Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #215 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Codemasters
• Released on: 2009-05-21
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .30 pounds

Customer Reviews

Race Driver GRID - difficult but rewarding
Very very cool game - a real variety of racing types inc Muscle car, Touring car, Drift, Destruction derby etc and really attempts to get the feel of each rather than just changing the course graphics etc. Damage is also focused on as part of the game with it being very possible to end your race in one crash or coax your car to the finish line if not too serious. There is a 'rewind' option when you completely total it - letting you try the section again with a limited number of these available per race.

For those just looking for a quick blast - this might not be the game for you but personally... I'd say still give it a go as there's a good chance you'll get addicted!

Once you get into it and master the sometimes tricky controls it's an awesome game and I'd recommend it to anyone serious about racing games - buy it now!

Pros: Contains lots of awesome!
Cons: Takes some work to get the awesome

Best race game I have played so far.
I must say I am a big fan of all the gran turismo games, but this is a fantastic game, The plus side is that if you don't race carefully you crash too often and your race is over.
A very good game for racing gamers,you have to work hard but you soon get into it.
I hope gran turismo 5 is up to this game's level.

Thrills a plenty as long as you have patience
Brilliantly fast, smooth, and graphically clean racer finally introducing the speed that the likes of Gran Turismo and Forza have recently sucked out of racing games in preference of "real driving simulation." Controls are responsive and the artificial intelligence is spot on, at times too much as the cars will crash into you in order to get you off the track and may even end up smashing your car up which after a few attempts does tend to suck the fun right out of the game.

Having R2 button as acceleration is a brilliant idea, especially in auto gear box mode as it allows the acceleration to be much more controlled, taking corners using the amount of acceleration the player feels comfortable with. The speeds at times are incredible, short windy true to life circuits in a formula 3000 car comes blisteringly to life and the frame rate stays incredibly smooth.

The career mode allows wide scope for different types of racing. Open wheeled events for purists, touring car events and for those mad on Japanese performance the pro tuned races really bring the cars to life. The choices of cars for events are very limited. For example the touring cars have the choice between the BMW 320i and the Chevrolet Lacetti. The lack of car options does not really take anything away from the game.

The main reasons for not getting a great score especially in the fun rating is the shear anger and loss of patience that this game creates, the write offs that are out of the players control and restarting the race countless times. This is not helped when your car is randomly placed on the grid which may stick you in last place and you have to overtake all of the cars in front in 3 laps without crashing or making a single mistake. This sometimes makes it all too realistic and completely takes the fun out of what is mostly an enjoyable game with intense action,superb graphics and beautiful cars.