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Released: 2008-06-03 |
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Media: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
ESRB Rating: Everyone
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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
It's about international racing from Europe to Asia! GRID is an all-new race experience, taking players on a world tour of intricately designed racetracks and courses through Europe, the US and Japan. In addition to the exciting, ready-to-race gameplay that gamers have come to expect from Codemasters' racing titles, GRID incorporates only the most powerful racecars ever created - new and classic, circuit and drift. GRID features the most detailed and destructible range of courses ever included in a Codemasters title, challenging gamers with a wide variety of racing styles - from official circuit challenges and drifting events to road races and urban street competitions around the globe.
From the creators of one of 2007's best racing games, DiRT, comes GRID - a fast-paced, cinematic, all-encompassing racing game. GRID takes players on a world tour of beautifully designed race locations through Europe, the US, Japan and beyond. The game features the most extensive range of courses ever created by Codemasters, combining official racetrack/circuit challenges and drifting events, with road races and urban street competitions. GRID embraces all types of racing, including traditional circuit courses in exotics in Europe, muscle car street races in the US, and drifting import tuners in Japan. Jump behind the wheel of some of the fastest, most powerful race cars ever created and take on your friends in the best that racing has to offer. In any mode, on any surface, the car handling is sublime and the physics system is thrillingly accurate. A devastating new damage engine ensures players feel every bump in the road as they fight to keep control of their cars at breathtaking speeds. GRID delivers electrifying race action - squeezing all the juicy bits out of the world's best courses, cars and race styles to deliver one huge adrenaline rush. It's all about what happens between the GRID and the flag!
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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
- DVD-ROM: 0 pages (2008-06-03)
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Publisher: Codemasters
- Label: Codemasters
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Studio: Codemasters
- Our Recommended Age: 5 - 20 years
- Average Customer Review: based on 13 reviews
- Sales Rank in Video Games: #1619
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Absolutely best racing game to buy. 2008-11-16
Comment: This is a great buy. A fan of both arcade (Need for Speed series) and sim (Formula 1 2002) racing, this game has been and still is very fun for me.
I'm not sure I would call it a simulation - even with all of the assists off - but it's realistic enough to make it challenging. Yet it's fairly forgiving in terms of racing a damaged car, going off the pavement for a second, coming back in a race after spinning out, etc. The combination of these two properties goes a long way in keeping the game very fun. The flashback feature is a novel idea, one that should've been introduced to racing games a long time ago, and although it feels a little bit like cheating, it saves you the frustration of restarting races over and over.
One great thing about this game is the variety of racing - classic muscle, tuner cars, drifting, Le Mans, Formula 3 and more, there's something for whatever flavor of fast you want. Formula 3 is very fun, and though it's a far cry from the realism of EA's F1 2002, it's pretty nice not spinning out every time you don't take a corner _just_ right. This is the first game that I've played with drifting, but I think it's excellent. It's more challenging and the learning curve is a bit steeper, but this helps keep the game fun after completing 100% single player. There's something really satisfying about completing a perfect 3-lap run with a single 46X combo. And the pro muscle, pro tuned, touring and Le Mans races are just excellent good 'ol racing.
The difficulty levels range from walk in the park to REALLY difficult. The AI is quite good, there's only 1 track configuration out of the many where they don't seem to be able to get around in a timely manner. The only thing that they can't really compete in is drifting. Even in the special unlock-when-you-beat-the-game 'ninja' difficulty setting, I can beat them in points in drift GP in last place taking my time. Once you get the hang of drifting (which is very fun), you can exponentially increase your score by never losing your combo. They make mistakes - this was done on purpose - and it leads to a more realistic experience. There are memorable moments watching AI drivers slam into each other and/or go flying, zooming past as parts fly everywhere, or sometimes getting caught in a pile-up. But there are always the AI who drive well and give you a challenge.
Online racing is quite fun too. It doesn't seem to matter as much how sharp you can take the corners, but how consistently you race, which makes it more interesting because anything can happen most of the time. There's always annoying things that crop up when playing with other people, and in this game it takes the form of people running into each other in the first two seconds of the race, and people driving backwards (measures have been taken to prevent collisions this way). What could be improved is the online game menus - when first setting up the game, it's difficult to determine what kind of race you're choosing because you only get the name of the race, like "Jun Super Street". After a race series is completed, everyone votes for the next race, no way to prevent the game you hosted from changing. The way the voting works is pretty nice though - when voting, it shows you the track layout and vehicle type of the race. Why you don't get this when setting up the game is a mystery.
