Motorstorm and Driveclub have so much in common. Both are released in the first year of the system, both are from Evo, both are games that are liked because of the graphics over the gameplay, and both will be very disappointing to anyone who wants to play a racing game and have any semblance of fun. It's quite clear the only reason it's being championed is because it's an exclusive game, because any other game shipping missing huge features is almost always ridiculed to death on GAF (Destiny is one very recent example of this), but... not Driveclub.
I'll check out the free version, but I know I won't be buying into half of a game. I'll save my coins for CoD and AssCreed.