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June 23 2008 | WilHarris

VROOOOOOOOMMM!!!

Yes, that is the noise I make when I play Racedriver: GRID, and let me tell you, just like the game, this is a good thing.

Check out this latest offering from Codemasters, a gorgeous and challenging racer which bridges the gap between casual and connoisseur, and which is sure to stay in your disk drive for a good long while.

Keep your eyes peeled for Codemasters news - last month they won exclusive rights to make Formula 1 video games, the first of which we should see next year.

Enjoy!

- Katharine

comments

Chris Mahon

June 23rd, 2008 - 1:44pm

Amazing game, just picked it up myself and trying to convince everyone I know to pick it up as well! Apparently this is the same team who will be making an upcoming F1 game, so I’m well chuffed

Ryuzaki

June 23rd, 2008 - 2:53pm

I played the demo and it was exactly like dirt

Evan Hindra

June 23rd, 2008 - 3:34pm

How’s the control? Can you adjust the control to have more sim feel to it like it is in NFS Pro Street (even that, is fairly horrid Arcade like).

Chris Mahon

June 24th, 2008 - 12:26pm

@evan I’m not 100% sure to be honest, haven’t seen any options like that but it does very more arcade like compared to Forza and even PGR to an extent.

SpeedFreak

June 24th, 2008 - 6:26pm

Ryuzaki, What planet are you on?!! Its nothing like DIRT, surley you can tell the difference between the two games, its NOT a rally game!, only simillarilty is there are cars!!!

Lame Comment!

Anyone that likes a racing game, that isnt uber complex, just pick it up and start racing. Awesome graphics, a good way to roast that X360!

Schmung

July 2nd, 2008 - 3:54pm

Picked this up yesterday, great fun. The lack of sort of guidance arrow (ala Forza and PGR) makes learning the tracks a bit of a pain and your spotter is about as much use as a chocolate kettle, but the racing itself is top notch. Way, way more arcadey than Forza, but more realistic than PGR. I only played the demo of the last NFS game, but that had supremely ropey handling.

As for being similar Dirt, there’s nothing aside from the graphics to compare. Dirt had horrid floaty handling and a poor sense of speed, whereas Grid feels a lot solid and things rocket along very nicely.

zakrocz

August 13th, 2008 - 7:51am

Brilliant arcade/sim racer, unprecedented damage model, gorgeous graphics, eye meltingly fast. Fairly easy to pick up but is still a serious challenge offline if you raise the difficulty to Savage or Extreme and online you will get your ass kicked unless you put in some serious hours.

I rarely give a game a 10 but this most definately gets a 10/10