GRID
- Contains 3 distinct regions featuring US, Japan and Europe
- 3 distinct racing styles that include Muscle cars, city racing, drift racing, traditional circuit racing
- Progress and create your own race team, hire co-drivers, and attract real-life big sponsors
- 20 car grids, bigger than any other racing game, fully licensed cars and tracks, all fully damageable
- Slicker, sexier, presentation similar to a Hollywood film
Product Description
GRID is all about the race- that period from lights to flag, full of tension, pressure, noise, and action. GRID will take you to beautifully realized and dramatic race locations over three continents to compete in an unprecedented variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful race cars, Grid will let you compete to conquer the most prestigious official race tracks and championships and then go beyond to compete in challenging city-based competitions, through to road events and urban street races. In Europe, you will compete on the greatest official tracks in prestige Marques including Aston Martin, Koenigsegg and Pagani. Iconic cities across the U.S. - including San Francisco, Washington, DC and Detroit, each with their own atmosphere and events - play host to diverse street races. Here, high-performance V8 muscle cars set the pace in aggressive, closely-fought pack competitions. In the Far East, Japanese racing culture sets the tone where night races, including Drift racing, take drivers through neon-illuminated cities and to outlying mountain roads. There is also the opportunity to compete in races that operate on the fringes of legality in the back streets and industrial areas of Yokohama.
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GRID™ Is all about the race- that period from lights to flag; full of tension, pressure, noise, and action.
GRID will take players to beautifully realised and dramatic race locations over three continents to compete in an unprecedented variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful race cars – new and classic, circuit and drift – players will compete to conquer the most prestigious official race tracks and championships and then go beyond to compete in challenging city-based competitions, through to road events and urban street races.
In Europe, race gamers will compete on the greatest official tracks in prestige Marques including Aston Martin, Koenigsegg and Pagani. Iconic cities across the U.S. – including San Francisco, Washington DC and Detroit and each with their own atmosphere and events – play hosts to diverse street races. Here, high-performance V8 muscle cars set the pace in aggressive closely fought pack competitions.
In the Far East, Japanese racing culture sets the tone where night races, including Drift racing, take drivers through neon illuminated cities and to outlying mountain roads. There is also the opportunity to compete in races that operate on the fringes of legality in the back streets and industrial areas of Yokohama. | Key Features
- IT'S ALL ABOUT THE RACE: Codemasters Studios' history of creating stellar racing titles, combined with AI and the ability of the EGO engine allow them to deliver GRID - a pure and cinematic race experience
- A GREATER, MORE DIVERSE, WORLD OF RACING: New and classic, track and street – conquer the greatest racetracks and then go beyond with road races and urban street competitions
- JUMP BEHIND THE WHEEL OF SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING CARS: Exotics, imports and beefy muscle cars are all available to race in hugely varied events with grids of up to twenty cars aggressively competing for the lead
- THREE DISTINCT RACING REGIONS: Europe, US and Japan are all beautifully designed, each with their own individual takes on racing: U.S.A – In thunderous V8 muscle cars, race diverse courses on city streets in flat out, door banging racing action; Japan – Reject traditional Western racing and drift over to Japan for action the fringes of legality in industrial areas and back streets from dusk 'till dawn; Europe – Race the famous tracks dominated by Le Mans in some of the most technologically advanced cars ever created such as the Ferrari F430 GT, Lamborghini Murcielago GTR, Aston Martin DBR9, Koenigsegg CCXR and Porsche 911 GT3-RSR
- EVERYTHING THAT COULD HAPPEN IN A RACE PROBABLY WILL: A GRID race tests a driver's skills at every turn -- crammed with high-impact moments such as, engine fires, tire blow outs, bump and runs, wild crashes involving flipping, spinning, and collisions with other cars and trackside objects
- ENHANCED EGO ENGINE DRIVES ALL NEW HIGH IMPACT CRASH DAMAGE AND SEQUENCES: Physics models will ensure that collisions and crashes yield the kind of spectacle that a Hollywood movie director would ask for. Slow motion will be used extensively to give replays the blockbuster treatment
- ONLINE RACING: Race your cars online in high-adrenaline multiplayer, multiple car events
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GRID
- Video Game: 0 pages (2008-06-03)
- Platforms: PLAYSTATION 3
- Publisher: Codemasters
- Label: Codemasters
- Studio: Codemasters
- Our Recommended Age: 5 - 20 years
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 31 reviews
- Sales Rank in Video Games: #1268
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Summary: Very well made game 2008-10-29
Comment: I bought this game when it came out and I must say that is very well made indeed. The visuals and sounds are great. The cars are really cool and fun to drive but I don't like that you can't have different colors for your cars. You really only choose your team color and that is the color of all your cars then..unless someone can tell me how to have different colored cars in my collection at the same time. Don't get me wrong, you can change those colors, but it makes all your cars that new color too. To me this game is not as fun as say...Need For Speed...but the drifting in this game is soooooo cool! You can catch some serious sweet drifts in this game! If you want a good racing game with a good drift physics and you have the cash...then this is a worthy title to add to your collection of racers.
