Why does The Crew Motorfest trample all over the island of Oahu?

thesixthaxis.com:

Ubisoft’s The Crew Motorfest has landed, a four-wheel festival of racing based on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. I have been holidaying in Oahu for the last sixteen years and technically lived there for over six months so I know the island like the back of my hand and I can tell you, it does not lend itself to racing.

Around downtown Honolulu, the Airport, and Waikiki there are plenty of roads, fairly small roads it has to be said, but roads. However, there are just three of what we in the UK would call motorways, and there is no way to drive around the entire island due to American army bases and nature reserves.  There are two large tunnels through the mountains, so long that they can have completely different weather at each end, and these are connected by what we affectionally call the “Outrun section”, a vast motorway raised above the tree tops of a rainforest. If you don’t use these tunnels to get from one side of the island to the other then you have to drive on a small road along the coast, the 83, which just has two lanes of traffic, one each way. It’s a road that always has traffic jams on it.

The only section you can really put your foot down and break the speed limit without getting caught – something we never, ever did of course – is round on the North Shore where there is a single road leading up to ‘The Lost Beach’, so named by us because it was the beach they filmed the TV show ‘Lost’ on. Fun fact: If the castaways of Lost had looked behind the bushes on their beach they would have found an airfield packed full of light aircraft and could have escaped at any time.

So, very few motorways, vast sections of the island completely off-limits, and for a large part of the island just one single road.  This doesn’t