race driver GRID

    I had a shot of the demo and I'm tempted to pick up the full game. The driving physics definitely don't feel as solid as some of the competition - particularly with the 360 wheel that made it exceedingly hard to play - but they are manageable provided you think of it as a more arcade style racer than it looks. Its the presentation that really saves it. It has a great sense of speed and shooting up and down the hills of the demo's San Francisco course was really impressive and exhilarating. I'll probably wait until I see a deal on it or it drops in price before I grab it, but its got my attention.

    Tried the 360 demo, liked it a lot. I'm rather picky with racing titles but I found it really enjoyable. The sense of speed was really well done with the camera wobble and all that.

    I thought the demo looked and played pretty blandly, lacking the intricacy of DiRT and the exhilaration of stuff like Burnout. Just seems like an exercise in retreading ground IMO.

    Been playing it a bit in the weekend, I quite like it. Looks brilliant, love the in-car camera, looks so sweet. Its kinda hard tho, a lot harder than DiRT.

    Played the 360 demo and loved it. Great visuals and sound, a very welcome arcade feeling driving style. I want to pick it up soon even though I probably won't get to playing it for several months.

    I had a lot of fun with the 360 demo. No it's not the same as DiRT nor is it exactly like PGR or NFS or etc. But that's a good thing. It's getting harder and harder to be "original" in the racing category but good effort wtih this one. I must say that the drifting in the demo's Japanese sample race was more fun than I expected it to be.

    I bought it for the PC. It won't run because of the securom protection (currently downloading the 1.1 patch to see if that fixes it).

    Note to publishers: Next time you put this piece of shit copy protection on a game, I'm not paying for it. I wouldn't have cared if I still had most of my week to dick about and do what I want, but nowadays I don't have as much time for gaming so when I do want to play a PC game, I don't want to scrabble around on the Internet looking for solutions instead of playing the fucking game I paid for.

    /badmood

    * edit - got it running by starting the game with the disc drive open and then closing it when prompted by securom, so it definitely is a securom problem by the looks of things.

    As for the game, I have mixed impressions.

    The presentation & graphics are fantastic, but I find it all a bit too slick and annoying for my tastes. Also, having some annoying moron constantly jabbering 'advice' at me is an instant no-no. I turned down the speech volume after the first race to preserve my sanity. The driving feels merely OK -- it feels like the car will do a donut every time I corner hard at low speed. Not really liking the shunts too much, and the flashback menu is horrible. Why is it horrible? Because it always puts you in some useless camera mode by default, so you have to waste 10 seconds to flip the camera mode to something useful THEN find the point at which you want to resume the race. It just knocks me totally off my stride and interrupts the game flow, plus you have to sit through the camera flash screen for another 3 seconds. It's a nice idea and I would've liked it a lot more if they had integrated it seamlessly so that if you make a mistake, you can rewind and get going again without breaking off. IMO it should've just been to enter flashback in the camera mode you were using when you crashed, then your left and right steering keys to rewind/advance and c to change camera if needed.

    Also, there's a load of courses that have trucks and obstacles all over the place (e.g. docks circuit). Seems totally pointless to me and it just makes things frustrating.

    Not really impressed so far, but I will give it another play later.

    Played it a bit more and, once you actually get some cars that don't spin around 32 times when you press the accelerator, it's much better. Still can't really say whether I'd recommend it -- your mileage may vary (ho ho).

    The most annoying thing about it is its menus, though. Every time you do something you have some self-righteous UI team jizzing in your eyes. You need to have flying graphics slamming into a board to represent how much money you earned from your sponsors (and you can have about 3286 sponsors), which place you got, which place your team got, how much money you made, how much RESPECT (aii) you earned and how many times you scratched your balls during the race. It literally takes about 10 seconds just to mash the return key and get through all those screens... infuriating.

    It looks great, but in practice it makes me want to hit something...

    Bought it on Steam and have been playing it for an week or so. Enjoying it much so far as i'm a big fan of cars and racing ect. It has a good balance between arcade and sim, tho it's considered an arcade game, but I have to agree to some issues defrag pointed out and some other minor things:

    * Menu dosnt support mouse, have to use the keyboard all the way here

    * Pressing "Enter" a good 5 times after each race gets annoying

    * You cant tune your car in any way

    * Sometimes it's just better to cut a corner and just go straight forward over the grass and it wont slow you down that much

    That said this game IS very good and has very much to offer. I will suggest this game to any of you who think NFS is too easy and arcade'ish, but want the fun and thrill of doing highspeed racing and not beeing forced to brake down to 20mph to do a left turn.

    I bought it along with a racing wheel for the 360 just about a week ago. It's addictive. I can't even ride my bike anymore without making GRID associations. In fact, playing the game has improved my bicycling skills. Anyways, it's an excellent game.

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