Great game, a bit of lag though. A little tip on the first race, if you don't take the right route you are going to lose by a lot. Edit - this uses GC , I'm The_Real_Racer on that.
First thoughts: extreme amounts of drugs were consumed to come up with race tracks like that :-O Seriously this is insane! First time u play u gonna soooo completely loose track of where u are that u will only focus on driving forward!
Cool, anyone that wants to play multiplayer, my ids are: Connector777 I find the menu a little confusing. It's pretty, but trying to figure out multiplayer, cloud saves, achievements, and the such is a little difficult.
It has 71 achievements on gamecenter. The leaderboards (online, career and ghost times) are handled in app over Gameloft Live severs.
If your question is whether it is stick shift, no you can not shift gears manually. You just are able to press on the accelerator. A screenshot of this control.