Short answer is no.
Long answer is maybe. I would say that the world is actually pretty fun, and hell of cool to drive in. That being said, If you were to only cruise around the map it would incredibly painful and annoying with the starting car, and being at level 1. In order to actually have fun roaming the map, I would say you would have to be at least level 30. That way you would have unlocked all the car kits (except Circuit I think) that are important to exploring. You will have also acquired gear to make your cars control better, and feel less like fucking awful garbage like the level 1 cars do. Though you might think that you could just do skill stuff on the road to level up, it is not that easy. Let's just leave it at this: in order to have a good time with this game, you HAVE to slog through the horrible shit show that is the "story", at least enough to get you the right stuff to make driving in this game fun. (which it absolutely is*)
*with a level 700+ vehicle
Some context: I have put an amount of hours into the game (I'm not sure how many because i don't know how to check. Let's put it at around ~20+ hours) I am a max level driver (lvl. 50) and have all 5 car specs at lvl. 800+ (with a lvl. ~1000 Dirt spec) The driving and racing is fun as hell. The "pvp" races are actually totally fucking rad, but in order to have that fun (and compete) you MUST be at least level 900 in whatever car you are using. Exploring the world is really cool, but at a certain point you just don't need/want to, and just fast travel everywhere. It isn't like skyrim where you fast travel to a location. If you have a part of the map revealed you can just warp to a specific spot, it's pretty fuckin' dumb and just leads to you not driving at all.
There is plenty more i could say, and go into detail about, but suffice it to say that this game is fun, but is saddled with horrible mission design and a terrible first impression. Also, the "Crew" aspect of the game is fucking meaningless. Also, FUCK TAKE DOWN THE TARGET MISSIONS, AND ESCAPE THE COPS MISSIONS!
Man, what a bummer.
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