All in all, it's a great game that more than makes up for its few flaws, and certainly worth the money for any kind of fan of racing games.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Love It! 2008-10-27
Comment: I love this game, Im into Shooter Games, like Crysis, CoD4: MW, etc.. But I try to change a lil'bit and bought this game, I like the gameplay, the desings, everything. If you're looking for a racing cars game, don't look forward, buy this! Recomendado 100% :)
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Summary: Semi-realistic action racing game 2008-09-02
Comment: If you don't like action racing games because they are so un-realistic, and get frustrated with simulation racing games because of the tuning and practice needed to compete; GRID is the perfect game for you.
Likes:
- All cars handle differently
- The graphics are amazing (the replay looks like real TV)
- You can see damage to your car
- You don't have to be a car expert to tune your car to get the best time for each track. (no tuning)
Could improve:
- The other cars will quickly catch up to you or wait for you if you get ahead of the pack or fall behind it (so un-realistic).
- It takes major crashing to affect the performance of the car. You can go from last place into the inside of a curve and brake late, then crash your way into at least mid pack.
- You can easily go from 1st to last place by spinning out in a curve on the last lap. All cars like to stay grouped together and run 2 wide.
- Force feedback could be better in the turns
If the other cars were spread out more (first 3 issues), it would be the perfect racing game for me.
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Summary: GRID is great fun! 2008-08-14
Comment: After playing the free GRID Dmmo (v1.0 released in April/May 2008), I bought GRID the first day it hit local retail store on 6/4/08 (I didn't want to wait for shippimg delay, sorry Amazon), and have been playing it non-stop ever since. I've completed the offline GridWorld career against the excellent in-game AI drivers, and now mostly play online multiplayer. I occasionally re-run some career events and frequently practice in RaceDay against AI because they are so fun. On & offline, GRID runs great (typ 80-100 fps) on my above-spec desktop PC (Core2Duo 3Ghz, 8800GT/512MB video card, G25 wheel+pedals), check your system against the specs to be sure it'll run well on your PC. As others recommended if you're unsure if your PC can handle it (or you want to check out the game's look & feel), download and play the FREE v1.1 Demo. If you do buy GRID PC DVD, be sure to download and install the v1.2 patch - it has some fixes and adds some nifty options (including optional Assists Disabled and optional Collisions On/ Forward Only/ Off settings for hosting online racing). I've read in CodeMasters' Grid forum that Console (XBox, PS3) patch to date lacks some of the v1.2 PC patch features.
Handling with wheel is exceptional, but undriveable (at least for me & most other players) with keyboard. Handling varies for various gamepads (probably related to whether pad has analog or digital outputs), I suggest you read the forums if you're a gamepadder (I'm not).
CodeMasters recently announced they will release a download content (DLC) package this Fall - no details currently on full content (additional tracks,if any, unknown; at least 2 additional cars ahve been announced, the McLaren F1 sports GT and the Nardo VW W12 GT), and currently unknown if this forthcoming DLC will be free or not (I'll pay whateber they charge!).
GRID is more toward arcade behaviour than their earlier ToCA Race Driver 2 (get it!), and much more arcade style than simulation race games including SimBin's GTR2 and Race07 WTCC. Hence GRID is easier for the non-hardcore gamer than the steep learning curve fullon cutomizable simulation games. If you're hardcore sim, you probably won't like GRID's lack of car tuning (personally I enjoy GRID's level playing field, and it's awesome + easy paint jobs). If you're not hardcore simmer, I think you'll find HRID is really fun, Terrific graphics (btw there are some config tweaks posted in forums to reduce blur & HDR and to improve color saturation much to my liking); very good audio, great AI, 3 Assist parameters each optionally On/Off, smooth netplay, etc., etc. Get GRID!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Great Racing Game! 2008-08-07
Comment: This game was really frustrating with a keyboard but once I got a PS2 style controller I couldn't stop playing. It's a great game and the drift gp matches never get old!!!
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