Pros: Lots of shortcuts, cool cars, nice tracks.
Cons: Hard to beat.
The bottom line: I say: buy this game, it's a great game with lots of fun stuff to do.
A while ago I traded my "Mario Party" with my friend's "San Francisco Rush". I had never played it or seen other people play it so i decided to trade it because I had already beat Mario Party.
San Francisco Rush was great! You can choose a variety of cars that are good and there are many tracks too. One of the best things of this game is that it has too many shortcuts. You can find yourself rushing from one building to another, jumping of a ramp to a ship even in the subway train's rail.
Single player is as fun as multiplayer, but the computers are very good and very hard to beat in difficult tracks of the game. It is also hard to do the sharp turns inside the city.
I also have played Rush 2 which is quite the same as #1, only it has a crash course.