The whole creepy part reminds me of need for speed hot pursuit (2010 version). The game from the ground up was designed to be an open world racing game like previous need for speed games (think NFS Most Wanted and Carbon), but that idea was abandoned during development at some point. All the races still take place in segmented parts of the "open world" map, but you can only start a race or police chase from the main menu. You can free roam the open world map, but aside from a little traffic, it's just empty. There's no rival racers, no cops, and you can't start an event from the open world. It's just empty except for your car. Just gives off really weird vibes, like playing a very early version of the game with nothing to do.
The whole creepy part reminds me of need for speed hot pursuit (2010 version). The game from the ground up was designed to be an open world racing game like previous need for speed games (think NFS Most Wanted and Carbon), but that idea was abandoned during development at some point. All the races still take place in segmented parts of the "open world" map, but you can only start a race or police chase from the main menu. You can free roam the open world map, but aside from a little traffic, it's just empty. There's no rival racers, no cops, and you can't start an event from the open world. It's just empty except for your car. Just gives off really weird vibes, like playing a very early version of the game with nothing to do.