Product Description: It's about international racing from Europe to Asia! GRID is an all-new race experience, taking players on a world tour of intricately designed racetracks and courses through Europe, the US and Japan. In addition to the exciting, ready-to-race gameplay that gamers have come to expect from Codemasters' racing titles, GRID incorporates only the most powerful racecars ever created - new and classic, circuit and drift. GRID features the most detailed and destructible range of courses ever included in a Codemasters title, challenging gamers with a wide variety of racing styles - from official circuit challenges and drifting events to road races and urban street competitions around the globe.
From the creators of one of 2007's best racing games, DiRT, comes GRID - a fast-paced, cinematic, all-encompassing racing game. GRID takes players on a world tour of beautifully designed race locations through Europe, the US, Japan and beyond. The game features the most extensive range of courses ever created by Codemasters, combining official racetrack/circuit challenges and drifting events, with road races and urban street competitions. GRID embraces all types of racing, including traditional circuit courses in exotics in Europe, muscle car street races in the US, and drifting import tuners in Japan. Jump behind the wheel of some of the fastest, most powerful race cars ever created and take on your friends in the best that racing has to offer. In any mode, on any surface, the car handling is sublime and the physics system is thrillingly accurate. A devastating new damage engine ensures players feel every bump in the road as they fight to keep control of their cars at breathtaking speeds. GRID delivers electrifying race action - squeezing all the juicy bits out of the world's best courses, cars and race styles to deliver one huge adrenaline rush. It's all about what happens between the GRID and the flag!
Amazon.com:
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
GRID is great fun! After playing the free GRID Dmmo (v1.0 released in April/May 2008), I bought GRID the first day it hit local retail store on 6/4/08 (I didn't want to wait for shippimg delay, sorry Amazon), and have been playing it non-stop ever since. I've completed the offline GridWorld career against the excellent in-game AI drivers, and now mostly play online multiplayer. I occasionally re-run some career events and frequently practice in RaceDay against AI because they are so fun. On & offline, GRID runs great (typ 80-100 fps) on my above-spec desktop PC (Core2Duo 3Ghz, 8800GT/512MB video card, G25 wheel+pedals), check your system against the specs to be sure it'll run well on your PC. As others recommended if you're unsure if your PC can handle it (or you want to check out the game's look & feel), download and play the FREE v1.1 Demo. If you do buy GRID PC DVD, be sure to download and install the v1.2 patch - it has some fixes and adds some nifty options (including optional Assists Disabled and optional Collisions On/ Forward Only/ Off settings for hosting online racing). I've read in CodeMasters' Grid forum that Console (XBox, PS3) patch to date lacks some of the v1.2 PC patch features. Handling with wheel is exceptional, but undriveable (at least for me & most other players) with keyboard. Handling varies for various gamepads (probably related to whether pad has analog or digital outputs), I suggest you read the forums if you're a gamepadder (I'm not). CodeMasters recently announced they will release a download content (DLC) package this Fall - no details currently on full content (additional tracks,if any, unknown; at least 2 additional cars ahve been announced, the McLaren F1 sports GT and the Nardo VW W12 GT), and currently unknown if this forthcoming DLC will be free or not (I'll pay whateber they charge!). GRID is more toward arcade behaviour than their earlier ToCA Race Driver 2 (get it!), and much more arcade style than simulation race games including SimBin's GTR2 and Race07 WTCC. Hence GRID is easier for the non-hardcore gamer than the steep learning curve fullon cutomizable simulation games. If you're hardcore sim, you probably won't like GRID's lack of car tuning (personally I enjoy GRID's level playing field, and it's awesome + easy paint jobs). If you're not hardcore simmer, I think you'll find HRID is really fun, Terrific graphics (btw there are some config tweaks posted in forums to reduce blur & HDR and to improve color saturation much to my liking); very good audio, great AI, 3 Assist parameters each optionally On/Off, smooth netplay, etc., etc. Get GRID!
Great Racing Game! This game was really frustrating with a keyboard but once I got a PS2 style controller I couldn't stop playing. It's a great game and the drift gp matches never get old!!!
GRID I have never been much of a computer gamer, but since getting a late model computer with a high end graphics card, I have tried several driving games and this is my favorite. Good blend of realism and arcade. Don't bother unless you have a good steering wheel with feedback. I spend more time than I should playing it.
Wow! Best eye candy of any racing game out there. If you have a fast PC and are fans of either racing games or racing sims, buy this immediately. Races are categorized as American Muscle, European and Japanese. The damage model looks good and works well. The demolition derby races are AWESOME.
Excellent racing, nice mix of arcade and true racing Excellent gameplay, stunning graphics, runs even smoother than its predecessor DiRT. Do install the version 1.2 update, at least for me otherwise the force feedback of my Logitech Driving Force steering wheel did not work (didn't work in the downloadable demo either). Also tweak the sensibility settings of the steering wheel as otherwise the game is way too difficult. Once that's done it plays like no other, good balance between arcade and real racing. A true adrenaline booster!
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