It’s divided into three clear regions- The USA, Europe, and Japan. Race Driver: Grid makes it clear from the start how Grid World, this world of motorsport racing, is. The list was pretty limited to common English names and cool-sounding nicknames, but the neat trick lives on in games like the Forza Horizon series. It’s also one of the first games to let you assign a name, where the voiceovers will audibly announce. At the time, the floating menu elements were bold and revolutionary, a UX design Codemasters would employ across its other racers before the flat, minimalist design trend dominated the 2010s. It’s a relaxing space, thanks to the soothing tunes of Nathan Boddy’s Vintage Warmer colouring your interactions of obnoxiously big, floating texts that is the menu. The homey garage is your main menu for the whole game, where you spend your time off the track. You start off Grid with humble beginnings. Race Driver: Grid capture the illusion of a living, breathing, hyper-realistic motorsport world. It is so great even with two sequels (and a reboot), Grid still stands as the best of the lot.
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From touring cars to a full-blown story mode with cutscenes (for a racing game!), the series has gone places.īut the arguably best place it landed was the first, original Grid.
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The 2008 game is another change of direction and a new name for the previously TOCA and then Race Driver series, which then becomes Grid.
It’s a game I fondly remember of that console generation’s lifecycle. If the world suddenly decided to shun me, I'd still have my GRID girl to welcome me with unrestrained good cheer.There was something magical the first time I fired up Race Driver: Grid on the good old PS3. Oh, I also love the fact the female voiceover calls me by my name when I load the game up. GRID definitely has the right blend of solid driving and arcade fun, with a surprisingly smooth multiplayer element too. I just want to go vroom vroom and crash into barriers a lot. Personally, I couldn't care less if the courses didn't have accurate advertising or pixel-perfect GPS modelling or whatever. Yes, it's more arcadey than some nutcases might like, but it is just damn fun! The fundamentals are just right, pretty much (and that's coming from someone who likes cars as much as he does genital fungus). That doesn't stop me enjoying racing games as good as GRID though. Having said that, sometimes I do consider using analogue sticks for car games, for the obvious reason of being able to make graded turns, rather than binary ones. For myself, pads can get stuffed, I'll soldier on with my trusty arrows. Well it is, but I just can't be doing with pads unless I have to put myself in someone else's shoes for purposes of review. I Play Racing games with the keys, which is viewed as being some kind of mad thing to do. Each car, aside from the M3 E30 or the Alfa 155, drives almost identically. GRID’s car choices, though it looks diverse, sporting a meaty 43 cars (a good roster for 2008), is relatively monotone when on the track. Nearly every racing game is centered around choosing your own car, upgrading its specs, and trying out a variety of combinations in an effort to become the ultimate racer. Perhaps the worst part of GRID, however, is the limited choices you have for cars and tracklists. You’ll start paying attention to initially minute things like the repetitive layout of the tracks, the lack of proper team management as seen in GRID’s predecessors, and user interface is unintuitive. I think that the overall execution for GRID was acceptable – the real problems start to become apparent the longer you play it. Seasoned veterans will have their qualms and a few bugs (usually AI issues) can be a drag, though I don’t think they have a heavy impact on how much fun GRID can be. Even if you don’t particularly like the racing sim genre, this game can act as a good starting point on its own. GRID also has decent graphics and has some great moments as an arcade racing game.Įvery race feels like its high stakes, the team building generates a bit of diversity, career mode and seasons are a bit bland but use a good formula overall, and the tracks had interesting designs and were just challenging enough to keep me interested. The 2015 rerelease of Need For Speed was, unfortunately, a victim of carelessness regarding its controls. In racing games, its obvious why that’s such an important feature.
They’re smooth, responsive, and honestly never gave me much trouble.
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