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Race Driver: GRID (Xbox 360) | 
enlarge | From: Codemasters Limited Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99 Buy New: £23.44 You Save: £26.55 (53%)
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Rating: 42 reviews Sales Rank: 266
Platform: Xbox 360 Genre: car-and-truck-racing-games Rating: Universal, particularly children Media: Video Game Operating System: Xbox 360 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5024866336368 ASIN: B00140H1GQ
Release Date: May 30, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk
As the all-new racing experience from Codemasters Studios, creators of Colin McRae: DiRT, Race Driver: GRID is all about the race. Every moment from the adrenalin rush at the start lights to the elation at the chequered flag - the tension, pressure, noise, and action. Featuring only the most powerful race cars - current 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. With races crammed with action and incident, high-impact moments will come at you thick and fast, one right after another: engine blows, tyre blow outs, tight overtaking, accidents, opponent cars flipping, spinning, collisions with other cars and trackside objects. From humble beginnings, earning a few thousand dollars a season, build a feared and respected racing team with a multi-million dollar income and complete at dramatic race locations and dominate a multi-disciplined world of racing. In Europe, race prestige Marques, including Aston Martin, Koenigsegg and Pagani, on the greatest official race circuits. Enter street competitions and race high-performance V8 muscle cars through iconic U.S. cities including San Francisco, Washington DC and Detroit. 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. As the antithesis of the box-ticking, plodding single-player race game, Race Driver: GRID delivers a diverse career mode in a persistent world of racing that provides each player with a unique experience as their team writes itself into racing folklore.
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Genuinely the best Xbox360 racer November 4, 2008 Mr. D. J. Benton (UK) Truly a super racer and for me the only one I pick up now. Initially I toyed with the demo, struggled a bit with the unwieldy and twitchy steering the rwd BMW touring cars posed but the reviews said "stick with it, you'll get it". Well, it felt a bit friskier than PGR3, Forza 2 and the like but true enough, I did stick with it. And boy am I glad I persevered! Suddenly it clicks and you feel totally connected with the car and the road - the steering and suspension is so much more fluid and alive than the likes of Forza. Once you've put a few laps in (and realised that you can't cane it on full lock with cold tyres and expect not to spin out) you will get it and you will love it. Beautiful graphics, incredible crash and damage modelling, gutsy sound and most critically for a racing game, totally fluid feel. Buy it and enjoy it - it's in a different class.
Aljo1 October 5, 2008 A. Ermellino (UK) Wow!! Wow!! Wow!! A must buy... for the serious gamer to the "just play a quick race game" player. It is stunning... the graphics are breathtaking, you could actually be driving. The damage is so real that you just want more. I just could not stop playing the game. As for the demolition derby, well I almost passed out from laughter it generated... I must be the only demolition derby driver that destroyed his own car without hitting anyone else, useless or what. This is truly a fun game and extremely addictive. This is definitely a game to buy; have fun!!!!
Grid Review September 30, 2008 Mr. James A. Turner (United Kingdom) Grid is an amazing racing game, it simulates racing action, speed and effects very realistically. This is the first of many of racing games to be in this layout, so we will soon see updates and impressive changes to the games, overall the game is for people who don't get annoyed when they end up in a wall. i would give this game, 5/5 for graphics 4/5 gameplay 5/5 overall.
The ultimate racing experience so far August 17, 2008 Barry Fowles (Hadleigh, Essex UK) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just when you think racing games can't get any better along comes grid. This is simply the best racing game ever, the flashback feature is ingenious (If you drive into a wall at speed you total your car. Instead of bouncing off as in other less good racing games, but your race isn't other you get up to 4 flashbacks per race a chance to rewind the action 4 or 5 second and try again.) With varying game difficulties, all driving options drift, open wheel, touring cars, muscle cars, demolition derby (great on Xbox live) and the le mans 24 hour where you drive through a sunrise and sunset this game has it all. Including the oppurtunity to hire and fire a team mate to race with you. Graphically amazing, a real must have. When inevitablly Grid 2 comes along lets hope they add bikes.
A Frustrating Experience August 14, 2008 Kp Campkin 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this game as an alternative to Forza; I wanted something that wasn't too arcade, but at the same time was easily accessible if I wanted to just pick up and play without having to worry about setting a car up. Codemasters have done this brilliantly in the past - something halfway between a sim and something arcade, but this isn't one of their triumphs. I have two main problems with the game that have led me to get rid of it. The first one is the total lack of practise and qualifying for whatever race you are about to take part in. This is incredibly daunting when you start your career and you are literally flung into a strange car on a new track, somewhere in the middle of the grid. It might sound exciting, but it isn't fun being passed by everything because you've never seen the layout before. The second problem I have is far more damning. The handling of the cars is dreadful. The cars themselves feel incredibly numb, as if you aren't really a part of the driving experience. This happens in every vehicle, from the single seaters right up to the Le Man racers. You press the brake and nothing, nothing, nothing... then it stops on a sixpence. LIkewise, steering the cars feels like you are trying to drive it with four flat tyres. You're never entirely sure when the car is going to start turning and then, when it is going to stop. It isn't simulation handling and it isn't arcade either. It's just.. nothing. It feels like someone sitting next to you is controlling it and you are shouting directions. There are other flaws, as well as a few good points. The tracks ARE very pretty, although they are ridiculously smooth and lacking in bumps. A couple of them (Spa-Francochamps in particular) even seems to have had some of the gradients watered down. A lot has been made of the car damage model, but the cars are much too strong, and when you finally do wreck it, you get a bit of slow motion to tell you that you've destroyed it, and ten seconds of a replay. If I want to try and crawl across the line with three wheels because I happened to have clipped a barrier on the last lap, I'd like that to be my decision - I'd rather not be sucked into a multi-camera angle replay telling me my race is ended even though the engine is still running. However, the career mode is engaging and rewarding. The range of cars and tracks is commendable. And for the first time in any racing simulation I've ever heard of, you get a decent voice-over race engineer, even if he does come out with helpful snippets like "You're in fourth place.. one more place and you get a podium!" The AI of the drivers isn't too mad either. They don't drive on rails like on the MotoGP games, and they don't drive through you as you sometimes get on Forza. But unfortunately, I cannot recommend this game, either to someone who wants a casual thrash around some tracks, or to a simulation fan looking for depth. Everything else I have named and shamed, I could.. could possibly put up with, but the numb handling of the cars is unrewarding when you take a corner well, and frustrating when you plough into the gravel. If, like me, you are looking for a fun game that bridges arcade and sim, stick with Codemaster's previous effort for XBOX - the 360 is backwards compatible after all - and go with Toca Race Driver 3. You can probably pick it up for a fiver.
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