GRID

Platform	PLAYSTATION 3
List Price	$59.99
	$57.99 (Save 3%)

Published by	Codemasters
Release date
ASIN	B00149V3CU
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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 you to beautifully realized and dramatic race locations over three continents to compete in an unprecedented variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful race cars, Grid will let you 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, you 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, each with their own atmosphere and events - play host 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.

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

Highly Detailed Vehicles
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Customer Reviews - courtesy of Amazon.com

Best racing game ever!

(reviewed by my 12 year old son) Most realistic racing I've seen; really like the flashback where you can correct your mistakes. There are a lot of cars to choose from. I like the way you can design your own team, naming it, putting on decals and sponsors. Would be more fun if there were flags.

Lacks sufficient steering wheel support

The game itself really is excellent. Very competitive and could be lots of fun for this old geezer EXCEPT that my Logitec Pro steering wheel is not properly supported. Unlike, say, Gran Turisimo Prologue, the control over steering is no better than the joystick on the controller. Steering is gross and unhelpful. The problem is in the movement required, lock to lock; I'd guess it's 60 degrees. This makes steering totally unintuitive and gives no control. And there is no adjustment for the sensitivity. Just my 2 cents. But it sent me back to the admittedly less exciting, less competitive GT5. Do other wheels work better? (ie more like gt5)

Loved it from the minute I started playing

If you love racing this ones for you. It has almost every aspect of racing you can imagine. I think this game is a very good cross of need for Speed and Gran Tursimo.

Great game!

Overall great game. Easy to play on "basic" mode and easy to purchase and sell cars. The graphics are the best I have seen on any game to date. Worth every penny, all 6000 of them.

Hands down the best racer on any system

Codemasters does it again. Just brilliant! Codemasters racers have always been better physics, gameplay, and handling than the Gran Tourismo series. Sorry to say it but GT is boring as hell. Codemasters career based game structure always ensures you are challenged and the gameplay is fast and fun. Grid is no exception - they're significantly raised the bar on this one. I'd bet anything that GT won't come anywhere close to this for gameplay when they finally get their act together and complete the game.

The instant replay is an amazing addition to the gameplay. Not many other reviewers describe it here so I will do just that. You can read the other reviews for other features. The concept is that you get a limited number of chances to rewind time back to up to ~20 seconds and continue playing from that point. It's a fantastic feature that lets you analyze where you went wrong, see it again and again by quickly zooming back and forth in time, then play it from a selected point and hopefully get that corner right.

This adds a ton of strategy to the game. If you have enough replays left you can really push it towards the end of a race. If you wipe out, you can try again. Make sure you have replays left though! It sucks when you wipe out and realize you've used them all up!