The only one that I didn't fall in love with was the PS2 game.
It did get better after putting many, many hours into it but it never reached the same levels as every other game in the series for me personally.
Not sure why that was the case, since it's been a couple of years since I last played it, but I believe it was a combination of the game being to one sided when comparing combat with actual racing, the handling of the crafts, the courses not living up to the same standard and the music being pretty awefull.
I'm so glad they turned things around with Pure and now Pulse.
Everything feels pretty much perfect in these and the soundtrack in Pulse in just godly.
The one thing I hate is that they never ported the games to the PS2 as well. I just want to play them on the big screen.
I even thought about buying a slim to do just that, but seeing as games won't play on a regular CRT I'm pretty much screwed.
