Like most realistic racers, Grid lets the engine colour your soundtrack and to this day, those blaring engine roars are some of the best in the business.
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Technically, you’ll race for the whole of 10 real-life minutes instead of a full 24-hour run (which roughly equates to two-and-a-half laps), but the final few minutes will always be exhilarating. That said, these machines are much more powerful than most of the cars you raced in the first season, and on an unfamiliar track- the Circuit de la Sarthe. You’ll start off with a GT2 class car, the lowest rung of the Le Mans ladder. If that’s not clear enough a video pop-up will play retelling you what Le Mans is at the end of each season.Īnd for those not familiar with Le Mans, this would be the introduction of class-based racing, where cars of different regulation compete in the same race. (Yes, that plot twist at the end is based on real events.)īut Grid makes a good job to make someone unaware of the heritage to treat the season finale event like the game’s equivalent of major boss fight. It’s the subject of the recent hit film Ford V Ferrari (Le Mans ’66), where intense drama can happen on track. It’s the prestigious event that makes up motorsport’s version of the triple crown. The big one.įor motorsport fans, the endurance race is held up on a pedestal. And each season ends with the most prestigious race of them all. It’s a loop you’ll repeat for multiple in-game seasons. Slowly you unravel the layers of the Grid World, climbing higher in the career ladder to reach the Grid Series. Enter an event you’re eligible, compete, repeat. That is how a season of Race Driver: Grid goes. With enough money and reputation, the narrator says, you can form your own team, be your own boss and chase your own glory to the top of the world rankings. Keep it up and you’ll rise in the ranks and rack up money in the bank. But it’s a great way to sample the many race styles in the game. It’s marginal pay, and you barely get any rep points to make your name in the three regions. You begin your career as a driver for hire, working with various teams and help them score good results. You’ll also need to buy racing cars, either brand new or cheaper second-hand rides via eBay. The comparisons don’t end there, however. It seems rather Gran Turismo-ish that you keep on racing different events, jumping from one discipline to another. You can go through a selection of events from the three regions at any order, and will unlock more as you accrue more reputation by winning or participating in races in a particular region. And go to Europe, you’ll be banging wheels in touring cars or engage in open-wheel racing in an F3 car- both signature disciplines of the region in real life. But go drifting in Japan and you get a very excited Japanese man on commentary duty, shouting through the blaring speakers, as you expect.
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This is before the Grid series group events into racing disciplines rather than regions.Ī street race in the USA has crowds cheering from the bleachers on the side of each corner. 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. 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. 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. There was something magical the first time I fired up Race Driver: Grid on the good old PS3.
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