Race Driver: Grid is being developed for PC, PS3 and XBOX360 and is planned for the 2nd quarter of 2008.Ĭonverts the whole touring car aspect of the original game to that of the 2006 World Touring Car Championship. Japanese cities provide the opportunity to race in neon-lighted streets. In the cities of Detroit, Washington DC and San Francisco there are street races. Gamers can race on official European circuits in cars made by Aston Martin, Koenigsegg, Pagani and many more. Race Driver Grid will use the Colin McRae: DiRT engine with an increased damage model: "Damage as small as screws of the car that stay on the track, thus influencing the gameplay." Fulton also said that there's no place for designing race outfits and collecting cars.
It's a complete turnover of the RD-series and is focused on what's going on between the starting grid and the finish, according to Ralph Fulton (Head Games Design at Codemasters). If you're dead set on a racer and want to climb to the top of the online rankings, dive in, but for most Grid 2 will only have limited long-term appeal.Codemasters has released the first images of Race Driver: Grid (Formerly known as Race Drive One). The racing itself is fun, but the glue that holds it all together is lacking it's always a thrill to unlock new races and cars, but we found the customisation options limiting and struggled to care enough about accumulating fans (fans come in chunks of 25, like blank DVDs, further distancing them from any kind of real person you should care about). Grid 2 is a beautiful-looking game which manages to strike a fair balance between all-out arcade and po-faced simulation. We missed scrimping and saving to buy new vehicles and upgrades and tinkering with the result, and the connection between accumulating fans and being rewarded by a benevolent overlord never seemed as satisfying as making money and spending it yourself, but there's no arguing with the sheer variety of vehicles, game modes and stunningly-rendered locations available. Whether Grid 2 is right for you depends on what you want from a racing game. Fans of sitting on the same sofa as their adversary will also relish the two-player split-screen mode.
It certainly makes races more about reactions than strategy. The result is a huge variety of tracks to race on, where you compete corner to corner instead of learning the track. This has a completely separate campaign and makes heavy use of the LiveRoutes feature which alters courses on the fly. Once you've had enough of dominating the world's major cities in the single-player game, it's time to head for the multiplayer. One controversial change made since the original Grid is that there is now no cockpit view apparently this was only used by a minority of gamers, but it will still put off those looking for a serious racing experience. This is also where you get to assign your sponsors, which not only affects what stickers you slap on your car, but unlocks different challenges. There's no fiddling with damper settings or bolting on aftermarket turbochargers here - instead, you just get to muck around with the paint job and wheels. Bringing a car home with a front wheel sparking on the tarmac is perfect fodder to upload to Youtube from within the game.Īny pretence that this is a serious simulation is put to bed as soon as you start flicking through the customisation options. You have to ruin your car to an astonishing degree to make this trouble your chances of victory, though we were still hammering around the track with a burst front tyre, which barely caused an impact to our steering. You'll want to avoid smashing your way up the pack, as it leads to penalties in some race types and car damage affects handling if you enable the option.
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