B are. Golded almost all in one go. The races are also absurdly easy. Only race I've found even remotely challenging was the "City Trials" and that was only because I was going at it with a Clio I got as a prize car. Running one tire compound lower than the AI... But at least that was fun. The rest so far have just felt like tedious grindng.
I've done the Lunar Rover missions, and they're quite awesome. Fun and unique. Last one is slightly difficult to gold.
Small positive observations so far.
Windscreen wipers are no longer automatic! Seriously, I love this. You now have to turn them on yourself.
Menu's are quick and responsive. They also look quite good.
Negative observations.
There seems to be a lot of pop-in on certain tracks. World objects and shadows have trouble deciding if hey exist or not
Lighting can at times be extremely dark for no reason.
It's utter BS that we were forced to buy that useless Honda Fit. Boring car is boring and must be killed by fire!
Auto replay sucks...
SRF is locked on for a lot, if not all, of the liceces/driving missions.
Tire sounds are absolutely abysmal for rear wheel drive cars for some reson.
I actually haven't bought a single car yet. Got 307.000 credits and I think I'm going to save up for the McLaren F1.