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Summary: Amazing game, well-reviewed by others, so here's what I didn't like. 2008-10-26
Comment: Reviewers like C. Kelleher "cmkelleher" have already posted thorough comparisons of this game to other current racing ones, so I'll just post what I didn't like.
Before I do that I need to admit that this was one of the funnest racing games I've played through, and I've bought most that have come out for the PS3. The developers have done an amazing job and I know I'll keep going back to it (especially for the drift events)
OK, now the (slightly) bad stuff.
- Le mans - There are a host of tracks of varying types. Some are sunny and wide-open while others are tight, wet night courses. Of all of these, the most uninteresting is 'Le mans'. It consists mostly of mildly technical sections punctuating long stretches of slight turns. There is even one section where you really just hold the throttle open for nearly 30 seconds without turning a single bit. It's really the only course I dreaded seeing appear, which was unfortunate since the developers chose to feature it so much. Every four events you're challenged to '24-hours of Le Mans' and it's even the location for the final 'boss' battle.
- Nurburgring (nearly) - Most performance car enthusiasts follow the drama of new cars posting record-braking times on this amazing track (like the new Viper ACR vs. Nissan's GTR). I loved the prospect of racing on the full track, even if it took 7:30 to do it. Sadly, access is limited to the 'grand prix circuit.'
- Pole position? - Many races, especially later in the game, are composed of multiple rounds with the same car class but in different locations. If you win (or just do well) in a round you'd expect to be placed near the front of the pack for the next one. Instead, you nearly always start 10th or worse (in a pack of 12).
- View inconsistency - The game has 5 or 6 vantage points from which to play, and I usually choose either inside the car with steering wheel visible or as far as possible above it. The game's new flashback feature is a great idea and saves a lot of time restarting a race completely because someone spun you out 10 seconds from the end of a race. But when you go into the flashback mode the game doesn't remember the view you were using, so each entry into that mode starts with a rapid pressing of the view button to get back to your view. The seizure-inducing flash, flash, flash nonsense that happens before it throws you back into the race is also annoying.
- Cars - This game has a decent selection of cars, but I didn't like how advancement through the game essentially meant abandoning the types of cars I was most interested in. My loved Supra, Skyline, NSX, etc. were useless as the focus of the game shifted into GT-class, F3, F1 and prototype euro cars. Some of these were fun, but I prefer how other games let you upgrade the cars to you like to be competitive with higher classes.
- Bikes! - Why do almost no racing games have motorcycles? I would love to tear around the tracks in this game on a GSX-R. :)
Thanks to Codemasters for an awesome game - can't wait for your next one.
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Summary: Not bad, not quite Gran Turismo 2008-10-03
Comment: Not bad, not quite Gran Turismo. But then again its not a sumulation game. What it does it does well and it looks great doing it.
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Summary: Tried the Demo, and Bought the Game Immediately 2008-09-15
Comment: I tried the demo from the Playstation Network and bought the game the same night. This game is that good. The menu options are a delight to say the least. Not overly complex, and styled very well.
The graphics and sounds of this game are top-notch. Even though the damage that becomes visibile on your car may be a bit over-the-top, it looks great. I like how your car eventually becomes totaled if you wreck it too much.
GRID is a bit hard to control because the controls are so sensitive and responsive. I am sure with more time, I'll be able to finish a race!
Online play is exciting. It is a very enjoyable aspect of this generation of games.
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Summary: Good game. 2008-09-08
Comment: This game is good, but i am a race game player, and it is dificult to me to win a single race, imagine a rookie playing this game on first time playing racing games.
the races are good, and the graphics, and the game play, but it is for payers how played racing games before.
so realistic with the car sounds.
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