The free roaming part is worth downloading the beta and driving around the countryside for a few hours, especially if you were a fan of Test Drive Unlimited.
That's the end of the good things about it though. The graphics are merely decent on ultra, the framerate is hard-locked at 30 fps (at least in the beta), the missions/"skills" aren't much fun and some of them are buggy or poorly balanced, the computer opponents use the worst kinds of cheater AI to stay competitive and the cops are even more broken, and the story makes recent Need for Speed games look like Oscar contenders. When it's not just straight-up ripping them off, that is.
I'd never pay for the game even if it was a lot better than it is, just on general principles. You can see how the beta is set up for pay-to-win microtransactions EVERYWHERE, and anyone putting that shit in a full $60 game can fuck right off. You can buy just about anything with real money, and the in-game cash appears to be designed to trickle in so slowly that people just break out their CC#.
It's too bad because I'd love another game like TDU. TDU2 certainly didn't live up to the original game, and I've been waiting for something like it ever since.